Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Career Area:

Technology, Digital and Data

Job Description:

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

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.

Who is CAT Digital? What do we do?   

Big machines require big thinking. Are you looking for your next big challenge?  

Cat® Digital is the digital and technology arm of Caterpillar Inc., leveraging the latest technologies to build industry leading digital solutions for our customers and dealers. With over one million connected assets worldwide, our teams use data, technology, advanced analytics, telematics, and AI capabilities to help our customers build a better world.  

Working with a Fortune 100 leader, you can build your career on a global scale and take advantage of development opportunities with emerging technologies. We’ve created an inclusive environment for you to explore your passions, make an impact and do the work that really matters. Join Us.  

 

Job Opportunity:  

We are seeking talented individuals to join our team to help us grow our presence, organization, culture, which will drive our digital product development efforts. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and collaborate with top professionals working on very high impact and visibility products. Don't miss this chance to join and support digital innovation for a global leader in heavy machinery!  

 

What you will do:  

As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of the Cat Digital Mission Critical web-based systems and infrastructure. You will: 

 

• Deliver technical roadmaps on business processes and applications to support business objectives, standards and processes. 

• Analyze business requirements, current technical gaps needed to support business strategies and expectations. 

• Play a key role in conducting risk assessments, root cause analysis, corrective actions, quality assurance processes, and routine issue resolution.  

• Communicate client feedback to technology teams in order to improve deliverables and meet business requirements. 

 

What you have:  

• Customer Focus: Knowledge of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and ability to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions. 

• Systems Thinking: Knowledge of the critical interdependencies among individual system elements that help and hinder performance; ability to plan and design solutions that synchronize resources to achieve business results. 

• Systems Software Infrastructure: Knowledge of computer architecture and system software interaction; ability to design and build a fundamental architecture of operating systems, database management systems, communications protocols, compilers and other development tools 

• Technical Troubleshooting: Knowledge of technical troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques; ability to anticipate, recognize, and resolve technical issues on hardware, software, application or operation. 

• Technical Leadership: Demonstrated technical leadership; ability to guide engineers, drive technical direction and take ownership of technical decisions. 

• Experience with AWS infrastructure and services.  

• Experience with IaaC solutions like CloudFormation and Terraform.  

• Experience with CI/CD solutions - Github, Azure DevOps.  

• Proven experience and proficiency in one or more programming languages, such as Python (preferred), JavaScript (preferred).  

• Solid experience with containerization technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes. 

 

Top candidates will also have:  

• Experience with monitoring and alerting solutions such as Thousand Eyes, Grafana, AppDynamics, Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace 

• Knowledge of node.js, next.js and similar headless services  

• Understanding of tracing for modern applications – opentelemetry and similar  

• AWS certification associate or higer level 

 

What we offer:  
At Cat Digital, we are committed to fostering a culture of innovation and continuous learning, and we believe in investing in the development of our employees. As a member of our team, you will have access to a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as very competitive compensation and benefits packages, like:  

• From 4 403 up to 5 500 euros / month gross 

• Performance related annual cash incentive  

• Industry leading Pension plan   

• 5 days of extra vacation above the legislative requirement  

• Attractive Life insurance  

• 1 volunteering day   

• Multisport Card  

Take the chance to apply now for this position at Cat Digital Slovakia branch!  

 

Contract type:  

Full-time  

 

Place of work:  

Kosice, Slovakia  

 

Additional Information:  

Please frequently check the email associated with your application, including the junk/spam folder, as this is the primary correspondence method. If you wish to know the status of your application – please use the candidate log-in on our career website as it will reflect any updates to your status. ​  

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, military/veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws.​  

Caterpillar is committed to creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion, respect and integrity, customer focus, and innovation. For more information, visit https://www.caterpillar.com/en/careers/why-caterpillar.html​  

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Base Minimum Pay:

€52,824.00

 

Please note that salary is only one component of the total compensation and benefit package available at Caterpillar.

 

 

 

 

 

Posting Dates:

November 3, 2026 - December 3, 2026

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.

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