Marathon Petroleum

Senior Cybersecurity Engineer, GRC Automation and Continuous Control Monitoring

Marathon Petroleum$110K — $130K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or equivalent experience required.
  • 5+ years of relevant experience in cybersecurity.
  • Experience in designing and implementing GRC/CCM automation solutions in regulated environments required.
  • Proficiency in Python or similar automation technologies for data integrations needed.
  • Hands-on experience with integrating security-control data into GRC/CCM pipelines is essential.
  • Experience with building LLM-backed workflows preferred.
  • Familiarity with AI risk frameworks like NIST AI RMF preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct detailed analyses of cybersecurity solutions and their control effectiveness.
  • Leverage compliance frameworks and methodologies to ensure security system adherence.
  • Enhance the efficiency of security solutions and governance processes.
  • Lead process improvement and automation initiatives in security practices.
  • Develop and submit Standard Operating Procedures for security operations.
  • Monitor business events and evaluate control performance during continuous monitoring activities.
  • Assist in the investigation of cyber incidents and develop remediation plans.

Benefits

  • Access to health, vision, and dental insurance.
  • Paid time off and 401k matching program.
  • Paid parental leave and educational reimbursement.
  • Eligibility for a discretionary annual bonus program.
Full Job Description
Position Summary

The GRC Automation & Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM) Senior Cybersecurity Engineer is a strategic and technical role, responsible or helping turn GRC into a trust engine for the business: reducing audit friction, improving business risk exposure visibility, accelerating evidence readiness, and enabling stronger operational confidence.

The role serves as the technical focal for GRC automation, developing automated evidence collection, control testing, risk intelligence, and AI-enabled governance capabilities across cloud, on-premises, identity, operational technology (OT), and security platforms. The role collaborates closely with Cyber Fusion, Enterprise Architecture, and Cyber Engineering, to design and build deterministic control-testing logic where deterministic approaches are enough; and AI agents and LLM-backed workflows where reasoning, summarization, or judgment is required, such as evidence-to-control mapping, attestation drafting, drift detection, and audit-package assembly.

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.

Key Responsibilities

  • Conducts detailed analyses on changes to cybersecurity solutions and its relationship to internal and external systems to assess control effectiveness and cybersecurity risk. Resolves complex multi-functional technical issues.
  • Leverages cybersecurity assessments, standards, control testing methodologies, and compliance frameworks to ensure compliance across security systems.
  • Improves the efficiency and effectiveness of Security solutions, governance processes, automated controls, and monitoring capabilities.
  • Analyzes existing processes and procedures and leads efforts for implementing improvements, automation opportunities, or remediation activities.
  • Responsible for development and submission of Standard Operating Procedures.
  • Analyzes business impacting events, performs initial investigation, and evaluates control performance, exceptions, and risk indicators through continuous monitoring activities.
  • Investigates and analyzes the nature and scope of cyber incidents, control failures, and compliance exceptions. Assists in the development of risk mitigation and remediation plans to ensure regulatory and internal compliance. compliance.
  • Leads implementation of global security initiatives, policies, compliance requirements, and continuous control monitoring practices. Collects, validates, and reports security metrics, control performance results, and remediation efforts associated with them.
  • Manages cyber security-related consulting, guidance, and support to customers and stakeholders.
  • Translates security principles to assist configuration teams with incorporating security and compliance requirements into build and configuration processes.
  • Monitors emerging IT/OT, cybersecurity, automation, and artificial intelligence technologies as well as their impact on the security, risk, and compliance landscape.


Education and Experience

  • Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, related field or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of relevant experience required
  • Experience designing, implementing, and scaling GRC, CCM, or compliance automation solutions within a regulated environment required
  • Experience in Python or comparable automation technologies, proficient in developing, integrating, and supporting automated workflows and REST API-based data integrations across multiple enterprise systems required.
  • Hands-on experience integrating security-control data sources into a GRC / CCM evidence pipeline for continuous control testing required. This includes normalizing API, telemetry, configuration, vulnerability, identity, ticketing, and assessment data into control-level evidence, exception logic, ownership, frequency, and audit-ready records across at least three domains such as CNAPP / CSPM, SIEM / security data lake / XDR, CTEM / VM / ASPM, DSPM, ITSM, IAM, GRC / CCM, or AI/agent governance required.
  • Experience building LLM-backed agentic workflows on Azure AI Foundry, GitHub, or open-source frameworks preferred.
  • Familiarity with NIST AI RMF, the OWASP LLM Top 10, or comparable AI risk frameworks preferred.

