Cloud Engineer - Corporate Research Labs

Job Description

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Mers 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 variety of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with 60,000 other curious, creative 3

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As a Cloud Engineer, You Will Have The Opportunity To Design, Build, And Support Architectures And Cloud Services With Your Team For Users Across The Globe.

• Participate as a member on our development teams building and maintaining cloud resources for use in our applications. Create “infrastructure as code”, and work toward common high-performance infrastructure across our applications.
• Network through CRDL development groups to understand their needs; other lab software development groups are primary stakeholders.
• Maintain relationships with appropriate IT groups to partner with standards
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, including tools to automate testing, security compliance, style compliance, etc.
• Monitor cloud use and costs; identify idle resources, identify opportunities for cost saving
• Support “well architected” concepts; review, educate, evangelize
• Advise management on technical strategies and architectures
• Collect trouble reports and resolve problems
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members. Act as a mentor to more junior members of the team
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends, and collaborate with other technical leaders at 3M on adoption and best practices
• Aggressively publish internal technical documents and present to Tech Forum, or internal special interest groups

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science related field (completed and verified prior to start)
• Four (4) years building and managing resources in Amazon Web Services product set.
• Seven (7) years building and managing software platforms, cloud and pre-cloud architectures in a private, public, government or military environment

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• Master’s degree in computer science related field from an accredited institution
• Possess AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
• Familiar with AWS Well Architected Framework, understanding of performance optimization techniques for cloud resources and optimize architecture.
• Able to develop tools and support software as infrastructure.
• Familiar with Python, Type Script, Shell/Bash, Docker, AWS (ECS, IAM, S3, Lambda, Aurora, Batch/Step Functions), AWS Networking, and AWS CDK, Databricks.
• Administration of Kubernetes (EKS)
• Strong proficiency in CI/CD tools, particularly Git Hub and Git Hub Actions.
• Familiar with AWS Bedrock and emerging LLM architectures
• Microsoft Entra
• SRE Experience
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively in a team environment.
• Troubleshooting cloud infrastructure and networking problems

• This role follows an on-site working model, requiring the employee to work at least four days a week in Maplewood, MN

May include up to 10% domestic/international

May be authorized

3M offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, 3M regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope.

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