Senior DevOps Engineer

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 required  **S****kills and experience:**   Required:  * 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 required  * Ability to travel, as required  * 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