Senior Data Platform Ops Engineer (Cloud & Automation)

Marathon Petroleum Corporation; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Marathon Petroleum Corporation is seeking a Senior Data Operations Engineer to oversee reliability, scalability, security, and performance of MPC’s data platforms in a cloud-first environment.

The role leads modernization, automation, and operational excellence across Data Engineering, Platform Engineering, SRE, FinOps, Governance and Data Product Operations, working with Databricks, Azure, Cognite and related tech to deliver scalable analytics and AI workloads.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or related field.
• 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Senior-level experience in data engineering, platform engineering, cloud engineering, or platform operations preferred.
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale cloud data platforms.
• Experience operating mission-critical analytics and data platforms.
• Demonstrated success leading platform modernization and automation initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Leads platform scalability and performance tuning initiatives.
• Mentors less experienced team members in best operational practices.
• Collaborates with architects to design resilient and robust platforms.
• Drives the resolution of critical platform issues.
• Engages with vendors and partners for platform solutions and enhancements.
• Implements robust monitoring and alerting mechanisms.
• Participates in strategic planning for platform growth and evolution.
• Drives the adoption of new technologies and tools for platform operations.
• Ensures compliance with industry regulations related to data storage and operations.
• Engages with stakeholders to understand and cater to their platform needs.
• Platform Engineering, Reliability & Automation
• Standardize reusable infrastructure patterns with IaC, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.
• Create self-service provisioning and deployment workflows to improve consistency and reduce manual effort.
• Establish reusable engineering standards, templates, and operating frameworks.
• Strengthen observability through telemetry standards, runbooks, incident response, and root cause analysis.
• Define readiness criteria and improvement practices for production platform services.
• Translate architecture standards into operating patterns for scalable analytics and AI workloads.

Skills

Data Classification

Data Cleansing

Data Ethics

Data Governance

Data Privacy

Data Quality

Data Stewardship

IAM

MDM

Platform Operations

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or related field

Tools

Databricks

Azure

Cognite

Observability

Job description

Marathon Petroleum Corporation is seeking a Senior Data Operations Engineer to oversee reliability, scalability, security, and performance of MPC’s data platforms in a cloud-first environment.

The role leads modernization, automation, and operational excellence across Data Engineering, Platform Engineering, SRE, FinOps, Governance and Data Product Operations, working with Databricks, Azure, Cognite and related tech to deliver scalable analytics and AI workloads.