Platform / DevSecOps Engineer - Secure AI Systems

Own the end-to-end operation of business-critical collaboration and software-development platforms, including thecompute, storage, networking, database, and runner infrastructure supporting isolated and air-gapped environments.

Establish, build,andoperatethe secure platform foundation, with accountability for availability, performance, capacity, cost, maintenance, and day-to-day reliability.

Design and enforce Zero Trust boundaries across public, quarantine, DMZ, cloud, on-premises,developer, and internal application environments using segmentation, least-privilege access, and controlled ingress and egress.

Administer GitHub Enterprise Server, including repositories, permissions,ephemeralActionsrunners,audit logs, upgrades, backups, and disaster-recovery configurations.

Integrate identity,privileged-access, secrets, key, and certificate services using federation, SAML, OIDC, RBAC, conditional access, credential rotation, and lifecycle controls.

Design,developandoperatea controlled software-supply-chain pipeline that scans,validates, traces, and securely promotes trusted source code, packages, containers, firmware, and other artifacts into protected environments.

Engineer geographically redundant backup, replication, restore, and failover capabilities across cloud and on-premises environments, with recovery proven through routine testing.

Automate,monitor,and continuously secure the platform usingreusableTerraformmodules, scripting, centralized observability, vulnerability remediation, threat modelingand hunting, security reviews,threatdetection.

Leadmajorincident-responseactivities,includinginvestigation, containment,recovery,root-causeanalysis, and implementationofcorrective actions.

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 in computer science, computer engineering, cybersecurity, or information systems (completed and verified prior to start)

OR

• High School Diploma/GED (completed and verified prior to start) and seven (7) years of experience building,operating, automating, securing, or recovering business-critical technology platforms and infrastructure.

AND

• Seven (7)years of professional experience in platform engineering,DevSecOps, site reliability engineering, cloud infrastructure, infrastructure security, ora relatedfield.
• Three (3)yearsofhands onexperiencedesigning,deploying,andoperatinginfrastructure usingTerraformacrosspubliccloud (AWS,Azure,GCP) andprivatecloud/virtualizationtechnologies(e.g.,OpenStack,VMWare).
• Three (3)years of production experience administering GitHub Enterprise Server or a comparable self-hosted software-development platform, including identity, permissions, automation runners, audit logging, upgrades, backup, and recovery.

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

• Three (3) years of scripting and software-development capability using scripting languages like Python, Bash, and/or PowerShell, with disciplined use of source control, code review, testing, release management, and documentation.
• Hands-on experiencedesigning,deploying, and managinghighlyscalableKubernetesenvironments.
• Hands-on experiencebuildinggreenfield infrastructureplatformsandoperatingcriticalsystemsin air-gapped, disconnected, or highly isolated production environments.
• Experienceserving as thetechnical ownerof mission-criticalproductionenterpriseplatformssupportingmultiple engineeringteams, includingresponsibility for architecture decisions,operational readiness,reliability, security, anddisasterrecovery.
• Experiencedeploying andoperatingphysicalinfrastructure,including servers,storage,networking, and virtualizationplatforms.
• Experiencedesigningandimplementing systemsthatprotectsensitive intellectual property or regulated information in environments such as trade-secret-intensive research, government, defense, healthcare, critical infrastructure, classified, or export-controlled programs.
• Experienceimplementingandmaintainingcompliancecontrolsaligned withcybersecurityframeworkssuchasNISTCSF,FedRAMP,CMMC,DoD STIGs, orcomparablesecuritystandards.
• A hands-on, low-egoworking style; strong security judgment; comfortoperatingunder ambiguity; and discretion when handling highly confidential or access-controlled intellectual property.
• Experience working with Agile Scrum methodologies.

Location: Onsite in 3M Center Maplewood, MN

Travel: May include up to 5% travel

Relocation Benefits: May be offered

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

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Applicable 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 09/10/2026 To 10/10/2026 Or until filled

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