Senior Platforms Engineer

Marathon Petroleum Corporation•Findlay, OH

3d•$106,900 - $184,300•Onsite

About The Position

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.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, related field or equivalent experience.
5+ years of relevant platforms engineer experience.
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 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.

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.