Senior Systems Engineer

As an employee at Thomson Reuters, you will play a role in shaping and leading the global knowledge economy. Our technology drives global markets and helps professionals around the world make decisions that matter. As the world’s leading provider of intelligent information, we want your unique perspective to create the solutions that advance our business and your career. Our Service Management function is transforming into a truly global, data and standards-driven organization, employing best-in-class tools and practices across all disciplines of Technology Operations. This will drive ever-greater stability and consistency of service across the technology estate as we drive towards optimal Customer and Employee experience. 

About the role:

In this opportunity as a Sr Systems Support/Linux Admin, you will:

• Provides skilled technical support/delivery capability, with minimal supervision, for the current and future design, testing, delivery, support, and maintenance of production services in the technical operations environment.
• Provides technical and procedural consistency within a team focused on the implementation, service delivery and support of products, systems & networks.
• Contributes to initiatives for driving down incident rates and working with first line operations (and operations engineers within specialist functional teams, working with 2nd line operations) to improve service recovery times.
• Adheres to the implementation process to ensure that all aspects of operability are delivered whilst ensuring that existing service levels are maintained or improved.
• Contributes to defining operational standards, procedures, and best practice.
• Operations Engineers within specialist functional teams may have compliance assurance responsibility. 
• Works in close liaison with various operational, project, development and product teams as well working within the Service Organisation to ensure ongoing service delivery and support can be maintained to agreed service levels.

About you:

• Should have 6 to 8 years as a Senior System Engineer - L2 Support
• Remote management of Linux systems located in various datacenters across the world.
• Level 2 - Linux systems administration
• Recovering incidents, implementing changes, participate in strategic projects.
• System upgrades such as firmware, OS, application, and security patch evaluation and deployment
• Mandatory experience in multiple projects involving data center consolidation/migration/optimization/consolidation.
• Coordination with hardware vendors for hardware related issues
• Providing support and assisting other groups in problem resolution
• Required competencies (Must haves):
• Extensive (6+ years L2) Linux systems administration experience Working knowledge involving volumes from SAN and NAS, clear understanding of CIFS and NFS protocols.
• Experience with high availability and disaster recovery solutions and tools, including clustering, load balancing, etc.
• Hands on experience in resolving system performance issues, root cause analysis and complex problems.
• Scripting experience in PYTHON/PERL/SHELL an added advantage

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.

Compensation Base salary and a variable compensation that is directly related to your success.

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What's in it For You?

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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