Azure Platform
Posted 6 Oct 2026
Advertised as “Azure Platform Lead”
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- Expected experience
- 7+ yrs
- Management level
- People management
- Employment
- Hybrid
No salary listed for this role.
CertificationsMicrosoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AZ-305, AZ-303, HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
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:
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.