Cloud Platform Architect

3M Manhattan Beach, CA
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November 23, 2022
3M
Manhattan Beach, CA
FULL_TIME

Job Description:
Job Title
Cloud Platform Architect
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 other curious, creative 3Mers.

"A long-lasting career at 3M comes from having vision, imagination and the ability to see what doesn't exist. 3Mers are groundbreaking innovators and it's important that we give every person the space for disruptive and creative thinking." - John Banovetz, executive vice president, chief technology officer and environmental responsibility at 3M
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

As a Cloud Platform Architect, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world.


Here, you will make an impact by:

  • Designing and developing next generation cloud platforms for 3M to support large scale server/application workloads
  • Advocating for engineering practices and assist teams in using frameworks for infrastructure as code and immutable infrastructure concepts
  • Building full and partial stack components for cloud solutions
  • Developing AWS Cloud Formation templates, tools, libraries, and automation code
  • Ensuring the quality, consistency, and performance of cloud consumption platforms through fully automated deployments
  • Engaging others to positively influence organizational change efforts in cloud and DevOps best practices
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 or higher (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution
  • Three (3) years of AWS cloud deployment and operational experience in a private, public, government or military environment
Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

  • Five (5) years of AWS cloud deployment and operational experience
  • Experience deploying and managing Azure cloud solutions
  • Experience writing code in Python or similar languages
  • Experience in automating large-scale deployments with modern software configuration management tools (Terraform, Ansible, Packer, Puppet, Jenkins)
  • Work experience with Git and/or GitHub

Work location:

  • Work Your Way Eligible (Employee choice to work remote, on site, or hybrid)

Travel:
May include minimal travel expectations 5% domestic/international

Relocation Assistance:
Is not authorized

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

Responsibilities of this position may include direct and/or indirect physical or logical access to information, systems, technologies subjected to the regulations/compliance with U.S.

Export Control Laws.
U.S. Export Control laws and U.S.

Government Department of Defense contracts and sub-contracts impose certain restrictions on companies and their ability to share export-controlled and other technology and services with certain "non-U.S.

persons" (persons who are not U.S.

citizens or nationals, lawful permanent residents of the U.S., refugees, "Temporary Residents" (granted Amnesty or Special Agricultural Worker provisions), or persons granted asylum (but excluding persons in nonimmigrant status such as H-1B, L-1, F-1, etc.) or non-U.S.

citizens.

To comply with these laws, and in conjunction with the review of candidates for those positions within 3M that may present access to export controlled technical data, 3M must assess employees' U.S.

person status, as well as citizenship(s).
The questions asked in this application are intended to assess this and will be used for evaluation purposes only.

Failure to provide the necessary information in this regard will result in our inability to consider you further for this particular position.

The decision whether or not to file or pursue an export license application is at 3M Company's sole election.
Supporting Your Well-being
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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Responsibilities of this position include that corporate policies, procedures and security standards are complied with while performing assigned duties.

Our approach to flexibility is called Work Your Way, which puts employees first and drives well-being in ways that enable 3M's business and performance goals.

You have flexibility in where and when work gets done. It all depends on where and when you can do your best work.

Pay & Benefits Overview:

3M is an equal opportunity employer.

3M will not discriminate against any applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.


Please note:
your application may not be considered if you do not provide your education and work history, either by: 1) uploading a resume, or 2) entering the information into the application fields directly.
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