Senior Platforms Engineer

Marathon Petroleum Corporation; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 104,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Senior Platforms Engineer, where you will drive infrastructure platform automation and technical strategy under Midstream IT. This role demands a blend of hands-on leadership and strategic initiative to enhance performance and reliability across technology landscapes.

Benefits

Health, vision, and dental insurance

Paid time off

401k matching program

Paid parental leave

Educational reimbursement

Discretionary annual bonus program

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant platforms engineer experience required.
• Preferred 10+ years in Networking, Storage, and Infrastructure.
• Experience in Operational Technology is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Drive platform automation initiatives and enhance system performance.
• Lead design and implementation of Infrastructure Automation and CI/CD.
• Collaborate with teams to resolve complex technical issues.

Skills

Cloud Infrastructure Management

Computer Networking

Cybersecurity Risk Management

DevSecOps

Infrastructure as Code

Performance Monitoring

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology

Equivalent experience in a related field

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitLab

Jenkins

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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

The Senior Platforms Engineer will be a key technical leader within the Platform Automation team under Midstream IT, driving the transformation of infrastructure platform automation initiatives. This role blends deep technical expertise with strategic initiative to enhance Infrastructure Platform performance, reliability, and innovation across the Midstream IT landscape. The Senior Platforms Engineer will be responsible for establishing and maintaining platform standards, resolving complex technical challenges, and developing automation frameworks that enable data-driven decision-making. The Senior Platforms Engineer will lead the design and implementation of Infrastructure Automation, CI/CD for infrastructure operations, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevSecOps, and Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) processes. Provide technical leadership in Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Network as Code, Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN), and Zero Trust Network Architecture. Additionally, this role will provide technical guidance for platform design and evaluation while fostering a knowledge-sharing culture through structured frameworks.

Success in this role requires a balance between hands-on technical leadership, collaborating closely with senior management, product teams, architects, and engineering teams to shape the future of Midstream IT’s platform automation strategy. The ideal candidate is a highly skilled platform engineer with a passion for automation, infrastructure as code, and self-service platform enablement.

Key Responsibilities

• Identifies performance bottlenecks, conducts root cause analysis, and proposes and implements solutions to enhance platform & system performance and resource utilization. Establishes performance benchmarks, conducts capacity planning, and collaborates with other teams, including junior engineers and cross functional teams to optimize infrastructure performance and activities.
• Contributes to the development and improvement of troubleshooting procedures, measures to minimize platform & system downtime, and documentation. Partners with vendor technical support to drive for resolution. Leads and manages platform & system technical support activities and troubleshooting efforts, including handling escalated and complex issues. Performs advanced system tuning and optimization to maximize performance using IT Service Management practices. Collaborates with internal teams to enhance support processes and methodologies.
• Participates in future platform & system backup planning. Leads the design of disaster/system recovery and testing.
• Analyzes performance and utilization data to identify trends and patterns; provides recommendations for optimization and improvement; prepares comprehensive reports on infrastructure performance; and implementscorrective actions to drive continuous system improvements
• Leads the design and configuration of complex platforms & systems, considering best practices and industry standards. Leads ongoing compliance with original design and configuration and corrects for deviation from standards. Builds and deploys highly available and scalable infrastructure solutions.
• Leads the creation and maintenance of a comprehensive knowledge base for platforms & systems, including troubleshooting guides, configuration documentation, and best practices. Promotes knowledge sharing culture by organizing training sessions, mentoring junior engineers, and encouraging cross-team collaboration.
  
  

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, related field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of relevant platforms engineer experience.
• Preferred 10+ years of experience in Networking, Compute, Storage, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Configuration Management, Identity & Access Management (IAM), and/or Platform Development.
  
  

Preferred candidates will have:

• Experience in Operational Technology and a solid understanding of PERA model.
• Experience in Azure DevOps, GitLab, Netbrain, Netbox, Itential, Jenkins, or similar tools for continuous integration and deployment.
  
