About WPP Media

WPP is a creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients and communities. For more information, visit wpp.com.

WPP Media is WPP’s global media collective. In a world where media is everywhere and in everything, we bring the best platform, people, and partners together to create limitless opportunities for growth. For more information, visit wppmedia.com

At WPP Media, we believe in the power of our culture and our people. It’s what helps us to deliver exceptional experiences for both our clients and each other. In this role it will be critical to embrace WPP & WPP Media’s shared core values:

•  Be Extraordinary by Leading Collectively to Inspire transformational Creativity.
•  Create an Open environment by Balancing People and Client Experiences by Cultivating Trust.
•  Lead Optimistically by Championing Growth and Development to Mobilize Enterprise. 

Role Summary and Impact:

We are currently looking for a Manager Programmatic to join us. In this role, you will be responsible for handling media vendors and facilitating clients throughout the digital media process and additional duties as assigned. The role includes both independent and coordinated planning initiatives.

Reporting of the role     

This role reports to Senior Manager Programmatic

3 best things about the job:     

• Being part of a talented and passionate team.
• Working and interacting closely with top media corporations
• Opportunity to implement and execute industry first initiatives

In this role, your goals will be:     

In three months:     

• Complete knowledge of planning and digital systems.
• Understanding of the programmatic buying/planning, open market exchange process – includes basic understanding and importance of trading tools like DSP and SSP.
• Execute basic programmatic campaigns.

In six months:     

• Understand new developments in the digital market
• Deliver exceptional value from negotiations with media owners against KPI.
• Ensure all specified audit/digital guarantees are met.

In 12 months:     

• Ensure close relationships are developed with all key media owners.
• Display strong ability and knowledge for all day-to-day systems.
• Close negotiation deals and manage assigned tasks, regional/local.

What your day job looks like at WPP Media:     

• Supplier selection based on KPIs, trading deals and maximizing value for client and agency
• Hands-on experience of digital planning & buying
• Hands-on experience of tracking tools like: Sizmek, Double Click, others.
• Excellent understanding of GA and UTM working through different campaign tracking tools.
• Setting up campaigns with DMP and audience data
• Overseeing trafficking and implementation with the regional team
• Co-ordination with suppliers, tech team and agencies to get campaigns live
• Creating PCA's with data from operations.
• Preparation of negotiation reports, post closure and inventory management report with team.
• Negotiating campaigns to hit KPIs based on view ability and performance.
• Learning about programmatic buying, barter, inventory value trading
• Learn mobile networks execution (secondary media)

What you’ll bring:     

• Superior time management and prioritization skills.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Strong analytical and number skills.
• A proactive approach with excellent negotiation and communication skills.
• Excellent working skills on excel and PowerPoint presentation development.
• Media knowledge and understanding of systems.

Minimum qualifications:    

• Must be a BBA / MBA from a reputable university or equivalent. 
• Must have at least 2 years’ experience in digital media planning, programmatic & strategy.

Life at WPP Media & Benefits

Our passion for shaping the next era of media includes investing in our employees to help them do their best work, and we’re just as committed to employee growth as we are to responsible media investment. WPP Media employees can tap into the global WPP Media & WPP networks to pursue their passions, grow their networks, and learn at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising. We have a variety of employee resource groups and host frequent in-office events showcasing team wins, sharing thought leadership, and celebrating holidays and milestone events. Our benefits include competitive medical, vision, and dental insurance, significant paid time off, employee wellbeing facilities, and employee mental health awareness days.   

WPP Media 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.

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. 

About Pakistan

WPP Media Pakistan is the leading global media investment management operation in Pakistan. We see major growth coming on Digital platforms with internet penetration growing to 87 million broadband users and 85 million 3G/4G subscribers. Social media platforms have also grown substantially in Pakistan where Facebook stands at 34 million subscribers and Tik Tok has replaced Instagram to become the second most penetrated social platform. While the digitalization of the market is happening at a fast pace, it has also opened up opportunities for specializations like e-commerce, Digital Content, Video Planning solutions, Technology and Data & Analytics in Pakistan. 

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Location: PK - Lahore (On-Site)( Timing 6pm-3am)

Job Type: Full-Time

Who We Are: 

Motive builds technology to improve the safety, productivity, and profitability of businesses that power the physical economy. The Motive Automated Operations Platform combines IoT hardware with AI-powered applications to automate vehicle and equipment tracking, driver safety, compliance, maintenance, spend management, and more. Motive serves more than 120,000 businesses, across a wide range of industries including trucking and logistics, construction, oil and gas, food and beverage, field service, agriculture, passenger transit, and delivery.

