Platform Engineer

About the role

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.

Platform Engineer

Level: Mid-Level Engineer, Technology Solutions Location: Copenhagen Reporting to: Lead Engineer

About Open Intelligence

We are the Activation arm of WPP Open Intelligence. Our team builds the foundational platform infrastructure and high-performance edge services that power WPP’s position in the market. With approximately one-third of global media spend flowing through WPP, our platform operates at the heart of a vast network and is deeply integrated with the largest supply-side partners in the AdTech industry.

Operating at this scale presents unique engineering challenges. Our edge services currently handle more than 60,000 requests per second. With operations across the US and UK, and ongoing expansion into EMEA and APAC, our infrastructure supports globally distributed services across our active markets. We are an engineering-led team focused on building robust, scalable, and highly reliable systems.

Who We Are Looking For

We are seeking a skilled Platform Engineer to design, build, evolve, and optimize our cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment processes. You will work closely with software engineers, QA, IT, and product teams to streamline development workflows, improve system reliability, and ensure our infrastructure is secure and scalable.

This is a hands-on technical role for someone who enjoys building reliable platform solutions and is keen to use modern development and testing technologies. You will partner with colleagues and stakeholders to ensure our platform meets evolving business needs.

What You Will Do

- Design scalable, cloud-native systems on platforms such as Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform to support high-throughput applications and services.

- Implement Infrastructure as Code using HashiCorp Terraform.

- Build secure, multi-account and cross-cloud environments.

- Optimize cost efficiency for high-scale workloads and low-latency microservices.

- Improve visibility into performance and cost metrics across environments and workloads.