Disaster Recovery Specialist – Hay – Albert Heijn

Wat ga je doen?

Albert Heijn is a renownedsupermarket chain that has been serving customers across the Netherlands for over 130 years. Founded in 1887 by Albert Heijn,the company has grown to become one of the most trusted and belovedgrocery retailers in the country. With a commitment to quality, convenience, and customer satisfaction, Albert Heijn has become an integral part of daily life in the Netherlands.

Albert Heijn is accelerating in becoming a Food & Tech company. That is where AH Technology comes into the picture. With a focus on Data, Digital and Tech, we at Albert Heijn strive to deliver high-quality products where technology plays an important role.

We are looking for an experienced and entrepreneurial Disaster Recovery Specialist to join our multidisciplinary Reliability team.

In this role, you will work with stakeholders across technology, security, operations, compliance, and business teams to strengthen resilience and recoverycapabilities. You will drive initiatives end-to-end, develop runbooks and playbooks, lead recovery exercises and simulations, support DR-aware system design, and continuously improve our resilience posture. You will also act as a subject matter expert during audits and regulatory assessments.

This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys taking ownership, building programs from the ground up, and delivering practical improvements that make a real impact.

• SupportPO in defining the company-wide DR strategy, including scope, objectives, RTO/RPO targets, and governance.
• Author and maintain the DR runbook covering failure scenarios, recovery procedures, communication chains, and escalation paths.
• Lead tabletop exercises and live failover drills; document results and drive remediation.
• Establish a continuous improvement cycle: identify gaps, prioritize fixes, and track resolution.

• Conduct Business Impact Analyses (BIA) across business units to quantify risk and inform DR priorities.
• Translate compliance requirements (SOC 2, ISO
  27001, GDPR, etc.) into testable DR controls.
• Produce audit-ready evidence packages (test records, recovery logs, exception reports) for internal and external assessors.
• Maintain a stakeholder engagement cadence: check-ins with business owners to keep continuity requirements current.

• Collaborate with infrastructure and platform engineering on DR-resilient architecture designs (multi-region, active-active/active-passive, data replication).
• Evaluate, design, and help build internal DR tooling — runbook automation, failover orchestration, chaos engineering integrations.
• Define observability standards for DR: dashboards, alerting thresholds, and runbook-trigger conditions.

• An annual salary up to 81K includingholiday allowance and a flexible bonus. Depending onyourexperience;
• 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 endboss!;
• 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.

• At least3 years of continuous experience in Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Crisis Management, Operational Resilience, or a related field.
• Proven track record of implementing…