DevOps Engineer Supply Chain (Infra)

How you can make a difference

We are looking for a proactive and experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team in the Supply Chain Execution domain. You’ll be an infrastructure and automation specialist and technology advocate across 4-5 DevOps teams that are at different stages of maturity regarding their cloud and infra setup. Your core mission is to assess the current infrastructure landscape, define a clear infra and automation strategy customized for each team, aligned with Engineering Managers and Product Owners, and then execute that strategy.

This is how you will reinvent food retail.

• You assess the current infrastructure landscape and identify opportunities for improvement and automation.
• You define and execute a tailored infra and automation strategy for each DevOps team, in close alignment with Engineering Managers and Product Owners.
• You coach and empower DevOps teams to adopt best practices in cloud infrastructure, automation, and security.
• You proactively drive innovation and continuous improvement across teams, ensuring our infrastructure is future-proof and scalable.

Your new team and office.

Our teams have been working together for some years in the Supply Chain Execution department. About half of our team works hybrid from the office in Zaandam (right next to the train station) one or two days per week, while the other half works fully remote. We plan our important team sessions when people are at the office, and we also organize regular team events to connect and have some fun.

The engineers in our teams are passionate about their craft, and they want to keep learning and improving. They are not afraid to ask for what they need to make that happen and they go the extra mile to support each other delivering results. Joint brainstorming sessions and pair programming are a regular thing in our teams.

Together with your team you will work on inspiring projects to accelerate our transition into a hybrid Food & Tech company. We want to leverage data and technology to future-proof food shopping and give our customers accessibility to healthy food more easily available for everyone. 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 Zaandam.

Responsibilities.

• Drive automation of Cloud infrastructure provisioning and configuration management, self-service, Infrastructure-as-Code services, Auto Scale initiatives, and DevOps deployment.
• Contribute to infrastructure improvements, architecture, development, and deployment.
• Provide guidance and advice to teams using your strong understanding of Cloud services.
• Implement security baselines and standards for Azure resources including network access, restriction of internet-facing resource provision and configuration within the Azure environment.
• Work with and support application teams in their digital transformation goals.
• Create observability strategies with a focus on self-healing mechanisms.
• Collaborate with product and design teams to ensure that releases, internal and external, can be done easily (and retracted easily if need be).
• Define and develop architectural standards that promote DevOps practices such as Infrastructure as Code and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD).

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 78k including holiday allowance and a flexible bonus, depending on your experience.
• 45 days of paid leave: 25.5 regular vacation days and 19.5 ADV days.
• Flexible working hours.
• Access to a challenging training curriculum – AH Tech Academy.
• An excellent pension plan where we as an employer contribute 4.5 times 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, up to €300 per year.
• A free Mijn Albert Heijn Premium membership with many benefits.
• A company laptop and telephone.

The recipe for maximum impact:

• Knowledge of:
  • Github/Github Actions
  • Terraform
  • Writing reusable IaC for multi (stateful) environments (e.g., dev, uat, prod)
  • Container-based infrastructure like Kubernetes
  • Scripting languages (e.g., Shell, Python, PowerShell, etc.)
  • Azure PaaS services such as Azure Kubernetes, Databricks, Key Vault, Storage account, etc.
  • SaaS-based observability solutions
• Ability to advise application teams on using various Azure resources and services.
• Cloud knowledge (AZ-900 & AZ-104 certifications from Azure, or experience managing AWS/GCP environments).
• Proven ability to implement secure and highly available infrastructure services.
• A passion for advancing and continually improving our DevOps automation and practices to keep our applications easy to deploy, monitor, and scale.
• Proven experience in Azure security tools such as Azure Security Center, Azure Key Vault, and Azure Policies.
• Experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is a plus.
• You enjoy teamwork and making things happen.
• You’re tech savvy, proactive, and have a big passion for tech!

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?

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.”