Cloud & Platform Database Administrator PT

Who We Are VML, part of WPP, is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, creating connected brands to drive growth. VML is celebrated for its innovative and human first, award-winning work for blue chip client partners including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Microsoft, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy's. The agency is recognized by the Forrester Wave™ Reports, as a Leader among Marketing Creative and Content Service Providers, Commerce Services, Global Digital Experience Services, Global Marketing Services and, most recently, Marketing Measurement & Optimization. In addition, VML’s specialist health network, VML Health, is one of the world’s largest and most awarded health agencies. VML’s global network is powered by 26,000 talented people across 55+ markets, with principal offices in Kansas City, New York, Detroit, London, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, and Sydney. About WPP 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. For more information, visit WPP.com . The opportunity We're seeking a Cloud & Platform DBA/Database Reliability Engineer to operate, optimize and secure both managed and self‑managed databases that power high‑traffic ecommerce sites. You'll work primarily across AWS and GCP, while also supporting a smaller estate of hosted/on‑prem databases. Your mission: high availability, performance, security/compliance and cost efficiency—especially during peak events. What you’ll be doing: Operate managed databases (cloud): AWS RDS/Aurora (MySQL/PostgreSQL), Google Cloud SQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB ,DB2 , Oracle. Indexing, query plan analysis, schema design for OLTP, connection pool and concurrency tuning. Build and support self‑managed databases (hosted/on‑prem/VMs): Oracle 19c, IBM DB2 LUW 9.5–11.5, MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB on Linux/Unix/Windows. Installation, patching, upgrades, parameter/kernel tuning, storage layout (e.g., ASM/LVM), backup/restore. High availability, resilience and DR: Cloud: Multi‑AZ, read replicas, Aurora Global Database, cross‑region replication, RDS Proxy; PITR/snapshots; tested RTO/RPO. Self‑managed: Oracle Data Guard (and/or RAC exposure), DB2 HADR, MySQL replication/Group Replication/XtraDB Cluster, MongoDB replica sets/sharding; RMAN, XtraBackup, db2 backup utilities. Support for prod and nonprod env, which require backup and restore along with obfuscation of the sensitive data. skilled for writting sql/plsql code Automation and change management: Terraform/CloudFormation for cloud, Ansible for self‑managed, GitOps workflows. CI/CD for database changes (Flyway/Liquibase), standards, drift detection, automated patching and failover. Observability and performance engineering: CloudWatch/Cloud Monitoring, RDS Performance Insights, pg_stat_statements, MySQL Performance Schema, Oracle AWR/ASH/Statspack/OEM, DB2 MON/Explain, Datadog/New Relic/Prometheus/Grafana. Capacity planning, load/soak testing for peak (e.g., BFCM), SLOs for latency/availability/throughput, post‑incident reviews. Security, compliance and governance: IAM least privilege, secrets management (AWS Secrets Manager/HashiCorp Vault), audit logging. PCI‑DSS and GDPR controls, data retention/masking, change control and approvals. Cost and capacity stewardship: Cloud: right‑sizing instances/storage/IOPS, reserved vs on‑demand/serverless choices, DynamoDB capacity modes, cost anomaly detection. Self‑managed: capacity forecasting and scaling plans; basic license awareness for enterprise platforms. Architecture collaboration: Schema evolution, query patterns, caching strategie…