Senior Cloud Engineer

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.

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.

The Senior Cloud Engineer serves as a key technical role responsible for driving continuous improvement, operational excellence, and compliance across Marathon Petroleum's cloud and application hosting environments. This role partners closely with managed service providers, internal application owners, cybersecurity teams, and infrastructure stakeholders to ensure cloud services are delivered securely, efficiently, and in alignment with established standards and business objectives.

The position focuses on identifying opportunities to improve service delivery processes, automate operational activities, enhance platform reliability, and strengthen governance controls across the cloud ecosystem. The Senior Cloud Engineer works collaboratively with application managed service providers and internal business partners to optimize application performance, reduce operational risk, improve compliance outcomes, and accelerate the delivery of technology solutions that create measurable business value.

Through proactive engagement with service providers, operational teams, and application stakeholders, this role drives adoption of modern cloud practices, promotes standardization and automation, and ensures continuous advancement of cloud capabilities, monitoring, resiliency, and cost optimization efforts. The Senior Cloud Engineer acts as a trusted technical advisor, helping bridge the gap between business requirements, application support organizations, and cloud platform teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and compliant technology services that support Marathon Petroleum's strategic objectives.

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.

• Develops and maintains a roadmap for continuous improvement, operational maturity, and service optimization across cloud platforms and managed application services based on business priorities and technology strategy.
• Facilitates performance optimization, service improvement initiatives, and infrastructure cost analysis to improve platform reliability, operational efficiency, and business value delivery.
• Recommends and implements solutions to address service health trends, operational challenges, and compliance gaps identified through monitoring, reporting, audits, and stakeholder feedback. Partners with infrastructure support, application managed service providers, and development teams to ensure continuous availability and operational continuity of critical business applications.
• Facilitates all aspects of the cloud solution lifecycle, including planning, requirements gathering, implementation, testing, quality assurance, operational readiness, and transition to support teams.
• Drives continuous service improvement by supporting root cause analysis for major incidents, identifying recurring operational issues, and partnering with engineering teams, managed service providers, and application stakeholders to implement remediation and preventive measures.
• Oversees incident management activities by monitoring troubleshooting efforts, ensuring timely issue resolution, documenting root causes and corrective actions, promoting knowledge sharing across support organizations, and maintaining operational documentation for cloud and application hosting solutions to support reliability and compliance.
• Utilizes configuration management, automation, and Infrastructure-as-Code solutions to improve deployment consistency, accelerate service delivery, and reduce manual operational effort.
• Maintains system configurations, governance baselines, and operational…