DevOps Engineer Pay & Rewards

What are you looking for?

What do we offer?

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

What do you bring?

• Passion for your expertise
• True tech-savvy
• The ability to connect

Why Ahold Delhaize

• Huge Impact
• Work with fun and smart colleagues
• (Inter)national growth opportunities

How you can make a difference

As our new DevOps Engineer, you will operate at the heart of our global, fast-moving company. By defining and setting up application environments, you ensure AD Group Enterprise Platforms has the processes and structures in place to continue our high-level performance.

About Ahold Delhaize

We’re Ahold Delhaize, one of the world’s largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-commerce. Together with our 17 strong local retail brands in the United States, Europe and Indonesia, we make a meaningful difference in the lives of our brands’ customers, our people and the world around us. We offer a highly dynamic, international work environment in which our associates thrive.

Your new work environment

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be joining our Tech department. Technology is vital to Ahold Delhaize and its entire family of brands. As a global team, we support and accelerate the tech transformation and IT optimization of our company and brands. By providing the best possible IT strategy, infrastructure and technology, we enable the company to strengthen our position as a leading omnichannel retailer. We’re a highly energetic team – our members are from different cultures, all over the world – with a very innovative mindset and a truly global view. We collaborate regularly across countries and brands. We are eager for continuous transformation within an ever-changing environment, constantly seeking new, innovative technologies and processes to stay ahead of the curve. If you want to learn from the best, the Technology department really is the place to be.

You will be given the freedom and responsibility to take ownership of your work and broaden your horizons by working together with knowledgeable colleagues from different countries who have an abundance of expertise in many areas. We will continually invest in you and help you build on your talents and skills for the future.

Key responsibilities of your role

Your role is highly diverse and encompasses various responsibilities. Here are the key ones:

Application Configuration and Development:

• Write programs in software code according to functional and non-functional criteria and quality standards.
• Configure systems in production environments.
• Develop and maintain ABAP code for SAP ECP enhancements, custom reports, interfaces, and data transfers as needed to meet business requirements.
• Work with the HR -Product organization team to ensure that ABAP developments align with business processes and meet functional specifications.
• Report progress and issues to the Head of Tech and Scrum Master.
• Define solutions for technical IT bottlenecks for new and existing technical (software) systems.
• Perform quality checks on code and review recurring incidents.
• Install and test applications.
• Ensure all delivered products comply with information security, data privacy, license compliance, and audit compliance & control guidelines.

Application Design:

• Design, maintain, and improve software solutions as part of application lifecycle management.
• Translate business criteria and customer needs into technical products in close collaboration with the Head of Techs.
• Describe technical solutions for user stories or complex systems that meet customer needs and ensure good manageability of the system.
• Translate user stories into specific tasks (features) and plan actions based on the chosen technical solution.
• Support the product team/Head of Tech during the design phase.

Continuous Optimization and Improvement:

• Define possible improvements.
• Plan and execute improvement actions.
• Perform checks after implementing improvements to verify if the objectives have been achieved.

Designing and Executing Test Scripts:

• Ensure user stories are technically ready for testing during sprint planning.
• Create and write test scripts based on each user story.
• Identify risks together with the scrum team and the customer.
• Evaluate test scripts with the scrum team and prioritize the tests to be executed.
• Prepare test data.
• Test the technology/software of the product according to the designed test scripts.
• Analyze test results compared to expected results.
• Evaluate results with the scrum team and determine deviations.
• Define actions for product adjustments and monitor implementation.
• Retest the product.

Operations:

• Perform availability, performance, and capacity measurements to determine if the system still meets customer requirements and, if necessary, add improvements to the backlog.
• Analyze incidents and user requests to determine if improvements are necessary and add them to the backlog.
• Determine the cause of incidents, how they can be resolved through a workaround or a permanent solution, and create this solution, if necessary, based on a 24/7 on-call schedule.
• Provide the support organization with knowledge, documentation, configuration, and support characteristics.
• Document recurring incidents so they can be resolved by the Helpdesk.
• Prepare and install software according to applicable agreements and then validate that the system functions successfully.
• Maintain configuration data.

Performance Tuning and Optimization:

• Perform regular performance tuning and optimization of SAP ECP, including database queries, system configuration, and network connectivity to ensure maximum efficiency.
• Implement scalability strategies to handle growing payroll data and transactional volume.

Documentation and Knowledge Sharing:

• Maintain clear and comprehensive documentation for SAP ECP system configurations, deployment processes, and troubleshooting steps.
• Share knowledge and train team members on best practices, tools, and techniques for managing and supporting SAP ECP systems.

Collaboration with SAP Basis and Functional Teams – product owner organization:

• Collaborate with SAP Basis teams to ensure smooth system operations, including managing the SAP landscape, troubleshooting system issues, and performing system refreshes or upgrades.
• Work with SAP Functional teams – Product owner organization to align business requirements with system capabilities and ensure optimal system performance.

Partner and Vendor Collaboration:

• Work closely with external partners and third-party vendors to ensure successful integration and implementation of SAP ECP solutions. This includes coordinating with them on system configurations, customizations, and enhancements.
• Oversee the work of external partners, ensuring that their developments are compliant with company standards and are aligned with the overall system design, architecture, and business requirements.
• Review and validate any deliverables from partners, ensuring that code, configurations, and system implementations are of high quality and properly tested before deployment.

What’s in it for you?

Aside from what we ask of you in this role, we also have a great deal to offer you: plenty of growth opportunities and various cross-brand career options; flexible working hours; a hybrid working model (we ask you to spend at least 50% of your working time at the office); and the chance to drive meaningful change on a global scale. You can look forward to a good work-life balance, and the chance to work in an inclusive environment that wholeheartedly encourages growth and welcomes you just the way you are.

Plus:

• A gross annual salary up to 76k
• Attractive bonuses
• A first-rate pension plan
• 45 vacation days per year (25.5 vacation days + 19.5 paid-leave days)
• Travel expenses or an NS travel card
• A laptop and smartphone

Requirements

We think you’ll be best geared for success if you meet the following requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, ensuring a strong foundational understanding of software engineering and systems.
• 5-7 years of relevant experience in DevOps, with a focus on automating, deploying, and managing applications in a cloud environment. Experience should include working on large-scale, high-availability systems, and preferably in the payroll or rewards systems domain.
• Expertise in SAP – Employee Central Payroll
• Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines and automation
• Hands-on experience with Payroll area – ECP – ABAP coding and monitoring tools
• Solid understanding of security principles in DevOps, particularly around sensitive data management, which is crucial in the Pay & Rewards area.
• Functional knowledge of US payroll or NL payroll systems is required.
• Experience with payroll-related compliance and security considerations is a plus.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a collaborative environment.
• Familiarity with agile methodologies and a collaborative, cross-functional team approach.
• Fluent in English (both spoken and written), as it is essential to communicate effectively with teams and stakeholders across different locations.

Aside from these hard skills, we think you should also bring some much-valued soft skills to the table: an entrepreneurial mindset, outspoken communication skills, and a proactive approach. In addition to these, a high level of creativity, empathy, and enthusiasm will take you far.

At Ahold Delhaize and our local brands, we broadly define diversity as being inclusive of thoughts and skills, generational differences, LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disabilities, nationalities and more, and we accept all people for who they are.

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