Business Director, DevOps Lead

About 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.
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Build secure and scalable environments for applications, APIs, data workloads, AI models, agentic workflows, and digital asset processing.
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Support deployment across AWS China and other local cloud environments while maintaining alignment with global architecture and engineering standards.
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Manage the operational differences between AWS China and global AWS environments, including service availability, connectivity, accounts, billing, and compliance.
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Build and operate containerised application environments using Docker.
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Design, deploy, secure, and manage Kubernetes clusters for production workloads.
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Establish standards for container images, registries, deployment patterns, networking, scaling, secrets management, and lifecycle management.
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Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application, infrastructure, data, and AI deployments.
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Implement infrastructure as code, configuration management, automated testing, security checks, approvals, rollback, and release-management processes.
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Build and operate infrastructure supporting text, image, video, audio, multimodal, and agentic AI workloads.
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Support model access, routing, scaling, monitoring, and cost management.
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Establish monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, incident-management, backup, and disaster-recovery standards.
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Define operational health metrics and improve reliability through capacity planning, resilience testing, and root-cause analysis.
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Embed security through identity and access management, secrets management, encryption, network controls, vulnerability management, and audit logging.
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Support China cybersecurity, data-residency, network, and regulatory requirements.
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Create reliable approaches for synchronising global and China engineering environments.
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Improve developer experience through self-service tooling, documentation, templates, reusable modules, and operational runbooks.
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Monitor and optimise cloud, storage, network, model, token, and processing costs.
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Manage infrastructure and cloud partners while maintaining strong internal ownership.
Experience and education
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5+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, site reliability engineering, cloud infrastructure, or a related discipline.
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Strong hands-on experience with AWS China, including the services available in China regions and the operational differences from global AWS.
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Deep experience with Docker and containerised application environments.
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Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including cluster design, deployment, scaling, security, monitoring, and production operations.
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Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines for applications, infrastructure, data, and AI workloads.
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Strong knowledge of infrastructure as code, cloud networking, Linux, scripting, configuration management, and automation.
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Experience operating enterprise applications and distributed systems in production.
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Experience supporting AI, machine learning, data engineering, or high-compute workloads is strongly preferred.
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Strong knowledge of observability, resilience, incident management, security, backup, and disaster recovery.
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Practical understanding of identity and access management, secrets management, vulnerability management, and secure software delivery.
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Experience working across global and China-based engineering environments is highly desirable.
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Familiarity with China cloud, network, cybersecurity, regulatory, and data-residency requirements.
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Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Network Engineering, Cloud Computing, or a related discipline.
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Relevant AWS, Kubernetes, security, or DevOps certifications are desirable.
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Equivalent practical experience will also be considered.
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Fluent Mandarin and strong professional English are preferred.
What success looks like
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Reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure across WPP Media’s technology environment.
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Faster, safer, and more predictable releases with reduced manual effort.
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Strong observability and clear operational accountability.
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Improved developer productivity and shorter time from development to production.
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Effective control of cloud, infrastructure, and AI costs.
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Platforms that meet China security, data, regulatory, and operational requirements.
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Fewer incidents, faster recovery, and continuous improvement in resilience.

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