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Job Description:
Collaborate with Innovative 3Mers Around the World
Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so it’s equally important you know that the company that you choose to work at, and its leaders, will support and guide you. With a diversity of people, global locations, technologies, and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with 60,000 other curious, creative 3Mers.
The Impact You’ll Make in this Role
3M is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineering Specialist to join the Corporate Research Digital Platforms (CRDP) to design, implement, and operate cloud infrastructure that powers global R&D, analytics, workflow automation, and the OnePlace data platform. In this role, you will lead technical execution across critical cloud components, guide engineering teams in adopting cloud best practices, and help ensure our cloud environments are reliable, secure, and scalable.
As a Senior Cloud Engineering Specialist, you will have the opportunity to:
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Architect and implement cloud infrastructure across AWS, including IAM, S3, EKS, Lambda, Aurora, MSK, OpenSearch, and CloudWatch.
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Design and operate Kubernetes (EKS) clusters, ensuring reliability, multi‑tenant operation, scalability, and security.
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Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using CloudFormation or CDK to deliver consistent and automated cloud resources.
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Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and CodeBuild to support automated testing, deployments, and infrastructure rollout.
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Operate and enhance critical platform services, including AWS-native services, Databricks Runtime, DataHub, Temporal.io, SyncThing, etc.
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Implement cloud observability practices, including monitoring, alerting, logging, metrics, and system performance baselines.
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Collaborate across development, platform, IT, and security teams to onboard use cases, improve reliability, and adopt best practices.
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Support troubleshooting and incident response, participating in on-call rotations and leading root-cause analysis for cloud and platform systems.
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Promote Well‑Architected principles, cloud security, IAM hygiene, encryption standards, and compliance requirements.
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Identify opportunities for performance improvements and cost optimization across cloud infrastructure and platform workloads.
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Create and maintain documentation, including runbooks, architecture diagrams, standards, and operational procedures.
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Mentor junior and mid-level cloud engineers, sharing knowledge, patterns, and engineering best practices.
Your Skills and Expertise
To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum):
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Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field from an accredited university.
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Solid professional experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, or SRE.
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Solid hands-on experience building and operating AWS environments.
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Intermediate English Proficiency
Additional Qualifications That Could Help You Succeed Even Further
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