Data Operations Engineer

Marathon Petroleum; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Marathon Petroleum is seeking a Data Operations Engineer to design, build, and automate data platform solutions across enterprise systems. You will work with senior engineers to deploy reusable automation, monitor pipelines, and support secure, governed data products and operational models.

The role focuses on improving reliability, scalability and engineering productivity using cloud platforms and modern DevOps practices. Experience with Cognite Data Fusion, Databricks, and Azure is preferred.

Qualifications

• Requires Bachelor's Degree in IT or a related field.
• Minimum 2+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience with cloud data platforms, pipelines and automation.
• Proficiency with Azure, Databricks and Cognite Data Fusion.
• Knowledge of SQL, Python, APIs and DevOps or monitoring tools.

Responsibilities

• Proactively identifies operational inefficiencies and suggests solutions.
• Manages platform updates and migrations independently.
• Implements security protocols for data platforms.
• Optimizes platform performance and scalability.
• Collaborates with IT teams for seamless system integrations.
• Participates in capacity planning and resource allocation.
• Maintains backups and disaster recovery procedures.
• Contributes to automation of routine platform tasks.
• Oversees data storage and ensures data integrity.
• Monitors platform health, pipelines, and data refreshes.
• Supports automated deployment, release, and configuration tasks.
• Maintains runbooks and documentation for troubleshooting.

Skills

Data governance

Data cleansing

Data ethics

Data classification

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or related field

Tools

Azure

Databricks

Cognite Data Fusion

SQL

Python

APIs

DevOps

Monitoring tools

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

Data, Analytics and AI is advancing Marathon Petroleum's data ecosystem through trusted, governed and reusable data products that enable faster decisions, operational excellence and AI-driven innovation. The Data Operations Engineer is an individual contributor who designs, builds, automates and integrates solutions across MPC's enterprise data platforms to improve reliability, scalability and engineering productivity. This role applies software engineering, automation, API integration, data engineering and cloud platform practices to connect data platforms, streaming services, observability tools and enterprise systems. The successful candidate will work with senior engineers, architects and platform leads to develop reusable automation, implement repeatable integration patterns, support deployments, troubleshoot issues, strengthen monitoring, and contribute to secure, governed and resilient data platform capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Proactively identifies operational inefficiencies and recommends solutions.
• Independently manages platform updates and migrations.
• Implements and upholds security protocols for data platforms.
• Assists in optimizing the platform for performance and scalability.
• Collaborates with other IT departments for seamless system integrations.
• Participates in capacity planning and resource allocation.
• Maintains system backups and disaster recovery procedures.
• Contributes to the automation of routine platform tasks.
• Oversees data storage solutions and ensures data integrity.
• Stays updated with the latest platform technologies and best practices.
• Support reliable operations across enterprise data platforms using established runbooks, standards and procedures.
• Build reusable automation, workflows and platform utilities for Cognite Data Fusion, Databricks, Azure and related services.
• Support ingestion, transformation, API integration and contextualization for governed data products and operational models.
• Monitor platform health, pipeline execution, alerts and data refreshes; investigate issues and elevate with clear analysis.
• Assist with automated deployment, release, configuration and validation using approved DevOps and CI/CD practices.
• Maintain runbooks, support documentation and lessons learned to improve troubleshooting and reduce recurring issues.
• Apply enterprise standards for security, IAM, governance, compliance and data handling.
• Collaborate with architects, engineers, platform leads, product teams and vendors to deliver scalable automation and integration solutions.
• Execute provisioning, configuration, integration, monitoring and support tasks across data platform services.
• Support Cognite Data Fusion, Databricks, Azure Lakehouse, streaming, API integration and observability workflows.
• Contextualize assets, time series, events, documents and metadata for analytics, AI and data product activation.
• Validate data loads, refreshes, model updates and integration flows across environments.
• Follow architecture, platform, security and governance standards for scalable data product capabilities.

Education and Experience

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, related field or equivalent experience required.

Two (2) or more years of relevant experience required.

Experience with cloud data platforms, pipelines, integrations or automation preferred.

Experience with Azure, Databricks, Cognite Data Fusion, SQL, Python, APIs, DevOps or monitoring tools preferred.

Exposure to production support, incident triage, deployment validation and documentation preferred.

Ability to learn quickly, follow standards, collaborate across teams and deliver reliable solutions.

Skills

Data Classification - Knowledge of the process of formally grouping Configuration Items by type, e.g. software, hardware, documentation, environment, application. Knowledge of the process of formally identifying Changes by type, e.g. project scope change request, corrective change request, innovative function change request, technical infrastructure change request. And, knowledge of the process of formally identifying Incidents, Problems and Known Errors by origin, symptoms and cause.

Data Cleansing - Data scrubbing, also called data cleansing, is the process of amending or removing data in a database that is incorrect, incomplete, improperly formatted, or duplicated.

Data Ethics - Knowledge of ethical considerations related to data usage, data-driven technologies and strategies to mitigate biases in data-driven decision-making.

Data Governance - Ability to establish and overs