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The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

3M is seeking an Advanced cloud engineering Specialist to provide technical leadership, strategic direction, and architectural vision for the cloud platforms that power Corporate Research Digital Platform’s global research, analytics, workflow automation, and enterprise‑scale digital ecosystems, including the One Place platform.

As a Advanced cloud engineering Specialist, you will serve as a top-level cloud architect and subject-matter expert, responsible for driving multi‑year cloud strategies, influencing platform roadmaps, governing cloud adoption across the enterprise, and ensuring that our cloud environments achieve the highest levels of security, performance, scalability, and automation.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Help define and own the long‑term cloud architecture strategy for CRSL, spanning AWS, Kubernetes, hybrid integrations, and enterprise platform ecosystems.
• Serve as the senior-most technical authority on AWS architecture, cloud security, networking, and distributed systems design for CRSL.
• Lead architecture reviews, governance, standards development, and technical roadmaps for cloud platforms across CRSL and partner organizations.
• Drive transformational cloud initiatives, including multi-account strategy, cloud landing zones, multi-region architectures, and platform modernization.
• Architect and validate mission-critical systems integrating AWS Services, Databricks, Temporal.io, Data Hub, MSK/Kafka, Open Search, and global identity platforms.
• Set enterprise standards for Infrastructure as Code, platform automation, observability, resiliency engineering, and cost governance.
• Design and oversee Kubernetes (EKS) and container platform strategy, including cluster architecture, tenancy models, and operational frameworks.
• Lead cross-functional programs that scale the One Place and CRSL platforms to new geographies, business units, and scientific domains.
• Partner with security, compliance, and IT governance teams to enforce cloud security frameworks, identity models, encryption standards, and auditability.
• Mentor Cloud Engineers and senior technical talent, elevating engineering excellence across the organization.
• Represent CRSL as a cloud thought leader, presenting architectural direction, technical strategy, and innovation initiatives to senior leadership.
• Evaluate emerging cloud, AI, and automation technologies and drive their adoption where they can accelerate research, engineering, or platform capabilities.
• Author and publish high-impact internal technical papers, architecture blueprints, and reference implementations that shape the future of cloud engineering at 3M.

Your Skills and Expertise:

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

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field from an accredited university.
• Solid experience in cloud engineering, cloud architecture, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.
• Solid experience in architecting and operating production AWS environments at enterprise scale.
• English Proficiency

Additional Qualifications That Could Help You Succeed Even Further

• Deep expertise across AWS services including IAM, S3, EKS, Lambda, MSK/Kafka, Aurora, Athena, VPC networking, Transit Gateways, and Open Search.

• Extensive experience designing secure, scalable, distributed cloud platforms using Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, CDK, or Terraform).

• Proven leadership driving multi-team cloud programs, platform modernization initiatives, or large-scale cloud transformations.

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, DevOps Engineer – Professional, or equivalent high‑level cloud certifications.

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

• Expertise with Databricks platform operations (Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, job orchestration, platform security).

• Deep experience with Data Hub, Temporal.io, or enterprise workflow/metadata platforms.

• Strong background in multi-region architectures, DR/BCP design, and resiliency engineering.

• Expertise with GitHub, GitHub Actions, Code Build, Docker, and large-scale CI/CD frameworks.

• Strong understanding of zero-trust architectures, identity federation, and Microsoft Entra ID integrations.

• Experience evaluating and implementing emerging GenAI infrastructure, vector databases, and LLM orchestration patterns.

• Hands-on experience establishing observability platforms (Prometheus, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, ELK, Splunk).

• Demonstrated excellence mentoring senior engineers, driving engineering culture, and influencing organizational strategy.

• Exceptional communication skills, with ability to articulate complex architectural concepts to engineering teams and senior leadership.

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