  

Skills

• Cloud Infrastructure Management – Setting up, configuring, monitoring, and optimizing the components of cloud infrastructure.
• Computer Networking – A system in which multiple computers are connected to each other to share information and resources.
• Cybersecurity Risk Management – The process of developing cyber risk assessment and treatment techniques that can effectively pre-empt and identify significant security loopholes and weaknesses, demonstrating the business risks associated with these loopholes and providing risk treatment and prioritization strategies to effectively address the cyber-related risks, threats and vulnerabilities, ensuring appropriate levels of protection, confidentiality, integrity and privacy in alignment with the security framework.
• DevSecOps – A set of practices that automates the integration of security at every phase of the software development lifecycle, from initial design through integration, testing, deployment, and software delivery, with an aim towards shortening the systems development life cycle and pas well as continuous delivery and a security first approach.
• General Programming – Applies a computer language to communicate with computers using a set of instructions and to automate the execution of tasks.
• Infrastructure as Code – The process of managing and provisioning infrastructure through code instead of through manual processes.
• IT Infrastructure Management – Planning, design, delivery and control of information technology infrastructure.
• Performance Monitoring – The process of measuring the performance of a system in real time in order to determine problems and identify other factors that may cause problems in the future.
• Policy Management – The process of creating, implementing and maintaining policies and procedures within an organization.
• Process Automations – Also known as business automation or digital transformation, this is the technology-enabled automation of complex business processes. It can streamline a business for simplicity, achieve digital transformation, increase service quality, improve service delivery or contain costs. It consists of integrating applications, restructuring labor resources and using software applications throughout the organization.
• Service Delivery Management – The manner in which an organization provides users access to IT services, which include applications, data storage and other business resources.
• System Administration – Performs a variety of functions including user management, system monitoring, system configuration, performance tuning, backup and recovery, and access control.
• System Platform – A system platform refers to the underlying foundation or framework that supports and manages the operation of software applications and hardware components within a computing environment. It provides a standardized and cohesive infrastructure, allowing for the development, deployment, and integration of various technologies and services.
• System Testing – The process of testing conducted on a complete integrated system to evaluate the system's compliance with its specified requirements.
• Systems Integration – The process of linking together various IT systems, services and/or software to enable all of them to work functionally together.
• Troubleshooting – The act or process of discovering and resolving problems, disputes, or mechanical issues through a systematic, usually iterative, approach.
  
  

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

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

5+ years of relevant experience

As an energy industry leader, our career opportunities fuel personal and professional growth.

Location:

Findlay, Ohio

Job Requisition ID:

00016965

Pay Min/Max:

$104,300.00 - $179,800.00 Salary

Grade:

11 - 12

Location Address:

539 S Main St

Additional locations:

Denver, Colorado, San Antonio, Texas

Education:

Bachelors: Information Technology

Employee Group:

Full time

Employee Subgroup:

Regular

Marathon Petroleum Company LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, reproductive health decision-making, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition or AIDS/HIV status, ancestry, national origin, genetic information, military, veteran status, marital status, citizenship or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. If you would like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant, click here.

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process at Marathon Petroleum LP, please contact our Human Resources Department at [e-mail]. Please specify the reasonable accommodation you are requesting, along with the job posting number in which you may be interested. A Human Resources representative will review your request and contact you to discuss a reasonable accommodation. Marathon Petroleum offers a total rewards program which includes, but is not limited to, access to health, vision, and dental insurance, paid time off, 401k matching program, paid parental leave, and educational reimbursement. Detailed benefit information is available at mympcbenefits.com. The hired candidate will also be eligible for a discretionary company-sponsored annual bonus program.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Veteran / Disability

We will consider all qualified Applicants for employment, including those with arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws. In reviewing criminal history in connection with a conditional offer of employment, Marathon will consider the key responsibilities of the role.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Oil and Gas

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