Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Reuters

The Reuters Professional DevOps team is a global squad with members from over five countries. Our work reflects on Reuters.com, which is a source of real-time, nonpartisan information on world events, trends and culture. The DevOps team takes a factory approach to infrastructure, by designing and developing repeatable cloud-native patterns and applying them to solve business problems. The experience and mentorship we provide to our development teams plays a key role in our collective professional growth. Joining us, you will have an opportunity to build infrastructure that spans multiple regions, auto-scales, mitigates attacks and helps our customers stay informed wherever they are.

Intrigued by a challenge?

Reuters Professional DevOps Team is looking for an experienced engineer, who’s passionate about automation and scalability to work from our London Office.

About the Role:

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Reuters, you will:

• Work with a global team, responsible for the infrastructure powering reuters.com and other products
• Architect, diagram, document and implement highly scalable solutions for our clients that are resilient, cost-effective, and secure
• Plan and implement AWS Cloud infrastructure in Terraform and other IaC products
• Automate repetitive tasks and create CI/CD pipelines for everything
• Maintain end-to-end security, ensuring projects meet best practices and Thomson Reuters standards
• Maintain and grow observability and monitor all aspects of our infrastructure
• Work closely with product, development, operation and support teams; Guide them towards best practices, share knowledge, and improve the quality of our products and our user’s satisfaction
• Assist colleagues in sprint planning, participate in GitHub code reviews, and excitedly share gained knowledge
• Thrive in a fast-paced, often-changing environment; Learn and apply new concepts and technologies; Push forward until the adoption of chosen solutions reaches a 100%
• Communicate clearly, frequently, and take pleasure in simplifying technical concepts for non-technical audiences

About You:

As our Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you are likely to have:

Essential Skills & Experience

• Comfortable with various flavors of (U|L)inux and ready to discuss implementations of reg(ex|ular expressions)
• Expert at managing infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform while spotting and capturing reputable patterns as modules
• Extensive knowledge of Docker and experience efficiently packaging Java, NodeJS and Python applications
• Excellent knowledge of GIT and GitHub including various branching strategies, tagging, rebasing and creating a concise commit history
• Good understanding and experience with AWS cloud technologies, especially IAM and ECS
• Demonstrated ability to build Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines using Github Actions, AWS CodeBuild, Jenkins or other platforms
• Good knowledge of TCP/IP networking and in-depth understanding of HTTP and adjacent technologies such a Cookies, REST, XHR, CSP, CDNs and various approaches to load balancing
• Experience with DevOps processes and delivering multi-region, scalable and resilient infrastructure
• Theoretical knowledge of security vulnerabilities and best practices for mitigating them
• Attention to detail and excellent ability spotting existing design patterns, standards and conventions
• Deep desire and practice maintaining uniformity and cleanliness in a large codebases and infrastructure projects

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Hands on experience monitoring large production infrastructure using DataDog and CloudWatch
• Previously owned end-to-end responsibility in a service, including development and production support
• Experience using configuration management tools such as Chef, Ansible or Puppet
• Proficient writing code in at least one programming language such as Python, Java, JavaScript, C/C++, Ruby, Perl or similar
• Proficient writing and maintaining bash scripts
• Experience writing concise and illustrative documentation
• Experience Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud
• Experience with Data Engineering and Analytics products such as Snowflake, Redshift, Google Analytics, Segment, ELK Stack

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience combined with theoretical knowledge

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What’s in it For You?

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.

• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally 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.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

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. 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.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business 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 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. More information on requesting an accommodation here.

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