Full job description

About Us

The ALDI Nord Group is one of the leading food retailers. With a tradition spanning over 110 years, ALDI stands for the invention of the discount principle. Our mission is to provide people everywhere, at any time, with what they need for their daily lives: quality products at low prices – simply and quickly. This also includes making shopping as easy as possible for our customers. We give our best every day and constantly reinvent ourselves to achieve this. Combined talent and commitment – ​​that's the power with which we write our success story. Across Europe, in 8 countries, with around 5,500 stores and more than 90,000 employees.

These are 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.

This is what you bring with you

• 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 (eg, 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 (eg, 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.

We offer you this

• Modern working environment: Working on the ALDI Nord campus with an open-space concept, company restaurant, café, parent-child office and parking garage including electric vehicle charging stations.
• Work-life balance: Flexible working hours and a hybrid work model with the option of partial mobile working (up to 40%) as well as 30 vacation days (full-time)
• Mobility : Free electric vehicle charging at the ALDI Nord Campus, reimbursement of the costs of the Deutschlandticket (Germany Ticket) or a flat-rate travel allowance.
• Healthcare & Prevention : Company-owned gym and gym partnerships
• Onboarding & further training: Structured onboarding and a wide range of opportunities for personal and professional development (e.g. ALDI Academy, eLearnings, etc.)
• Impact & Teampower: A high degree of creative freedom and unbeatable team power in a high-performance work environment
• Salary & employee discounts : Secure job at the inventor of discounting with an attractive salary and corporate benefits.