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.
  • Authentic Communicator - Expresses ideas and information, both verbally and in writing, clearly and credibly. Listens to understand and fosters constructive dialogue.
  • 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.
  • General Programming - Applies a computer language to communicate with computers using a set of instructions and to automate the execution of tasks.
  • Intrusion Detection - The use of security analytics, including the outputs from intelligence analysis, predictive research and root cause analysis in order to search for and detect potential breaches or identify recognized indicators and warnings. Also, monitoring and collating external vulnerability reports for organizational relevance, ensuring that relevant vulnerabilities are rectified through formal change processes.
  • Penetration Testing - The practice of testing a computer system, network or web application to find security vulnerabilities that an attacker could exploit. Penetration testing can be automated with software applications or performed manually.
  • Relationship Management - Relationship Management is the conscious aim to develop and manage long-term and/or trusting relationships with internal or external customers, distributors, suppliers, or other parties in an environment which can include marketing, selling, servicing and other areas where a relationship is crucial to on-going success. At a senior level, it includes C-level relationships with senior management.
  • Security Controls - Manages and maintains an information system that focuses on the management of risk and the management of information systems security.
  • Security Governance - The process of developing and disseminating corporate security policies, frameworks and guidelines to ensure that day-to-day business operations are guarded and well protected against risks, threats and vulnerabilities.
  • Security Information & Event Management (SIEM) - A set of tools and services offering real-time visibility across an organization's information security systems, and event log management that consolidates data from numerous sources.
  • Security Policy Management - The process of identifying, implementing, and managing the rules and procedures that all individuals must follow when accessing and using an organization's IT assets and resources.
  • Threat Analysis - Monitor intelligence-gathering and anticipate potential threats to an IT/OT systems proactively. This involves the pre-emptive analysis of potential perpetrators, anomalous activities and evidence-based knowledge and inferences on perpetrators' motivations and tactics.
  • Threat Hunting - Searches through networks, endpoints, and datasets to detect and isolate cyber threats that evade existing security solutions.
  • Vulnerability Management - The process of defining, identifying, classifying and prioritizing vulnerabilities in computer systems, applications and network infrastructures and providing the organization with the necessary knowledge, awareness and risk background to understand the threats to its business.


MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, related field or equivalent experience. Professional certification, e.g. Security+, Network+, OSCP, GIAC, CEH preferred.
5+ years of relevant experience required

Location:
San Antonio, Texas

Additional locations:
Findlay, Ohio, Houston, Texas

Job Requisition ID:


Location Address:
19100 Ridgewood Pkwy

Education:

Employee Group:
Full time

Employee Subgroup:
Regular

Marathon Petroleum Company LP offers a total rewards program which includes, but is not limited to, access to health, vision, and dental insurance, paid time off, 401k matching program, paid parental leave, and educational reimbursement. Detailed benefit information is available at https://mympcbenefits.com.The hired candidate will also be eligible for a discretionary company-sponsored annual bonus program.

About Marathon Petroleum

Marathon Petroleum Corporation (MPC) is in the business of creating value for their shareholders through the quality products and services they provide for their customers. They strongly believe how they conduct their business is just as integral to their bottom line. As a result, they strive to always act responsibly with those who work for them, with those business partners who work with them, and in every community where they operate.

Marathon Petroleum Careers

Joining Marathon Petroleum means becoming part of a leading global team in the energy sector, where job opportunities abound for those eager to advance their careers in a dynamic and inclusive environment. As one of the largest refining companies in the world, Marathon Petroleum is at the forefront of transforming the energy landscape.

Work You’ll Do

At Marathon Petroleum, your work will directly contribute to the company's ongoing success and leadership in the industry. You will collaborate with skilled professionals dedicated to innovation and excellence in all aspects of the energy sector. Our team's combined expertise fuels Marathon Petroleum's commitment to sustainable energy solutions and operational excellence.

Innovate and Lead

Step into a role that challenges and excites with Marathon Petroleum. Here, innovation isn't just a buzzword—it's a call to action. Our leadership is committed to fostering a culture where new ideas lead to groundbreaking solutions. This commitment to innovation and leadership is woven into every aspect of our business, from refining operations to environmental strategies.

Grow and Develop

Marathon Petroleum is deeply invested in the professional growth and development of its employees. We offer a variety of training and development programs, including leadership development, diversity training, and technical skills enhancement. Whether you're starting as an intern or a seasoned professional, you’ll find a pathway to personal and professional growth with us.

Be Part of Our Team

Our team at Marathon Petroleum is driven by a shared mission to excel. By joining us, you'll work alongside dedicated professionals who are passionate about their roles and the impact they have on the company and the industry. Our collaborative environment supports career advancement and fosters a culture of professional enrichment.

Diversity and Inclusion

At Marathon Petroleum, we believe diversity drives innovation. Our inclusive culture welcomes all perspectives and encourages a diverse workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities, ensuring that all team members have the resources they need to succeed.

Explore Job Opportunities

Marathon Petroleum offers a range of job opportunities across various functions of the business. From internships that provide real-world experience to full-time positions in engineering, business, and more, there’s a place for your skills and passions here.

Future-Proof Your Career

With Marathon Petroleum, you are not just finding a job; you are building a career equipped with the tools for success in the ever-evolving energy sector. Our robust benefits package supports your health, well-being, and financial security, allowing you to focus on professional development and career advancement.

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Learn more about Marathon Petroleum
Size
17,700 employees
Market Cap
$53 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$9.8 billion
Founded
2005
5 Year Trend
+13.8%
Revenue
$74.9 billion
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