Vacature Staff Engineer Observability in Zaandam bij Albert Heijn

• Zaandam
• HBO
• Automatisering / ICT

Vacature omschrijving

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Your new job and office   FoodTech is hot! If you are looking for a career in architecture greenfield engineering with impact and scale, but you do not want to move away from coding as your core activity, keep reading. 🙂  

The job   

Our Engineering Enablement Department has a purpose to accelerate our teams worldwide.  We strive to provide teams with a set of tools and services to enable them to unlock their full potential. In short, we enable them to deliver quality customer value quickly and autonomously. Our tools and services are built with and for our engineering community. 

As an Staff engineer in engineering enablement, you build products and platforms for our engineers. You contribute directly to creating a state-of-the-art, self-service ecosystem of products and automation. This is a mission you will not take on solo but as a full-fledged member of the enablement team. Following Inner-Sourcing principles, you will work with users and maintainers throughout the whole organization to fit your ideas into the bigger picture: Accelerate our product teams so they can deliver quality customer value quickly and autonomously. 

This is how you will reinvent food retail   

• Strategy and Leadership: Define the observability roadmap and drive the adoption of the Grafana LGTM stack across the organization.
• Architecture and Implementation:
  • Design, implement, and maintain a robust observability framework hosted on AKS, ensuring high availability and scalability.
  • Use Terraform for infrastructure as code (IaC) to manage and provision observability tooling.
  • Automate deployment workflows with GitHub Actions, ensuring seamless updates and integrations across the stack.
• Team Leadership: Mentor and guide a team of engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Collaboration: Work closely with DevOps, SRE, and software engineering teams to integrate observability into development pipelines and operational workflows.
• Incident Response: Assist in diagnosing and resolving system incidents by leveraging observability tools, ensuring swift root-cause analysis and remediation.
• Tooling Optimization: Continuously evaluate and improve the usage of the Grafana LGTM stack to ensure it scales with our systems and needs.
• Training and Enablement: Advocate for observability across the organization, delivering training and workshops to empower teams to utilize observability tools effectively.

Your profile:

Experience:

• Proven track record in observability or related fields (e.g., SRE, DevOps), with strong hands-on experience using the Grafana LGTM stack.

Technical Expertise:

• Deep knowledge of logging, monitoring, distributed tracing, and metrics collection.
• Proficiency in Grafana, Loki, Tempo, and Mimir (or similar tools).
• Strong experience with Terraform for infrastructure management and automation.
• Proficiency with GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD tools to automate workflows and deployments.
• Familiarity with cloud-native environments, containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), and microservices architecture.

Leadership:

• Demonstrated ability to lead teams and drive large-scale technical initiatives.
• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, particularly in distributed systems.
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and advocate for observability initiatives.

What do we offer? 

• An annual salary of up to €130K (including holiday allowance & bonus), depending on your seniority based on a full-time workweek. 
• 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 more than you as an employee;   
• A travel allowance or an 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 company laptop and telephone. 

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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