Senior Cloud Engineer

Senior Cloud Engineer, Westlaw
We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced
Senior Cloud Engineer
with DevOps skills to become part of our dynamic and innovative team focused on developing AI-driven software for legal professionals, including our flagship product, Westlaw. In this role, you will contribute to the development of innovative solutions, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and driving the delivery of new products and features that meet our customer needs. You will utilize technologies such as Java, React/Angular, Python, REST APIs, and AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Join us to make a significant impact in the legal tech industry with your expertise and creativity.

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

• Work closely with business partners and stakeholders to identify requirements and prioritize new enhancements and features
• Collaborate with software engineers, architects, technical management, and business partners across geographical and organizational boundaries
• Assist in architecture direction and finalize design with Architects
• Break down deliverables into meaningful stories for the development team
• Share knowledge and best practices on using new and emerging technologies
• Provide technical support to operations or other development teams by troubleshooting, debugging, and solving critical issues
• Interpret code and solve problems based on existing standards
• Create and maintain technical documentation related to assigned components
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions and AWS services.
• Manage and orchestrate containerized applications using Kubernetes.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Monitor system performance and troubleshoot issues using tools such as Datadog and Grafana.

About You:
You are a fit for a
Senior Cloud Engineer,
if your background includes:

Experience & Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of development experience in building infrastructure & backend for web applications at scale.
• 3+ years of experience with building CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and AWS services (Code Pipeline/Code Build).
• 3+ years of AWS experience with EKS/Kubernetes and experience managing infrastructure with Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar IaC tooling.
• Experience with Retrieval Systems leveraging tools like OpenSearch.
• Experience with using application performance monitoring tools like Datadog or Graphana for troubleshooting.
• Experience in building backend services and strong proficiency in backend languages such as Java or Python.
• Excellent debugging skills and an eye for performance optimization.
• Passion for DevOps best practices
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration abilities.
• A flexible, adaptable attitude, comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.
• Self-driven with a proactive approach to problem-solving.
• Experience doing Data Engineering work preferred.
• Experience in using AI-powered tools in SDLC is preferred.

What's in it For You?

• 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.
• 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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