Cloud Engineer

We are looking for a Cloud Engineer (Azure) to join our Gambit team. Help build a cutting-edge platform to support all Ahold brands in Europe with a comprehensive retail media suite. Get to work in a high traffic environment on a SaaS solution that will be utilized by approximately 15 different brands across Europe. 

Be at the center of a large-scale cloud modernization initiative and get to work with a cutting-edge Azure and Kubernetes tech stack. Collaborate with a passionate team of cloud, DevOps, and software engineers. An opportunity to influence architecture, automation, and security standards.

This is how you will reinvent food retail.

• Contribute to and support the migration from legacy AKS clusters to new Azure-managed infrastructure.
• Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform and Terragrunt.
• Manage and optimize CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD) to enable smooth, automated deployments.
• Collaborate closely with developers and security engineers to ensure secure-by-design infrastructure and compliance alignment.
• Oversee Azure components such as App Gateway, PostgreSQL flexible server, AKS, and networking configurations.
• Manage and monitor data services including PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, and Confluent Kafka.
• Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability with tools like Prometheus, Grafana and Opsgenie.
• Contribute to incident management and postmortems, ensuring operational excellence and resilience.
• Participate in knowledge-sharing and continuous improvement initiatives across the engineering organization.

Our key 2026 objective is to migrate our deployments from legacy AKS clusters (currently centrally managed) to a new Azure infrastructure fully owned and operated by our team. You'll play a crucial role in shaping this transformation ensuring a secure, scalable, and automated environment that supports continuous delivery and high availability.

Your new team and office.
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 the 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 of Zaandam.

We think it's important to be part of an high-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 in 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, we're happy to have a look at your resume.

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 100K including holiday allowance and a flexible bonus. Depending on your level of seniority and experience; 
• A minimum of 20 days paid vacation, optionally 12.5 days extra. Do you want to take that extra time off, or would you rather convert the extra days into discounts or sell them for cash? You're the end boss;
• Flexible working hours; 
• Access to a challenging training curriculum;
• 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

• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, including AKS, App Gateway, and EntraID.
• Skilled in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Terragrunt, Helm) and GitOps principles (ArgoCD, GitHub Actions).
• Solid understanding of cloud security, IAM, and compliance frameworks (Zero Trust Architecture, ISO standards).
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiar with modern data and streaming technologies (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka).
• Proficient in scripting (Bash, PowerShell, or Python).
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate across distributed teams.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Akamai and Databricks.
• Certifications such as Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator / DevOps Engineer Expert or HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate.

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. Would you like to learn more first, before you apply to Albert Heijn? We're happy to tell you everything about this vacancy An assessment might be part of our selection process.

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