• The Tech Lead acts as Jumbo’s principal engineering authority across hybrid networking, cloud connectivity, and on‑prem infrastructure. As a hands‑on expert and strategic influencer, the Tech Lead follows the technical direction, mitigates risks, simplifies complexity, and ensures the network and infrastructure landscape evolves in line with Jumbo’s architectural standards and business goals.

• Jumbo’s technology landscape spans on‑prem environments, HyperCloud, and hybrid connectivity across mission‑critical logistics and retail systems. This role ensures a secure, reliable, and scalable foundation for all Jumbo business operations by shaping the network architecture, driving Infrastructure‑as‑Code adoption, enforcing strong governance, and guiding both internal teams and external partners.

• Platform Engineering team focusing on hybrid networking, cloud connectivity, and on‑prem infrastructure.

• Works very close with the Architect, product owner, and cloud engineers. Act as the technical counterpart to network vendors and collaborate with both internal teams and external partners.

The Tech Lead acts as Jumbo’s principal engineering authority across hybrid networking, cloud connectivity, and on‑prem infrastructure. This role ensures a secure, reliable, and scalable foundation for all Jumbo business operations by shaping the network architecture, driving Infrastructure‑as‑Code adoption, enforcing strong governance, and guiding both internal teams and external partners.

As a hands‑on expert and strategic influencer, the Tech Lead works very close with the Competence Architect, follows the technical direction, mitigates risks, simplifies complexity, and ensures the network and infrastructure landscape evolves in line with Jumbo’s architectural standards and business goals.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the end‑to‑end landscape for Jumbo’s network, hybrid cloud connectivity, routing, and firewalls.
• Drive modernization: IaC for network components, SD‑WAN improvements, routing strategy, and cloud‑native firewall evaluation.
• Establish and enforce standards & governance, including four‑eyes change control, versioning, documentation, and architectural guidelines.
• Act as the technical counterpart to network vendors and collaborate with product owner and architect, ensuring quality, transparency, and adherence to Jumbo’s policies.
• Proactively identify & mitigate risks e.g. DTAP separation, asymmetric routing, etc.
• Oversee lifecycle management and ensure platform stability, performance, and resilience.
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with Cloud, Security, Workplace, Application teams to ensure consistency and alignment.
• Provide hands‑on expertise in troubleshooting, architectural decision‑making, and mentoring engineers.

• Deep expertise in network engineering, hybrid cloud networking, routing protocols, and firewalls.

• Strong experience with Infrastructure‑as‑Code (Terraform preferred), Git workflows, and automated deployment pipelines.

• Ability to simplify complex technical topics and influence stakeholders, including external vendors.

• Proven capability to challenge partners, enforce standards, and manage cross‑organizational dependencies.

• Strong architectural thinking: able to define target states, transition paths, and governance frameworks.

• Hands‑on mindset with strong analytical and troubleshooting skills for complex network scenarios.

• Proactive, ownership‑driven, with a preference for preventing issues rather than fixing them.

• Experience working in high‑availability environments with mission‑critical infrastructure.

• A gross salary between €6.000 – €7.700 per month (based on 40 hours).
• An annual bonus of max 10% of your annual salary, based on organizational goals.
• 30 days of paid holiday (with the opportunity to buy or sell days of paid holiday) and 8% holiday allowance.
• You build up a pension through participation in the Pension Fund for the Food Industry.
• We like to work together in the office, but you can also work partly from home.
• Room for entrepreneurship, growth and development. Not only in your job but also through our Jumbo Academy, online training through GoodHabitz and with a training budget.
• Daily fresh lunch in our Foodcafé, good coffee and fresh fruit. You can sport daily at our own Jumbo Gym for a small fee.
• Colleague discounts such as 10% off your groceries (up to €325 per year), participation in our collective health insurance or discounts through Benefits at Work.

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