Data Operations Engineer

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Summary Data, Analytics and AI is advancing Marathon Petroleum’s data ecosystem through trusted, governed and reusable data products that enable faster decisions, operational excellence and AI-driven innovation. The Data Operations Engineer is an individual contributor who designs, builds, automates and integrates solutions across MPC’s enterprise data platforms to improve reliability, scalability and engineering productivity. This role applies software engineering, automation, API integration, data engineering and cloud platform practices to connect data platforms, streaming services, observability tools and enterprise systems. The successful candidate will work with senior engineers, architects and platform leads to develop reusable automation, implement repeatable integration patterns, support deployments, troubleshoot issues, strengthen monitoring, and contribute to secure, governed and resilient data platform capabilities. 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.

Proactively identifies operational inefficiencies and recommends solutions. Independently manages platform updates and migrations. Implements and upholds security protocols for data platforms. Assists in optimizing the platform for performance and scalability. Collaborates with other IT departments for seamless system integrations. Participates in capacity planning and resource allocation. Maintains system backups and disaster recovery procedures. Contributes to the automation of routine platform tasks. Oversees data storage solutions and ensures data integrity. Stays updated with the latest platform technologies and best practices. Support reliable operations across enterprise data platforms using established runbooks, standards and procedures. Build reusable automation, workflows and platform utilities for Cognite Data Fusion, Databricks, Azure and related services. Support ingestion, transformation, API integration and contextualization for governed data products and operational models. Monitor platform health, pipeline execution, alerts and data refreshes; investigate issues and escalate with clear analysis. Assist with automated deployment, release, configuration and validation using approved DevOps and CI/CD practices. Maintain runbooks, support documentation and lessons learned to improve troubleshooting and reduce recurring issues. Apply enterprise standards for security, IAM, governance, compliance and data handling. Collaborate with architects, engineers, platform leads, product teams and vendors to deliver scalable automation and integration solutions. Execute provisioning, configuration, integration, monitoring and support tasks across data platform services. Support Cognite Data Fusion, Databricks, Azure Lakehouse, streaming, API integration and observability workflows. Contextualize assets, time series, events, documents and metadata for analytics, AI and data product activation. Validate data loads, refreshes, model updates and integration flows across environments. Follow architecture, platform, security and governance standards for scalable data product capabilities.

Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, related field or equivalent experience required. Two (2) or more years of relevant experience required. Experience with cloud data platforms, pipelines, integrations or automation preferred. Experience with Azure, Databricks, Cognite Data Fusion, SQL, Python, APIs, DevOps or monitoring tools preferred. Exposure to production support, incident triage, deployment validation and documentation