Lead Kubernetes Platform Engineer · US Platform & Infrastructure –3d ago

Job Description:

Lead Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Collaborate with Innovative 3

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 that you know that the company 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 other curious, creative 3

Mers.

This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government, or military experience to a 3M career.

The Impact You'll Make in this Role

When you join the Platform Engineering, Developer Services team, you become a crucial part of 3M's digital transformation. You will substantially contribute to the delivery of applications and services that benefit 3M customers worldwide. You will develop, operate, and evolve the enterprise Kubernetes platform that enables engineering teams to securely build, deploy, and manage cloud-native applications at scale.

As a Kubernetes Platform Engineer and Technical Lead in Developer Services, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people from around the world.

• Technical owner of 3M’s Red Hat Open Shift on AWS (ROSA HCP) platform, accountable for how it is architected, operated, secured, and evolved.
• Lead the enterprise consolidation of 3M’s Kubernetes estate onto ROSA HCP, including migration strategy, sequencing, and retirement of legacy platforms.
• Define the platform and practices that make ROSA HCP the easiest, most cost effective, most resilient, and best supported path for containerized applications.

• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise architecture and platform standards.
• Define standards for high availability, multi-cluster operations, scalability, resiliency, and disaster recovery.
• Establish approved patterns for containerization, networking, ingress, observability, security, and platform automation.

• Lead the design and engineering of core platform services including ingress, service mesh, observability, secrets management, container registries, and policy enforcement.
• Own the Git Ops and Infrastructure as Code approach for the platform, automating cluster provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management so that platform changes are versioned, reviewable, and repeatable.
• Define and deliver self-service capabilities that improve developer productivity while meeting enterprise governance, security, and compliance requirements.
• Lead day-to-day operations of the platform, including upgrade and patching cadence, capacity planning, incident response, and on‑call practices for the platform team.
• Own platform reliability, performance, and cost, setting service levels and driving continuous improvement against them.

• Promote engineering excellence through technical leadership, knowledge sharing, and enterprise standards of development.
• Coach engineers, architects, and technical leads on Kubernetes best practices, cloud‑native architectures, platform engineering principles, and container security.
• Guide application teams through modernization and migration conversations.

Your Skills and Expertise

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

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or technology field (completed and verified prior to start)

OR

• High School diploma (completed and verified prior to start) and Six (6) years of hands‑on experience (completed and verified prior to start)

AND

• Five (5) years of experience designing, deploying, or operating…