Senior Cloud Engineer

Thomas Reuters; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to join their dynamic team focused on developing AI-driven software for legal professionals. In this role, you will leverage your DevOps skills to create cutting-edge solutions using technologies like Java, Python, and AWS. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive product development and enhance features that meet customer needs. With a commitment to continuous learning and a flexible work environment, this opportunity allows you to make a significant impact in the legal tech industry while advancing your career in a supportive atmosphere. Join a team that values diversity, inclusion, and innovation.

Benefits

Flexible vacation

Mental Health Days

Access to Headspace app

Retirement savings

Tuition reimbursement

Employee incentive programs

Resources for wellbeing

Work from anywhere for 8 weeks

Paid volunteer days

Social Impact initiatives

Qualifications

• 5+ years of development experience in building infrastructure & backend for web applications.
• 3+ years of experience with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and AWS services.
• Experience in API development implementing RESTful or GraphQL APIs.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with teams to identify requirements and prioritize enhancements.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and AWS.
• Monitor system performance and troubleshoot issues using Datadog and Grafana.

Skills

DevOps

Java

React

Angular

Python

REST APIs

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Equivalent experience

Tools

GitHub Actions

Datadog

Grafana

OpenSearch

Job description

Job Description

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.
• 3+ years of experience in API development implementing RESTful or GraphQL APIs.
• Experience with Retrieval Systems leveraging tools like OpenSearch.
• Experience with using application performance monitoring tools like Datadog or Grafana 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?

Join us to inform the way forward with the latest AI solutions and address real-world challenges in legal, tax, compliance, and news. Backed by our commitment to continuous learning and market-leading benefits, you’ll be prepared to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future. This includes:

• Industry-Leading 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.

• 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, and hybrid model, 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 skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for inclusion, innovation, and customer-focus. Our eleven business resource groups nurture our culture of belonging across the diverse backgrounds and experiences represented across our global footprint.

• 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.

• 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.

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.