Site Reliability Engineer (Kubernetes, Terraform, Azure)

How you can
make a difference

Join our Ad-Tech Cluster as a SRE engineer!

Retail media is booming, and we’re building a cutting-edge platform to support all Ahold brands in Europe with a comprehensive retail media suite. Get to work in a high traffic environment on a SaaS solution that will be utilized by approximately 15 different brands across Europe.

This is how you will reinvent food retail.

• Support our infrastructure migration efforts, helping to modernize and scale our systems to meet growing customer demand.
• Build and maintain scalable infrastructure using Terraform and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Manage GitOps workflows using ArgoCD.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions.
• Monitor system health, performance, and reliability across environments.
• Collaborate with developers and SREs to troubleshoot issues and optimize performance.
• Champion automation, observability, and infrastructure as code practices.
• Ensure compliance with security best practices and assist in incident response and root cause analysis.
• Be part of our standby rotation once you are ready.

Your new team and office.

In the ad-tech cluster, we are developing and implementing a retail media SaaS solution for all Ahold Delhaize brands in Europe. Retail media involves selling advertisement space on our digital touchpoints or in-store. Examples include:

• Promoting brands like Tony Chocolonely when customers search for chocolate on our website or app.
• Displaying advertisements on big screens inside and outside stores.
• Featuring supplier-branded banners on homepage or category pages.
• Exploring new territories as retail media is a rapidly growing field.

Our ad-tech cluster, part of the Customer Tech Platform, is responsible for a flexible, cost-efficient, high-end retail media suite with extensive functionality and a growing number of brand users. We have a scale-up vibe with 11 teams and counting. A mature agile approach (no frameworks) helps you excel and showcase your skills.

We are looking for a skilled DevOps Engineer to join our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team during an exciting phase of infrastructure migration and customer growth. As we scale our platform to serve more customers, you'll play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining the systems that support our next-generation architecture.

You’ll work with a modern stack including GitHub, Azure AKS, ArgoCD, Terraform, and Akamai, ensuring reliability, scalability, and efficiency across our environments.

At Albert Heijn, you team up with inspiring peers in the data, digital and tech domains. A community of diverse individuals who share a common goal; to create digital solutions that make (online) shopping simpler and more inspiring. Are you ready to reinvent the way millions of people buy and enjoy their food? We invest heavily in data, digital and tech. And that includes investing in your career! Our teams work in a hybrid way: both from home as well as in the office. We are located right next to the train station of Zaandam.

We think it’s important to be part of an high-belonging team; a team where you can be yourself and feel safe, accepted and appreciated. For this job we are preferably looking for someone who brings diversity in our team, in the widest possible sense. Someone who is a great addition to our team by bringing other ideas to the table. Don’t check all the boxes? Don’t worry, we probably don’t either 😉. Don’t hesitate to apply if you think you are up for the challenge, we’re happy to have a look at your resume!

What we offer.

At Albert Heijn we aim to grow, and this is only possible if you grow along with us. As we work together to build our brand and your career, you can count on (based on 40 hours per week):

• An annual salary up to 80K including holiday allowance and a flexible bonus. Depending on your experience;
• 45 days of paid leave to enjoy your well-deserved holidays: 25,5 regular vacation days and 19,5 ADV days. Enjoy!
• Flexible working hours;
• Access to a challenging training curriculum – AH Tech Academy;
• An excellent pension plan where we as an employer contribute 4,5 more than you as an employee; 
• A travel allowance or a NS-business card for traveling to and from Zaandam by train;
• Attractive discounts on various insurance policies;
• 10% staff discount on groceries in all Albert Heijn stores, to a maximum of €300 per year;
• A free Mijn Albert Heijn Premium membership with many benefits;
• A company laptop and telephone.

The recipe for maximum impact

Technical Skills:

• 5+ years experience in similar role.
• Strong experience with Terraform and infrastructure as code practices.
• Hands-on experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or equivalent Kubernetes platforms.
• Familiarity with GitOps and continuous deployment tools like ArgoCD.
• Proficiency in using GitHub (actions, workflows, etc.) for CI/CD.
• Scripting skills in Bash, Python.

Professional Skills:

• Solid understanding of modern DevOps principles and SRE practices.
• Proven experience with cloud infrastructure (Azure preferred).
• Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning abilities.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience working in Agile/DevOps environments.

Nice to Have

• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Loki).
• Familiarity with Cilium.
• Certification in Azure, Kubernetes, or Terraform.
• Knowledge of security best practices (e.g., secrets management, zero trust).

We’re Albert Heijn, food retail reinventors. 🚀

Albert Heijn goes way back. More than 135 years, to be exact. So for millions of people, food shopping is synonymous with the Albert Heijn brand. We didn’t achieve this with a complacent, ‘hey, if it works today, it’ll work tomorrow’ approach, but by continually rethinking our propositions and staying plugged in to customer demands. More than 125,000 colleagues? Check. Over 1,250 stores in the Netherlands and Flanders? Check. The leading online food retail platform? Check, we build, run and love it.

Together we make eating better the easy choice. For everyone.

The world around us has changed, and significantly at that. These changes have impact on the lives of our customers, colleagues and partners. And therefore, also on Albert Heijn. We’re moving towards a new world with new opportunities and challenges. Albert Heijn wants more people to eat fresher, healthier and more sustainable food. Eating brings us together, keeps us healthier and contributes positively to the world. Our mission is: Together we make eating better the easy choice. For everyone.

Albert Heijn the Netherlands is B Corp certified. This underscores our purpose, through which we aim to contribute to a healthier, more social, and sustainable society. B Corp certification is a designation that a business is meeting high standards of verified performance, accountability and transparency.

Ready to contribute to our mission?

Do you want to play an active role in changing the food retail landscape as we know it? Then hop on board and join us on our expedition. Would you like to learn more first, before you apply to Albert Heijn? We’re happy to tell you everything about this vacancy! An assessment might be part of our selection process.

What
matters to us?

Ahold Delhaize is one of the world’s largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-commerce. Together, we help people eat well, save time and live better – it’s how we make a difference. And we do it because we care: for our customers, our people and the world around us.

Be courageous

"I realized how much impact you can truly have as an individual, working for such a huge international company.”
Robert Němec, Solution Architecture Manager

Live wholeheartedly

“The support this company has always offered means the world to me."
Christy Elgee, Manager of Cyber Defense and Operations, Ahold Delhaize USA

Keep growing

“I feel the freedom to show initiative, propose changes and try new things. Having that freedom gave me wings to fly.”
Robert Němec, Solution Architecture Manager