Senior Observability Architect - Hybrid (Maplewood, MN)

3M Vietnam; Minnesota; On-site; USD 165,000 - 201,000; Full time

Job summary

3M is seeking an Observability Architect to 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 that helps teams detect issues earlier, troubleshoot faster,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or CyberSecurity, completed and verified before start.
• Ten years of IT infrastructure experience.
• Five years of cloud technologies experience.
• Three years of observability experience.
• Three years of AI tools experience.

Responsibilities

• Define the enterprise observability architecture, tools, roadmap, standards, and governance model.
• Integrate monitoring, logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting across platforms.
• Use Cribl and similar technologies to route and enrich telemetry before downstream systems.
• Improve Splunk and CloudWatch implementations for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Create reusable patterns for dashboards, alerts, and service-health views.
• Reduce alert fatigue by improving signal quality, ownership and escalation.
• Partner with application, cloud, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to bake observability in.
• Mentor engineers and help teams operate reliable, observable services.

Skills

BSc CS/Cybersecurity

IT infrastructure experience

Cloud technologies

Observability

AI tools

Education

BSc CS/Cybersecurity

Tools

Amazon CloudWatch

Splunk

Cribl

Job description

3M is seeking an Observability Architect to 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 that helps teams detect issues earlier, troubleshoot faster,