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Thomson Reuters · 1 week ago

Lead DevOps Engineer, CoCounsel for Government

Eagan, MN

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$117K/yr - $217K/yr

6+ years exp

Thomson Reuters is a global company committed to empowering professionals with insights and tools for informed decision-making. They are seeking an experienced Lead DevOps Engineer to set the technical direction for their CoCounsel for Government team, focusing on scalable system architectures and mentoring engineers to ensure secure and compliant solutions for government clients.

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H1B Sponsor Likely

Hiring Manager

Lukas Pasvianskas

Responsibilities

Define and maintain scalable system architectures leveraging AWS (preferred) or any major cloud provider (GCP/Azure) (with an emphasis on CloudFormation or equivalent Infrastructure as a Code technology), container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes (EKS/GKE/AKS), serverless (Lambda, ECS, App service, cloud run), compute (EC2, virtual machines) etc.)

Collaborate with the Engineering Manager to align DevOps priorities and practices with business and product goals

Write and review production-grade Python code for automation, tooling, and backend services, applying best practices and a strong appreciation for static typing

Oversee CI/CD pipelines, ensuring security, compliance, and reliable deployments in AWS GovCloud or other AWS environments

Guide and mentor engineers at all levels, providing code reviews and technical coaching to foster growth and excellence across the team

Champion DevOps methodologies within the team, driving a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and proactive problem-solving

Lead and participate in incident response and root cause analysis, ensuring lessons learned are incorporated into process and tooling improvements

Qualification

AWSPythonCI/CD pipelinesContainer orchestrationCloudFormationKubernetesDevOps methodologiesCloud securityObservability toolsTechnical leadershipMentoringCollaborationCommunication

Required

6+ years in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or a related discipline

Proven track record leading complex cloud and container-based projects in enterprise or regulated environments

Demonstrated technical leadership and experience mentoring engineers

Deep understanding of AWS (preferred) or any major cloud provider (GCP/Azure)

Strong Python development skills, specifically for production-grade services or infrastructure tooling

Familiarity with typed Python or static typing principles

Extensive knowledge of cloud design patterns for scalability, data management, resiliency, and disaster recovery

Comprehensive understanding of cloud and application security

Hands-on experience implementing encryption, identity and access management, secrets management, and security automation

Extensive experience architecting and supporting enterprise-scale continuous delivery environments

Hands-on experience with APM and observability tools such as Datadog, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and Kibana

Comfortable with a high level of autonomy and proactive leadership

Excellent collaboration and communication skills

Preferred

AWS (preferred) or any major cloud provider (GCP/Azure)

CloudFormation or equivalent Infrastructure as a Code technology

Docker, Kubernetes (EKS/GKE/AKS), serverless (Lambda, ECS, App service, cloud run), compute (EC2, virtual machines)

Benefits

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.

In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave.

Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Company

Thomson Reuters

Glassdoor3.0

Thomson Reuters delivers critical information from the financial, legal, accounting, intellectual property, science, and media markets.

Founded in 2008

Toronto, Ontario, CAN

10001+ employees

http://thomsonreuters.com

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