Your tasks
- You technically own and evolve our international analytics platform, driving a fully automated GitOps-style Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) setup with Terraform on Azure
- You build reusable Terraform modules and manage remote state, versioning, and promotion across environments
- You design and automate CI/CD for infrastructure and platform changes (validation, testing, security scans, approvals)
- You operate the platform with a reliability and cost-conscious mindset: observability / alerting, cost guardrails, drift detection, and disaster recovery.
- You implement security and networking by design (RBAC / managed identities, network segmentation, private endpoints, DNS, policies)
- You manage core data platform services - including Databricks - as code
- You partner with data and analytics teams, as well as tech foundation, security, networking, and compliance; you communicate clearly, translate requirements, and facilitate cross-team decisions
Your profile
- Solid hands-on experience with Terraform and Git; experience building CI/CD pipelines for IaC on a major cloud (Azure, AWS, or GCP) using modern tooling (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI). Azure experience is beneficial but not required
- Working knowledge of data platform services on a major cloud: Databricks, storage, secrets, policy / compliance, and monitoring; familiarity with orchestration is a plus
- Strong networking fundamentals: VNets, subnetting, DNS, firewalls / NSGs, private endpoints
- Ideally, experience with DevOps / DataOps best practices: code reviews, automated validation / security scanning (e.g., tflint, tfsec, Checkov), policy-as-code, drift detection
- Bonus: Data engineering experience with Spark / Databricks (PySpark / SQL), ETL / ELT, Delta Lake / Lakehouse, analytics modeling (star scheme; Power BI), orchestration
- Structured, self-directed, collaborative, and solution-oriented; strong communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders; fluent in English; German is beneficial
Your benefits
- Modern Work Environment: Work on the ALDI Nord campus with an open-space concept, company cafeteria, café, parent-child office, and parking garage including electric charging stations
- Work-Life Balance: Flexible working hours and a hybrid working model with the possibility of partial remote work (up to 40%) as well as 30 vacation days (full-time)
- Mobility: Free electric charging at the ALDI Nord campus, coverage for the Deutschlandticket, or a travel allowance
- Healthcare & Prevention: Company-owned gym as well as gym partnerships
- Onboarding & Training: Structured onboarding and a variety of opportunities for personal and professional development (e.g., ALDI Academy, eLearning, etc.)
- Impact & Team Power: High degree of creative freedom and unbeatable team power in a high-performance work environment
- Salary & Employee Discounts: Secure job with the pioneer of discounts offering an attractive salary and corporate benefits
Contact
ALDI Einkauf SE & Co. oHG
Eckenbergstraße 16b
45307 Essen
About us
The ALDI Nord group is one of the leading food retailers. For over 110 years, ALDI has stood for the creation of the discount principle. Our mission is to provide people everywhere and anytime with their daily essentials: quality products at low prices – simply and quickly. This also includes making shopping as easy as possible for our customers. That’s why we give our best every day and reinvent ourselves time and again. Combined talent and commitment - that is the POWER behind our success stories. Across Europe in 8 countries with around 5,400 stores and more than 91,000 employees. We are: Simply ALDI. Powered by people.
