Azure Platform Lead

Why we're hiring:

WPP Enterprise Technology (ET) provides IT services for WPP, the world's largest communications services group. As a creative transformation company, WPP is helping its clients transform the future through extraordinary work. WPP ET is an integral part of that journey and we are proud to provide technology for some of the world's most creative brands.

The role is responsible for leading Azure Platform team to develop and build the re-usable or shared service components of the Azure Cloud Platform.

What you'll be doing:

• Manage, prioritize, and run the day-to-day sprint workload for the Azure Platform team, mentoring engineers, reviewing code, and ensuring we deliver on our project commitments.
• Design and maintain our enterprise Azure landing zones, keeping our management groups, subscriptions, hub-spoke/vWAN networking, and Azure Policies structured and compliant.
• Write, test, and maintain reusable, production-ready Terraform modules, establish release cycles published within Terraform Cloud Registry.
• Design and optimize automated deployment workflows using GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps to enable reliable, zerotouch platform deployments.
• Partner with application, data, and security teams across the business to turn common requirements into self-service, reusable cloud platform components.
• Serve as the senior technical escalation point for complex platform troubleshooting, performance tuning, and incident resolution in a 24/7 enterprise production environment.

What you'll need:

• 7+ years of experience across Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, and DevOps, including proven experience in a Team Lead, Tech Lead, or Team Management capacity.
• Certifications: Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305 / AZ-303/304),HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate.
• Strong background designing, deploying, and running enterprise-scale workloads on Microsoft Azure following the Azure
• Well-Architected Framework along with upgrade of Landing Zones to latest stable version.
• Extensive practical experience authoring modular Terraform code, managing state at scale, and using Terraform Cloud for team collaboration and governance.
• Proven ability to build, maintain, and troubleshoot multi-environment CI/CD pipelines in both GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps.
• Practical knowledge of Microsoft RBAC, Managed Identities, Key Vaults, Private Endpoints, and Azure Policy enforcement.
• Hands-on experience working with Agile/Scrum delivery practices, modern GitOps workflows, and operational frameworks (e.g., ITIL v4 processes, incident management).
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, clear written and verbal communication, and a strong track record of diagnosing and resolving complex infrastructure issues.

Who you are:

You're open: we are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are open-minded: to new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.

You're optimistic: we approach all that we do with confidence: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.

You're extraordinary: We are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.

What we'll give you:

Passionate, inspired people – we champion a culture of people that do extraordinary work

Scale and opportunity – we offer the opportunity to create, influence and deliver projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.

Challenging and stimulating work – unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers.