Senior Cloud Architect Engineer

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. For more information, visit WPP.com. Why we're hiring: As a member of the Global Technical Operations (TechOps), you will be a part of a team that focuses on operational reliability within a cloud-based infrastructure. You have hands-on cloud experience in architecting, building, deploying, managing databases, compute instances, and storage buckets. You have a passion for providing solutions through automation. You know that success is through collaboration and communication. What you'll be doing: Work in cross-functional teams to develop solutions and identify opportunities to bring efficiency and effectiveness. Research, evaluate, and incorporate new technologies/concepts into existing frameworks. Proactively identify areas to improve efficiency and effectiveness, recommend and implement solutions towards them. Develop and innovate operational practices, procedures for workflows, and documentation. Implement and contribute to IT security best practices. Automate tasks to ensure consistency and speed of deployment. Identify, analyze, and troubleshoot issues and work towards resolution. Explain technical solutions to both technical and non-technical people. Provide technical leadership/guidance to other members. Participates in on-call rotation. Work with a limited set of requirements. Context switch between assignments / projects and performing daily tasks. Act as a liaison and partner between TechOps and other groups. Pick up new responsibilities as required. What you'll need: Recent hands-on experience (10+ years) as a Cloud Engineer/DevOps/SRE (GCP). Proven work experience in automating tasks within a cloud-based environment, using infrastructure coding tools (Terraform, Open Tofu, Terragrunt). Experience with architecting GCP Tenants and folder structure Experience with architecting Infrastructure CI/CD pipelines Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible preferred). Experience with container orchestration and management platforms (Kubernetes, Helm). Solid understanding of networking concepts. Solid understanding of security concepts. Experience with monitoring tools (Datadog,…