Lead Network Engineer

A.P. Moller - Maersk

A.P. Moller – Maersk is the global leader in container shipping services. The business operates in 130 countries and employs c. 80,000 staff. An integrated container logistics company, Maersk aims to connect and simplify its customers’ supply chains.

We Offer

Joining Maersk will embark you on a transformational journey with great opportunities for career development within a global organization. As an Lead Network Engineer, you will design, build and operate world class network and perimeter platforms and products that enable our highly distributed global business for site, fleet, asset and IoT connectivity, required to deliver against our integrator business strategy. You will be exposed to a wide and challenging range of needs and opportunities requiring you to engage closely with stakeholders across all Maersk as you mature, evolve and operate our portfolio of networking and perimeter capabilities.

The Brief

A globally focused shipping and transportation organisation is continuing to drive an ambitious and complex change and transformational programme to deliver a service of excellence for its customers and clients worldwide. The Global CTIO has a mandate from the Maersk board to lead the Technology transformation of Maersk which will enable the Maersk business strategy to become the global integrator of container logistics through digitising the Maersk business processes and customer engagement.

The Technology function is fundamental to enable the company’s transformation and in response to this demand, our in-house technological capability is growing exponentially. We are recruiting world class talent to ensure that the technology services are modernised to enable Maersk to become a logistics integrator leveraging a competitive advantage through technology.

Why this job matters?

The Network Reliability Engineering function is pivotal to our transformation, it is a central team within Network Architecture & Engineering, responsible for the delivery of the product roadmaps, technical vision, design build quality and L2-to-resolution in-life operation of network and perimeter platforms, products and capabilities provided to Maersk.

Reporting to the Head of Network Reliability Engineering you will serve as an Lead Network Engineer. This role is responsible centrally and locally for the design, build and L2 – L3 in-life operation of our Enterprise Edge platforms, products and capabilities provided to Maersk.

It has a critical role to play as we continue to develop our long-term multi-technology and multi-product network and perimeter capabilities, connecting our asset, sites and people on land and at sea. Delivering best in class global connectivity and perimeter services that not only meet the need of our business today but will be a differentiator, enabling our colleagues and partners with technology solutions that are a catalyst for productivity and innovation.

Scope

All data networks provided to Maersk across Enterprise Edge (offices, warehouses, terminals, vessels) and the perimeter services that protect and enable them including but not limited to:

• Wireless Transport: Satellite | 4G/LTE | 5G
• IoT Networking Solutions: Industrial Wi-Fi
• WAN: Internet | IP/MPLS | Next-Gen/SD WAN
• LAN: DC Networking | SDN | Fixed & Wireless
• Perimeter: Load balancers | NG Firewalls | Security Service Edge
• Time Synchronisation: GPS | Grand Master Clocks
• DDI: Public and Private IPAM | DHCP

Specific Job Requirements

Work across Network Product Engineering, Network Reliability Engineering and Network OSS Engineering to define the specifications and perform impact assessments ensuring a collaborative approach and consensus agreement of the performance and customer experience parameters of the systems, network, perimeter and network-based services to be delivered.

Work with Network design peer’s, architecture and operational teams to define the implementation roadmap and scope sprints to deliver faster business outcomes across the team.

Identify the network and perimeter hardware, software infrastructure and EMS needs and perform evalution and benchmarking before introduction into the estate.

Design unprivileged multi-tenant and geo-distributed network and perimeter services which are optimal, secure, efficient, scalable, reusable, resilient and reliable, that are compliant with Maersk technology architecture standards and policies.

Lead on the address allocation design and its integrity in the IPAM, ARIN RIPE and Domain Registrars

Identify, define and engineer the right set of enabling DHCP, IPAM, Time synchronisation and Instrumentation technologies to support connectivity of commercial offices, warehouses, ports and terminals to the Network Edge and Cloud at scale.

Responsible for the integrity of engineered solutions ensuring alignment with Network Architecture.

Implement and publish APIs for upstream consumers to adopt network and perimeter services in a consistent way. Work with Network Product Architecture and TSE engineering teams to prioritize features for ongoing sprints and implement features based on service line demand, industry trends, known defects, and issues.

Build and expand converged network and perimeter deployment automation and standardization using Infrastructure as code (IaC). Document, publish and maintain integration designs for Enterprise Edge systems entities and their interfaces.

Provide subject matter expertise to contributing to the bottom-up-build process required to support budgeting and investment cases.

To be a successful technologist at Maersk, you must be passionate about building, enabling and sustaining our business, as well as inspiring and developing our people. Further, in this role you will:

• Provide network and perimeter capabilities as a products with streamlined fulfilment journeys such that Maersk is self-sufficient in the company’s ability to deliver on its strategic remit.
• Be a world class expert in the LAN and DC LAN engineering domain, acting as a L2-to-resolution escalation specialist and responsible towards the Technology Operations Centre (TOC), ensuring that Enterprise Edge and Network Edge services are in line with in-life operations SLA’s.
• Measure and optimize network and perimeter performance, pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of upstream needs, and innovating for continual improvement.
• Provide subject matter expertise to implementation and operational teams to guide deployment and in-life troubleshooting of Enterprise Edge and Network Edge services.
• Ensure the successful incremental design, build, deploy and operate of the current capability stack while modernizing and transforming to enable the future strategy.

Maersk is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we embrace different styles of thinking. Maersk is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants without regard to race, colour, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy or parental leave, veteran status, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all legal requirements.

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