Principal Network Engineer Maidenhead, England
Maersk
Full Time
Maidenhead, England
10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today
Job description
Infrastructure Engineers are responsible for delivering a best-in-class on-premise engineering capability for the products and platforms at Maersk. Engineers act as a trusted advisor with hands-on keyboard execution, helping the products team succeed by ensuring guardrails, governance, and security standards are adhered to.
Engineers bring the necessary expertise on how to engineer for non-functional requirements (NFR) and infrastructure in the datacenters that makes the right way to deliver products the easy way. Engineers excel at providing robust, secure, and cost-efficient infrastructure from the datacenters.
We’re excited for you to become part of our team and fully join in the adventure ahead.
Engineers bring the necessary expertise on how to engineer for non-functional requirements (NFR) and infrastructure in the datacenters that makes the right way to deliver products the easy way. Engineers excel at providing robust, secure, and cost-efficient infrastructure from the datacenters.
Principal Network Engineer - Network Architecture & Engineering
Joining Maersk will embark you on a transformational journey with great opportunities for career development within a global organization. As an Principal Network Engineer you will drive the development of world class network and perimeter platforms and products built on industry leading SDN and NFV technology to 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 Architecture & Engineering function is pivotal to our transformation, it is a central team within Technology Services Engineering (TSE), responsible for the network and perimeter infrastructure engineering and the associated underpinning technology services which run and secure the technology engine of Maersk.
Reporting to the Director of Network Architecture & Engineering you will serve as a Principal Network Engineer. This role is responsible for technical leadership and end-to-end systems engineering across transformative initiatives focused on modernizing, scaling, segmenting and automating Maersk’s global network and perimeter infrastructure which provides 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.
Scope
All data networks provided to Maersk across Core, Edge and Cloud locations (offices, warehouses, terminals, vessels, data centres, cloud etc), 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
Specific Job Requirements
Collect, collate, analyse, develop and agree network and perimeter services requirements (including capabilities, systems, process and organisation) relating to new Maersk Technology/Business proposition releases, new capabilities, or additional network deployment and create the appropriate specification and impact assessment to meet those requirements.
Work across Network Architecture & Engineering with supporting resources to define the specification and impact assessments ensuring a collaborative approach and consensus agreement on the technical, service and commercial specification of the network and perimeter services to be delivered.
Lead the identification and definition of the right set of physical, virtual and cloud networking, perimeter and Security Service Edge (SSE) technologies to be used across all consumption domains and uses cases, driving the effort to templatize and automate those technologies to be used at scale across Maersk.
Design and document multi-tenant and geo-distributed network and perimeter solutions which are unprivileged, scalable, reliable, secure and programmable through software, inclusive of the integration points between components that enable the end-to-end converged product or service.
The role requires the provision of end-to-end network solution design leadership and governance into various engineering aspects across development and In-Life support. In addition to this, the role holder will provide guidance to engineering teams, both internal and partner/vendor, steering their output into a cohesive set of artefacts and towards achieving delivery of a quality solution with well-defined northbound/southbound interfaces and operating parameters.
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:
- Be a world class expert in network and perimeter systems engineering, across fixed, wireless and cloud networking domains, acting as a SPOC and responsible towards Network Architecture and Product Architecture ensuring our capabilities are in line with architectural standards and product requirements.
- To proactively engage with internal stakeholders early in the design and development of new technology or buisness products to propose and promote standard offerings from Network Architecture & Engineering.
- Participate in discussions with internal stakeholders, to influence upstream product and or application architectures and offerings, infrastructure standardisation and related non-functional support capability for order fulfilment, service assurance and performance management.
- Lead the bottom-up-build process to support Network Product Architect(s) in preparing capability and product development budgets and business cases in line with the outline specifications.
- Ensure that development scopes are well-bounded and any dependencies or constraints are clearly identified and support Network Product Architect(s) in the impact assessment of any changes to outline specifications.
- Ensure the successful incremental design, build, deploy and operate of the current capability stack while modernizing and transforming to enable the future strategy.
- 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.
- Within your area lead on the in-scope data network and perimeter integration engineering of business acquired through M&A such that it realises competitive advantage for Maersk.
- Regularly provide a transparent view of end-to-end solution progress and M&A integration commitments.
What I'll be doing - your accountabilities?