 Motive is proud to be a Forbes Cloud 100 company and a 2020 Career-Launching Company by Wealthfront.

Job Description:

As an integral member of our dynamic team, the IT Support Engineer holds the pivotal responsibility of championing end-user satisfaction through adept IT support. Tasked with monitoring and maintaining our company's computer systems, the IT Support Engineer performs hardware and software installations and elevates our technological prowess by tackling logical, analytical, and technical challenges independently and through collaborative efforts with internal teams and valued vendor partnerships.

Role Overview

We are looking for a skilled and customer-focused IT Support Engineer who can deliver high-quality technical support across endpoint systems, SaaS applications, and core IT services. This role requires hands-on experience with MacOS, Windows, and Linux environments, strong troubleshooting abilities, and the capability to support users both onsite and remotely. The ideal candidate will also have exposure to modern IT operations, including MDM platforms, ticketing systems, cloud productivity tools, and emerging AI-driven support workflows

What You’ll Do

• Provide end-to-end IT support across MacOS, Windows, and Linux environments, including mass OS installations, upgrades, and configurations
• Manage employee onboarding and offboarding (onsite and remote), covering device provisioning and MDM enrolment
• Provide IT Support for MDM platforms such as Kandji and Microsoft Intune 
• Hands-on MacOS support and advanced troubleshooting for Windows OS issues
• Support enterprise SaaS tools including Google Workspace (G Suite), Okta, Salesforce, and collaboration platforms
• Provide onsite support for office users and remote support via Jira tickets, email, and Slack
• Maintain accurate IT asset inventory and device lifecycle records
• Assist with basic network and infrastructure troubleshooting and maintain awareness of next-generation firewalls
• Basic understanding of current AI trends and how AI can assist in IT support ticket management

What We’re Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• 1–6 years of IT support experience in a corporate or fast-paced environment
• Strong working knowledge of MacOS and Windows, with basic Linux familiarity
• Hands-on experience with MDM solutions (Kandji, Microsoft Intune, or similar)
• Solid understanding of ticketing systems such as Jira Service Management
• Practical experience supporting GWS, SSO, CRM, VoIP and other SaaS applications
• Good foundational knowledge of networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VPNs) and general infrastructure
• Awareness of modern IT security concepts and tools, including next-generation firewalls
• Understanding of how AI and automation are applied in IT support workflows
• Strong communication and customer-handling skills with a problem-solving mindset
• Flexibility to work varying hours or shifts when required
• Relevant certifications (CCNA, Microsoft 365, etc.) and call-center IT support experience are a plus

Who we are

Moniepoint is an all-in-one financial services platform for emerging markets and the second-fastest-growing company in Africa. Since 2019, Moniepoint’s technology has powered over 3 million people, offering personal and business banking, payment, credit, and business management tools to help them succeed. Moniepoint processed $182 billion in 2023 and currently processes the majority of the POS transactions in Nigeria.

About the role

Engineering at Moniepoint is an inspired, customer-focused community dedicated to crafting solutions that redefine our industry. Our infrastructure runs on some of the cool tools that excite infrastructure engineers - kubernetes, docker etc.

We also make business decisions based on the large stream of data we receive daily, so we work daily with big data, perform data analytics and build models to make sense of the noise and give our customers the best experience.

Curious about what makes Moniepoint an incredible place to work?
Check out posts on how we cultivate a culture of innovation, teamwork, and growth.

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced Cloud Engineer to design, implement, and manage our multi-cloud infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in cloud platforms, container orchestration, infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, and observability solutions, ensuring scalable, reliable, and cost-effective cloud operations across multiple cloud providers.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

Cloud Infrastructure Management

• Design, deploy, and manage multi-cloud infrastructure across Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
• Architect and implement highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable cloud solutions
• Manage cloud resources including compute instances and networking components
• Design and implement disaster recovery and business continuity plans for cloud workloads
• Migrate on-premises applications and services to cloud environments with minimal disruption
• Optimize cloud resource utilization and implement auto-scaling policies
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of cloud architectures, configurations, and runbooks

Kubernetes & Container Orchestration

• Design, deploy, and manage production-grade Kubernetes clusters across multiple cloud providers
• Implement and maintain container orchestration strategies for microservices architectures
• Configure and manage Kubernetes resource objects
• Manage Kubernetes cluster upgrades, scaling, and performance optimization
• Troubleshoot complex container and orchestration issues in production environments
• Implement multi-cluster and multi-region Kubernetes deployments for high availability

