DevOps Engineer

Short company description

We’re AD/01, part of Ahold Delhaize, an innovation hub serving 9 countries and catering to more than 10 million shoppers daily.

As big fans of innovation, we like technology where we can see it, on our plates. Our mission is to help people live better lives, enhancing their daily food and shopping experiences. Moreover, we aim to revolutionize the food retail industry through cutting-edge technology, we want to solve real challenges, whether it's refining the supply chain management, improving digital customer interactions, or creating seamless customer journeys from order to delivery.

We are the studio that builds the future of food retail.

Requirements

We think you’ll be best geared for success if you can meet the following requirements:
• You have a strong sense of ownership, care about what you build, and build the right thing that serves your customers.
• You’re a builder at heart; you like the opportunity of having tons of exposure, making things work for a company long-term, and having an entrepreneurial attitude for anything that comes your way.
• You are comfortable scaling and operating large-scale services in high-growth environments.
• You are comfortable in one or more of programming languages. Most of our current codebase is in Go, but we are not stuck to any tools, since we see them to an end.
• You like to use data over opinions to make decisions. And are okay with finding the data yourself when it’s missing.
• You prefer to improve the system as a whole and are not fixated on improving local optimums that may not impact the bottleneck.

It goes without saying that so-called ‘soft skills’ are just as important as their ‘hard’ cousins. We highly value:
• Experience working within a matrix-style structure with international teams
• Be flexible, reliable and have a true hands-on mentality
• Team player; involves others, shares knowledge and seeks opportunities for cross functional working and collaboration
• Creative; identifies solutions and selects the best combination of practices by taking an innovative approach to problem solving
• Must be results oriented; demonstrates a “can-do” attitude – adaptability, flexibility and resourcefulness
• Adaptable to situations and different/multicultural environments
• Excellent command of the English language both written & spoken.

Responsibilities

As a DevOps Engineer you build technical products for our engineers with the specific focus on our stores and Distribution Centers (DC) infrastructure. These technical products are related to public cloud, edge computing and Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies. This will enable our product teams to develop new products to improve our customer and employee experience. The major engineering challenge for you and team to solve is how to introduce this at scale with over than 1250 stores and 6 large Distribution Centers.
Following Inner-Sourcing principles, you will work with users and maintainers throughout the entire organization to fit your ideas into the bigger picture: accelerate our product teams so that they can deliver quality customer value quickly and autonomously.

Key responsibilities of your role.
• Learn about how painful it is for large-scale companies to handle the day-to-day life retail management and understand how our technology is changing the status quo
• Own what you build, with the ability to decide how to build it and the responsibility of operating it in the production environment.
• Build meaningful products using modern technologies that our customers use and depend on for everyday business.
• Keen eye for observability throughout all landscape.
• Assure that robots are in control of all operations so you can use your imagination to solve though problems.
• Continuously feed the learnings and observations of operating the system back into our products.
• Collaborate with the product team to define the future of our products and deliver value with every release.

Our Tech Stack
• In-house edge stack from OS to k8s add-ons.
• For development, we use Python and Go.
• We use Azure for cloud services.
• We manage our infrastructure with Terraform, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Grafana, and any other tool that fit our needs.

What’s in it for you?
We ask a lot. (We’re looking for the best, after all). But we offer a lot, too.
So, what do we have in store for you? We offer flexible hours and a hybrid working model, allowing you to work both from home and at the office. We provide competitive benefits to support health, well-being and your professional growth. This includes: a significant budget on benefit platform and a yearly bonus. At AD01 we welcome everyone, just the way you are, and encourage individual growth with valuable opportunities and a worldwide across-brand network.

Other info

If you’re excited to help us grow, then please apply now. If you feel like you might not tick all the boxes but have the skills and personality we’re looking for, then please also apply now!

For us, diversity means being inclusive of thoughts and skills, generational differences, LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disabilities, nationalities and more. We accept everyone for who they are.