Job Details
OpportunityMaersk is achieving an unprecedented transformation in the growth of our business, rethinking the way we engage with customers and partners, and how the world's trade flows across our global network From the farm to your refrigerator, or the factory to your wardrobe, we are developing solutions in-house that meet customer needs across the whole Supply Chain E2E Joining Maersk you will join a global leader in Container Logistics as we embark on an industry-defining digital transformation that will revolutionize trade You'll play a vital part in our success, helping us re-think what technology can do by using the latest technologies, and building the experience to advance your career If you are passionate about working in an entrepreneurial environment supporting an ambitious, culturally diverse team of 3000 People within Maersk Technology - on a great transformation journey - then apply today!As a Principal Infrastructure Engineer within our Technology Services Engineering Team, you will be a key driver and doer in a fundamental shift in how we architect and host our application estate to ensure that we can take our platform operating model to the next level.
You will be an advocate to enable a composable technology foundation which will enable our Product development teams in building our digital foundation of the future to help delivering for our global customer baseYour focus will be on both assisting in the ideation and realisation of what our next generation platform will encompass, as well as then helping our Product teams in implementing products that are aligned to this long-term Platform vision To realise Maersk's 'One Customer Journey', a consistent and resilient platform is essential You will be key in helping promote 'the right way' in how we utilise technology in delivering on this promiseTo help to make our next generation platform successful, we are looking for key individuals to join our Technology Services Engineering team to help shape this vision and be pivotal in transforming how we do business with customers and vendors.
As a Principal Infrastructure Engineer, you will demonstrate the following characteristics: -
- You are recognized as an engineering authority and leader
- You have extensive practical experience gained from working as an engineer and typically answer directly to the senior management of your company
- Leadership skills and communication skills are crucial in your work You can work in a matrix organization and is comfortable to influence without authority
- You have proven background designing and delivering complex, high performance, highly available solutions at scale
- You are creative and come up with innovative approaches to projects and any issues that arise
- You are a 'do'er'.
You get things done - You drive strategic thinking and how to apply it to the work you are doing
- Setting goals and implementing them
- The ability to lead whole departments of lead engineers and product teams 'from within' to achieve the best outcome
- Sharing expertise and insight with other engineers and being the 'go to' person for technical questions and hard to solve problems
- Motivating staff and fostering collaboration
- Able to create a followship and be comfortable with presenting at any level of the organisation to CxO level
Currently the tech stack is not 100% fixed but we have a strong preference for commercial experience of opensource plus cloud technologies The ideal candidate will have a background that spans development, architecture, and operations.
We are looking for full stack engineers with preference for staff that can provide expert coverage over three primary areas, plus some ability across all areas
- DevOps - Github, Terraform
- Backend - Python, CLI, RESTful API, process orchestration/choreography
- Virtualization - KVM, AHV, Vmware
- Operational System - RHEL, Windows
- Domain driven design experience and understand how to create composable microservices and API's
- Opensource - Track record of community activity and contribution
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership at Maersk within the engineering community
- Establish technical standards and drive Maersk's overall technical architecture, engineering practices, and engineering methodologies
- Work on our hardest problems, building high quality, architecturally sound systems that are aligned with our business needs and help drive our platform vision forward
- Lead, develop and mentor the engineering feature teams to deliver our scalable, cloud-based, next-generation platform
- As a key member of the engineering leadership, you will help set and meet aggressive goals by working with customers and other leaders and to help shape our long-term technical strategy
- You will be a pragmatic visionary who can translate business needs into workable technology solutions Your expertise is deep and broad.
You are hands on, producing both detailed technical work and high-level architectural designs - Defines and owns high level architecture designs and technology roadmap with the associated release goals Defines and develops POCs for new and upcoming strategic technology solutions
- Defines team wide engineering best practices and mechanisms to measure the adoption
- Drives technical architecture conversations with the prospective clients.
- Coaches, develops and mentors engineers and be a member of the hiring panel
- Be the face and voice of Maersk, help drive followship and lead representation of Maersk in external technology events and conferences
Key Skills
- Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or Engineering
- 15+ years of experience of engineering experience at scale
- Extensive experience with data storage, server resources, and other virtual computing platforms
- Extensive experience with different operational systems
- Extensive experience with modern backup solutions
- Extensive experience in working in Public (Google / Azure) and Private Cloud
- Cloud infrastructure and container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Strong understanding of microservice and mini-services based architectures and how to achieve composability
- Advanced programming skills
- Strong analytical and design skills
- Proficiency in multi-process architecture, design patterns and tools
- Experience in helping leading development lifecycle process, best practices and operating distributed cloud-based micro services
- Excellent communication skills, solid work ethic, and a strong desire to write production quality code.
- Broad knowledge of programming languages, operating system principles, networking, and software development best practices
- Experience of designing systems or components on large projects
- Experience of working with offshore teams
- Experience of Test-Driven Development approaches
- Passionate about learning new tools, languages, philosophies, and workflows