Business Director, DevOps Lead

📋 Job Overview

WPP Media is looking for a DevOps Manager to build and operate the cloud, deployment, security, and reliability foundations behind our AI-, data-, media-, and marketing technology platforms in China.

🏢 About WPP Media

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. With exceptional talent, trusted data and intelligence, and world-class partnerships – all united by our pioneering agentic marketing platform, WPP Open – we help clients navigate change, capture opportunity, and deliver transformational growth.

WPP Media is WPP's AI-driven media operating unit, bringing together media, data, and partnerships to deliver creative personalisation at scale. Connected through WPP Open and powered by Open Intelligence, clients see exactly where, how, and why their media investment is working.

For more information, visit wppmedia.com.

🎯 The Role

This role sits at the intersection of engineering, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, compliance, and production operations. The successful candidate will combine strong hands-on technical capability with an understanding of the challenges of operating technology within China.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and operation of cloud infrastructure supporting WPP Media’s technology platforms in China.
• Build secure and scalable environments for applications, APIs, data workloads, AI models, agentic workflows, and digital asset processing.
• Support deployment across AWS China and other local cloud environments while maintaining alignment with global architecture and engineering standards.
• Manage the operational differences between AWS China and global AWS environments, including service availability, connectivity, accounts, billing, and compliance.
• Build and operate containerised application environments using Docker.
• Design, deploy, secure, and manage Kubernetes clusters for production workloads.
• Establish standards for container images, registries, deployment patterns, networking, scaling, secrets management, and lifecycle management.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application, infrastructure, data, and AI deployments.
• Implement infrastructure as code, configuration management, automated testing, security checks, approvals, rollback, and release-management processes.
• Build and operate infrastructure supporting text, image, video, audio, multimodal, and agentic AI workloads.
• Support model access, routing, scaling, monitoring, and cost management.
• Establish monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, incident-management, backup, and disaster-recovery standards.
• Define operational health metrics and improve reliability through capacity planning, resilience testing, and root-

📌 Required Qualifications

• Strong hands-on technical capability with experience in cloud infrastructure, deployment, security, and reliability.
• Understanding of the challenges of operating technology within China.
• Experience with AWS China and other local cloud environments.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, incident-management, backup, and disaster-recovery.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience with AI, data, media, and marketing technology platforms.
• Experience with cybersecurity and compliance.
• Experience with production operations.

🎁 Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits package.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Eligibility to work in China is required.