Cloud Engineer

Marathon Petroleum; Findlay (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Marathon Petroleum's Findlay, OH-based Cloud Enablement team is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to design and manage cloud infrastructure with a focus on IaC using Terraform and Azure.

You will drive automation, security, and cost optimization across on-premises and cloud environments, delivering reusable patterns and reference architectures that accelerate adoption of cloud-native solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent IT experience.
• 2+ years of relevant cloud engineering experience.
• Experience with cloud platforms, Azure preferred.
• IaC with Terraform required; CI/CD and DevOps experience preferred.
• Hands-on with containers and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Designs and manages Azure PaaS and cloud infrastructure.
• Develops IaC using Terraform to automate provisioning.
• Enables containerization with Docker and AKS for HA workloads.
• Provides patterns, templates, and architectures to accelerate adoption.
• Supports cloud development lifecycle and incident troubleshooting.

Skills

Azure

Terraform

Docker

AKS

CI/CD

DevOps

Security

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure

Job description

An exciting career awaits you

At MPC, we're committed to being a great place to work - one that welcomes new ideas, encourages diverse perspectives, develops our people, and fosters a collaborative team environment.

POSITION SUMMARY

This role is part of the Cloud Enablement team, which drives the adoption and optimization of public cloud technologies across the enterprise. As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will design and manage cloud infrastructure and implement Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) with Terraform.

In this role, you will drive automation, security, and compliance across on-premises and cloud environments while delivering consumable patterns, templates, and reference architectures that simplify adoption. By fostering innovation and leveraging emerging technologies, this role empowers digital transformation-modernizing applications, streamlining operations, and unlocking new business value through cloud-native solutions.

This position belongs to a family of jobs with increasing responsibility, competency, and skill level. Actual position title and pay grade will be based on the selected candidate's experience and qualifications.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Designs, implements, and manages Azure PaaS and cloud infrastructure across compute, networking, storage, and security services, ensuring reliability and scalability.
• Develops and maintains Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform to automate provisioning and management of cloud resources.
• Enables containerization and orchestration through Docker and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to support high-availability workloads.
• Delivers consumable patterns, templates, and reference architectures that accelerate adoption and consistency.
• Assesses current technology and contributes to developing a road map toward continual improvement and efficiency gains.
• Actively participates in performance optimization projects for cloud-based systems and services through conducting cost analysis for specific cloud infrastructure components and applications.
• Assists with the implementation of service monitoring. Partners with the infrastructure support and development teams to ensure continuous availability and operational continuity of critical systems.
• Supports all aspects of the cloud development life cycle for cloud solutions, including planning, requirements, development, testing, and quality assurance.
• Supports the development team and performs activities to resolve moderately complex developer issues in a timely and accurate fashion.
• Executes the troubleshooting of incidents, identifying root cause, fixing and documenting problems, and implementing preventive measures. Provides high-availability operational support and develops documentation across the environment.
• Develops build and release processes.
• Undertakes system configurations and baselines to support secure application development software control best practices and standards.
• Writes and delivers automation scripts and cloud infrastructure as code to ensure standardization, reliability, scalability, continuity, and consistency for resource deployments and maintenance.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, related field or equivalent experience.
• Two (2) or more years of relevant experience required.
• Experience using cloud platforms required, experience using Azure highly preferred.
• Experience using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) required, experience using Terraform highly preferred.
• Experience using CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices, highly preferred.
• Hands-on experience with containers, Docker and Kubernetes Service preferred.

SKILLS

• Cloud Computing - Knowing how to manage cloud services, develop cloud applications and use cloud architecture to meet customer needs.
• Cloud Infrastructure Management - Setting up, configuring, monitoring, and optimizing the components of cloud infrastructure.
• Cloud Networking - Cloud networking refers to the practice of using cloud-based infrastructure and services to facilitate efficient communication, data transfer, and connectivity between devices, applications, and users over the internet. It involves leveraging cloud computing resources to optimize network performance, scalability, and accessibility, enabling organizations to securely access and manage their data and applications from anywhere.
• Cloud Storage - The ability to design, implement, manage and maintain cloud-based storage solutions leveraging cloud storage concepts and technologies with a working knowledge of cloud storage architecture and cloud storage security leveraging cloud-based storage tools and platforms.
• Containerization - Containerization is form of operating system virtualization, through which applications are run in isolated user spaces called containers, all using the same shared operating system (OS). Container orchestration automatically provisions, deploys, scales, and manages containerized applications without worrying about