Senior OT & Edge Engineer

Working for AH Technology means you like these kinds of challenges: we think big and work at scale. As an Engineer you understand how these technologies need to be realized in a complex environment this large. Together with your team you solve technical challenges with a true engineering mindset. Specifically, you will:  

• Design the OT Secure Ring: zoning and segmentation based on the Purdue model and IEC 62443, industrial DMZ services, and secure conduits between IT, cloud and OT
• Translate that design into security requirements and network patterns, and work with our network engineers to get them implemented
• Build our central iDMZ and OT services in Azure, keeping the on-site footprint as small as possible, local only where autonomy or latency demands it
• Develop repeatable blueprints so any OT/IoT asset type can be connected, secured and monitored in a standardised way
• Work closely with our mechanisation partners (AutoStore, conveyor and sortation, SCADA, PLCs, WMS), they configure their own stack; you make sure it lands securely in our landscape
• Support and advise on integration patterns for OT data and events, initially alongside partners and application teams, increasingly building them yourself
• Deliver the iDMZ and connectivity for Industrial IDS and SIEM onboarding 
• Build secure access with Privileged Access Management (CyberArk), Entra ID and jump servers 
• Set up visibility and lifecycle management: asset inventory, configuration, patching and vulnerability management
• Automate everything with infrastructure-as-code and config-as-code 
• Deploy DevOps and observability tooling for CI/CD and end-to-end critical chain observability
• Share your knowledge and participate in projects within the product cluster and broader AH Technology Platform;
• Engage in ongoing learning and contribute to updates in key practices 

The recipe for maximum impact: 

To become successful as our new Senior OT & Edge Engineer you bring: 

• A bachelor's or master's degree in a technical or engineering direction
• 5 years+ experience as an OT, IoT, Cloud, DevOps or Backend engineer in a complex (corporate) technology environment
• Strong experience with cloud infrastructure (Azure preferred)
• Solid understanding of networks and network security:
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and Config-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, CDK) and DevOps tooling (GitHub, ArgoCD, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
• Affinity with OT/ICS environments 
• Experience with (or a strong drive to learn) OT security: IEC 62443, zoning and segmentation, industrial IDS, PAM and identity, SIEM integration
• Familiarity with industrial and IoT protocols and event-driven architectures: OPC-UA, Modbus, MQTT, OCPP, Kafka
• Experience with backend and APIs, containerised platforms and Kubernetes
• You use AI tooling as a natural part of your workflow,  and you're curious where AI can strengthen engineering, operations and anomaly detection in OT
• A collaborative mindset: you work daily with mechanisation partners, suppliers, network engineers, Global Security 
• Willingness to travel to our DCs and HSCs for commissioning, retrofits and troubleshooting
• Strong communicator in English and preferably in Dutch 

  
What we offer 

• An annual salary of up to €106k (including holiday allowance & bonus), depending on your seniority based on a full-time workweek.
• 32days of paid leave to enjoy your well-deserved holidays: 20 regular vacation days and 12 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.