Key Responsibilities

• Reduce technical debt in infrastructure and deployment tooling and promote automation across the team;

• Support incident response and root cause analysis for platform reliability issues;

• Implement agreed cost optimisations directly or in collaboration with data engineers: cluster right-sizing, storage tier changes, scheduling adjustments and pipeline restructuring;

• Contribute to capacity planning and cloud budget forecasting alongside the IT Management Team;

• Analyse cost drivers and bring concrete optimisation options to data engineers and architects, with trade-off analysis and a clear recommendation;

• Build and maintain platform observability: monitoring dashboards, alerting and SLA tracking for the data platform;

• Support the Databricks migration by ensuring the new platform is provisioned and deployed through automated and repeatable processes;

• Monitor platform costs continuously: identify anomalies, attribute spend to workloads and maintain tagging and chargeback models;

• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code for all data platform components on Azure;

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for the data platform: infrastructure provisioning, environment promotion and deployment automation.

Personal Competencies

• Good written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present cost and infrastructure trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders;

• A mindset focused on continuous improvement, automation over manual intervention and shared ownership of cloud spend.

Professional Competencies

• Previous experience in the energy, utilities or telcos sector is a plus (not mandatory);

• Experience with cloud cost analysis: identifying cost drivers, designing tagging strategies and building chargeback or showback models;

• Proven ability to propose and evaluate cost optimisation alternatives, being able to perform technical discussions with options and trade-offs, not just observations.

Leadership Competencies

• Collaboration with external partners and internal stakeholders (technical and non-technical).

Qualifications

Education / Further Education

• Software Engineering (or similar).

IT Know-how

• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code: Terraform or Bicep;

• Experience with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics or equivalent observability and alerting tooling;

• Python or Bash scripting for automation and platform tooling;

• Hands-on experience with Databricks on Azure: cluster management, job scheduling, cost optimisation and platform administration is a differentiator;

• Familiarity with Databricks-specific optimisation techniques: auto-scaling policies, spot instances, Delta Lake storage tuning and cost analysis via system tables;

• Awareness of FinOps frameworks and structured approaches to cloud financial management;

• Experience working on or alongside a data platform migration is a plus;

• Solid hands-on experience with Azure: compute, storage, networking, identity and cost management;

• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and platform deployments.

Languages

• Portuguese (Native);

• English (Advanced);

• Spanish (Basic Skills).

What we offer

• Health and Life insurance

• Birthday day off

• Team building events

• Office snacks on Fridays

• 24-hour psychological support line

• Discounted gym memberships

• Great Place to Work environment and other employee benefits

Location: Vila Real & Porto

Work type: Full time, 100% in the office

We look forward to welcoming you!

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