Senior Platforms Engineer, Compute, Storage, and Virtualization

4500 Marathon Petroleum Company LP; Findlay (OH); On-site; USD 107,000 - 184,000; Full time

Job summary

Marathon Petroleum Company LP is seeking a Senior Platforms Engineer to drive design, build, and automation of enterprise compute, storage, and virtualization platforms. You will partner with cybersecurity, architecture, and operations to deliver reliable, scalable infrastructure and modern IaC and DevOps practices.

The role emphasizes continuous improvement, disaster recovery planning, and cost-effective, high-availability platform services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in IT or related field.
• 5+ years of relevant platforms engineer experience.
• Experience with enterprise compute, virtualization, and storage engineering preferred.

Responsibilities

• Identifies performance bottlenecks and proposes solutions to optimize platform performance.
• Leads design and implementation of scalable, highly available infrastructure.
• Develops and maintains IaC, automation, and CI/CD pipelines to support platform reliability.

Skills

Adaptability

AI Fundamentals

Change Management

Cloud Infrastructure Management

Computer Networking

Cybersecurity Risk Management

DevSecOps

General Programming

Infrastructure as Code

IT Infrastructure Management

Performance Monitoring

Policy Management

Process Automations

Service Delivery Management

System Administration

System Platform

System Testing

Systems Integration

Troubleshooting

Education

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

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Automation frameworks

IaC tooling

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 At Marathon, we are trailblazers in the Oil & Gas industry, driving innovation and creating value through cutting-edge digital platforms and infrastructure. Our Midstream IT organization supports Marathon's Midstream Business Units, including Gathering, Transporting, Storing, Processing, and Distributing Oil & Gas products. We take pride in our ability to deliver high-quality services and transformative solutions that enhance operational performance. As we continue to transform the Midstream technology landscape, we are seeking a dynamic and experienced Senior Platforms Engineer to join our Infrastructure Engineering & Operations organization. This role combines deep technical expertise with strategic vision to deliver secure, scalable, automated, and highly available infrastructure platforms that support critical business and operational workloads. A successful candidate will lead the design, implementation, automation, and lifecycle management of enterprise compute, storage, and virtualization platforms. This includes partnering with platform engineering, cybersecurity, architecture, and operations teams to deliver reliable and supportable infrastructure solutions while advancing Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, Git-based development practices, and modern automation frameworks. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in compute architecture, SAN storage, systems integration, scripting, and infrastructure automation, enabling the delivery of repeatable, scalable, and resilient platform services that support Marathon's long-term technology strategy. 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

• 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 implements corrective 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.
• Design, implement, and support SAN storage platforms, ensuring performance, availability, resiliency, and alignment with business continuity and disaster recovery requirements.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation frameworks, and automated provisioning, configuration, and validation capabilities for infrastructure platforms.
• Implement and support DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows, code reviews, automated testing, and deployment automation to improve platform reliability and operational efficiency.

Education and ExperienceBachelor's Degree in Information Technology, related field or equivalent experience.5+ years of relevant platforms engineer experience.Experience with enterprise compute, virtualization, and storage engineering preferred.Experience with Infrastructure performance, capacity, and lifecycle management preferred.Experience with SAN storage architecture, business continuity, disaster recovery, and backup technologies preferred.Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation, scripting, APIs, and tool integration preferred.Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, Git-based source control, and infrastructure code reviews preferred.Experience with platform engineering and cloud/infrastructure automation within large-scale enterprise environments preferred.

Skills

• Adaptability - Maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment (e.g., people, processes, structure, or culture); adjusting effectively to change by exploring the benefits, trying new approaches, and collaborating with others to make the change successful.
• AI Fundamentals - Understanding of core AI concepts and methods, ability to apply AI to job-relevant use cases and capacity to contribute to organizational AI reimagination.
• Change Management - Change Management refers to a systematic approach for defining and implementing procedures and/or technologies to deal with changes in the environment. It can mean adapting to change, controlling change and/or effecting change.
• 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 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.

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

Location: Findlay, Ohio

Pay Min/Max: $106,900.00 - $184,300.00

Salary Grade: 11 - 12

Location Address: 539 S Main St

Additional locations: Denver, Colorado, San Antonio, Texas

Education: 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 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.

About Marathon Petroleum Corporation Marathon Petroleum Corporation (MPC) is a leading, integrated, downstream energy company headquartered in Findlay, Ohio. The company operates the nation's largest refining system. MPC's marketing system includes branded locations across the United States, including Marathon brand retail outlets. MPC also owns the general partner and majority limited partner interest in MPLX LP, a midstream company that owns and operates gathering, processing, and fractionation assets, as well as crude oil and light product transportation and logistics infrastructure.