Senior Platforms Engineer - Edge

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 Platforms Engineer for the Refining IT Edge team is responsible for designing, evolving, and governing secure, scalable hybrid and multi‑cloud platforms that align infrastructure capabilities with enterprise business needs. This role emphasizes deep expertise in cloud architecture and platform engineering, with a strong focus on automation through Infrastructure as Code, Continuous Integration (CI)/Continuous Delivery (CD) practices, and policy‑driven infrastructure to ensure consistency, speed, and reliability across diverse environments.

The successful candidate will demonstrate strategic leadership, driving Refining IT infrastructure modernization and balancing technical, operational, and business priorities, leading cross‑functional programs and vendor partnerships, and aligning technology initiatives with overarching business goals while fostering innovation and measurable outcomes.

• Design, evolve, and govern secure, scalable hybrid and multi‑cloud platforms that align infrastructure capabilities with enterprise business needs.
• Build and scale automated, policy‑driven infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD practices to ensure consistency, speed, and reliability across environments.
• Lead infrastructure strategy by driving modernization, influencing stakeholders, and balancing technical, operational, and business priorities.
• Design and govern scalable, secure infrastructure across data centers, cloud (including Azure), containers, and edge technologies, integrating data, systems, and emerging capabilities such as IoT and drone platforms.
• Lead cross‑functional programs and vendor partnerships, aligning technology initiatives with business goals while driving end‑to‑end ownership, innovation, and measurable outcomes.
• Establish automated, resilient, and observable platforms with strong backup, recovery, and cybersecurity practices to ensure high availability, performance, and operational integrity.
• Identify performance bottlenecks, conduct root cause analysis, and propose and implement solutions to enhance platform and system performance and resource utilization. Establish performance benchmarks, conduct capacity planning, and collaborate with other teams, including junior engineers and cross‑functional teams to optimize infrastructure performance and activities.
• Contribute to the development and improvement of troubleshooting procedures, measures to minimize platform and system downtime, and documentation. Partner with vendor technical support to drive resolution. Lead and manage platform and system technical support activities and troubleshooting efforts, including handling escalated and complex issues.
• Perform advanced system tuning and optimization to maximize performance using IT Service Management practices and collaborate with internal teams to enhance support processes and methodologies.
• Participate in future platform and system backup planning and lead the design of disaster/system recovery and testing.
• Analyze performance and utilization data to identify trends and patterns; provide recommendations for optimization and improvement; prepare comprehensive reports on infrastructure performance; and implement corrective actions to drive continuous system improvements.
• Lead the design and configuration of complex platforms and systems, ensuring compliance with original design and configuration standards and correcting deviations from standards. Build and deploy highly available and scalable infrastructure solutions.
• Lead the creation and maintenance of a comprehensive knowledge base for platforms and systems, including troubleshooting guides, configuration documentation, and best practices.
• Promote a knowledge sharing culture by organizing training sessions, mentoring junior engineers, and encouraging cross‑team collaboration.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of relevant…