Cloud Engineer: Autonomy, Mentorship & Impactful Dashboards

3M; Grand Forks (ND); On-site; USD 44,000 - 61,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship program

Job summary

3M is hiring a Cloud Engineer in Grand Forks, ND for a freelance role with a pay range of $44,000–$61,000 per year. The position emphasizes ownership of cloud tooling, Datadog observability, and rapid iteration on features.

You will collaborate with the technology team to deliver dashboards, optimize caching, and maintain the GitOps platform with a focus on reliability. The role offers autonomy to run projects and mentorship to help you grow into a senior leader, while contributing to 3M's

Qualifications

• 1+ years of incident response experience.
• Strong observability mindset and ability to derive insights from metrics.
• Ability to take ownership of projects and drive them to completion.
• Comfort presenting to a ND-wide audience without a script.
• Familiarity with AWS and cloud-based workloads.

Responsibilities

• Build Docker dashboards to reduce the need for engineers to fetch numbers.
• Tune Attention Management caching to support Grand Forks launch spike on existing hardware.
• Handle GitOps platform work enabling 3M's ND expansion with minimal disruption.
• Wire up Bash scripting feature flags to safely test Grand Forks traffic risk-free.
• Deliver junior-quality features within the $44,000 - $61,000 Cloud Engineer mandate.
• Collaborate with QA to define test coverage and catch regressions early.
• Push multitasking changes behind flags so quick rollbacks in Grand Forks, ND are possible.

Skills

Observability

Ownership

Prioritization

Incident Response

Public Speaking

Tools

Datadog

Docker

GitOps

Bash

Job description

3M is hiring a Cloud Engineer in Grand Forks, ND for a freelance role with a pay range of $44,000–$61,000 per year. The position emphasizes ownership of cloud tooling, Datadog observability, and rapid iteration on features.

You will collaborate with the technology team to deliver dashboards, optimize caching, and maintain the GitOps platform with a focus on reliability. The role offers autonomy to run projects and mentorship to help you grow into a senior leader, while contributing to 3M's