Team Lead - DevSecOps Tooling COE

Caterpillar•East Peoria, IL

1d•$128,470 - $208,770•Onsite

About The Position

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. Caterpillar’s DevSecOps Tooling Center of Expertise (COE) is seeking a Team Leader to lead, coach, and inspire a high‑performing team responsible for defining the direction and strategy for application developer tools across the Caterpillar enterprise. This leader will drive enterprise transformation by championing AI‑enabled development, setting clear priorities, and establishing measurable AI efficiency metrics and reporting. This highly influential role requires strong leadership, strategic vision, and the ability to partner with senior developers, cybersecurity, and other business leaders to deliver scalable, secure, and modern development practices across the organization. What You Will Do: The ideal candidate must be a self-starter capable of thinking with an enterprise perspective while still being flexible enough to keep the business running. Tasks range from developing analysts and vendors, developing leading and managing the team’s day-to-day activities and support processes to providing guidance on platform configurations and policies. Other duties include, but not limited to:

Requirements

Require an accredited, four-year Information Technology degree, a closely related technical degree, OR 7 years of equivalent work-related experiences with an Associates Degree.
Supervisory/Team leadership and work delegation experience
Ability to work well with a geographically distributed team
Ability to quickly learn new technologies and apply them with an enterprise perspective
Ability to act in a self-directed manner, independently researching tools/libraries/technologies or solving a problem with minimal oversight and instructions
Excellent communication skills (in English) to persuade others to use recommended practices and technologies
A strength in source code management strategies using Git and other popular tools.
A clear understanding the Software Development Life Cycle
Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
A familiarity with web development in either Java or .NET - Minimum 5-7 years of development experience
An understanding of modern web development security threats and security best practices
Collaborating across teams to consolidate and simplify DevOps tools and services

Nice To Haves

Experience with GitLab, Azure DevOps, GitHub Enterprise Cloud
GitHub Copilot experience - 2yrs
Experience with SonarQube and JFrog Artifactory
Experience with SQL Server and Snowflake
A familiarity with administering Linux or Windows Servers
Experience with Windows PowerShell, Python or other popular scripting languages.

Responsibilities

Enterprise DevOps Process Owner/Leader - GitHub, DevOpsTools & AI acceleration for Development
Hosting and managing common developer tools for enterprise use
Oversee operational support team members
Agile Scrum lead for the team – roadmaping and delegation
Assisting developers in integrating with source code management and other various developer tools
Supporting projects to migrate from legacy components to supported technology
Creating and refining policies to ensure effective and secure usage of development tools within Caterpillar
Coaching and communicating information to Caterpillar’s development community
Participating on special projects as a source code management and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) Subject Matter Expert
Researching future developer tool related products/versions. Guide in evaluating, selecting and utilizing new and existing tools and technique
Leading the future DevSecOps Tooling strategy