About Us:

Maersk, the world's largest shipping company, is transforming into an industrial digital giant that enables global trade with its land, sea and port assets. We are the integration platform organization that builds platform products in the areas of integrating applications using event streaming technology. This position offers the opportunity to build your engineering career in an intensive environment, delivering work that has direct and significant impact on the success of our company.

Maersk's Technology organization is a practitioner of the microservices approach to software development. Our nascent production ecosystem is based around sets of interdependent services. Our team's mission is to build and maintain an event streaming-based integration platform through the use of cloud computing, infrastructure-as-code and container technologies like Docker/Kubernetes. We want to make the lives easier for those product teams who are tasked with integrating our applications to meet business needs.

This is an extremely exciting time to join a fast paced, growing and dynamic team that solves some of the toughest integration problems in the industry, and enable the building of the future of Maersk as the global integrator of container logistics.

Key responsibilities

A.P. Moller - Maersk maintains a strong focus on career development, and strong team members regularly have broad possibilities to expand their skill set and impact in an environment characterized by change and continuous progress.

As a Platform Engineer, you will participate in delivering an integration platform product that directly impact our business-facing product teams, with strong support from fellow dedicated team members, and drive digital transformation at one of the largest companies in the world.

You should feel at home working in and around a wide range of technologies and platforms and empathize with the day-to-day bottlenecks and challenges of development work and operations.

You enjoy building new systems from a blank slate as much as you love monitoring and tweaking existing systems to achieve maximum performance, while automating everything on your way.

Your responsibilities will be to: 

• Assist in the design, deployment, and management there by to enhance the Event Streaming Platform product in Maersk with 100% automation

• Collaborate with the other engineering teams to automate the deployment and management of Kafka infrastructure.
• Monitor and maintain the health and performance of Kafka Ecosystem.
• Work on continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines for Event management platform (kafka)
• Manage deployments in cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and ensure best practices for security, scalability, and cost-efficiency.

• Take part in on-call rotations with the platform consumers (product development teams) and take the lead in preventing incidents and maintaining platform SLAs, through automation and blameless postmortems.
• Working directly with platform consumers and provide timely inputs and feedback to Product Manager to build new features and take active part in contributing to Product Roadmap.
• Keep up with the cutting edge in relevant technologies, and implementation of new solutions.
• Document & evangelize the platform across other teams within Maersk
• Help our platform consumers to use our platform to integrate applications and get quickly and securely into production with fast, agile iterations.

We are looking for

Must have

• 2+ years of experience within software engineering.

• Strong understanding of distributed systems and event-driven architecture preferably Kafka.
• Basic knowledge of DevOps practices and tools including CI/CD pipelines, automation, and containerization preferably Kubernetes.
• Experience and handling of infrastructure with any cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• A self-starter with the ability to work effectively in teams focused on Engineering.

• Engineering degree in Computer Science or similar field or equivalent experience.
• Excellent spoken/written communication in English.
• Knowledge in Linux administration.

Preferred:

• Familiarity with other messaging systems (e.g., RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ) is a plus.
• Management and deployment of Microservices on Kubernetes.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK Stack.
• Basic scripting skills (e.g., Python, Bash) and one of programming languages (Python, Java, Go) for automation tasks.

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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