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Who We Are

MAP | WPP Enterprise Solutions designs, builds, and operates the growth systems that competitive businesses rely on. In a world where Al is reshaping how companies drive growth, we lead clients in business transformation and marketing modernization, connecting strategy directly to execution. Our 12,000 experts in engineering and platforms, commerce, consulting, content transformation, CRM, and CX work within a unified global operating unit across 40+ markets. WPP Enterprise Solutions works alongside best-in-class partners including Adobe, AWS, Braze, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Shopify, as well as innovators in AI, to deliver growth solutions tailored to the needs of our clients’ businesses.

About WPP

MAP is part of WPP, the trusted growth partner for the world's leading brands. Powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform WPP Open, WPP unites cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, creativity, production, enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel.

Do you have experience building and operating cloud platforms with a hands-on and automation-focused approach? Do you enjoy creating tools that make developers’ lives easier while improving the reliability of software delivery? Would you like to work with modern cloud technologies and help shape the future of an engineering platform? Then you might be just the DevOps Engineer we’re looking for.

What will your day look like?

In the role as our new DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, building, automating and operating a modern cloud-native platform on Microsoft Azure. Your job is to create the infrastructure, tools and processes that enable development teams to deploy and run applications safely, reliably and independently.

More specifically, your tasks include:

Designing, building and maintaining scalable cloud infrastructure in Microsoft Azure.
Developing and managing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
Creating reusable Terraform modules and supporting multiple environments, such as development, testing and production.
Deploying and operating Kubernetes platforms, particularly Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
Managing the Kubernetes cluster lifecycle, including upgrades, monitoring, scaling, security and availability.
Supporting containerised applications and Kubernetes workloads.
Implementing and maintaining GitOps workflows using Flux CD.
Managing application and infrastructure deployments through Git repositories.
Building and enhancing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
Creating self-service capabilities that allow development teams to deploy applications more efficiently.
Collaborating with development teams to improve deployment processes and platform adoption.
Automating operational tasks and continuously improving platform reliability.
Supporting cloud governance, security, access management and cost optimisation practices.
Monitoring the platform and troubleshooting production incidents.
Performing root-cause analysis and helping prevent recurring issues.
Contributing to platform standards, technical documentation and engineering best practices.

Who are you going to work with?

You will work closely with development teams to understand their needs and provide the tools and processes they need to deploy and operate their applications effectively.

The position offers a great opportunity for you to make a personal impact on the way engineering teams work, while helping shape and improve a modern cloud platform.

What do you bring to the table?

You are a hands-on, proactive and collaborative engineer with a genuine passion for cloud technology, automation and platform reliability. You enjoy solving complex technical problems and creating simple, repeatable solutions that can be used by other engineering teams.

You take ownership of your work and are comfortable supporting live production environments. You are also able to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical colleagues, and enjoy helping development teams adopt new tools and ways of working.

In addition, you have:

Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure.
Experience designing and supporting enterprise-scale cloud environments.
Knowledge of Azure networking, identity management, access control and security.
Proven experience using Terraform to create and manage cloud infrastructure.
Experience managing reusable Terraform modules and multi-environment deployments.
Understanding of Terraform remote state management and infrastructure lifecycle management.
Strong practical experience with Kubernetes.
Experience deploying and supporting workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
Knowledge of Kubernetes ingress controllers, networking, storage, scaling and observability.
Hands-on experience with GitOps principles and Flux CD.
Experience managing application and infrastructure deployments through Git repositories.
Strong experience with GitHub and GitHub Actions.
Experience building and maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines.
Familiarity with branching strategies, pull request workflows and repository governance.
Experience monitoring systems, troubleshooting production incidents and performing root-cause analysis.
Strong communication, collaboration and problem-solving skills.

A leader in personalized customer experiences

VML MAP is a world-leading Centre of Excellence that helps businesses humanize the relationship between the brand and the customer through hyper personalization at scale, marketing automation and CRM. With the brain of a consultancy, the heart of an agency and the power of technology and data, we work with some of the world's most admired brands to help them on their transformation journey to becoming truly customer-centric. Together, we are 1000 + technology specialists, data scientists, strategic thinkers, consultants, operations experts, and creative minds from 55+ nationalities.

A global network

We are part of the global VML network that encompasses more than 30,000 employees across 150+ offices in 60+ markets, each contributing to a culture that values connection, belonging, and the power of differences.

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WPP (MAP/VML) is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

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