Hybrid Observability Architect — AI Telemetry Lead

3M Company; Maplewood (MN); On-site; USD 165,000 - 201,000; Full time

Job summary

3M Company is seeking an Observability Architect to define how the organization understands health, performance, and reliability across its tech environment. Lead a unified observability strategy across cloud, infra, apps, networks, security, and critical services using CloudWatch, Cribl, Splunk, APM, and AI to turn telemetry into actionable insight.

You will mentor engineers, design dashboards, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to improve detections, troubleshooting, and incident

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or CyberSecurity (completed and verified prior to start)
• Ten (10) years of experience in IT infrastructure
• Five (5) years of experience with cloud technologies
• Three (3) years of experience with observability
• Three (3) years of experience with AI tools

Responsibilities

• Define the enterprise observability architecture, tools, roadmap, standards, and governance model.
• Integrate monitoring, logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting 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 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.
• Mentor engineers and help teams build the skills needed to operate reliable, observable services.

Skills

Mentorship

Cross-team collaboration

Strategic thinking

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or CyberSecurity

Tools

Amazon CloudWatch

Splunk

Cribl

APM

OpenTelemetry

Job description

3M Company is seeking an Observability Architect to define how the organization understands health, performance, and reliability across its tech environment. Lead a unified observability strategy across cloud, infra, apps, networks, security, and critical services using CloudWatch, Cribl, Splunk, APM, and AI to turn telemetry into actionable insight.

You will mentor engineers, design dashboards, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to improve detections, troubleshooting, and incident