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Senior Engineer - DevOps

3M is hiring a Senior Engineer - DevOps in Bengaluru, India. Level rates it ; you can apply on 3M.

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  • Little AI ●○○○ is how Level rates this role: aI is not part of the work.
  • Tools and skills the posting cites include Kubernetes, Openshift and AWS.
  • Level classifies it as a senior role.
  • Level lists 774 other open roles at 3M.

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Build and maintain internal developer platforms using Kubernetes, OpenShift, and AWS CI/CD pipelines.

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3M has a long-standing reputation as a company committed to innovation. We provide the freedom to explore and encourage curiosity and creativity. We gain new insight from diverse thinking, and take risks on new ideas. Here, you can apply your talent in bold ways that matter.

Job Description:

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 you choose will support and guide you. With a wide variety of people, global locations, technologies, and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3Mers.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As a Senior DevOps Engineer on the Platform Services team, you will have the opportunity to apply your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world. In this role, you will make an impact by:

  • Building and maintaining the internal developer platform on Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), owning the CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and environment automation that application teams depend on to deliver software.
  • Driving software supply chain security from commit to production, including image security scanning, pipeline security gates, admission controls, and staged artifact promotion across environments.
  • Defining and enforcing platform policy as code, governing what runs in our clusters, how environments are provisioned, and how secrets and access are managed at scale.
  • Leading platform improvement initiatives, mentoring team members, and partnering with application teams, security teams, and cloud infrastructure teams to deliver a reliable, secure, and developer-friendly platform.
  • Evaluating and adopting emerging platform capabilities, including self-service developer tooling, observability, automated certificate management, and supply chain integrity 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 the start date.
  • Minimum of seven (7) years in DevOps and Platform Engineering.
  • Minimum of five (5) years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes or OpenShift platforms.
  • Hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift.

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

  • Hands-on experience with ROSA, including cluster administration, RBAC, namespace lifecycle management, and Kubernetes/OpenShift admission controls with policy as code.
  • Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Tekton, ArgoCD, and Helm for automated and reliable application delivery.
  • Solid understanding of software supply chain security principles, including SLSA, image signing and verification, vulnerability scanning, and policy enforcement at deployment gates.
  • Good knowledge of Kubernetes networking concepts and CNI tools such as Cilium and Calico, along with AWS services including IAM, networking, certificate management, Step Functions, and Lambda.
  • Proficiency in scripting and infrastructure automation using Bash and/or Python, along with experience using observability tools for metrics, alerting, and actionable dashboards; Red Hat or AWS certifications are a plus.

Work Location: Hebbal, Bangalore (Karnataka), Hybrid Mode

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.

Learn more about 3M’s creative solutions to the world’s problems at www.3M.com or on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn @3M.

Safety is a core value at 3M. All employees are expected to contribute to a strong Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) culture by following safety policies, identifying hazards, and engaging in continuous improvement.

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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How we rate this

Senior Engineer - DevOps at 3M rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

  1. ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
  2. ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
  3. ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
  4. ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

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  3. Tell me about a project where ci/cd was part of your work. What did you do?
  4. Tell me about a project where automation was part of your work. What did you do?
  5. Walk me through how you've used Kubernetes in your day-to-day work.

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