About the role
How will you make an impact
You will be a core member of the Customer Recommender team within Metro Digital’s AI & Automation unit. Working at the intersection of cloud infrastructure and emerging AI technologies, you develop, deploy, and maintain the GCP-based solutions that powers Metro’s AI and automation initiatives. Your work directly enables your product team to bring ideas to production and keep them running reliably in a fast-moving field.
Your responsibilities
- Design and implement cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) following architectural best practices for elastic, resilient, and lean systems
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform, ensuring repeatable and auditable deployments
- Deploy, operate, and maintain AI/ML workloads and services built on GCP
- Take end-to-end ownership of bringing systems live, from initial setup through production rollout and ongoing operations
- Monitor, alert, and respond to incidents; apply change and problem management practices to maintain service reliability
- Identify and drive improvement opportunities proactively within the team and across the platform
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders and external vendors on cloud implementations and governance topics
- Contribute to cloud governance standards and ensure compliance within the team’s scope
- Potentially act as a buddy or point of contact for less experienced team members in your discipline
Required key competencies and qualifications
- Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), designing, deploying, and operating cloud infrastructure
- Proficiency with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code in real-world, production environments
- Experience with Python and ideally on GCP
- Ability to work independently on complex, ambiguous tasks and structure your own approach to solving them
- Curiosity and adaptability, comfortable operating in a fast-moving field, learning continuously, and adjusting course quickly
- Solid understanding of cloud architecture principles: availability, resilience, and lean system design
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability tooling in cloud environments
- Good communication skills to align with technical and non-technical stakeholders
Nice-to-have
- Experience with AI/ML platforms or workflows, ideally on GCP
- Background in software development, ability to write and read code, automate tooling, and build APIs
What We Offer at METRO
- Hybrid and agile work: Thrive in a flexible, multicultural environment with self-organizing teams.
- People development: Grow through individual and company-wide learning and development opportunities.
- Ownership and impact: Contribute to a strategic Ultra Fresh platform improving availability, efficiency, and waste reduction.
- International collaboration: Work with colleagues, business stakeholders, and partners across multiple countries and functions.
- Support with individual solutions: We care about people and support you throughout your professional journey.