CloudOps Lead: SAP & AI Migration (Porto)

Metyis; Porto; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Metyis is a global firm delivering AI & Data, Digital Commerce, Marketing & Design solutions and Advisory services. We invite you to join a fast-growing international team in Porto, Portugal, to lead CloudOps and DevOps for a major SAP migration and data-modernization program.

You will design secure cloud/hybrid patterns, define DevOps roadmaps, implement CI/CD, and work with SAP, AI, Data Engineering, BI, Security, and Governance teams to ensure reliable end-to-end delivery.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in CloudOps, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, SRE, or Enterprise Operations.
• Strong experience leading DevOps or platform engineering workstreams within complex enterprise transformation programs.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure (networking, compute, storage, identity, security, monitoring, and automation) and hybrid cloud/on-premises environments.
• Solid infrastructure knowledge, including enterprise networking, Windows/Linux servers, firewalls, VPN, DNS, certificates, file transfers, and operational support.
• Experience with CI/CD (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, ARM, Ansible).
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Datadog, Grafana, or Prometheus.
• Good understanding of cloud security and operations, including IAM/RBAC, Key Vault, private networking, logging, alerting, and vulnerability management.
• Experience supporting SAP-connected environments is highly desirable.
• Experience with Azure AI, LLM-based applications, AI workloads, or AI-enabled automation is a strong plus.
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, Power BI, or similar data platforms is a plus.
• Experience with containers and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, AKS, or Azure Container Apps is a plus.
• Strong knowledge of release management, deployment governance, incident management, and production support.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate across CloudOps, SAP, AI, Data Engineering, Security, and Infrastructure teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field (Master's is a plus).

Responsibilities

• Lead the CloudOps and DevOps workstream for an AI-assisted SAP migration and modern data platform program.
• Design and implement secure cloud, hybrid, and on-premise integration patterns required for SAP migration, AI automation, data engineering, BI, and governance use cases.
• Define the DevOps roadmap, operational model, deployment standards, monitoring approach, and platform readiness plan.
• Lead the setup of CI/CD pipelines, release processes, branching strategies, environment promotion, automated testing integration, and deployment controls.
• Support implementation of infrastructure-as-code patterns for cloud services, networking, security, compute, storage, monitoring, and platform components.
• Enable secure connectivity between cloud platforms and on-premise SAP systems, data sources, file shares, schedulers, APIs, and enterprise infrastructure.
• Work with SAP teams to support connectivity, orchestration, batch scheduling, data extraction, delta loads, secure file transfer, and operational dependencies.
• Work with AI teams to provide secure execution environments for AI agents, automation services, APIs, backend components, model integrations, logging, monitoring, and cost tracking.
• Work with Data Engineering teams to support deployment of data pipelines, lakehouse components, data quality frameworks, metadata workflows, and reconciliation services.
• Work with BI teams to support Power BI / Fabric workspace setup, gateway configuration, deployment pipelines, access management, and report release processes.
• Define and implement monitoring, alerting, logging, incident management, service health checks, operational dashboards, and runbooks.
• Support hybrid operations across cloud and on-premise environments, including network dependencies, firewall rules, gateways, private endpoints, identity, certificates, and secure access patterns.
• Implement access controls, secrets management, identity integration, service principals, managed identities, RBAC, and least-privilege operating models.
• Support security reviews, architecture reviews, compliance checks, audit evidence collection, and operational risk mitigation.
• Define resilience, backup, disaster recovery, high availability, rollback, and cutover support patterns.
• Lead platform readiness activities for pilot delivery, migration waves, UAT, production deployment, hypercare, and handover to operations.
• Coordinate with client infrastructure, security, SAP Basis, network, and operations teams to resolve blockers and dependencies.
• Support the operational usage of SAP tooling, AI tooling, and migration automation tooling where required.
• Coach DevOps engineers and delivery teams on engineering standards, automation, monitoring, release discipline, and operational excellence.

Skills

CloudOps leadership

Azure expert

CI/CD automation

Stakeholder management

DevOps practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM

Ansible

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Job description

Metyis is a global firm delivering AI & Data, Digital Commerce, Marketing & Design solutions and Advisory services. We invite you to join a fast-growing international team in Porto, Portugal, to lead CloudOps and DevOps for a major SAP migration and data-modernization program.

You will design secure cloud/hybrid patterns, define DevOps roadmaps, implement CI/CD, and work with SAP, AI, Data Engineering, BI, Security, and Governance teams to ensure reliable end-to-end delivery.