Career Area:

Business Technologies, 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.

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

Our common values and focus on inclusion and respect drive the decisions made by our company, teams and people. This is why we are committed to hiring and building diverse teams representative of the customers we serve globally. When you join our team, you can apply your unique life and job experiences and work in an environment where your ideas are heard, your contributions are celebrated, and your whole-self matters.

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.

About Cat Financial

Cat Financial is a subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc., the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For more than 40 years, Cat Financial has provided a wide range of financing solutions to customers and Cat® dealers for machines, engines, Solar® gas turbines, genuine Cat parts and services. Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, Cat Financial serves customers globally with offices and subsidiaries located throughout North and South America, Asia, Australia, Europe and Africa. Visit cat.com to learn more about Cat Financial.

Role Definition
Participates in designing, building, deploying, and maintaining the IT infrastructure using appropriate and trending technologies.

Responsibilities
•    Maintain the infrastructure of IT systems that support the business to function efficiently.
•    Design solutions by assessing and aligning the current systems to best practices and comply to Caterpillar policies and procedures and IT general controls.
•    Administrate servers and automated workflow tools; work with server virtualization technologies.
•    Administer updates, upgrades, and other maintenance tasks in both hardware and software areas, to make the network more efficient, cost-effective, and secure.

Desired Skills

Preferred 5+ years of experience

Experience in the following areas:

• Oracle database 19c and multi-tenant architecture

• Data Guard setup and administration

• Working in a Linux environment and shell scripting for automation

• RMAN backup and configuration

• Database performance tuning

• RAC/ASM experience

• Working knowledge of Oracle Enterprise Manager

• Identifying and deploying Oracle security patches

• Working in Amazon Web Services (migrating workloads, setting up automation, etc.)

• Familiar with Oracle EBS 12.2 administration, architecture, support

Skill Descriptors
Technical Excellence: Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.
 Level Working Knowledge: 
•    Provides effective technical solutions to routine functional challenges via sound technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues.
•    Effectively performs the technical job aspects, continuously building knowledge and keeping up-to-date on technical and procedural job components.
•    Applies technical operating and project standards based on achieving excellence in delivered products, technologies and services.
•    Applies current procedures and technologies to help resolve technical issues in one's general area of technical competence.
•    Helps others solve technical or procedural problems or issues.

Technology Advising: Knowledge of effective advisory methods and ability to provide valued information and advice to clients regarding products, technologies, services and solutions for a specific technology domain.
 Level Basic Understanding: 
•    Provides information regarding application of a specific technology within one's own organization.
•    Describes the roles, responsibilities and key competencies of a technical advisor.
•    Pursues continual learning to broaden technology area knowledge, skills and application as well as general business knowledge.
•    Explains a specific technology and its application in detail.

Hardware Infrastructure: Knowledge of computer architecture and systems programming; ability to design, build and integrate IT hardware into multi-platforms for the organization.
 Level Basic Understanding: 
•    Describes the advantages and disadvantages found in commonly used hardware products.
•    Identifies the main components of IT hardware.
•    Lists the main hardware vendors and products within the market place.
•    Cites examples of effective hardware usage within the organization.

Requirements Analysis: Knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit, analyze and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project.
 Level Working Knowledge: 
•    Follows policies, practices and standards for determining functional and informational requirements.
•    Confirms deliverables associated with requirements analysis.
•    Communicates with customers and users to elicit and gather client requirements.
•    Participates in the preparation of detailed documentation and requirements.
•    Utilizes specific organizational methods, tools and techniques for requirements analysis.

System Testing: Knowledge of system and software testing; ability to design, plan and execute system testing strategies and tactics to ensure the quality of software at all stages of the system life cycle.
 Level Working Knowledge: 
•    Supports the project leader in developing and executing system test plans.
•    Evaluates system documentation and user manuals for usability, accuracy and completeness.
•    Executes test cases, analyzes test results and reports on findings regularly.
•    Tests system components for compliance with functional requirements.
•    Participates in the testing of a system's ability to recover from hardware or software failures.

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.
 Level Basic Understanding: 
•    Discusses the inter-relationship between software, hardware and telecommunications.
•    Lists major software components and problems with the current software environment.
•    Describes architectural principles, blueprints and standards.
•    Identifies key aspects of the organization's software infrastructure.

Technical Troubleshooting: Knowledge of technical troubleshooting approaches, tools, and techniques; ability to anticipate, recognize, and resolve technical issues on hardware, software, application, or operation.
 Level Basic Understanding: 
•    Describes problem identification, reporting and escalation procedures.
•    Explains the underlying concept of using a systematic approach to solve technical problems.
•    Identifies available resources and support systems for troubleshooting.
•    Describes common hardware, software, and communication problems; finds ways to resolve issues.

Technical Writing/Documentation: Knowledge of technical writing; ability to write technical documents such as manuals, reports, guidelines or documents on standards, processes and applications.
 Level Working Knowledge: 
•    Implements technical documentation standards, guidelines and best practices.
•    Prepares written text and layout of materials according to required outlines and specifications.
•    Completes and maintains technical reference documents.
•    Uses the major features, functions and facilities of an automated documentation tool.
•    Coordinates and constantly updates system operations, installations, service manuals, and help documents.

This Job Description is intended as a general guide to the job duties for this position and is intended for the purpose of establishing the specific salary grade.  It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive summary of all responsibilities, duties and effort required of employees assigned to this job.  At the discretion of management, this description may be changed at any time to address the evolving needs of the organization.  It is expressly not intended to be a comprehensive list of “essential job functions” as that term is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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Relocation is available for this position.

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as, H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers.

Posting Dates:

September 17, 2024 - September 24, 2024

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.   

EEO/AA Employer.  All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.

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