Senior Cloud Engineer

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Position Summary

This role is part of the Hybrid Cloud Enablement team, which drives the adoption and optimization of public cloud technologies across the enterprise. As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will design and manage cloud infrastructure, implement Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) with Terraform, and enable containerization and orchestration through Docker and Kubernetes.

In this role, you will drive automation, security, and compliance across on-premises and cloud environments while delivering consumable patterns, templates, and reference architectures that simplify adoption. By fostering innovation and leveraging emerging technologies, this role empowers digital transformation—modernizing applications, streamlining operations, and unlocking new business value through cloud-native solutions.

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

- Designs, implements, and manages Azure PaaS and cloud infrastructure across compute, networking, storage, and security services, ensuring reliability and scalability.

- Develops and maintains Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform to automate provisioning and management of cloud resources.

- Enables containerization and orchestration through Docker and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to support high-availability workloads.

- Delivers consumable patterns, templates, and reference architectures that accelerate adoption and consistency.

- Develops a road map toward continual expansion, improvement, and efficiency gains for existing systems and new implementations based on business requirements

- Facilitates performance optimization and infrastructure cost analysis and remediation.

- Recommends solutions to eliminate problems in response to service monitoring outputs. Partners with the infrastructure support and development teams to ensure continuous availability and operational continuity of critical systems.

- Facilitates all aspects of the cloud development life cycle for cloud solutions, including planning, requirements, development, testing, and quality assurance.

- Implements system-wide quality improvements by undertaking thorough root cause analysis for major incidents with component engineering teams.

- Monitors the troubleshooting of incidents, identifying root cause, fixing and documenting problems, and implementing preventive measures. Ensures documentation of all facets of on-premises and cloud infrastructure focused solutions.

- Utilizes configuration management software to deploy updates into the cloud environment

- Maintains system configurations and baselines to support secure application development software control best practices and standards.

- Drives shared solutions for application teams and define platform / tools / vendor agnostic patterns to suit applications' needs.

- Builds code in multiple languages to improve service reliability and ensure standardization, reliability, scalability, continuity, and consistency for resource deployments and maintenance.

Education and Experience

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

- Five (5) or more years of relevant experience required.

- Experience using cloud platforms required, experience using Azure highly preferred.

- Experience using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) required, experience using Terraform highly preferred.

- Experience using CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices, highly preferred.

- Hands-on experience with containers, Docker and Kubernetes Service preferred.

Skills

- Cloud Computing - Knowing how to manage cloud services, develop cloud applications and use cloud architecture to meet customer needs.

- Cloud Infrastructure Management - Setting up, configuring, monitoring, and optimizing the components of cloud infrastructure.

- Cloud Networking - Cloud networking refers to the practice of using cloud-based infrastructure and services to facilitate efficient communication, data transfer, and connectivity between devices, applications, and users over the internet. It involves leveraging cloud computing resources to optimize network performance, scalability, and accessibility, enabling organizations to securely access and manage their data and applications from anywhere.

- Cloud Storage - The ability to design, implement, manage and maintain cloud-based storage solutions leveraging cloud storage concepts and technologies with a working knowledge of cloud storage architecture and cloud storage security leveraging cloud-based storage tools and platforms.

- Containerization - Containerization is form of operating system virtualization, through which applications are run in isolated user spaces called containers, all using the same shared operating system (OS). Container orchestration automatically provisions, deploys, scales, and manages containerized applications without worrying about the underlying infrastructure.

- Database Management - Knowledge of governance frameworks for data analytics, including data usage policies, data access controls, and oversight of analytical processes.

- General Programming - Applies a computer language to communicate with computers using a set of instructions and to automate the execution of tasks.

- Operating System Fundamentals - System software that manages computer hardware, software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.

- Service Delivery Management - The manner in which an organization provides users access to IT services, which include applications, data storage and other business resources.

- Troubleshooting - The act or process of discovering and resolving problems, disputes, or mechanical issues through a systematic, usually iterative, approach.

- Virtualization - The ability to design, implement, and manage virtualized environments in a cloud environment as well as best practices for deploying, maintaining, managing, and optimizing virtual machines leveraging a working knowledge of virtualization concepts and technologies using cloud-based tools and platforms.

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

Location:

San Antonio, Texas

Additional locations:

Findlay, Ohio

Job Requisition ID:

00019883

Location Address:

19100 Ridgewood Pkwy

Education:

Bachelors (Required)

Employee Group:

Full time

Employee Subgroup:

Regular

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. 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

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.The hired candidate will also be eligible for a discretionary company-sponsored annual bonus program.

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