Development Operations Engineer

Posted Jan 28

Development Operations Engineer – Reuters – Platforms Engineering and Operations

At Reuters, we believe what we do matters. We are motivated by our work and inspired by the impact it has on our business and our customers. As a team, we believe in winning as one - collaborating to reach shared goals and developing through challenging and meaningful experiences. In more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realize innovations that help shape industries around the world. Making this happen is a dynamic, evolving process, and we count on each employee to be a catalyst in driving our performance - and their own.

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Reuters Platforms Engineering and Operations is looking for an experienced Cloud proficient technical engineer to work from our New York Office. The candidate will be positioned within the Media Platforms and Professional Services team as a Site Reliability Engineer, SRE.

The Platform Engineering and Operations SRE leads the analysis, definition, and design of news and video production systems and provides oversight for construction, testing, installation, and modification across multiple large, interdependent systems. The role requires Cloud and networking experience focusing on operations, security, and technical governance processes. The SRE partners with stakeholders on large projects to provide implementation and support oversight throughout the life cycle of a project.

Thomson Reuters has a global on-premises footprint of multiple large, interdependent systems and a vision to transform 80%+ on-prem to Cloud. The Site Reliability Engineer will be on an operations team responsible to work with product, development, and operations teams to solve, implement and support this transformation business initiative.

About the Role

In this opportunity as Development Operations Engineer, you will:

  • Work on a global team employing DevOps practices with a desire to automate everything
  • Implement and support challenging, production-ready solutions for our clients
  • Construct and manage Continuous Deployment and Integration pipelines
  • Maintain end-to-end security ensuring projects meet best practices standards
  • Build and maintain monitoring for all aspects of infrastructure
  • Work closely with development teams to help share knowledge and improve the quality of projects
  • Take ownership of projects and gain professional satisfaction in achieving highly stable environments
  • Aid the Service Desk team with tickets and additional technical support
  • Work effectively to tight deadlines, both independently and as part of a team
  • Thrive in a fast-paced, often changing environment
  • Strong communication skills, including the ability to simplify technical concepts for a non-technical audience
  • Implement new technologies to keep the team ahead of the technological curve

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Development Operations Engineer, if your background includes:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Equivalent experience
  • Highly skilled in Unix/Linux and knowledge of Windows OS.
  • Good understanding and experience with AWS cloud technologies
  • Demonstrated ability to design and implement fully automated Infrastructure as code
  • Demonstrated ability to build (CD\CI) Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub, GitHub actions, and JIRA.
  • 6+ years of experience with DevOps processes and delivering scalable and resilient infrastructure and delivering end-to-end projects implementing security best practices.
  • Experience or knowledge of Cloud-native tools such as Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, and Serverless functions
  • Experience or knowledge of DevOps tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins, Zabbix, Data Dog, CloudWatch
  • Good knowledge of TCP/IP networking.
  • Have written Cloud Native Serverless Functions to aid in cost-management and/or resource management.
  • Programming in Python, JavaScript, Ruby, shell, or other languages
  • Experience writing documentation
  • AWS Certification is a plus

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 for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
  • Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
  • Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: 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, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
  • 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: Eight 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.

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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 25,000 employees across more than 75 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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Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The location(s) for this role include one or more of the following (New York City, San Francisco, Culver City). The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $125,500 - $233,100. The location(s) for this role include one or more of the following states (CA, CO, CT, NV, WA) and/or remote. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $114,100 - $211,900. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs.