Infrastructure Architect with GCP

Who We Are:

At VML, we are a beacon of innovation and growth in an ever-evolving world. Our heritage is built upon a century of combined expertise, where creativity meets technology, and diverse perspectives ignite inspiration. With the merger of VMLY&R and Wunderman Thompson, we have forged a new path as a growth partner that is part creative agency, part consultancy, and part technology powerhouse. 

Our global family now encompasses over 30,000 employees across 150+ offices in 64 markets, each contributing to a culture that values connection, belonging, and the power of differences.  Our expertise spans the entire customer journey, offering deep insights in communications, commerce, consultancy, CRM, CX, data, production, and technology. We deliver end-to-end solutions that result in revolutionary work. 

We are VML Enterprise Solutions - a group of talented engineers, tech experts, and creators who combine our passions and contribute to the IT world. You may know us better as Wunderman Thompson Technology – in 2024 we changed our name, but at the same time, we remained a great team of people who deliver our best. We design, build, manage and run complex technology platforms and help our clients to benefit from our work and creativity.

GCP Infrastructure Architect needed to join our team here at VML Enterprise Solutions. 

The opportunity:

Join us at the forefront of digital transformation as a GCP Infrastructure Architect, where you'll have the chance to architect and optimize solutions for some of the world's most recognized brands. This isn't just another technical role – it's an opportunity to shape the future of enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure and make a lasting impact on global digital commerce.

The ideal candidate will have extensive GCP Infrastructure experience, working within Commerce and Retail.

This is a role with requirements to travel to Herzogenaurach, Germany 

What you’ll get to do:

• Optimising existing GCP and GraphQL infrastructure estate from a cost and resource-usage perspective 
• Optimising containerisation deployment and scaling strategies, incl. version control and resource-usage optimisation 
• Consulting on said optimisation for senior client stakeholders 
• Ongoing design and deployment of core GCP and GraphQL Infrastructure services, including container-based infrastructures 
• Building multi-layered caching strategies to improve overall system performance 
• Providing strategies for new environments to support Performance testing 
• Implementation of strategies to improve cost allocation/tagging 
• Optimisation of existing CI/CD pipelines, including shift-left testing and increased automation in QA and infrastructure provisioning  
• Owning the view of e2e infrastructure and observability in the context of configuration management, improving performance, and reducing costs 

What you should have:

Understanding and communicating the strengths and weaknesses, from experience and education, of:  

• Infrastructure and Configuration as Code  
• Safe Deployment strategies and CI/CD  
• GCP Cloud-based and Cloud-native system design  
• Observability  
• Developer Experience  
• Cost and performance optimised infrastructure design 
• DevOps and SRE 

You will also need experience in: 

• Delivering Cloud Infrastructure solutions as part of an experienced cross-disciplinary team with hands-on experience leading the design, development and deployment of business applications at scale 
• Commerce and retail experience
• Extensive experience with GCP Cloud Infrastructure 
• Acting as a technical authority with Customer facing skills to engage and steer discussions on best practice and risk mitigation 
• Familiarity with IaC languages – Terraform, Terragrunt, Cloud DSL for IaC 
• Hands-on with GCP – incl. Cloud Run, GKE, Endpoints, Loadbalancers, Functions, Storage, Firestore, Pub/Sub 
• Practical DevOps experience with Pipelines, Repos and Artifacts  
• Experience with Kubernetes, and familiarity with differing Cloud implementations  
• Hands-on with Terraform – familiarity with Terragrunt, Terraform  
• Experience with Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible in production environments  
• Management of Automation Tooling – incl. GitHub Actions and Environments, Jenkins, CircleCI 
• Experience with automated testing tools (e.g. JMeter) 
• Familiarity with Observability tooling (e.g. NewRelic, Coralogix, DataDog) incl. setup and problem resolution 

What we offer:

• Salary depending on presented skills: 26 880 - 36 960 PLN monthly (B2B contract) 
• Work equipment with delivery to your door 
• Opportunity to work with some of the most exciting brands around the world 

Please note that this job is a full-time position located in Poland, but the selection process will be conducted in English. 

Please send over your CV in English. 

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At VML, we are committed to fostering an all-inclusive work environment that is both rewarding and career-forward. Our Inclusion, Equity & Belonging initiatives, alongside the VML Foundation, reflect our dedication to giving back and making a positive impact in our communities and beyond. Our people are the heartbeat of our organization—creators, doers, innovators, makers, and thinkers—who drive not just marketing, but meaningful experiences that resonate in every action and interaction. 

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