Head of On-Premise Computing (AI)

Location: Hybrid (Remote/Office) in Portugal or Romania; locations listed as Lisboa, Amadora, and Bucharest

Company

Global energy technology company developing infrastructure and technologies for reliable, sustainable energy systems.

What you will do

• Lead global on-premise computing platforms covering compute, storage, virtualization, private cloud, data protection, and industrial edge services.
• Set the platform roadmap, service tiers, catalogues, APIs, lifecycle policies, and golden paths for standardized infrastructure products.
• Ensure reliable day-to-day operations, including observability, incident and problem response, change control, capacity, patching, backup, recovery, and continuity.
• Drive infrastructure consolidation, modernization, migration, refresh, end-of-life remediation, and secure decommissioning across sites and data centers.
• Coordinate workload placement and infrastructure foundations for approved edge AI, local processing, and HPC-adjacent workloads.
• Lead distributed teams, vendors, colocation providers, managed-service partners, and stakeholders across infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, facilities, finance, and business units.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience across enterprise data centers, compute, storage, virtualization, private cloud, edge computing, or production operations, including substantial people leadership.
• Strong expertise in servers, bare metal, virtualization, hyperconverged platforms, storage, backup and recovery, container platforms, operating systems, remote management, colocation, and data-center operations.
• Practical experience with industrial sites, plants, distributed mission-critical locations, IT/OT boundaries, production change windows, local resilience, and constrained remote support.
• Experience delivering estate consolidation, migrations, platform refreshes, data-center transitions, end-of-life remediation, or decommissioning programs.
• Knowledge of observability, SRE practices, ITSM, CMDB, configuration management, infrastructure-as-code, automation, vulnerability remediation, and cyber recovery.
• Fluent English is required. A degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience, is required.

Nice to have

• Relevant data-center, private-cloud, virtualization, storage, security, service-management, FinOps, or sustainability certifications.
• Additional language skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible and remote work options within the hybrid arrangement.
• Employer-financed company pension scheme.
• Opportunity to become a company shareholder.
• Professional development programmes and learning materials.
• Flexible working-time models, childcare support at many locations, trial part-time work, and sabbatical options.