About the Mission

ABOUT USThe Ghent University Hospital (UZG) is a university hospital in Ghent. As a leading university hospital, we strive for top quality care and combine warmth and empathy for our patients and employees with bold innovations. We invest thoughtfully in research, in state-of-the-art infrastructure and technology, in education and development and in effective organizational forms. The result is a high-quality and efficient healthcare offering that is tailored to our unique expertise and that we offer within a sustainable framework.
 
CONTACT PROUNITY
oc-cdm@pro-unity.com 
 
PROFILE
The junior data warehouse developer is responsible for designing, deploying, securing and managing the cloud data platform in a reliable and cost-efficient manner.
 

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES 

Designing and implementing the cloud infrastructure (Azure), including compute, storage and networking.

Establish and maintain DevOps practices: CI/CD pipelines, environments (dev/test/prod), monitoring and alerting.

Implementing security and access controls in accordance with the ICT policy.

Automate platform operations to reduce manual work and risk.

Ensuring that the platform is production-ready and operationally robust.

Guaranteeing security, access control and compliance (IAM, networks, secrets, GDPR-by-design).

Monitoring performance, reliability and costs of the data platform.

Support DevOps, DataOps, and MLOps practices across analytics and AI workloads.

 

EXPERIENCE

Several years of experience in deploying and keeping cloud environments operational, preferably Azure.

Experience setting up CI/CD pipelines and automating platform operations.

Works smoothly within enterprise ICT standards and compliance frameworks (GDPR, IAM, security policies).

 

SKILLS

Strong knowledge of Azure: networking, storage, compute and security.

Fluent with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, Bicep, ARM) and CI/CD tooling (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions).

Setting up monitoring, alerting, logging and cost management at platform level.

Knowledge of IAM, secrets management, private endpoints and network segmentation.

 

CHARACTER TRAITS

Automation reflex: if it has to happen twice, it will be scripted.

Reliability-oriented: stability, performance and safety as standard.

Hands-on and pragmatic in problem solving.

Collaborative with ICT, governance and the data teams.

Operational discipline and an eye for neat documentation.

You act according to the 3 core values ​​of the UZG: respectful, honest and responsible. 

Required Skills

Azure, Azure DevOps, Cost management, GIT, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Networking, Storage, Terraform

Practical Information

  • Company: Confidential
  • Location: Corneel Heymanslaan – Hybrid
  • Start Date: 11 May 2026
  • End Date: 1 September 2026
  • Duration: 4 months
  • Contract Type: Freelance / Mission
  • Application Deadline: 8 May 2026