DevOps Engineer

We're looking for an enthusiastic Devops Engineer to join Albert Heijn's Store Infra Engineering team within Albert Heijn's platform for Store and Supply Chain technology. Someone who combines technical experience with genuine passion for system engineering and the ability to elevate our fellow engineers. Someone who is also not afraid of the challenge of Albert Heijn with our ±200.000 devices across all our Stores

In this role, you will work in a complex hybrid environment (cloud and on-premise systems) part of the IT infrastructure of our stores. With a DevOps approach you will contribute to automating the management of devices and software in stores using our standard DevOps tooling. You will contribute to building and maintaining a robust and manageable infrastructure of compute, network and mobile devices (Android, Apple etc) to ensure reliability and security in our store environment.

Next to that you will also be part of our (wider) engineering journey to transform to a Edge compute-based platform in our Stores to enable our colleagues to work fully cloud native in the Stores to further enhance our reliability, security and speed of innovation in our digital store.

This is how you will reinvent food retail.

We are hiring someone with a cloud and DevOps engineering mindset willing to work in a complex Store IT infrastructure and systems environment of the biggest retailer in the Netherlands. Somebody who likes to solve engineering problems but also think along of the business problems we are solving how to enable store innovation at scale while still ensuring the non-functional requirements are met.

As part of the team, you will be doing:

• Using our available MDM tooling to build automation for operations at scale
• Engineer security policies for devices to ensure our technology estate is properly hardened
• Using (additional) infrastructure-as-code for additional automation in our large infrastructure environment
• Leveraging Git and GitOps based WoW to enable a DevOps approach of managing our environment
• Drive observability and monitoring using standard tooling such as Grafana and Loki to improve system visibility
• Seek to continuously improve processes and technologies to increase reliability and security of in-store devices
• Cooperate with your team and other stakeholders on improvements and stability of in-store devices
• Help establish a clear end-to-end view of environments and dependencies

Your new team and office.

Together with the teams 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 access 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 in Zaandam.

We think it's important to be part of a highly 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 to 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!, * Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science,Systems Engineering, or a related field.

• Experience in Azure or other public cloud including infrastructure-as-code automation
• Experience in Intune for mobile device management (at scale)
• Experience with PowerShell, Graph API, and automation
• Experience with Linux environments.
• Understanding of APIs and REST services.
• Understanding of networking infrastructures and protocols
• Understanding of GitHub, GitHub Actions, and CI/CD practices
• Understanding of monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana and Prometheus.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, containers, and modern platform technologies.
• A proactive, solution-driven mindset with the ability to work independently and deliver results.
• Good collaboration and communication skills, with a passion for continuous improvement., * Passion for your expertise
• The ability to connect
• High focus on quality

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 that can lead up to 75k including holiday allowance and a flexible bonus.
• 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 times more than you as an employee;
• A travel allowance or a NS-business card for traveling to and from Zaandam by train;
• 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 (Mac/Windows) and telephone (iPhone or Android)

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 an 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.