Database Administrator
About You
You’re a fit for the role of Database Engineer if your background includes:
- 5+ years of DBA responsibilities in a MS SQL Server and/or Postgres environment
- 2+ years working experience with AWS and Azure
- Experience leading MS SQL Server and/or Postgres Installation, Configuration and Upgrade efforts
- Performance monitoring and tuning skills are required.
- Experience leading problem solving and analytical efforts in high pressure situations
- Backup/recovery experience including Disaster Recovery planning.
- Ability to quickly learn and adapt to changes in database technology
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work effectively as part of a team via excellent verbal and written communication, as well as independently toward assigned goals
- Experience with DataDog, ServiceNow
- Experience in scripting languages Python, PowerShell, etc.
- Strong quantitative, analytical, communication and verbal skills with a strong customer service focus
About the Role.
In this role as Database Engineer, you will:
- Over 5 years managing databases with MS SQL Server and Postgres.
- More than 2 years using AWS and Azure.
- Led efforts in setting up, configuring, and upgrading MS SQL Server and Postgres.
- Skilled in monitoring and improving database performance.
- Experienced in solving problems under pressure.
- Knowledge in backup, recovery, and disaster recovery planning.
- Quick to learn new database technologies.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Effective team player and communicator, able to work independently too.
- Familiar with tools like DataDog and ServiceNow.
- Experience with scripting languages like Python and PowerShell.
- Excellent analytical and communication skills with a focus on customer service.
Nice to have skills/education:
- Bachelor's Degree - Computer Science, technical or engineering degree preferred. Work experience will be taken into consideration in lieu of education
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, savings, tuition reimbursement, 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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