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.
  
  
  

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.

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