Junior DevOps Engineer: Cloud Automation for Media

Thomson Reuters; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Thomson Reuters is seeking a junior DevOps-focused engineer to join the Reuters Imagen team in Cambridge. You will learn to deploy, configure, troubleshoot, and maintain Imagen installations across AWS and Azure, while integrating partner content and automating ingest pipelines.

You will gain hands-on experience with Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and scripting in PowerShell or Python, plus exposure to data formats like XML/JSON and REST APIs. A great opportunity to grow in cloud and media tech.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with SQL and relational databases (read/write queries against live systems).
• Clear written and verbal communication, including with non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with disciplined problem isolation.
• Scripting ability in PowerShell and/or Python, willingness to learn both.
• Git-based CI/CD workflows, ideally GitHub Actions.
• Infrastructure as code, ideally Terraform.
• XSLT/XPath experience or data transformation between schemas.
• Windows Server, IIS, and Linux fundamentals.
• Networking basics: DNS, TLS, firewalls, VPNs, load balancing.
• Core AWS services: EC2, S3, Lambda, SQS, IAM, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch.
• Containers/orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS/AKS).
• Monitoring, logging, and REST API interactions.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, troubleshoot and maintain Imagen platform installations across cloud environments.
• Onboard content partners by configuring ingest pipelines and transforming partner metadata.
• Integrate partner systems with Reuters Connect using APIs, storage workflows and delivery profiles.
• Maintain infrastructure as code (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines for serverless ingest functions.
• Build automation around a customer platform using watch folders, event-driven ingests, and API integrations.
• Investigate failed ingests and incidents, documenting fixes to prevent recurrence.
• Plan and execute media migrations and support decommissioning of legacy systems.
• Document builds and learnings on internal wiki and repositories.
• Collaborate with partner managers and internal stakeholders to define needs.

Skills

Cloud platforms

SQL & relational databases

PowerShell

Python

Git & version control

REST APIs

XML/JSON

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

XSLT & XPath

Windows Server & IIS

Linux fundamentals

Networking basics

Kubernetes/EKS/AKS

AWS & Azure

MySQL/MariaDB

Tools

Terraform

Git

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

MySQL/MariaDB

PowerShell

Python

XSLT

Job description

Thomson Reuters is seeking a junior DevOps-focused engineer to join the Reuters Imagen team in Cambridge. You will learn to deploy, configure, troubleshoot, and maintain Imagen installations across AWS and Azure, while integrating partner content and automating ingest pipelines.

You will gain hands-on experience with Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and scripting in PowerShell or Python, plus exposure to data formats like XML/JSON and REST APIs. A great opportunity to grow in cloud and media tech.