Opportunity

As a team, we value correctness, efficiency, and safety. We measure and monitor everything and have a culture of continuous reflection and improvement. We aim to eliminate friction in production and believe that no project should be delayed due to lack of reliable infrastructure. We're looking for a senior software engineer who shares our values and has thorough experience in managing and utilizing CDNs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ability to define, maintain and improve deep technical requirements, architecture patterns and technologies to build and run a a secure edge hosting and compute capability.
• Lead within an agile framework to build and maintain the secure CDN, actively engaging with other teams and stakeholders to collaboratively deliver key results and platform capabilities.
• Establish and be responsible for the operational excellence of the solution as a secure highly available and scalable multi-tenanted capability.
• Define and evolve governance, engagement and support models of shared CDN services using agile, DevSecOps and Site Reliability Engineering principles.
• Enable automated self-service capabilities on the Platform and accelerate the onboarding and user engagement of CDN and customer facing security services.
• Proactively continuously improve the capabilities of the CDN solution for internal and external customers based on feedback, data analytics and metrics.

Required Experience:

• 5+ years of overall experience
• BA/BSc degree in software engineering/computer science related subject, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years hands-on experience with CDN management
• Extensive experience in managing highly available cloud-native front-end applications.
• Experience in any software development languages (Python, R, Go, C# etc) and automation scripts will be added advantage .
• Deep technical knowledge of content delivery networks.
• Experience of distributed, highly available, high traffic cloud-native technologies.
• Experience in proactive operational support and maintaining complex distributed systems and associated business services.
• Data and metrics driven with an analytical ability to identify patterns and innovative solutions.
• Experience leading in mature software development and system engineering environments with particular focus on automation, Infra-as-Code and automated testing frameworks.
• Able to lead the architecture, design and implementation of complex solutions but also able to engage non-technical stakeholders.

Technical skills / depending on field of expertise:

• Content Delivery Networks and Global Traffic Management design principles (Akamai) – Key technology
• Front-end web application development lifecycle – Key requirement
• Security principles (WAF, Secure by Design, Defence in Depth) – Key Requirement
• API Gateways and distributed transactional applications
• Automation and scripting (Python, Infrastructure-as-code & GitOps)
• Full stack observability solutions – (including SLOs and Error Budgets)
• Collaboration and development tools (Jira, Git, Confluence)

Business skills:

• Collaborate and lead workstreams with multiple delivery teams, including; Product Owners, BAs, Architects, Developers (on/off shore), Test teams, Senior management, Business sponsors etc.
• Consistently deliver business goals and deliver high quality end-to-end solutions within time and budget constraints.
• Ability to efficiently manage conflicting priorities in challenging and complex environments.
• Take responsibility for problems and drive tactical and strategic solutions with integrity.
• Shipping / Logistics Industry knowledge an advantage

Personal profile:

• Passionate and eager to proactively learn and keep ahead of complex technologies and modern engineering practices.
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to work in a high-performing business critical team and continually grow the culture and best practices.
• Proactive and entrepreneurial to find creative and innovative solutions to problems.
• Puts customers and end users at the heart of all we do.
• Analytical and able to see trends and also know instinctively when something is not right.
• Tenacious, flexible and open-minded.
• Willing to challenge and be challenged in a constructive and professional manner.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent tasks and able to prioritise effectively.
• Thrives working in a collaborative environment and can act as a senior contributor to the team.

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.
As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of age, ancestry, national or ethnic origin, race, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, parental or caring status, religion or belief, physical or mental disability, long term health condition, pregnancy or parental leave, protected veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.
We actively work to address systemic bias and support representation. We therefore encourage all to apply and let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments to be made for your recruitment process.
Learn more at:
https://www.maersk.com/careers/diversity-equity-and-inclusion