Senior Edge & IoT Engineer

What are you looking for?

What do we offer?

• To be courageous
• To live wholeheartedly
• To keep growing

What do you bring?

• True tech-savvy
• Inspiring leadership
• High focus on quality

How you can make a difference

Your new job and office

FoodTech is hot! If you’re looking for a career in architecture, greenfield engineering with impact and scale, but you don’t want to move away from coding as your core activity, keep reading. 🙂

The company: About AH Technology, food retail reinventors

Albert Heijn goes way back; more than 130 years, to be exact. 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.

Over 1,200 stores? Check.

The leading online food retail platform? Check.

We build it, we run it and we love it. 😉

So, what’s next?

We want to accelerate our transition into a hybrid Food & Tech company by leveraging data and technology to future-proof food shopping. Our goal is to make better food more easily accessible to everyone. At AH Technology, you team up with inspiring peers in the data, digital and tech domains. A community of diverse individuals who share a common purpose: to create digital solutions that make shopping simpler and more inspiring, both online and in our stores.

We invest heavily in tech. That includes investing in your career! Are you ready to reinvent the way millions of people buy and enjoy their food?

As Senior Edge & IoT Engineer you build (technical) products for our end users and engineers, with the specific focus on our Stores and Warehouses. These products are related to public cloud, edge computing and Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies and serve initiatives like the AH Energy Transition, Store Operations modernization and DC Mechanization. The challenge for you and the team to solve, is how to engineer this at scale with for more than 1280+ stores and 20+ Distribution Centers (DCs) and Home Shopping Centers (HSCs).

Following Inner-Sourcing principles, you will work with users and maintainers throughout the whole organization to fit your ideas into the bigger picture: Accelerate our product teams so that they can deliver quality customer value quickly and autonomously.

This is how you will reinvent food retail

Working for AH Technology means you like these kinds of challenges: we think big and work at scale. As an Engineer you understand how these technologies need to be realized in a complex environment this large. Together with your team you solve technical challenges with a true engineering mindset. Specifically, you will together with the team:

• Build platforms based on cloud-native principles in our Store and DC infrastructure
• Build and configure IoT platforms to enable smart connected Stores and DCs
• Integrate and manage Store and DC IoT devices with our IoT platforms
• Work on products such as our AH Energy Platform and other products in the area of Edge and IoT.
• Integrate with central cloud components in our (Azure) public cloud, e.g. observability, security, API management, event streaming, data platforms, etc.
• Use infrastructure-as-code and configuration-as-code to build fully automated components in our infrastructure: both in our public cloud(s) and decentral edge infrastructure
• Deploy and configure DevOps tooling to enable CI/CD in our Store and DC edge environments
• Deploy and configure Observability tooling (components) and configuration to enable E2E critical chain observability
• Create technical architectures and solution designs of Edge and IoT solutions in close collaboration with architects
• Help in crafting proofs of concept, participate in automated solution development, uphold security and quality, and learn from best practices
• Share your knowledge and participate in projects within the product cluster and broader AH Technology Platform;
• Engage in ongoing learning and contribute to updates in key practices

Is this you?

To become successful as our new Edge & IoT Engineer you bring:

• A bachelor's or master's degree in a technical or engineering direction
• 5 years+ experience as IoT, Cloud, DevOps, or Backend engineer working in a complex (corporate) technology environment
• Willing to occasionally travel to our DCs for project related work or troubleshooting
• Technical knowledge and experience with backend development
• Technical knowledge and experience with API engineering
• Technical knowledge and experience with working in an event driven architecture and specifically with Kafka or MQTT
• Technical knowledge and experience with IoT platforms
• Technical knowledge of networks and network security
• Technical knowledge and experience in the development of cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes based platforms and/or containerized systems
• Technical knowledge and experience of configuration of DevOps tooling, e.g. GitHub, ArgoCD, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
• Technical knowledge and experience of Infrastructure-as-Code and Config-as-Code, e.g. Ansible, Terraform, Pulumi, CDK
• Strong communicator in English and preferably in Dutch

This is what we can offer

• An annual salary of up to €108k (including holiday allowance & bonus), depending on your seniority based on a full-time workweek.
• 32 days of paid leave to enjoy your well-deserved holidays: 20 regular vacation days and 12 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 an 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 company laptop and telephone

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.

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.”