Service Mesh & Advanced Networking

• Design, deploy, and manage Istio service mesh for microservices communication and observability
• Configure Istio traffic management, including virtual services, destination rules, and gateways
• Implement advanced traffic routing (canary deployments, A/B testing, traffic splitting) using Istio
• Deploy and manage Istio observability components (telemetry, distributed tracing, service graphs)
• Implement circuit breaking, retries, timeouts, and fault injection for resilience testing
• Configure Istio ingress and egress gateways for external traffic management
• Monitor and optimize service mesh performance and resource utilization
• Implement multi-cluster service mesh architectures across different cloud providers

Reverse Proxy & Load Balancing

• Deploy, configure, and manage HAProxy for high-performance load balancing and reverse proxy
• Implement HAProxy ACLs, backend routing, health checks, and session persistence
• Design and implement Nginx as reverse proxy for web applications and API gateways
• Configure Nginx for rate limiting and request filtering
• Implement Nginx load balancing algorithms and upstream health monitoring
• Manage Nginx Plus features for advanced traffic management and monitoring
• Optimize HAProxy and Nginx performance for high-throughput environments

Infrastructure as Code & Configuration Management

• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform
• Create reusable, modular Terraform configurations for various cloud resources and Implement Terraform state management and remote backends
• Design and implement configuration management solutions using Ansible
• Develop Ansible playbooks and roles for automated server provisioning and configuration
• Integrate Terraform and Ansible workflows for end-to-end infrastructure automation
• Implement infrastructure version control, code review processes, and GitOps practices
• Manage infrastructure drift detection and remediation
• Create and maintain infrastructure documentation and architecture diagrams
• Implement policy-as-code using tools like OPA (Open Policy Agent) or Sentinel

CI/CD Pipeline Management

• Design, implement, and maintain continuous integration pipelines using Jenkins and Harness
• Optimize build times and pipeline efficiency
• Integrate security scanning (SAST, DAST, container scanning) into CI/CD pipelines
• Configure Jenkins jobs, pipelines, and shared libraries for automated build, configure build agents, runners, and execution environments
• Implement Harness deployment pipelines for cloud-native applications
• Integrate CI/CD pipelines with version control systems (Git, GitHub, GitLab)
• Implement continuous deployment workflows using ArgoCD for Kubernetes-based applications
• Design and implement GitOps workflows with ArgoCD for declarative application delivery
• Manage ArgoCD application definitions, sync policies and multi-cluster deployments
• Implement progressive delivery strategies (blue-green deployments, canary releases) using ArgoCD

Message Streaming & Event-Driven Architecture

• Deploy and manage Apache Kafka clusters for real-time data streaming and event-driven architectures
• Configure Kafka topics, partitions, replication factors, and retention policies
• Implement Kafka Connect for data integration with various sources and sinks
• Monitor Kafka cluster health, performance metrics, and consumer lag
• Optimize Kafka performance for high-throughput and low-latency use cases
• Troubleshoot Kafka producer and consumer issues

Database & Proxy Management

• Deploy, configure, and manage ProxySQL for MySQL load balancing and high availability
• Implement query routing, caching, and connection pooling strategies using ProxySQL
• Optimize database performance through ProxySQL query analysis and optimization
• Implement database failover and disaster recovery using ProxySQL
• Monitor ProxySQL metrics and troubleshoot connection and performance issues
• Integrate ProxySQL with database clusters and replication topologies
• Implement database access security and audit logging through ProxySQL

Cloud Networking

• Design and implement cloud networking architectures, including VPCs, subnets, and network segmentation
• Configure and manage cloud load balancers (Application Load Balancers, Network Load Balancers, Cloud Load Balancing)
• Implement VPN connections, Direct Connect/Interconnect, and hybrid cloud networking solutions
• Implement network security controls, including security groups, network ACLs, and firewall rules
• Implement network monitoring and traffic analysis
• Troubleshoot complex networking issues across multi-cloud environments
• Design and implement private connectivity between cloud providers

Secrets Management & Security

• Configure and manage HashiCorp Vault for centralized secrets management across multi-cloud environments
• Configure Vault secret engines (KV, database, PKI, AWS, GCP, Azure dynamic secrets)
• Manage Vault high availability clusters and disaster recovery procedures
• Implement dynamic database credentials and secret rotation strategies
• Manage Vault encryption as a service for application-level encryption
• Implement Vault agent and sidecar injectors for Kubernetes workloads
• Migrate secrets from legacy systems to Vault

Qualifications, Competency & Skills Required

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree or diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field
• Minimum of 5 years of proven experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, or platform engineering roles
• Hands-on experience managing production workloads across multiple cloud platforms
• Relevant cloud and technology certifications are highly desirable 

