Engineering Manager

Maersk; København; On-site; DKK 800,000 - 1,050,000; Full time

Job summary

Maersk is seeking a Lead Network Engineer to lead a team of Network Engineers and Senior Network Engineers, overseeing LAN/WAN, SD-WAN, NFV services across regional sites. You will manage incidents, changes, and deliveries while balancing engineering goals.

Drive automation, service standardisation, and reliability improvements. Collaborate with Product, Architecture, Cyber Security, and Operations to align with global standards in a large, multinational environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading network engineering teams within a large enterprise or similar.
• Strong understanding of LAN/WAN, SD-WAN, and NFV technologies.
• Experience delivering network services across geographically distributed sites.
• Familiarity with network automation, APIs, Python, Ansible, and IaC is advantageous.
• Relevant certifications such as CCNP Enterprise or SD-WAN cert are desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of Network Engineers, setting priorities and expectations.
• Oversee delivery, operation, and improvement of LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, NFV services.
• Coordinate escalations and major incidents with stakeholders and vendors.
• Drive technical debt reduction, automation, and service standardisation.
• Collaborate with Product, Architecture, Cyber Security to align with standards.
• Manage regional network risks, capacity, reliability, and supplier relationships.

Skills

Continuous improvement mindset

Team leadership

LAN/WAN/SD-WAN expertise

Geographically distributed delivery

Stakeholder management & coaching

Network automation & IaC familiarity

Tools

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN

Cisco Meraki

Fortinet Secure SD-WAN

Python

Ansible

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Maersk is a global leader in integrated logistics and has been industry pioneers for over a century. Through innovation and transformation, we are redefining the boundaries of possibility, continuously setting new standards for efficiency, sustainability, and excellence.

At Maersk, we believe in the power of diversity, collaboration, and continuous learning, and we work hard to ensure that the people in our organisation reflect and understand the customers we exist to serve.

With over 100,000 employees across 130 countries, we work together to shape the future of global trade and logistics.

Join us as we harness cutting-edge technologies and unlock opportunities on a global scale. Together, let's sail towards a brighter, more sustainable future with Maersk.

What We Offer

This is an exciting career opportunity to work in a multinational, Global 500 company that makes global trade happen. You will be interacting daily with colleagues internationally, giving you the opportunity to develop your professional skills in a global environment. We provide support for you to shape your own career by achieving expertise and learning on the job.

• Lead and influence the evolution of enterprise network services supporting a complex global logistics organisation.

• Collaborate with regional and global teams across Product, Architecture, Cyber Security, Service Management, and Operations.

• Develop your leadership capabilities while coaching and growing a team of network engineering professionals.

• Contribute to standardisation, automation, service reliability, and continuous improvement initiatives across the network estate.
  

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop a team of Network Engineers and Senior Network Engineers, setting priorities, objectives, and performance expectations.

• Manage operational demand across incidents, service requests, problem investigations, and planned changes while balancing engineering delivery commitments.

• Oversee the delivery, operation, and continuous improvement of LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, and NFV services across regional sites.

• Coordinate technical escalations and major incident responses, ensuring effective collaboration with internal stakeholders, vendors, and delivery partners.

• Drive lifecycle management, technical debt reduction, automation initiatives, service standardisation, and reliability improvements.

• Partner with Product, Architecture, and Cyber Security teams to ensure alignment with global standards, reference architectures, and security controls.

• Manage regional network risks, capacity, resilience, performance, and supplier relationships while providing visibility of delivery progress and operational outcomes.
  

What We Are Looking For:

• Continuous improvement mindset: we are looking for someone who brings a thoughtful improvement mindset, curious about how work gets done and motivated to make meaningful, sustainable improvements over time.

• Demonstrated experience leading network engineering teams within a large enterprise, service provider, systems integrator, or managed services environment.

• Strong technical understanding of enterprise LAN, WLAN, WAN, and SD-WAN technologies, including routing, switching, segmentation, resilience, security, and high availability.

• Experience delivering and operating network services across geographically distributed sites such as offices, warehouses, terminals, manufacturing facilities, or other operational environments.

• Knowledge of SD-WAN platforms such as Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, Cisco Meraki, or Fortinet Secure SD-WAN, alongside practical understanding of network security principles and segmentation.

• Experience managing major incidents, technical escalations, root cause investigations, corrective action plans, and service improvement programmes.

• Strong stakeholder management, communication, people leadership, coaching, workforce planning, and vendor management capabilities.

• Familiarity with network automation, APIs, Python, Ansible, Infrastructure as Code, observability, SASE/SSE, cloud networking, Agile delivery, and ITIL practices is advantageous.

• Relevant professional certifications such as Cisco CCNP Enterprise, Cisco or Fortinet SD-WAN certifications, HPE Aruba, Juniper, or equivalent are desirable.

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