Database Engineer Data Management Services (Terraform, Shell, Cloud)

How you can make a difference

As a Database Engineer in the DDP Data Management Services team, you play a key role in building, automating, and maintaining modern cloud-based data platforms. You’ll focus on infrastructure automation, observability, and scalable database services across Oracle Cloud and Azure environments.

This is a hands-on engineering role where you’ll develop and improve automation pipelines and collaborate closely with senior engineers and application teams. You’ll bring curiosity, initiative, and a passion for continuous improvement in everything you do.

This is how you will reinvent food retail.

• You will drive and contribute to the automation of cloud infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, self-service, Infrastructure-as-Code services, and DevOps deployment, while continuously improving infrastructure architecture, development, and deployment processes.
• You will implement security baselines and standards for resources including network access, restriction of internet-facing resource provision and configuration within the Azure and Oracle Cloud environment.
• You will work with and support application teams in their digital transformation goals.
• You will create observability strategies with a focus on self-healing mechanisms.
• You will collaborate with data engineering, product, and design teams to ensure that releases, internal and external, can be done easily (and retracted easily if necessary).

This role is part of on-call rotation, ensuring the availability and stability outside regular working hours.

Your new team and office.

Together with your team of Product Owner and Data Engineers 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. 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.

What we offer.

• 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 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:

• Hands-on experience (at least 3 years of relevant experience).
• Writing and maintaining Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible, etc.).
• Scripting for automation (Shell, Python, or PowerShell).
• Cloud environments (Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) – Azure certifications is a plus).
• CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or similar tools.
• Monitoring and observability platforms (using SaaS-based tools such as Prometheus and Oracle Enterprise Manager, alongside an in-house observability platform powered by Grafana’s LGTM stack).
• Experience as an Oracle Database Administrator (DBA), managing and optimizing database performance and reliability.
• Proven ability to implement secure and highly available infrastructure services.
• Experience in advancing and continuously improving DevOps automation and practices to ensure applications remain easy to deploy, monitor, and scale.
• Experience in knowledge sharing and/or mentoring others.

Nice to have:

• Experience with additional database technologies (e.g., Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
• Oracle Cloud database migrations.
• Oracle Cloud Exadata CS setup and automation.
• Advise application teams on performance optimization.
• Advise application teams using various OCI resources and services.
• Proven experience in using Oracle Cloud security tools such as Oracle Cloud Guard, Oracle Data Safe and Azure security tools such as Azure Security Center, Azure Key Vault, and Azure Policies.

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