About Hapag-Lloyd
With a fleet of 287 modern container ships and a Vessel Capacity 2.2 million TEU, as well as a Container Capacity 3.2 million TEU including one of the world’s largest and most modern reefer container fleets, Hapag-Lloyd is one of the world’s leading liner shipping companies. In the Liner Shipping segment, the Company has around 13.500 employees and 400 offices in 139 countries. Hapag-Lloyd has a container capacity of 11.9 million TEU – including one of the largest and most modern fleets of reefer containers. A total of 114 liner services worldwide ensure fast and reliable connections between more than 600 ports across the world. In the Terminal & Infrastructure segment, Hapag-Lloyd has stakes in 20 terminals in Europe, Latin America, the United States, India, and North Africa. The roughly 2.600 employees assigned to the Terminal & Infrastructure segment deal with terminal-related activities and provide complementary logistics services at selected locations.

THE ROLE – Principal Technical Architect 

Join us on a transformative journey as we migrate our document and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) platform from mainframe-based applications to a cloud-based platform on AWS. As Principal Technical Architect with a strong background in software engineering, you'll play the key role in driving this transformation by setting among our workstreams, designing and implementing scalable, secure, and highly available cloud solutions that leverage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and DevOps practices. You'll work closely with our software development teams to ensure that our cloud infrastructure is optimized for our applications, and that our applications are designed to take full advantage of the cloud infrastructure, with development processes aligned with cloud best practices. 

You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, architects, and other stakeholders to make key technical decisions, drive technical excellence, and ensure that our cloud infrastructure and applications are highly performant, secure, and scalable. Your expertise will be crucial in shaping the future of our cloud infrastructure and applications, and in driving the adoption of cloud technologies and practices across our team. 

If you're passionate about cloud computing, software development, and driving technical innovation with the goal of enabling a seamlessly operating, scalable platform for our users, we invite you to apply and help shape the future of our cloud infrastructure and applications. 

Your Responsibilities 

  • Set infrastructure standards among our platform teams  

  • Shape the roadmap for our AWS infrastructure team 

  • Work closely within a cross-functional Product team in which you enable the application developers by understanding requirements, designing, & implementing the solutions with AWS resources 

  • Combine theoretical best practices such as the AWS Well-Architected Framework with your personal experience to find the best solution for our current challenges 

  • Engage in Platform & Enterprise Architecture rounds to promote company-wide adoption 

  • Evaluate and implement security and compliance strategies, ensuring cloud environments meet industry & internal standards as efficiently as possible 

  • Bring in your experience by promoting technical advancements  

  • Research trends and evaluate their adoption in our practical world (e.g. GenAI, automation..) 

  • Continually optimize cloud infrastructure for scalability, security, and performance to maximize reliability, efficiency and cost-effectiveness of our platform. 

  • Design processes for collaboration with operation & application teams 

  • Lead migration projects from initial assessment to operating & optimization 

  • Create cloud migration and infrastructure management processes, ensuring smooth transitions, continuous optimization and automation. 

  • Team management & leadership 

What we are looking for 

Technical 

  • Proven experience with a wide range of AWS services: 

  • Docker, ECS, Fargate 

      • EC2 

    • EKS 

    • & more.. 

  • Proven ability to design and implement performing systems that can handle high load: 

    • High performance 

    • High throughput 

    • Scalable systems 

    • Multi-threading/high parallelization 

    • Ensuring applications can handle high loads & meet business needs  

CI/CD  

    • Maven, NPM, GitLab CI, AWS CodeBuild 

    • Automation tools like Renovate Bot  

    • Semantic Release to streamline deployments 

Security & Compliance 

    • AWS Security Hub  

    • Checkmarx 

    • Demonstrating a strong security awareness with experience in threat modeling and related practices 

  • Complex Infrastructure as Code 

    • AWS CDK with TypeScript 

    • Alternative: Terraform and willing to learn CDK 

  • Database & Storage:  

    • Managing cloud-based relational databases like MySQL 

    • schema management using Liquibase 

    • NoSQL databases like MongoDB  

    • Scalable storage solutions like Amazon S3. 

Software Engineering : Java programming on enterprise level  ,Experience with Spring Boot 

  • Messaging Systems : Kafka , Queueing systems 

  • Monitoring & Observability : Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch ,Datadog, Open Telemetry  

  • Software Engineering: Strong foundation in Java programming on enterprise level and experience with Spring Boot 

Personal 

  • You are extremely passionate about your role 

  • You want to deliver value to the team and organization 

  • You want to fully understand a problem, come up with solutions & implement them to see your work running smoothly in production 

  • You have software engineering background 

  • You have worked effectively in multinational teams 

  • You can communicate effectively in English 

  • You can prove your impressive expertise by either 

  • Having 8+ years of experience in a similar role & tech stack or 

  • Having AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional certificate or 

  • Having strong project references in which you played a key role 

  • You don’t like manual work and want to automate recurring tasks  

  • You like to work independently and with teammates 

  • You want to drive solutions, not just sit in the back-seat  

Contact person

Sunaimalar Arunjunaiselvam HR Talent Acquisition Manager