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About this Sr. Cloud Engineer role at Maersk

Maersk · Hybrid · China, Shanghai, Shanghai, 201103
Our Global Cloud Team is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer based in Shanghai to lead the design, governance, and optimization of infrastructure for our top-tier business operations.

In this role, you will shape the future of our hybrid-cloud ecosystem, ensuring alignment with business objectives while driving innovation, security, and cost efficiency across AWS/AliCloud, and DataCenter.

You will own end-to-end responsibility for developing and executing hybrid-cloud strategies that empower our global logistics network. Your mission will include:

• Designing enterprise-grade hybrid-cloud architectures that integrate compute, storage, networking, and security services to meet the demands of a rapidly growing, multinational business.
• Building scalable frameworks for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, ensuring compliance, resilience, and seamless cross-regional collaboration.
• Partnering with stakeholders to translate business needs into technical blueprints, balancing innovation with operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

1. Enterprise Cloud Strategy & Architecture 

  • Define and govern the enterprise cloud architecture framework, ensuring alignment with corporate IT strategy, security policies and compliance standards. 
  • Architect multi-cloud/hybrid solutions (AliCloud/AWS) that integrate compute, storage, networking, and security services (e.g., VPC/Express Route, IAM, PaaS/SaaS solutions). 

2. Operational Excellence & Troubleshooting:

  • Demonstrated hands-on experience in diagnosing and resolving complex hybrid-cloud infrastructure issues (e.g., IAM misconfigurations, storage performance bottlenecks) across multi-cloud/hybrid environments.
  • Build, operate, and continuously optimize enterprise virtualization platforms based on VMware ESXi and/or Nutanix AHV, ensuring platform availability, performance, capacity, security, and OpEx.
  • Lead virtualization platform lifecycle activities, including deployment, configuration, patching/upgrades, capacity planning, health monitoring, incident troubleshooting, and technical remediation in collaboration with infrastructure vendors and Managed Service Providers.
  • Record of leading incident response efforts for critical outages, including post-mortem analysis, mitigation planning, and implementing preventive guardrails.

 

3.Operational Optimization

  • Monitor and optimize cloud performance using observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch) to ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and cost efficiency. 

 

4.Executive-Level Communication:

  • Demonstrated ability to articulate complex hybrid-cloud architectures, trade-offs and business value to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executives, regional business leaders, and external partners.
  • Proven experience facilitating cross-functional workshops, negotiating technical requirements and driving consensus among geographically dispersed teams.
  • Expertise in creating clear, audience-tailored deliverables such as architecture diagrams, executive briefings, and cost-benefit analyses.

5.Global Collaboration:

  • Ability to navigate cultural nuances and time zones, ensuring inclusive communication and alignment across global teams.
  • Fluency in English (written/spoken) is mandatory.



Required competencies and skills

Education requirement

  • Bachelor’s or above in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related engineering discipline

Technical Expertise & Experiences:

  • Experience integrating on-premises virtualization platforms with public cloud environments such as AWS/AliCloud as part of enterprise hybrid-cloud architectures.
  • Proven track record in leading enterprise cloud migrations (>400 workloads), hybrid-cloud integrations, and multi-region deployments. 
  • Strong analytical mindset with expertise in creating architecture decision records (ADRs), solution blueprints and risk mitigation plans. 
  • Mastery of cloud-native services: 
  • Compute: ECS/EC2, EBS, ELB, S3/OSS
  • Networking: VPC peering, Transit Gateway, DNS. 
  • Security: IAM policies, KMS, Secrets Manager, DDoS protection. 
  • Exceptional ability to communicate cross-functionally within a highly energetic team. Strong stakeholder engagement (internal and external) with the ability to influence.
  • Comfortable working independently and dealing with ambiguity. Able to operate successfully in a rapidly changing, and undefined environment
  • Proactive, disciplined, organized, self-starter and highly motivated

 

Communication & Soft Skills

  • Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with experience presenting to senior leadership and translating technical concepts into business value.
  • Exceptional verbal and written English communications and presentation skills.

 

Certifications (Preferred) 

  • Architectural Credentials: AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, Alibaba Cloud ACE. 
  • Industry Standards: ITIL 4.   

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.
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About Maersk

A.P. Moller - Maersk is an integrated container logistics company working to connect and simplify its customer's supply chains. As the global leader in shipping services, the company operates in 130 countries and employs roughly 100,000 people. With simple end-to-end offering of products and digital services, seamless customer engagement and a superior end-to-end delivery network, Maersk enables its customers to trade and grow by transporting goods anywhere - all over the world. For more information click here. All the way.

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