DevOps Manager

WPP Media, Wuxi, China +1

The role

WPP Media is looking for a DevOps Manager to build and operate the cloud, deployment, security, and reliability foundations behind our AI-, data-, media-, and marketing technology platforms in China. The role will create secure, automated, scalable, and observable environments supporting enterprise applications, data services, AI workloads, intelligent agents, media tools, and high-volume content processing. This role sits at the intersection of engineering, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, compliance, and production operations.

The successful candidate will combine strong hands-on technical capability with an understanding of the challenges of operating technology within China. Key responsibilities

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Lead the design, implementation, and operation of cloud infrastructure supporting WPP Media’s technology platforms in China.
Build secure and scalable environments for applications, APIs, data workloads, AI models, agentic workflows, and digital asset processing.
Support deployment across AWS China and other local cloud environments while maintaining alignment with global architecture and engineering standards.
Manage the operational differences between AWS China and global AWS environments, including service availability, connectivity, accounts, billing, and compliance.
Build and operate containerised application environments using Docker.
Design, deploy, secure, and manage Kubernetes clusters for production workloads.
Establish standards for container images, registries, deployment patterns, networking, scaling, secrets management, and lifecycle management.
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application, infrastructure, data, and AI deployments.
Implement infrastructure as code, configuration management, automated testing, security checks, approvals, rollback, and release-management processes.
Build and operate infrastructure supporting text, image, video, audio, multimodal, and agentic AI workloads.
Support model access, routing, scaling, monitoring, and cost management.
Establish monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, incident-management, backup, and disaster-recovery standards.
Define operational health metrics and improve reliability through capacity planning, resilience testing, and root-cause analysis.
Embed security through identity and access management, secrets management, encryption, network controls, vulnerability management, and audit logging.
Support China cybersecurity, data-residency, network, and regulatory requirements.
Create reliable approaches for synchronising global and China engineering environments.
Improve developer experience through self-service tooling, documentation, templates, reusable modules, and operational runbooks.
Monitor and optimise cloud, storage, network, model, token, and processing costs.
Manage infrastructure and cloud partners while maintaining strong internal ownership.

DevOps Manager

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