Lead Network Platform Architect, Network Architecture & Conformance (Maersk)

Lead Network Platform Architect, Network Architecture & Conformance (Maersk)

This position will be based in Maidenhead

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 Platform Architect, you will design, build and operate world class network and perimeter infrastructure platforms built on industry leading SDN, Cloud Native, and NFV technology 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.

Why this job matters?

The Network Architecture & Conformance function is pivotal to our transformation, it is a central team within Network Architecture & Engineering, responsible for the global network and perimeter infrastructure architecture and the associated underpinning technology services which run and secure the technology engine of Maersk

Reporting to the Head of Network Architecture & Conformance you will serve as a Lead Network Platform Architect. This role is responsible for platform architecture and solution engineering across transformative automation and orchestration initiatives focused on modernizing, cloudifying, scaling and segmenting Maersk’s global network and perimeter infrastructure which enable the fixed and wireless connectivity services that underpin the integrator strategy.

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.

Specific Job Requirements -

Work across Network Product 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 Network Functions Virtualisation Infrastructure (NFVI) platforms which host the network and perimeter VNFs across Network Edge, Enterprise Edge and Cloud.

Responsible for the integrity of engineered solutions ensuring alignment with the network architecture; design and document multi-tenant and geo-distributed NFVI platform solutions which are unprivileged, scalable, reliable, secure and programmable through software.

Identify, define and engineer the right set of platform enabling DNS, DHCP, IPAM, Time synchronisation and Instrumentation technologies to support self-service consumption and in-life operations across the Network Edge, Enterprise Edge and Cloud at scale.

Design, build and maintain the platform workflows and toolchains that enable deployment automation and standardization for network and perimeter services as converged network applications. Document, publish and maintain integration designs for systems entities and their interfaces.

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

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

Provide subject matter expertise to contribute 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:

What I'll be doing – your accountabilities?

Network Cloudification – Design, build, maintenance of the NFVI ecosystem in support of the modernisation and transformation agenda for network and perimeter. Balancing the adoption of next generation technologies with mature solutions and insourced capability with outsourced services:

The Candidate -

To be considered for this opportunity candidates will have the following capabilities.

About Maersk -

Having substantial operations in over 130 countries, we work across continents, across cultures and with individuals from all walks of life. This drives our ambition, to create equitable and inclusive workplaces where every individual can have a sense of belonging.

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