Cyber Engineer - Protect

About us

With over 100,000 employees across 130 countries A.P. Moller - Maersk is a global leader in logistics services and can offer you the opportunity to grow and evolve in a truly diverse workplace. A.P. Moller - Maersk is an integrated container logistics company working to connect and simplify its customers’ supply chains. 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.

What we can offer

To work at Maersk is to work with the world. You’ll learn from – and collaborate with – skilled professionals who literally move the world, every day. With a supportive environment to develop your skills, you’ll gain access to world-class learning programmes to accelerate your career goals. And you’ll find yourself welcome in our diverse and inclusive culture, where you are valued for who you are and rewarded for what you bring. For this role, we can offer the flexibility of hybrid working, meaning that you can be based anywhere in Portugal - all we ask is that you can visit an office in either Porto or Lisbon roughly once every 6 weeks.

What you’ll be doing

• Act as a Cyber Engineer in a DevSecOps team collaborating with the Security Operations Centre, Cyber Governance teams and global business unit stakeholders on the design, deployment and management of core security tooling focusing on risk reduction
• Work to implement security tools and capabilities based on the level of risk identified
• Establish clear understanding and documentation of processes related to cyber security tooling
• Leverage security automation tooling and develop playbooks and workflows based on operational use cases
• Support the implementation of security controls for IT platforms and applications to ensure adherence to business objectives, regulatory requirements and cyber security policies
• Ensure the deployment of security tools is achieved with minimum impact to business
• Maintain detailed knowledge of emerging threats, risks, technical innovations and security capabilities
• Implement and manage CWPP and CSPM tools to monitor and enforce security policies across cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba, OCI).
• Conduct risk assessments and vulnerability management for cloud workloads, ensuring proper controls are in place.
• Perform cloud security assessments, identify misconfigurations, and recommend remediation actions.
• Automate security controls and integrate cloud security into CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with DevOps and infrastructure teams to improve cloud security architecture and posture.
• Conduct incident response and troubleshooting for cloud-based security incidents.

To succeed in this role, we believe that you can offer

• Experience working in a Security Engineering or Security Operations capacity within a DevOps team in an enterprise organisation
• Knowledge of NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, CIS & SOC 2 security frameworks and standards
• Ability to generate high-quality solution documentation 
• Knowledge of security incident response and ITIL service methodology
• Experience in working in an environment using Agile frameworks
• Minimum of 2-3 years of experience in cloud security, with hands-on experience in CWPP and CSPM tools (e.g., Prisma Cloud, Cloud Conformity etc.)
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba, OCI) and cloud-native security controls.
• Experience in cloud security best practices, threat modelling, and risk management.
• Familiarity with automation tools (Terraform, Ansible, etc.) and integration into security workflows.
• Experience with container security and Kubernetes.
• Certifications in cloud security AWS Certified Security Specialty, Certified Cloud Security Professional - CCSP, CCSK etc are desirable
• Able to present technical security information to a non-technical audience

Are you ready to be part of something transformational at Maersk and join a team that’s setting a new standard in cybersecurity?  If so, we'd love to hear from you!

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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