DevOps & Data Engineer
Summary
DevOps & Data Engineer at NoveoCare's Braga (Portugal) site: manage, automate, secure and optimize Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure and data platforms — CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, monitoring, identity/secrets management, FinOps — plus data lakes, warehouses and automated data pipelines.
A recognized player in delegated insurance management for over 35 years, we specialize in health, protection (death benefit), retirement and borrower insurance.
We support brokers and risk carriers (insurers, mutual insurers, provident institutions and bancassurers) in setting up their contracts and throughout their entire lifecycle.
NoveoCare in numbers
- 70,000 client companies whose contracts we manage
- €75 million in revenue in 2026
Joining NoveoCare means becoming part of an independent and dynamic company where reliability, a human approach and quality of service are at the heart of everything we do.
And that’s not all! You’ll also be working in a company guided by strong values:
- Expertise
- Commitment
- Teamwork
The Role
At our Braga site we are looking for a DevOps & Data Engineer specializing in Microsoft Azure to manage, automate, secure and optimize our cloud infrastructure and data platforms.
You will work closely with the development and security teams to ensure the availability, performance, reliability and security of our applications and data.
Your Responsibilities
- Design and maintain automation processes for application builds, testing, deployment and monitoring
- Automate the deployment and configuration of development, testing and production environments
- Administer and optimize Azure infrastructure, virtual machines, containers and cloud services
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code
- Monitor applications, manage incidents and optimize performance
- Implement cybersecurity best practices, including risk analysis, system hardening, data and source code protection, and vulnerability management
- Manage identities, access rights, secrets, credentials and SSL/TLS certificates
- Optimize cloud costs through a FinOps approach and keep technical documentation up to date
- Design and maintain data lakes, data warehouses and dataflows
- Automate data ingestion, integration and transformation processes
- Optimize database and storage system performance
- Ensure data quality, integrity, security and compliance
- Collaborate with development and analytics teams to meet business requirements
- App Services, Functions, Virtual Machines (VMs), Storage Accounts, and Key Vault.
- Application Insights, Log Analytics, and KQL.
- Microsoft Entra ID / IAM: Service Principals, Managed Identities, and RBAC.
- Redis.
DevOps & Infrastructure
- Terraform, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD, and GitHub Actions.
- Docker, Kubernetes, and mobile deployment using Expo EAS.
- Linux, Windows Server, Python, Shell, and Bash.
- SSL/TLS certificate management (CSR, PFX).
Databases & Data
- SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and Cosmos DB (NoSQL).
- Data lakes, data warehouses, dataflows, and SSRS.
Development
- Java / Spring Boot and PHP: knowledge is a plus.
Education & Certifications
Languages
- English: mandatory, with the ability to communicate effectively in a professional environment.
- French: a plus, but not mandatory.
Candidate Profile
We are looking for an autonomous, detail-oriented, and proactive individual with strong analytical and problem-solving skills, a keen interest in cybersecurity and automation, and a commitment to continuous improvement.
Skills
- Analytics
- Automation
- Azure
- Azure Application Insights
- Bash
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Cosmos Db
- Cybersecurity
- Data Ingestion
- Data Lake
- Data Quality
- DevOps
- Docker
- Entra ID
- FinOps
- GitHub
- GitHub Actions
- IAM
- Infrastructure as Code
- Java
- KQL
- Kubernetes
- Linux
- NoSQL
- PHP
- PostgreSQL
- Python
- RBAC
- Redis
- Spring
- SQL
- SQL Server
- SSL
- SSRS
- Terraform
- TLS
- Vault
- Vulnerability Management
- Windows Server