Platform Engineer

📋 Job Overview

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 work with the world's most valuable brands 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.

🏢 About 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 work with the world's most valuable brands 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.

🎯 The Role

We are the Activation arm of WPP Open Intelligence. Our team builds the foundational data infrastructure and high-performance edge services that power WPP’s position in the market. With approximately one-third of all global media spend flowing through WPP, our platform operates at the core of this massive network—deeply integrated and adopted by the largest supply-side partners in the AdTech industry. Operating at our scale presents unique engineering challenges. Our edge services currently handle over 60,000 classification requests per second, while our contextual classification pipelines process 10,000 requests per second. With operations spanning the US, UK, and ongoing expansion into EMEA and APAC, our infrastructure continuously interacts with up to 98% of the population in our active markets. We are an engineering-led team focused on building robust, scalable, and highly reliable systems.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Design scalable cloud-native systems on platforms such as Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform that support Spark data analytics and AI workloads
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using HashiCorp Terraform
• Build secure multi-account / cross-cloud environments
• Optimize cost efficiency for high-scale data workloads and low latency microservices
• Enable visibility on performance and cost metrics per environment and workload
• Deploy and manage clusters with Kubernetes with containerized data workloads and microservices
• Implement blue/green and canary deployment strategies
• Build robust automations using tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or Argo Workflows
• Automate testing, security scans, and compliance checks
• Assist other team members in architectural choice of cloud services
• Enforce a small, coherent and flexible configuration surface to reduce deployment time and improve release confidence, in collaboration with other team members
• Champion DRY and DevOps principles across the team through code reviews, documentation, and shared tooling

📌 Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Data Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, DataOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) within enterprise-scale environments
• Strong hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform
• Proven expertise in Infrastructure as Code using HashiCorp (or equivalent IaC tooling)
• Deep experience containerizing and orchestrating applications using Docker and Kubernetes
• Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Solid scripting skills (Bash, Python, or similar) with a strong automation-first mindset
• Strong understanding of networking concepts (VPCs, load balancing, DNS, IAM, security groups)
• Experience working with data-intensive, AI/ML, or marketing technology platforms at scale
• Knowledge of security principles, security best practices, and compliance standards (e.g., GDPR)
• Experience supporting multi-region, globally distributed systems
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to partner across engineering, product, and data teams
• A proactive, ownership-driven mindset with a focus on reliability, scalability, and continuous improvement

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Golang knowledge is a plus
• Experience implementing observability and monitoring solutions such as Datadog, Prometheus, or the Elastic stack

🎁 Benefits

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.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

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.