Cooley Godward Kronish LLP
Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

Senior DevOps Engineer

Washington, DC, US • Posted 6 hours ago • Updated 6 hours ago
Full Time
On-site
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Skills

  • Law
  • Management
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Documentation
  • Collaboration
  • Cloud Computing
  • Optimization
  • Microsoft Office
  • iManage
  • IaaS
  • DevOps
  • Terraform
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Continuous Delivery
  • GitHub
  • Workflow
  • Continuous Integration
  • Software Performance Management
  • Log Management
  • SIEM
  • Legal
  • SaaS
  • System On A Chip
  • Change Management
  • Professional Services
  • Attention To Detail
  • Communication
  • Analytical Skill
  • Presentations

Summary

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

Skills 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
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  • Dice Id: COOLEY
  • Position Id: 610080cbf82486e260b5e5c6ce1750a8
  • Posted 6 hours ago
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