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With a diversity of people, global locations, technologies, and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3Mers.\nThis position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government, or military experience to a 3M career.\nThe Impact You'll Make in this Role\nWhen 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.\nAs 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.\nLeadership\nTechnical owner of 3M’s Red Hat OpenShift on AWS (ROSA HCP) platform, accountable for how it is architected, operated, secured, and evolved.\nLead the enterprise consolidation of 3M’s Kubernetes estate onto ROSA HCP, including migration strategy, sequencing, and retirement of legacy platforms.\nDefine the platform and practices that make ROSA HCP the easiest, most cost effective, most resilient, and best supported path for containerized applications.\nPlatform Architecture\nDesign, implement, and maintain enterprise architecture and platform standards.\nDefine standards for high availability, multi-cluster operations, scalability, resiliency, and disaster recovery.\nEstablish approved patterns for containerization, networking, ingress, observability, security, and platform automation.\nPlatform Engineering & Operations\nLead the design and engineering of core platform services including ingress, service mesh, observability, secrets management, container registries, and policy enforcement.\nOwn the GitOps and Infrastructure as Code approach for the platform, automating cluster provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management so that platform changes are versioned, reviewable, and repeatable.\nDefine and deliver self-service capabilities that improve developer productivity while meeting enterprise governance, security, and compliance requirements.\nLead day-to-day operations of the platform, including upgrade and patching cadence, capacity planning, incident response, and on-call practices for the platform team.\nOwn platform reliability, performance, and cost, setting service levels and driving continuous improvement against them.\nTechnical Mentorship\nPromote engineering excellence through technical leadership, knowledge sharing, and enterprise standards of development.\nCoach engineers, architects, and technical leads on Kubernetes best practices, cloud-native architectures, platform engineering principles, and container security.\nGuide application teams through modernization and migration conversations.\nYour Skills and Expertise\nTo set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or technology field (completed and verified prior to start) \nOR\nHigh School diploma (completed and verified prior to start) and Six (6) years of hands-on experience (completed and verified prior to start) \nAND\nFive (5) years of experience designing, deploying, or operating Kubernetes platforms in a private, public, government, or military environment.\nFive (5) years of experience with cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or related disciplines.\nAdditional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:\nCertified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).\nCertified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS).\nCertified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD).\nAWS Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps Engineer, Azure, or other cloud certifications.\nRed Hat OpenShift and ROSA administration experience.\nExperience implementing platform engineering products and developer self-service platforms.\nStrong Information Security background, certifications, or formal training.\nExperience supporting large-scale, globally distributed Kubernetes environments.\nMaster's degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline.\nExperience with WebSphere/JBOSS and Apache\nComfortable being in an on-call rotation for one week/month\nStrong written and verbal communication skills with a collaborative, customer-focused mindset.\nExcellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.\nDeep understanding of Kubernetes architecture, control-plane components, networking, security, and workload management.\nStrong automation and scripting experience using Git, APIs/CLI, Python, Bash, and Ansible\nExperience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), ideally AWS CloudFormation or CDK.\nExperience implementing CI/CD and GitOps solutions using GitHub Actions, Argo CD or similar technologies at scale.\nExperience with container technologies including Docker, Helm, Kubernetes Operators, and container registries.\nStrong understanding of observability platforms including Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace, Elastic, or similar solutions.\nExperience designing and implementing Kubernetes security controls including RBAC, workload identity, admission controllers, network policies, secrets management, and compliance monitoring.\nWorking knowledge of cloud networking, DNS, load balancing, service mesh technologies, and API management solutions.\nWork Location\nMaplewood, MN\nTravel: May include up to 5% domestic and international travel.\nMust be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B status).\nSupporting Your Well-being\n3M 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.\nChat with Max\nFor assistance with searching through our current job openings or for more information about all things 3M, visit Max, our virtual recruiting assistant on 3M.com/careers.\nApplicable to US Applicants Only:The expected compensation range for this position is $145,676 - $178,049, which includes base pay plus variable incentive pay, if eligible. This range represents a good faith estimate for this position. The specific compensation offered to a candidate may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, the candidate’s relevant knowledge, training, skills, work location, and/or experience. In addition, this position may be eligible for a range of benefits (e.g., Medical, Dental & Vision, Health Savings Accounts, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Disability Benefits, Life Insurance, Voluntary Benefits, Paid Absences and Retirement Benefits, etc.). Additional information is available at: https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/careers-us/working-at-3m/benefits/.Good Faith Posting Date Range 10/01/2026 To 10/31/2026 Or until filledAll US-based 3M full time employees will need to sign an employee agreement as a condition of employment with 3M. This agreement lays out key terms on using 3M Confidential Information and Trade Secrets. It also has provisions discussing conflicts of interest and how inventions are assigned. Employees that are Job Grade 7 or equivalent and above may also have obligations to not compete against 3M or solicit its employees or customers, both during their employment, and for a period after they leave 3M.Learn more about 3M’s creative solutions to the world’s problems at www.3M.com or on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn @3M.Responsibilities of this position include that corporate policies, procedures and security standards are complied with while performing assigned duties.Safety is a core value at 3M. 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