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Lead Kubernetes Platform Engineer
3M Company · 🇺🇸 US, Minnesota, Saint Paul
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 17 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 6 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What 3M Company paid sponsored hires in similar roles7 certified filings for “Senior Research Engineer” (Materials Engineers) in MN: $117k–$131k, median $128k. Most were filed at wage level II (43%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — 3M Company
The US Department of Labor certified 17 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 6 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Job Description: Lead Kubernetes Platform Engineer 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 that you know that the company you choose to work at, and its leaders, will support and guide you. With a diversity of people, global locations, technologies, and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3Mers. This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government, or military experience to a 3M career. The Impact You'll Make in this Role When you join the Platform Engineering, Developer Services team, you become a crucial part of 3M's digital transformation. You will substantially contribute to the delivery of applications and services that benefit 3M customers worldwide. You will develop, operate, and evolve the enterprise Kubernetes platform that enables engineering teams to securely build, deploy, and manage cloud-native applications at scale. As a Kubernetes Platform Engineer and Technical Lead in Developer Services, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people from around the world. Leadership • Technical owner of 3M’s Red Hat OpenShift on AWS (ROSA HCP) platform, accountable for how it is architected, operated, secured, and evolved. • Lead the enterprise consolidation of 3M’s Kubernetes estate onto ROSA HCP, including migration strategy, sequencing, and retirement of legacy platforms. • Define the platform and practices that make ROSA HCP the easiest, most cost effective, most resilient, and best supported path for containerized applications. Platform Architecture • Design, implement, and maintain enterprise architecture and platform standards. • Define standards for high availability, multi-cluster operations, scalability, resiliency, and disaster recovery. • Establish approved patterns for containerization, networking, ingress, observability, security, and platform automation. Platform Engineering & Operations • Lead the design and engineering of core platform services including ingress, service mesh, observability, secrets management, container registries, and policy enforcement. • Own the GitOps and Infrastructure as Code approach for the platform, automating cluster provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management so that platform changes are versioned, reviewable, and repeatable. • Define and deliver self-service capabilities that improve developer productivity while meeting enterprise governance, security, and compliance requirements. • Lead day-to-day operations of the platform, including upgrade and patching cadence, capacity planning, incident response, and on-call practices for the platform team. • Own platform reliability, performance, and cost, setting service levels and driving continuous improvement against them. Technical Mentorship • Promote engineering excellence through technical leadership, knowledge sharing, and enterprise standards of development. • Coach engineers, architects, and technical leads on Kubernetes best practices, cloud-native architectures, platform engineering principles, and container security. • Guide application teams through modernization and migration conversations. 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 in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or technology field (completed and verified prior to start) OR • High School diploma (completed and verified prior to start) and Six (6) years of hands-on experience (completed and verified prior to start) AND • Five (5) years of experien