WPP is hiring a

Site Reliability Engineer

Chennai, India

WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients, and communities.

Working at WPP means being part of a global network of more than 115,000 accomplished people in 110 countries. WPP has headquarters in New York, London and Singapore and a corporate presence in major markets worldwide.

We create transformative ideas and outcomes for our clients through an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce, and technology.

WPP and our award-winning agencies work with most of the world's biggest companies and organisations – from Ford, Unilever and P&G to Google, HSBC, and the UN. Our clients include 61 of the FTSE 100, 307 of the Fortune Global 500, all 30 of the Dow Jones 30 and 62 of the NASDAQ 100. WPP are the leader in the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index and 20th in the FTSE 100 rankings for Women on Boards.

 



Role purpose

The role is responsible to design and develop scalable and reliable systems. The role sits between development and operations and will be able to design and develop software which will be used by both teams to advance monitoring , automation and system performance

 

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and develop software which will be used by both operations and platform development
  • Drive the evolution of Cloud Platform to be more scalable and reliable
  • Influence the appropriate decision makers to continually improve service
  • Build systems across Azure, AWS or GCP following cloud architecture best practices
  • Maintain and administer Web Application Firewall configuration
  • Measure and optimise platform performance ensuring that the platform is constantly meeting customers' needs
  • Proactively spot problems, areas of improvement and performance bottlenecks

 

Skill Requirements

Skill Requirements

  • Completed training in Azure Fundamentals, AWS and GCP Fundamentals
  • Knowledge of designing, developing, operating, and managing Cloud environments at scale
  • Development experience of at least one high-level programming language
  • Understanding of Infrastructure as code
  • Experience with the use of Terraform for managing infrastructure.
  • Understanding of Agile and DevOps methodologies
  • Understanding of CI/CD Source code management (git)
  • Understanding of Monitoring and APM tools (e.g. Kibana, Datadog)
  • Experience with maintaining a Web Application Firewall service (e.g. Cloudflare, Akamai, cloud native)
  • Design of native Cloud applications, Cloud application design patterns and practices
  • Experience in designing available, cost efficient, fault tolerant, and scalable distributed systems on Azure, AWS, GCP
  • Strong, creative problem solving skills and analytical in nature
  • Comfortable working in cross functional and multidisciplinary teams
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team
  • Ability to build a strong rapport internal operational and development teams
  • Excellent verbal and written communication and documentation skills with great attention to detail and accuracy
  • Willingness to research and self-study to keep technical skills relevant with a strong desire to learn new technologies
  • Experience in hosting infrastructure and applications
  • Ability to think outside the box
  • Experience of working in an Agile/Scrum environment

 

Behaviours

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 believe in the power of creativity, technology, and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. 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 deliver extraordinary every day.

 

 
 

WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, military/veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability. We believe in creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion and strives to recruit a diverse slate of candidates to help us achieve that goal.

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