E2E Systems Engineering – Specification and solution design of next-generation Fixed and Wireless connectivity platforms and products across the Enterprise Edge, Network Edge and Cloud:
- Drive adoption of a product and agile based mindset and transform ways of working from project-based to that of a product-based organization
- Identify, delineate and document the essential building block specifications and design the integration points that make up end-to-end network and perimeter solutions
- Lead the underpinning bottom-up-build process to support budgeting and investment cases
- Ensure that network and perimeter products are easily consumed “As-a-Service’ and programmable through software
- Engaging with the component design teams steering their output in alignment with architectural standards and product requirements
- Responsible for the overall integrity of end-to-end solutions across physical and virtual infrastructure
- Build internal, external and third-party supplier relationships to ensure full commitment and support in execution of the end-to-end solution
- Provide subject matter expertise to delivery and L1 operational teams to guide deployment and in-life troubleshooting of converged networking and perimeter services
The Candidate
To be considered for this opportunity candidates will have the following capabilities:
- A demonstrable track record operating as a Principal Engineer experience in a multi-vendor and or multi-MSP network product development environment in a globally focused business
- Chief Engineer level credibility with hands-on experience within a Systems Integrator, Service Provider, or MNC, building and deploying a broad range of network and perimeter services at scale, managing the challenges of migratioin from existing/legacy connectivity solutions
- Requires detailed network development, integration, optimisation, standards (IETF, ITU, IEEE, MEF, ETSI, TMF, NIST and BIPM) knowledge and expertise across Layer 1 - 4 of the OSI stack
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Deep knowledge in systems engineering for networks and the supporting ecosystem, experienced in engaging on network topics at all levels internally and externally:
- Traditional – Routing & Switching|Internet|4G/LTE|MPLS|Ethernet|DC LAN|IPSec|FW|WLAN etc
- Next-Gen– 5G|NFV|SDN|SD-WAN|EVPN|L2/L3VPN|CLOS Fabrics|NGFW|WAF|SSE|ZTNA etc.
- Tooling – Active and Passive Instrumentation, NPMD and APM
- OSS – EMS, ETSI MANO, LSO, TOSCA, IBN, API integrations, data modelling – NETCONF/YANG, etc
- Experience with key OSS concepts e.g., CFS, RFS and their relationships to orchestration
- Understanding of uCPE (Universal CPE) solution concept and deployment
- Advance practitioner of Azure networking and or cloud networking constructs of GCP or AWS
- Experience with open networking technologies: Routing Daemons (FRR, Bird, GoBGP), Linux Networking (eBPF, VPP, XDP), Tungsten Fabric and SONiC, Cumulus, or other Linux-based open NOS
- Strong expertise in Automation, IaC and configuration management tools: Python, Saltstack, Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, CloudFormation & ARM templates; with demonstrable expertise of DevSecOps, Agile methodologies, CI/CD, and tools like Azure DevOps and Jira
- Involvement with modern observability platforms (Prometheus/PromQL, Grafana, etc)
- Must be able to effectively communicate both orally and in writing to technical and non-technical audiences at all levels in the organization; develop procedural documentation; develop and conduct effective presentations; and effectively demonstrate products and solutions
- Familiarity with Agile development environments
- Numerate with excellent analytical skills, coupled with a strong sense of ownership, urgency and drive
- Ability to connect new technology initiatives to cost savings and ROI calculations.
- The candidate will be a fit with the culture and values of Maersk
About Maersk
Maersk is committed to an industry-defining digital transformation that will revolutionize global trade. This will require a team that both understands and can lead the way in world class service and operations. Do you see yourself enjoying lots of opportunities to collaborate with colleagues around the globe, expanding your skills in an atmosphere that prioritizes employee growth and being a part of an inspiring work environment? Then join us as we reinvent the future of integrated logistics.
Working at Maersk
At Maersk, we're building a culture where everyone can feel at home. We don't just work across continents, we work across different genders, generations, cultures, sexual orientations, religions, disabilities and perspectives. Together, we succeed as one global team. We want to encourage innovation and empower our teams to share new ways of thinking, making the most of our diverse talents. But it’s also about feeling involved and encouraged to be yourself.
We’re excited for you to become part of our team and fully join in the adventure ahead.
Maersk
https://www.maersk.com/careers
Copenhagen, Denmark
Vincent Clerc
$10+ billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Subsidiary or Business Segment
Marine Transportation
1928
