Senior Cloud Database Engineer

Job Description – Senior Cloud Database Engineer

We are looking to add an energetic and self-motivated Senior Cloud Database Engineer to our high performing global team of Database Engineering Experts. This role involves architecting, implementing and supporting technological solutions within Technology like Oracle/PostgreSQL environment for revenue generating applications that drive the TR business. The candidate should have strong technical, excellent communication and collaboration, as well as time and project management skills to provide direction to the database team(s).

About The Role

• Experience in PostgreSQL database schemas and database design
• Extensive experience in PostgreSQL Performance Tuning and SQL Tuning
• Hands-on experience with Postgres replication, backup, recovery, and hot standby
• Expert Level SQL, PL/pgSQL, including stored procedures, functions, triggers, and views.
• Experience on community-supported tools like Pgbadger, Slony, PGadmin, Pgpool, Pgbouncer, Pgbench, Pgpartman.
• Hands of experience with RDS/Aurora database technologies on AWS
• Experience with Disaster Recovery (Multi-Region failovers)
• Ability to detect and troubleshoot database-related CPU, memory, I/O, disk space, and other resource contention issues. Have proficiency with Linux for basic administrative tasks.
• Experience working with AWS Cloud infrastructure with EC2, lambda, Systems Manager, Cloudwatch & SAM
• Experience in maintaining cloud security IAM Policies, Secret management, Key Management Service
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines in AWS.
• Development Experience
• Extensive code development experience with Python, bash and boto3 programing.
• Knowledge of Devops tools like AWS Cloud Formation Template and Git
• Knowledge on creating and managing RestAPI
• Migration experience from oracle to PostgreSQL using AWS SCT and DMS services.
• Develop/Automate migration patterns.
• Experience in Agile software development framework
• Nice to have key Oracle database technologies.

About You

• Bachelor's Degree - Computer Science, technical or engineering degree preferred.
• 6-8 years’ experience including providing support for mission critical production databases, developing database Engineering Services for PostgreSQL Databases on AWS
• Complete knowledge and experience on developing and automating PostgreSQL database services
• In-depth knowledge of AWS Aurora/RDS PostgreSQL databases and other AWS key services for database management.
• Good understanding of Database Migration and Re-Platforming strategies
• Prior working experience using agile development framework and best practices
• Ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines independently toward assigned goals with minimum supervision
• Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills. Ability to make presentations to professional peers and work closely with management
• Display ability to learn rapidly and adapt quickly to changing situations
• Be a role model to the rest of the members within and outside the team in technical, personal, behavioural and corporate citizenship.

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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, savings, tuition reimbursement, 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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