Associate Cybersecurity Engineer
Marathon Petroleum
- Location
- Findlay, Ohio
- Work model
- On-Site
- Level
- Entry
- Posted
- Aug 26, 2026
Skills
About this role
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.
Position
Summary This is a technical and dynamic role, responsible for enterprise capabilities within our platforms to secure our applications, data, AI tools, and cloud environment. The role focuses on our tooling and processes to innovate through proactive risk management, continuous visibility, automated governance, and protection-by-design practices that reduce exposure, strengthen compliance, and build trust across the organization. This position is within Digital Protection Services, falling under our Digital Technology Services organization to provide secure, compliant, and performant tools and environments to the enterprise. This will require a significant amount of collaboration with our stakeholders and peers, within an evolving ecosystem of maturity and growth for MPC. An individual in the position should be technically adept, adaptable, and eager to learn and innovate.
Key Responsibilities
Gains familiarity with methods to understand business requirements and ability to identify risk and risk mitigations. Assists with the resolution of routine multi-functional technical issues. Learns to interpret established cybersecurity assessments, standards and develops an understanding of how they relate to security systems. Develops an understanding of the efficiency and effectiveness of Security solutions, processes and controls in place. Participates in analysis of the efficiency and effectiveness of Security solutions, processes and controls in place. Learns to identify business impacting events, while maintaining operational reliability and managing risk. Participates in security audits and documents evidence as needed. Assists with global security initiatives, policies, and compliance requirements. Learns about cybersecurity metrics and their applicability for various teams. Takes action through collaboration to improve metric results. Supports business consulting, guidance, and support for Cybersecurity solutions. Collates insights on solution technical roadmaps, emerging cybersecurity technology and their impact on the security landscape.
Education and Experience
Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, related field or equivalent experience. Zero (0) to two (2) years of relevant experience required Skills 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. Cybersecurity Research - Applies technical knowledge of the latest data, developments, and trends in the cybersecurity world to identify cybersecurity vulnerabilities within an organization or industry. 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