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Job Description
Overview:
Our Global Cloud Team is seeking a Cloud Architect based in Shanghai to lead the design, governance, and optimization of cutting-edge cloud strategies for our top-tier business operations.
In this role, you will shape the future of our multi-cloud ecosystem, ensuring alignment with business objectives while driving innovation, security, and cost efficiency across AWS, AliCloud, Azure and IDC platforms.
You will own end-to-end responsibility for developing and executing cloud strategies that empower our global logistics network. Your mission will include:
- Designing enterprise-grade 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:
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, Azure) that integrate compute, storage, networking, and security services (e.g., VPC/Express Route, WAF, Kubernetes, IAM, PaaS/SaaS solutions).
- Develop and maintain cloud adoption roadmaps, including migration strategies (rehost, refactor, replatform) and TCO/ROI analysis for cloud-native and hybrid workloads.
Operational Excellence & Troubleshooting:
- Demonstrated hands-on experience in diagnosing and resolving complex cloud infrastructure issues (e.g., IAM misconfigurations, storage performance bottlenecks) across multi-cloud/hybrid environments.
- Proficiency in using cloud-native monitoring and debugging tools (e.g., AWS CloudTrail, Azure Monitor, AliCloud ActionTrail, Prometheus) to perform root cause analysis (RCA) and optimize system reliability.
- Record of leading incident response efforts for critical outages, including post-mortem analysis, mitigation planning, and implementing preventive guardrails.
- Experience collaborating with Managed Service Provider to refine observability strategies, troubleshooting workflows, and enforce SLAs/SLOs.
Cross-Functional Governance & Delivery Excellence
- Collaborate with the global cloud governance team including FinOps practices, cost optimization strategies, and resource tagging policies.
- Cross-functional teams (Platform, Security, Network Engineering) to deliver compliant, scalable infrastructure solutions with IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation) and CI/CD pipelines.
- Conduct architecture reviews, risk assessments, and post-implementation audits to ensure adherence to SLAs, SLOs and operational resilience.
Cloud Transformation
- Partner with the stakeholders to translate business objectives into technical cloud strategies, emphasizing innovation.
- Spearhead cloud center of excellence (CCOE) initiatives to standardize best practices, toolchains, and knowledge sharing across global teams.
- Evangelize DevSecOps culture by integrating security-by-design, automated compliance checks, and zero-trust architectures into cloud workflows.
Operational Optimization & Innovation
- Monitor and optimize cloud performance using observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch) to ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and cost efficiency.
- Mentor engineering teams on cloud-native design patterns, disaster recovery strategies (backup/DR), and greenfield/brownfield modernization.
Executive-Level Communication:
- Demonstrated ability to articulate complex 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.
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
Technical Expertise & Experiences:
- Progressive cloud architecture experience in large-scale MNCs, including designing and building up blueprint base solutions on at least two Public CSP (AWS, AliCloud, Azure).
- Proven track record in leading enterprise cloud migrations, hybrid cloud integrations, and multi-region deployments.
- Strong analytical mindset with expertise in creating architecture decision records (ADRs), solution blueprints and risk mitigation plans.
- Expert hands-on experience of cloud-native services:
- Compute: ECS/EC2, Lambda/Serverless, Kubernetes (EKS/AKS).
- Storage: S3/EFS/EBS/OSS/Blob Storage
- Networking: VPC peering, CEN/Transit Gateway, DNS/Global Accelerator.
- Security: IAM policies, KMS, Secrets Manager, DDoS protection.
- Proficiency in IaC (Terraform, Ansible), DevOps toolchains (Jenkins, GitLab) and observability platforms.
- Exceptional ability to communicate cross-functionally within a highly energetic team. Strong stakeholder engagement (internal and external) with the ability to influence.
- Excellent project management skills
- Excellent understanding of ITIL/ITSM processes (IM, CM, PM, SR, etc.)
- Understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman)
- 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 (Mandatory), Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Alibaba Cloud ACE.
- Industry Standards: TOGAF, ITIL v4.
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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