Senior DevOps Engineer

Position summary: As a leading technology law firm, Cooley is determined to become a leader in the digital practice of law. The DevOps Engineer is responsible for being a hands-on builder of the platform infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. The engineer will design, build, and manage cloud-native applications in our cloud environment. Specific duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following: 

Position responsibilities:  

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, cloud infrastructure, and observability tooling across the engineering platform. 

• Respond to and resolve production incidents, conducting root cause analysis and implementing preventative measures 

• Maintain documentation for infrastructure, pipelines, and runbooks in support of SOC 2 change management controls 

• Enforce and continuously improve infrastructure-as-code standards, ensuring all changes are version controlled, peer reviewed, and deployed through automated pipelines with no manual drift 

• Collaborate with application and security teams to define and implement deployment standards, branching strategies, and release processes across the engineering organization 

• Monitor cloud spend and resource utilization, identifying optimization opportunities and flagging anomalies to maintain cost efficiency at scale 

• All other duties as assigned or  

Skills and experience:  

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• After orientation at Cooley LLP, exhibit proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite, iManage and other firm applications 

• Ability to work extended and/or weekend hours, as  

• Ability to travel, as  

• 4+ years of directly applicable experience designing, building, and operating cloud infrastructure and DevOps pipelines in enterprise environments 

• Strong Terraform skills across AWS and ideally Azure 

• Experience building CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions (complex, multi-stage, with security gates) 

• Hands-on experience with SAST/DAST (or equivalent tools) integrated into developer workflows and CI 

• Experience configuring and administering APM solutions (i.e. Datadog) including log management and SIEM features 

Preferred: 

• Bachelor’s degree 

• Prior exposure to legal technology platforms or enterprise SaaS integrations 

• Familiarity with SOC2 control expectations for change management and monitoring  

• Experience working in regulated or professional services environments 

Competencies:  

• Entrepreneurial by nature 

• Excellent attention to detail 

• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills with ability to facilitate and solve problems 

• Ability to organize, prioritize and coordinate multiple activities often under tight timelines 

• Ability to drive projects to completion and achieve goals 

• Strong judgment 

• Team-player with collaborative spirit 

• Unwavering ability to handle and maintain confidentiality regarding firm information, projects,  

• client data (if applicable) 

• High level of professionalism at all times 

• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence and develop talent [if applicable] 

• Proactive, analytical mindset 

• Effective presentation skills