Technical Skills

Cloud Platforms (Required)

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP): Deep expertise in Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, VPC, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, IAM
• Amazon Web Services (AWS): Proficiency in EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, VPC, Lambda, ECS, CloudFormation, IAM
• Microsoft Azure: Experience with Virtual Machines, AKS, Blob Storage, Azure SQL, Virtual Networks, Azure Functions, ARM templates
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI): Familiarity with Compute, OKE, Object Storage, networking, and OCI-specific services
• Multi-cloud architecture design and implementation experience
• Cloud migration strategies and execution (lift-and-shift, re-platforming, re-architecting)

Container & Orchestration (Required)

• Expert-level Kubernetes knowledge, including cluster architecture, networking, storage, and security
• Hands-on experience with managed Kubernetes services (GKE, EKS, AKS)
• Proficiency in Docker containerization, image optimization, and registry management
• Experience with Helm charts for application packaging and deployment
• Knowledge of container runtime environments (containerd, CRI-O)

Service Mesh & Microservices (Required)

• Istio: Deep expertise in Istio architecture, deployment, and operations
• Istio traffic management (virtual services, destination rules, gateways, service entries)
• Istio security features (mTLS, authorization policies, peer authentication, request authentication)
• Istio observability and telemetry configuration
• Multi-cluster and multi-mesh deployments
• Service mesh troubleshooting and performance optimization
• Understanding of sidecar proxy patterns and Envoy proxy
• Experience with other service mesh solutions (Linkerd, Consul Connect) is a plus

Reverse Proxy & Load Balancing (Required)

• HAProxy Advanced configuration and management for load balancing and high availability
• Nginx Expert-level configuration as reverse proxy and API gateway
• Nginx rate limiting, and performance tuning
• Nginx load balancing algorithms and upstream configurations
• Experience with Nginx modules and custom configurations
• High availability configurations using keepalived, VRRP, or similar
• Integration with Kubernetes ingress controllers (Nginx Ingress, Istio Ingress)

Infrastructure as Code (Required)

• Advanced Terraform skills for multi-cloud infrastructure provisioning
• Terraform module development, state management, and workspace strategies
• Proficiency in Ansible for configuration management and automation
• Ansible playbook development, roles, and inventory management
• Experience with version control systems (Git) and GitOps workflows
• Infrastructure testing frameworks (Terratest, Kitchen-Terraform)

CI/CD Tools (Required)

• Jenkins: Pipeline development (declarative and scripted), shared libraries, plugin management
• Harness: Deployment pipeline configuration, workflow creation, approval gates
• ArgoCD: GitOps workflows, application synchronization, multi-cluster management
• Integration of CI/CD tools with Kubernetes and cloud platforms
• Automated testing and deployment strategies
• Artifact repository management (Nexus, Artifactory, cloud-native registries)

Messaging & Streaming (Required)

• Apache Kafka architecture, cluster management, and operations
• Kafka topic design, partitioning strategies, and performance tuning
• Kafka Connect experience
• Experience with Kafka management tools (Kafka Manager, Cruise Control)
• Understanding of event-driven architectures and patterns

Database & Proxy Technologies (Required)

• ProxySQL configuration, management, and optimization
• MySQL database administration basics
• Understanding of database replication and clustering

Observability & Monitoring (Required)

• Prometheus metrics collection, PromQL, and alerting rules
• Grafana dashboard design and visualization techniques
• Log aggregation and analysis

Networking (Required)

• Deep understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, and network protocols
• Cloud networking concepts (VPC, subnets, routing tables, NAT, VPN)
• Load balancing strategies and implementations
• Service discovery and DNS-based routing
• Network security and firewall configuration
• Software-defined networking (SDN) concepts

Scripting & Programming

• Proficient in scripting languages: Python, Bash
• Go or python programming basics for tooling development
• YAML and JSON for configuration management
• Understanding of software development best practices

Secrets Management (Required)

• HashiCorp Vault: Advanced knowledge of Vault architecture, deployment, and operations
• Vault authentication methods and integration with cloud providers and Kubernetes
• Vault secret engines (KV v1/v2, database, transit, cloud dynamic...

What we can offer you

• Culture -We put our people first and prioritize the well-being of every team member. We’ve built a company where all opinions carry weight and where all voices are heard. We value and respect each other and always look out for one another. Above all, we are human.
• Learning - We have a learning and development-focused environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing, training, and regular internal technical talks.
• Compensation - You’ll receive an attractive salary, pension, health insurance, annual bonus, plus other benefits.

What to expect in the hiring process

• A technical interview with the Hiring Manager
• A behavioural and technical interview with a member of the Executive team.