Working at Albert Heijn is not just a job; it's meaningful work. You work in an informal atmosphere alongside a passionate team that strives to stay ahead and make a difference. With your unique talents, you have an impact on the lives of our customers. You learn from experts in their fields, and we assist you in shaping your career. You can work flexibly with us, either from home or at our headquarters in Zaandam. A job at Albert Heijn is not just a job for now but also for the future.

What does this mean for you?

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Retail Business Platform Enablement Team, you’ll be at the forefront of enabling product teams to deliver scalable, secure, and resilient solutions. You’ll lead by example - translating infrastructure best practices into reusable, compliant, and self-service capabilities. Your work will directly impact development teams build and run software, ensuring they can focus on delivering customer value while you provide the backbone of reliable infrastructure. You’ll collaborate across domains, mentor engineers, and shape the future of our platform engineering culture.

About the Role

• Infrastructure Leadership: Architect and implement scalable infrastructure solutions in Azure using Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, and Ansible. Lead by influence, mentor engineers, and drive technical strategy
• Self-Service Enablement: Focus on building highly reusable modules and automation pipelines that minimize the need for custom development. Enable product teams to provision infrastructure independently, with compliance and security embedded from the start
• Platform Reliability & Automation: Operate and evolve shared services using SRE principles to ensure reliability and resilience
• CI/CD & DevSecOps Enablement: Enhance GitHub Actions pipelines with integrated policy enforcement, and automated compliance reporting
• Observability & Cost Transparency: Use existing telemetry solutions to standardize logging, metrics, and tracing. Implement cost dashboards and alerts to provide clear visibility into cloud spend and drive optimization
• Migration & Modernization: Support legacy-to-cloud transitions and guide teams in refactoring workloads into modern, event-driven microservices
• Collaboration & Culture: Partner with engineers, engineering managers, product owners, and security engineers to foster a culture of psychological safety, continuous learning, and shared ownership

Your new team and office.

Together with your team of Platform 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 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 a 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 102k 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 – 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

• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, DevOps, or SRE roles
• Deep expertise in Azure (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, and Ansible
• Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor engineers
• Strong scripting skills (Bash, PowerShell, etc)
• Experience with CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions or similar), observability frameworks, and DevSecOps practices
• Familiarity with FinOps principles and cost optimization tooling
• Passion for mentoring, documentation, and driving change through influence

Bonus points

• Experience modernizing monolith or ESB middleware into event-driven micro-services
• Hands-on with GitHub Copilot or other Gen-AI tools for code/test generation
• Understanding of SRE practices (error budgets, SLO management)

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.