Observability Architect

3M•Maplewood, MN

5d•$164,612 - $201,193•Onsite

About The Position

As a 3M Observability Architect, you will define how the organization understands the health, performance, and reliability of its technology environment. You will establish a unified observability strategy across cloud, infrastructure, applications, networks, security, and business-critical services. Using technologies such as Amazon CloudWatch, Cribl, Splunk, APM, and AI, you will connect fragmented telemetry into actionable insight to help teams detect issues earlier, troubleshoot faster, and prevent recurring incidents. You will also design automated root cause investigations using AI technologies to improve overall observability. The position is based at 3M Center in Maplewood, Minnesota, with an on-site working model requiring at least four days per week in the office. Travel is 10%, and relocation is available. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without visa sponsorship. The role may involve direct or indirect physical or logical access to information, systems, or technologies subject to U.S. Export Control Laws.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or CyberSecurity, completed and verified before starting.
Ten years of experience in IT infrastructure.
Five years of experience with cloud technologies.
Three years of experience with observability.
Three years of experience with AI tools.
Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status.

Nice To Haves

Experience in enterprise observability architecture, including designing strategies for logs, metrics, traces, events, alerts, dashboards, service dependencies, and operational health across complex hybrid environments.
Hands-on experience with Amazon CloudWatch, Splunk, and Cribl, plus familiarity with application performance monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, network monitoring, OpenTelemetry, and incident-management platforms.
Experience collecting, transforming, enriching, routing, and retaining high-volume telemetry, with understanding of data quality, source onboarding, schema consistency, indexing, retention, and cost control.
Strong understanding of AWS workloads, distributed applications, APIs, containers, operating systems, networks, and hybrid infrastructure, including determining what should be measured and how failures appear across technology layers.
Ability to establish standards, lead architecture reviews, communicate with technical and executive audiences, mentor engineers, and drive adoption across application, cloud, infrastructure, security, and operations teams.

Responsibilities

Define the enterprise observability architecture, tools, roadmap, standards, and governance model.
Integrate monitoring, logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting capabilities across diverse platforms.
Use Cribl and similar technologies to route, enrich, filter, and control telemetry before it reaches downstream platforms.
Improve Splunk and CloudWatch implementations for operational visibility, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
Create reusable patterns for dashboards, alerts, service-health views, and telemetry onboarding.
Reduce alert fatigue by improving signal quality, ownership, prioritization, and escalation.
Partner with application, cloud, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to design observability into systems from the beginning.
Mentor engineers and help teams build the skills needed to operate reliable, observable services.
Design automated root cause investigations using AI technologies.
Comply with corporate policies, procedures, and security standards while performing assigned duties.
Follow safety policies, identify hazards, and engage in continuous improvement to contribute to a strong Environmental Health and Safety culture.