Disaster Recovery Specialist – Albert Heijn – Zaandam

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Wat ga je doen?

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Albert Heijn is a renowned
supermarket 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 beloved
grocery 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.

Your new team and
office

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 recovery
capabilities. 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.

What will you do?

DR Strategy &
Runbook

• Support
  PO 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.

 

Business Continuity &
Compliance

• 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.

 

Engineering &
Tooling

• 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.

 

What we offer. 

 

At Albert Heijn we aim to grow, and
this is only possible if you grow along with us. As we work
together to build our brand and your career, you can count on
(based on 40 hours per
week): 

• An annual salary up to 81K including
  holiday allowance and a flexible bonus. Depending on
  your experience;   
• 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 end
  boss!;  
• 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.

 

The recipe for maximum
impact.

 

• At least
  3 years of continuous experience in Business Continuity, Disaster
  Recovery, Crisis Management, Operational Resilience, or a related
  field.
• Proven
  track record of implementing and improving resilience programs at
  scale.
• Strong
  understanding of resilience concepts, including RTO, RPO, MTD, and
  MBCO.
• Experience designing and executing testing and
  exercising programs, including tabletop exercises, simulations, and
  recovery tests.
• Hands-on
  experience with compliance frameworks that include resilience and
  DR controls (e.g., ISO 22301, SOC 2 Type II, NIST SP 800-34, or
  equivalent).
• Strong
  documentation skills, including developing policies, runbooks,
  playbooks, procedures, and recovery
  plans.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication,
  and facilitation skills.
• Ability
  to work independently, take ownership, and drive initiatives from
  idea to implementation.
• Strong
  analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to navigate
  complex environments and competing
  priorities.
• Experience working in technology-driven
  organizations is preferred.

Nice to
Have

• Experience
  building or contributing to Disaster Recovery automation
  tooling.

 

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. 

 

Since we’ll start the selection
interviews right away, we encourage you to apply as soon as
possible.

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Wat
we vragen?

• True
  tech-savvy
• The ability to
  connect
• High focus on
  quality

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