Senior Manager Software Engineering

CAT Digital is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager – DevSecOps to lead the strategy, execution, and evolution of enterprise DevSecOps capabilities across multiple product and platform portfolios.

About Cat (CaterpillarCareers)

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• When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other.
• We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities.
• We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live.
• Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership Define and execute the enterprise DevSecOps and Platform Engineering strategy aligned with CAT Digital's technology vision and business objectives.
• Drive cloud modernization, automation, and platform transformation initiatives to improve agility, scalability, and operational resilience.
• Champion engineering excellence by establishing standards, governance, and best practices across software delivery and infrastructure operations.
• Leverage Generative AI and emerging technologies to improve engineering productivity, operational efficiency, and developer experience.
• Partner with senior business and technology leaders to influence roadmaps, investment decisions, and long-term technology strategies.
• Drive measurable improvements in reliability, deployment velocity, security posture, and cost optimization.
• & People Leadership Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing organization comprising DevOps, Platform Engineering and Cloud Engineering professionals.
• Drive talent development, succession planning, workforce strategy, and career growth initiatives.
• Foster a culture of ownership, innovation, accountability, continuous learning, and operational excellence.
• Build strong cross-functional partnerships across engineering, product, architecture, security, and operations teams.
• Establish performance goals and coaching frameworks that enable both individual and organizational success.
• & Platform Leadership Provide technical leadership for large-scale distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, CI/CD ecosystems, container orchestration, and infrastructure automation.
• Influence enterprise architecture decisions, engineering standards, and modernization strategies.
• Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), GitOps, platform engineering, and self-service capabilities.
• Establish best practices for security, observability, reliability, performance, scalability, and compliance.
• Partner with engineering leadership to ensure product teams are enabled with efficient, secure, and reliable development platforms.
• Lead initiatives focused on platform reliability, availability, incident reduction, recovery improvements, and proactive operational management.

Requirements

• Qualifications & Skills Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• 15+ years of progressive experience in Software Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Engineering.
• 5+ years leading engineering managers and large technical organizations.
• Demonstrated success leading enterprise-scale cloud transformation and DevSecOps initiatives.
• Demonstrated utilization of AI led efficiencies Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, and organizational leadership skills.

Posting Dates

October 27, 2026 - November 6, 2026 Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply Not ready to apply? Join our Talent Community .