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Position Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Platform Engineer to develop, maintain, and enhance MPC’s AI landscape.  This position plays a key role in supporting and driving innovation of AI Technologies within the Digital Employee Experience (DEX) Organization.  The ideal candidate will have a strong background in platform engineering, cloud technologies, and AI/ML frameworks. This role will involve working closely with Product Owners of AI Technology utilized by MPC, data scientists, software developers, and other engineers and architects to ensure the seamless integration and performance of AI-driven solutions.  This role involves helping set strategy and direction for MPC’s existing AI Bot (MollyQ) and utilization and implementation of Microsoft’s Copilot Studio. 

This role requires a blend of technical expertise, business acumen, and excellent communication skills to effectively collaborate with various departments and stakeholders. 

This position belongs to a family of jobs with increasing responsibility, competency, and skill level. The actual position title and pay grade will be based on the selected candidate’s experience and qualifications.

Key ResponsibilitiesIdentifies performance bottlenecks, conducts root cause analysis, and proposes and implements solutions to enhance platform & system performance and resource utilization. Establishes performance benchmarks, conducts capacity planning, and collaborates with other teams, including junior engineers and cross functional teams to optimize infrastructure performance and activities.Contributes to the development and improvement of troubleshooting procedures, measures to minimize platform & system downtime, and documentation. Partners with vendor technical support to drive for resolution. Leads and manages platform & system technical support activities and troubleshooting efforts, including handling escalated and complex issues. Performs advanced system tuning and optimization to maximize performance using IT Service Management practices. Collaborates with internal teams to enhance support processes and methodologies.Participates in future platform & system backup planning. Leads the design of disaster/system recovery and testing.Analyzes performance and utilization data to identify trends and patterns; provides recommendations for optimization and improvement; prepares comprehensive reports on infrastructure performance; and implements corrective actions to drive continuous system improvements.Leads the design and configuration of complex platforms & systems, considering best practices and industry standards. Leads ongoing compliance with original design and configuration and corrects for deviation from standards. Builds and deploys highly available and scalable infrastructure solutions. Provides support and conducts analytics for MPC’s existing AI Bot (MollyQ).  Provides support and conducts analytics for MPC’s existing AI Bot (MollyQ). Provide support and conducts analytics for MPC’s existing AI Bot (MollyQ).Leads the creation and maintenance of a comprehensive knowledge base for platforms & systems, including troubleshooting guides, configuration documentation, design, deployment, maintenance procedures, and best practices. Promotes knowledge sharing culture by organizing training sessions, mentoring junior engineers, and encouraging cross-team collaboration.Works with Product Owner to set strategic direction and build roadmap for AI Technology within the DEX Collaboration Organization, and collaborates with other AI Engineers and teams to understand MPC’s AI Ecosystem to ensure DEX AI roadmaps are in alignment with MPC’s overall strategic objectivesAssist with driving awareness and adoption campaigns for DEX AI Technologies by collaborating with business representatives to understand their needs and strategies and translate them into technical requirements.Provide training, support and best practices to IT architects, engineers, and developers on DEX AI products.Implement Security Measures to Ensure the security and compliance of AI infrastructures, implementing best practices and protocols.Education and ExperienceBachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, related field or equivalent experience preferred.5+ years of relevant experience required.Experience in platform engineering, cloud technologies, and AI/ML frameworks.SkillsCloud Infrastructure Management - Setting up, configuring, monitoring, and optimizing the components of cloud infrastructure.Computer Networking - A system in which multiple computers are connected to each other to share information and resources.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 security at every phase of the software development lifecycle, from initial design through integration, testing, deployment, and software delivery, with an aim towards shortening the systems development life cycle and pas well as continuous delivery and a security first approach.General Programming - Applies a computer language to communicate with computers using a set of instructions and to automate the execution of tasks.Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - The process of managing and provisioning infrastructure through code instead of through manual processes.IT Infrastructure Management - Planning, design, delivery and control of information technology infrastructure.Performance Monitoring - The process of measuring the performance of a system in real time in order to determine problems and identify other factors that may cause problems in the future.Policy Management - The process of creating, implementing and maintaining policies and procedures within an organization.Process Automation - Also known as business automation or digital transformation, this is the technology-enabled automation of complex business processes. It can streamline a business for simplicity, achieve digital transformation, increase service quality, improve service delivery or contain costs. It consists of integrating applications, restructuring labor resources and using software applications throughout the organization.Service Delivery Management - The manner in which an organization provides users access to IT services, which include applications, data storage and other business resources.Systems Administration - Performs a variety of functions including user management, system monitoring, system configuration, performance tuning, backup and recovery, and access control.System Platform- A system platform refers to the underlying foundation or framework that supports and manages the operation of software applications and hardware components within a computing environment. It provides a standardized and cohesive infrastructure, allowing for the development, deployment, and integration of various technologies and services.Systems Testing - The process of testing conducted on a complete integrated system to evaluate the system's compliance with its specified requirements.Systems Integration - The process of linking together various IT systems, services and/or software to enable all of them to work functionally together.Troubleshooting - The act or process of discovering and resolving problems, disputes, or mechanical issues through a systematic, usually iterative, approach.

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Location:

San Antonio, Texas

Additional locations:

Findlay, Ohio

Job Requisition ID:

00014656

Location Address:

19100 Ridgewood Pkwy

Education:

Employee Group:

Full time

Employee Subgroup:

Regular

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