Cloud Engineer GCP/OCI

Are you a hands-on technology enthusiast who loves coding, designing, and building new things, and wants to learn new Cloud skills? Do you want to build solutions that scale? We need engineers with the right mix of knowledge and skills in public cloud, Windows and Linux server administration, and software development who want to build and operate our services at scale.

Thomson Reuters Platform Engineering organization partners with cloud and SaaS providers around the globe to provide world-class computing platforms to our application teams. We are seeking candidates to expand and mature our capabilities in Amazon, Azure, Oracle, and Google Clouds while maintaining a stable and secure ecosystem inside our own hosting centers.

About the Team
The Infrastructure & Operations department supports Thomson Reuters customers by delivering high quality services and solutions. Our teams work together across our global organization to provide reliable, efficient and cost-effective IT services to support our business needs. We’re passionate about helping our clients succeed through innovation and best practice approach.

About the Role:
In this opportunity as a Cloud Engineer, you:

Have basic technical skills: You easily learn new technologies. You are curious and creative and can adapt to existing tech and envision new ways of doing things.

You focus on continuous improvement and technical standards: You drive improvements in productivity. You want to learn and develop architectures for new services, prepare technical specifications and set industry best practices.

You can code: You are comfortable programming in at least one high-level language such as Python, PowerShell, or Ruby and are willing to learn more

You are an effective communicator: You can demonstrate effective communication skills to clearly state priorities and provide direction. You can present complex technical information in clear and easy to understand manner to various audiences.

You have some cloud experience: You have a basic understanding of cloud computing in at least one of the Big Two clouds (Amazon, Azure) and understand how to leverage cloud technologies to manage systems and infrastructure.

You are a problem solver: You apply an evidence-based approach to solving service problems in real time to provide the fastest path to recovery.

We use agile/lean development frameworks like Scrum to manage our work.

We are driven by quality, not quantity and ensure our services are robust and resilient.

We automate as much as we can using a heavy integration of pipelines, micro-services, and 3rd party SaaS services and custom software when appropriate.

We produce a lot of data and work with our analysts to make sense of it.We try to identify trends and find potential issues before they cause problems.

We understand cloud technologies and platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI.We use their APIs and configuration tools.

About You:

You are fit for the role of Cloud Engineer if you have:

4+ years progressive technology experience and a drive to build a career working on cloud infrastructure and automation. Cloud experience on GCP or OCI

Experience with Angular or React preferred.

Understanding of cloud automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) technology such as Terraform, BICEP, or CloudFormation.

A basic understanding of TCP/IP networking.

A basic understanding of containerization technologies such as Docker.

Experience administering Windows or Linux servers.

Excellent written and verbal communications skills, including the ability to communicate large, complex designs in easy terms.

Ability to coach other team members, guide them through complex issues, and help up-skill you and your peers.

Desired Skills

Bachelor of Computer Science or related field; or equivalent level of experience.

Experience building Golden Machine Images in the cloud.

Experience with OS patch management and patch automation.

Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation or other IaC technology.

Experience with Oracle Cloud or GCP.

Experience with Windows or Linux systems automation.

Experience with security concepts in cloud and on the operating system.

Experience with CI/CD concepts and pipeline development.

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What's in it For You?

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected

Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

Purpose-Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward. 

Accessibility 

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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