Infrastructure & Data Engineer

BGBx; Portugal; On-site; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plans

Generous PTO

Learning & development

Job summary

BGBx in Portugal is seeking an Infrastructure & Data Engineer with 3-5 years of experience to build and maintain cloud infrastructure, data platforms, and production data pipelines. You will develop reliable, scalable infrastructure to support data processing, analytics, and downstream applications.

This role emphasizes strong cloud skills, coding, and DevOps practices. You will join an AI-native engineering team that embraces modern tools, operates with autonomy, and prioritizes security,

Qualifications

• 3-5 years in infra/data/platform engineering or similar.
• Strong Python and SQL skills.
• Hands-on GCP experience, BigQuery and Cloud Storage.
• Experience with Terraform or similar IaC tool.
• Kubernetes deployment experience.
• Experience with orchestrators such as Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or Flyte.
• CI/CD pipelines experience, ideally GitHub Actions.
• Strong data infrastructure knowledge in cloud environments.
• Understanding of data lineage, metadata, and data quality.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure and data platforms on GCP.
• Develop ETL/ELT data pipelines and orchestration workflows.
• Implement infrastructure as code with Terraform and CI/CD with GitHub Actions.
• Deploy and operate containerized workloads with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Develop data solutions using Python and SQL.
• Work with large-scale datasets using BigQuery and GCS.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and data workflows.
• Maintain data lineage, metadata, and data dependencies across pipelines.

Skills

Python

SQL

Cloud computing

GCP

BigQuery

Kubernetes

Terraform

Data pipelines

GitHub Actions

AI tools usage

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE

Related certifications (GCP/AWS)

Tools

Airflow

Dagster

Prefect

Flyte

Docker

GitHub Actions

Job description

At BGBx ,we'redriven by a simple idea: breakthrough thinking createsbreakthroughimpact. As an independent commercial solutions partner to pharmaceutical and life science companies, we bring together strategists, scientists, communicators, creatives, technologists, and data experts to tackle some of healthcare's most important challenges.

Our teams work across consulting and communications to help clients shape strategy, launch innovations, engage stakeholders, and drive meaningful results throughout the product lifecycle. The work is complex, fast-moving, and deeply connected to improving lives, creating opportunities for curious minds to make a real difference every day.

If you're energized by collaboration, inspired by innovation, and motivated by work that matters, you'll find a place to grow, contribute, and make a meaningful impact at BGBx.

Position Overview

We are looking for an Infrastructure & Data Engineer with 3-5 years of experience building and maintaining cloud infrastructure, data platforms, and production data pipelines. You will develop and operate reliable, scalable infrastructure that supports data processing, analytics, and other downstream applications.This is an engineering-focused role requiring strong cloud infrastructure skills, coding ability, database knowledge, and experience working with modern data and DevOps technologies.

You’ll join an AI-native engineering team that pushes modern tools hard, operates with high autonomy, and moves quickly - without compromising on security, reliability, or sound engineering principles.We actively use AI throughout the engineering lifecycle to accelerate development, investigation, documentation, and operations. At the same time, we care deeply about good architecture, maintainable systems, sensible controls, and knowing when not to automate.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure and data platforms, primarily on GCP.
• Develop and maintain ETL/ELT data pipelines and orchestration workflows.
• Build and manage infrastructure using Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Deploy and operate containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Develop data solutions using Python and SQL.
• Work with large-scale datasets using BigQuery, GCS, and other cloud-native services.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Implement and maintain data lineage, metadata, and data dependency tracking across pipelines and datasets.
• Monitor infrastructure and pipeline health, troubleshoot failures, and optimize reliability, performance, and cost.
• Manage cloud permissions, secrets, service accounts, and infrastructure security.
• Support data consumers, software engineers, analysts, data scientists, and product teams.
• Improve automation, observability, deployment processes, and engineering standards across the platform.
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools effectively while applying appropriate review, testing, security, and operational controls.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of hands-on experience in infrastructure engineering, data engineering, platform engineering, or a similar role.
• Strong Python and SQL skills.
• Strong experience with Google Cloud Platform, particularly BigQuery and Google Cloud Storage.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform or another infrastructure-as-code tool.
• Experience deploying and operating workloads using Kubernetes.
• Experience with an orchestration tool such as Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or Flyte.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, ideally using GitHub Actions.
• Strong database knowledge and experience working with cloud-based data infrastructure.
• Understanding of data lineage, metadata management, data quality, and dependencies between data pipelines.
• Familiarity with cloud IAM, networking, secrets management, monitoring, and logging.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Comfortable working in an AI-native development environment and using AI tools as part of day-to-day engineering.
• Strong engineering judgement, including the ability to balance speed with security, maintainability, and reliability.

Nice to Have

• Experience with GKE and other GCP services such as Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Secret Manager, Artifact Registry, Cloud Monitoring, or Dataplex.
• Experience with data lineage and metadata tools such as OpenLineage, DataHub, Marquez, or similar.
• Knowledge of data modeling concepts such as dimensional modeling or Data Vault.
• Experience with Spark, Databricks, or Apache Beam.
• Familiarity with Helm or other Kubernetes deployment tooling.
• Experience with observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, or OpenTelemetry.
• Experience optimizing cloud infrastructure and data workloads for cost and performance.
• Experience building internal developer tooling or AI-assisted engineering workflows.
• Open-source contributions or other technical projects demonstrating hands-on engineering skills.

Salary Range:

€55,000 - €75,000 per year

What We Offer

At BGBx, we invest in our people because exceptional talent drives exceptional work. We provide a competitive rewards package designed to support your health, well-being, professional growth, and life outside of work.

Our benefits package typically includes health care insurance, retirement plans, generous paid time off and holidays, wellness benefits, life insurance, learning and development opportunities, and other resources that support our employees throughout their careers. Additional benefits may be available based on your location. Beyond benefits, you'll find a culture built on collaboration, innovation, inclusion, and the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on healthcare and the people it serves.

BGBx is an equal opportunity employer.All applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status or any category or class of person protected by law.