Cloud Database Engineer

Cloud Database Engineer

Are you passionate about optimizing database performance and migrating legacy systems to the cloud? Join our Data Management team and be part of an innovative company committed to excellence.
 

About the Role

In this opportunity as a Cloud Database Engineer, you will:

• Design and implement optimized database structures for maximum performance on various platforms.
• Optimize queries by tuning indexes, caching mechanisms, and other techniques.
• Implement backup strategies to ensure data integrity.
• Migrate existing databases to cloud environments such as AWS or GCP.
• Ensure compliance with best practices around security and access controls.
• Automate processes using automated testing frameworks like Selenium, Cypress, or Webdriver IO.
• Develop unit tests with JUnit or Pytest.
• Utilize version control systems like GitLab CI/CD pipelines for efficient code management.
   

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Cloud Database Engineer if your background includes:

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Proven experience as a Database Engineer or similar role.
• Strong understanding of database structures and query optimization techniques.
• Experience migrating legacy systems to cloud computing platforms like AWS or GCP.
• Knowledge of scripting languages like Python or Bash for automation tasks.
• Familiarity with software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively both verbally and in written form.
• Strong problem-solving skills coupled with attention to detail.
• Self-motivated individual who can work independently within a team environment.
• Working experience with Agile Methodology.
• Certification in major database technologies such as Oracle Certified Professional DBA (OCPDBA), Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA), PostgreSQL Certified Professional (PGCertP) or equivalent certification preferred but not required.

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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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