About this Azure Dev Ops Engineer role at WPP
WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands.
We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth.
We have been building the world's most valuable brands for 50 years and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise.
Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow.
For more information, visit WPP.com.
Why we're hiring:
To help us scale and deliver solutions across our Data Mesh platform, we are looking for a DevOps engineer who can be responsible for the deployment of our data solutions using Azure DevOps. Automation is at the core of our solutions, which spans our development, testing and production infrastructures. A focus on balancing agility, low maintenance and security is critical.
The ideal candidate will have a solid background in DevOps engineering for a large company and be highly experienced with Azure DevOps Pipelines to deploy both IaC and solutions. You’ll be working closely with our Software & Data Engineering teams - from the first lines of code being committed to it being deployed into production.
The DevOps engineer will also help design & plan projects and be involved in project execution decisions.
What you'll be doing:
- Build CI/CD process to increase release efficiency and reduce occurrence of errors.
- Develop software to integrate with internal backend systems
- Perform root cause analysis of deployment errors and provide future mitigation of those errors
- Communicate to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Cloud deployment and management
- CI/CD management and deployment
- Performance assessment, monitoring and recommending performance enhancements
- Infrastructure management using IaC
- Continuous testing at different stages of the development lifecycle
- Helping to implement a DevOps culture
What you'll need:
- At least 3 years’ experience as an Azure DevOps engineer
- Azure infrastructure configuration and management with at least AZ-900 certification
- Experience of designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps for web services and data products
- Scripting in Python, Bash and Powershell
- Experience with tools including Docker, Kubernetes
- Experience Azure Data Services - Data Factory, Synapse, Azure Databricks
- Experience using ARM and Terraform (Experience using Bicep an advantage)
- Experience Azure DevOps to deploy Azure Cloud Scale Analytics (Not essential)
- Problem-solving attitude
- Collaborative team spirit
Who you are:
You're open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are open-minded: to new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.
You're optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.
You're extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.
What we'll give you:
Passionate, inspired people – We aim to create a culture in which people can do extraordinary work.
Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.
Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?
We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.
WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular 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.
