Senior Platforms Engineer - Edge

Marathon Petroleum Corporation•Findlay, OH

22h•Onsite

About The Position

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 for the Refining IT Edge team is responsible for designing, evolving, and governing secure, scalable connected platforms that power industrial sensing, edge intelligence, and mission-critical field deployments. In this role, you will lead the architecture and evolution of LoRaWAN and industrial IoT platforms spanning edge devices, wireless networks, gateways, and cloud services. You will work across firmware, RF, hardware, cloud, and operations teams to deliver reliable, secure, and observable systems that support real-world deployments at scale. This is a high-impact opportunity for a hands-on technical leader who thrives in complex environments and can turn platform strategy into durable, production-ready systems. This role will help shape the platform foundation for connected industrial systems that operate in demanding real-world environments. This role offers the opportunity to influence architecture across the full edge-to-cloud stack, solve complex reliability and security challenges, and work with cross-functional teams building technology that directly supports critical operations. This position is ideal for someone who operates effectively in regulated or complex environments and has a proven track record of driving measurable outcomes in cost optimization, reliability improvements, or deployment velocity gains. Strong influence across teams, architecture governance, stakeholder alignment, and mentoring engineers are vital for success in this role.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, related field or equivalent experience.
5+ years of relevant platforms engineer experience required.
Hands-on experience with LoRaWAN architecture, gateways, network servers, device provisioning, and fleet-scale operations required.
Experience onboarding LoRaWAN sensors using manufacturer decoders, verifying payload translation, and resolving decoding issues in production environments required.
Experience with telemetry ingestion, event-driven systems, MQTT or similar messaging patterns, and observability for connected platforms required.
Experience building and operating scalable IoT or industrial IoT platforms in production environments required.
Strong background in distributed systems, platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, and edge-to-cloud integration required.
Familiarity with industrial protocols and edge environments, such as Modbus, OPC-UA, CAN bus, or PLC-integrated systems required.
Proven experience designing secure remote device management, OTA update workflows, and device identity or certificate-based security controls required.
Demonstrated success leading cross-functional engineering initiatives and influencing architecture across firmware, hardware, cloud, and operations teams required.
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

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting large-scale industrial deployments in sectors such as energy, utilities, manufacturing, logistics, agriculture, or smart infrastructure preferred.
Familiarity with public and private LoRaWAN deployments, RF troubleshooting, and performance optimization across large device fleets preferred.
Experience with Kubernetes, Kafka, timeseries data platforms, cloud IoT services such as AWS IoT or Azure IoT, and automation or integration work using Python and JSON preferred.
Knowledge of low-power edge constraints, intermittent connectivity patterns, store-and-forward architectures, and offline-first system design preferred.
Experience operating in regulated or complex environments preferred (security, compliance, uptime requirements).

Responsibilities

Lead the architecture, development, and lifecycle management of scalable LoRaWAN and industrial IoT platforms across edge, network, and cloud environments.
Design and improve telemetry ingestion, device management, fleet operations, and edge-to-cloud data pipelines for industrial sensing deployments, including scripting and automation using Python and JSON-based configurations.
Establish platform standards for reliability, observability, security, and maintainability across distributed field systems.
Drive secure device provisioning, OTA update strategies, and remote operations practices that support resilient, large-scale deployments.
Partner with firmware, RF, hardware, cloud, and operations teams to define technical direction, resolve complex integration challenges, and improve end-to-end system performance.
Own technical roadmap decisions, architecture patterns, and operational best practices for mission-critical connected infrastructure.
Support incident response, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement efforts for field-deployed systems with uptime and reliability requirements.
Mentor engineers and influence cross-functional teams through strong technical leadership, clear communication, and practical execution.
Leads infrastructure strategy by driving modernization, influencing stakeholders, and balancing technical, operational, and business priorities.
Leads cross-functional programs and vendor partnerships, aligning technology initiatives with business goals while driving end-to-end ownership, innovation, and measurable outcomes.
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.