IT Platform Engineer - Advanced

Exxon Mobil Corporation; Spring (TX); On-site; USD 143,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension Plan

Savings Plan with 7% match

Workplace Flexibility: Flex your Day

Medical, dental, and vision

Job summary

Exxon Mobil Corporation in Houston is seeking an IT Platform Engineer to provide engineering and operational support for IT platform technologies. You will build and manage infrastructure, automation, and self-service capabilities to enable application teams to deploy securely and efficiently.

The role focuses on scalable platforms, observability, security and compliance, with opportunities to mentor others and lead projects across a global IT landscape.

Qualifications

• Infrastructure & Platform programming & automation.
• Infrastructure - Operating Systems.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and configure cloud services with governance and security controls.
• Perform full Platform lifecycle administration, performance tuning, and root-cause analysis.
• Create and enhance automation scripts and IaC templates to improve consistency.

Skills

Infrastructure automation

Operating systems

Job description

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For well over a century, ExxonMobil has been at the heart of creating and growing a modern world. We embrace the power and promise of technology, pushing the boundaries of what's possible. For billions around the world, lives are better and last longer because of the innovative problem solving and reliable energy we provide. And when it comes to developing industrial solutions to reduce carbon emissions, ExxonMobil is truly the leader.

We don't stop at \"good enough.\" We are committed to doing what's right, even if it's difficult or unpopular. We hold ourselves to high standards, challenge what's possible and invest in innovation to meet society's critical needs.

Real change begins with bold questions, drive, and ambition. Here, your talent, determination and contributions shape how far you'll go and the impact you'll make along the way.

Our future success depends on exceptional people. We invest in developing talent through meaningful work, challenging assignments, mentorship, and experiences that help build the next generation of leaders.

Our Culture

We are uniquely ExxonMobil. Integrity, care, excellence, resilience and courage, these core values determine how we work every day. At ExxonMobil, our values aren't just words— they're how we show up, focused on delivering the right answer, the right way, every day.

About us

At ExxonMobil, our vision is to lead in energy innovations that advance modern living while reducing emissions. As one of the world’s largest publicly traded energy and chemical companies, we are powered by a unique and diverse workforce fueled by the pride in what we do and what we stand for.
The success of our Upstream, Product Solutions and Low Carbon Solutions businesses is the result of the talent, curiosity and drive of our people. They bring solutions every day to optimize our strategy in energy, chemicals, lubricants and lower‑emissions technologies.
We invite you to bring your ideas to ExxonMobil to help create sustainable solutions that improve quality of life and meet society’s evolving needs. Learn more about our What and our Why and how we can work together.

What role you will play on our team

The IT Platform Engineer is responsible for providing engineering and operational support for IT platform technologies to address business needs and apply new IT solutions. This role focuses on creating and managing the infrastructure and tools that business capability teams use to build and deploy applications. The goal is to provide stable, scalable, and self‑service platforms, allowing teams to concentrate on application deployment without worrying about the underlying infrastructure. This involves, but is not limited to, automating tasks, providing reusable components, ensuring infrastructure and data resilience, enhancing observability, and ensuring security and compliance
This is a broad role that will have very specialized knowledge but will allow experience on a broader environment. The engineer will lead projects, begins to mentor others and ensures the effective integration and support of global IT systems

What you will do

You will:

• Deploy and configure cloud services, apply governance and security controls, optimize resource usage to achieve higher cost efficiency, and ensure environments comply with enterprise standards.


• Perform full Platform lifecycle administration, performance tuning, and root‑cause analysis


• Build and improve virtualized environments, manage capacity, optimize performance, and support upgrades and expansions of storage and virtualization platforms


• Maintain and enhance Platform resiliency design, support recovery operations, and contribute to improving disaster recovery readiness


• Deploy updates, configure platform components, troubleshoot platform‑level issues, and ensure application environments remain stable and well‑supported also perform lifecycle administration, performance tuning, and root‑cause analysis


• Create and enhance automation scripts, IaC templates, AI services, and deployment workflows to improve consistency, reduce manual work, and support platform scalability


• Analyze observability data, identify trends, and proactively address performance or reliability issues across infrastructure and application platforms


• Perform advanced administration tasks, such as system refreshes, change management, performance troubleshooting, and cross‑platform integration support


• Help define security best practices and document procedures to avoid security incidents


• Assist on writing documented processes for incident / change management, service requests, etc.

About you

Skills and Qualifications:

• Infrastructure & Platform Programming & Automation


• Infrastructure - Operating Systems

An ExxonMobil career is one designed to last. Our commitment to you runs deep: our employees grow personally and professionally, with benefits built on our core categories of health, security, finance, and life.

We offer you:

• The expected annual salary range for this position is $143,000 - $165,000. Individual pay will be determined based on various factors, which may include skills, abilities, qualifications, work experience, and education.


• Pension Plan: Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you. The basic benefit is a monthly annuity to be paid to you in retirement for the rest of your life.


• Savings Plan: You can contribute between 6% and 20% of your pay and are encouraged to enroll right away. If you contribute at least 6% to your savings plan, the Company will contribute a 7% match.


• Workplace Flexibility: We have several programs such as “Flex your Day”, providing ad‑hoc flexibility around when and where you work, as well as longer‑term programs such as leaves of absence and part‑time work.


• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.


• Culture of Health: Programs and resources to support your wellbeing.


• Employee Health Advisory Program: Provides confidential professional counseling for you and your family, including tools and resources promoting mental health and resiliency at no additional cost to you.


• Disability Plan: Income replacement for when you cannot work due to illness or injury occurring on or off the job. Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you.

Please note benefits may be changed from time to time without notice, subject to applicable law.

EEO Statement

ExxonMobil is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or physical or mental disability.

ExxonMobil is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or physical or mental disability.

Nothing herein is intended to override the corporate separateness of local entities. Working relationships discussed herein do not necessarily represent a reporting connection, but may reflect a functional guidance, stewardship, or service relationship.

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