Specialist IV DevOps Engineer People Development

Ahold Delhaize Group is one of the world's largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-Commerce. Its family of great, local brands serves more than 50 million customers each week in Europe, the United States and Indonesia. Together, these brands employ more than 420,000 associates in more than 7,000 grocery and specialty stores. Our Ahold Delhaize Group is based in Zaandam in the Netherlands, but Ahold Delhaize Group associates also work in all the countries we serve.

This team supports all our great local brands in finance, HR, IT, legal, communications, sustainable retailing, and other key functions.

As our new Dev Ops Engineer, you will operate at the heart of our global, fast-moving company. By defining and setting up application environments, you ensure AD Group Enterprise Platforms has the processes and structures in place to continue our high-level performance throughout the entire lifecycle of our People Development applications.

As a Dev Ops Engineer in the People Development domain, you will be joining our Tech department. Our Tech department is the driving force behind the technology in our organization. Powered by our innovative strategies, our Tech teams ensure we’re fully aligned to develop, maintain, and improve our technology platforms and applications.

The People Development domain designs, develops, and optimizes applications for global HR talent management and learning platforms, leveraging cutting- edge technologies to drive innovation, enhance career progression, and improve employee engagement, with a strong focus on leadership development and succession planning.

As AD Group and the field of technology evolve continuously, we encourage our associates to grow with us. Personal development and learning are vital. The more we learn, the better we’re able to ensure that the rest of the organization learns and develops too. We’re collaborative, ambitious, and open, taking ownership of our work, and continuously challenge ourselves and each other.

That said, we work hard and have lots of fun along the way, too.

You will be given the freedom and responsibility to take ownership of your work and broaden your horizons by working together with knowledgeable colleagues from different countries who have an abundance of expertise in many areas. We will continually invest in you and help you build on your talents and skills for the future

Your role is highly diverse and encompasses various responsibilities.

Here are the key ones:

• Write programs in software code & configuration according to functional and non-functional criteria and quality standards
• Configure systems in production environments
• Report progress and issues to the Head of Tech and Scrum Master
• Define solutions for technical IT bottlenecks for new and existing technical (software) systems
• Perform quality checks on code/configuration and review recurring incidents
• Install and test applications
• Ensure all delivered products comply with information security, data privacy, license compliance, and audit compliance & control guidelines

• Design, maintain, and improve software solutions as part of application lifecycle management
• Translate business criteria and customer needs into technical products in close collaboration with the Head of Techs
• Describe technical solutions for user stories or complex systems that meet customer needs and ensure good manageability of the system
• Translate user stories into specific tasks (features) and plan actions based on the chosen technical solution
• Support the product team/Head of Tech during the design phase

• Define possible improvements
• Plan and execute improvement actions
• Perform checks after implementing improvements to verify if the objectives have been achieved

• Ensure user stories are technically ready for testing during sprint planning
• Create and write test scripts based on each user story
• Identify risks together with the scrum team and the customer
• Evaluate test scripts…