Storage & Backups Infrastructure Engineer at Caterpillar in Nashville, Tennessee

Job Description:

Career Area:
Business Technologies, Digital and Data
Job Description:

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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.

JOB SUMMARY:

• Provide technical support and enhancements to existing infrastructure, with a focus on storage and backups. Work with minimal supervision in developing solutions to customer related requests and/or system problems.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Responsibilities vary, but may include various combinations of the following duties.

• Provides technical infrastructure support with a focus on storage and backups, including independently performing problem identification and resolution.
• Follows and executes established development and support processes, including but not limited to, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) or related methodologies.
• Works as a Windows and SQL Server Admin.
• Collaborates with business partners to gather requirements for technical solutions and troubleshoots system related issues.
• Performs intermediate configuration, implementation and upgrades of existing infrastructure.
• Provides support and input to projects, including task planning and execution.
• Works independently on projects that may span multiple functional areas.
• Works within objectives and instructions from systems staff for use in designing, testing and documentation.
• Identifies and works to automate tasks and processes with scripting and automation tools.
• Meets the quality standards set forth by management.
• Ensures availability when necessary for off-shift and weekend support functions.
• Incorporates enterprise security standards into functional area.
• Participates in accomplishment of continuous improvement objectives for the department. Progress toward accomplishment of these is measured through maintenance of necessary measurements and analysis of associated data. Participates in the identification of problem areas and development of resolutions to address them.
• Understands the Harassment policy of the company and is responsible for its application in all aspects of employment.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:
SKILLS, ABILITIES, AND KNOWLEDGE:

• Ability to perform daily infrastructure tasks expected of a storage/backups Engineer including troubleshooting, restores, vulnerability management, capacity management, etc.
• Ability to work independently or as part of a team.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated knowledge of SDLC, ITSM or related methodologies.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and participate on one or more projects.
• Demonstrated knowledge of one or more coding/scripting languages (Bash, Ruby, Python, etc.)
• Demonstrated knowledge of Unix administration.
• Ability and willingness to learn new technologies.
• Ability to gain a general understanding of core business procedures and operations.
• Ability to troubleshoot and recommend process changes that improve the overall implementation, maintenance and support of technical infrastructure.
• Demonstrated knowledge of and ability to apply basic math and data analysis skills.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

• A 4-year college or university degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study and a minimum of 3 to 4 years of enterprise technology experience is recommended.
• Equivalent experience may be substituted for education.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Candidate should have experience with storage and backups, analyzing capacity needs, and performing necessary data restores.
• Working knowledge of Dell Avamar, Dell Data Domain, Dell Isilon, Dell Cybervault, VMware, and Linux RedHat a plus.

Additional information:

This role is a full time, Hybrid position and would require for you to be in office minimum two days per week.

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:
April 23, 2024 - May 3, 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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