WPP

Platform Engineer

WPP
Apply
6 hours ago
Copenhagen, DenmarkSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design scalable cloud-native systems on Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform for Spark analytics and AI workloads.
  • Implement Infrastructure as Code with HashiCorp Terraform and build secure multi-account and cross-cloud environments.
  • Optimize cost efficiency, latency, performance, and visibility for high-scale data workloads and microservices.
  • Deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters and containerized data workloads and microservices.
  • Implement blue/green and canary deployment strategies.
  • Build automation with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, and Argo Workflows.
  • Automate testing, security scans, and compliance checks.
  • Support architectural decisions involving cloud services and maintain a coherent configuration surface for faster, safer deployments.
  • Promote DevOps principles through code reviews, documentation, shared tooling, and collaboration across engineering, product, and data teams.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience in Data Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, DataOps, or Site Reliability Engineering within enterprise-scale environments.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform.
  • Expertise in Infrastructure as Code using HashiCorp Terraform or equivalent tooling.
  • Deep experience with Docker and Kubernetes for application containerization and orchestration.
  • Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
  • Scripting skills in Bash, Python, or similar languages.
  • Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, or the Elastic stack.
  • Strong understanding of networking concepts including VPCs, load balancing, DNS, IAM, and security groups.
  • Experience with data-intensive, AI/ML, or marketing technology platforms at scale.
  • Knowledge of security principles, security best practices, and compliance standards such as GDPR.
  • Experience supporting multi-region, globally distributed systems.
  • Golang knowledge is a plus.
  • Strong collaboration, communication, ownership, reliability, scalability, and continuous-improvement skills.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement in Copenhagen, with teams generally working in the office around four days per week.
  • Accommodations or flexibility can be discussed with the hiring team during the interview process.

Tech Stack

Apache SparkAWSBashDatadogDockerGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGoGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesPrometheusPython

Categories

Data EngineeringDevOps
WPP

About WPP

10,000+ employees

WPP is a public advertising and marketing services group that provides creative, media, data, and public relations solutions to global brands. It operates agency networks including Ogilvy, VML/GroupM, Grey, and AKQA, generating revenue from agency fees and media investment management. Founded in 1971 and headquartered in London, it serves clients across 100+ markets worldwide.

Contact me