Senior DevOps Engineer

Cooley AI is seeking a Sr. DevOps Engineer to join the Innovation team.

About Cooley AI: Cooley AI is the wholly-owned subsidiary of Cooley LLP. The frontier development arm of the leading technology law firm in the world. Our mission is to bring the best-in-class practices from the technology field into the legal domain to help lead our firm and the legal industry into the AI era. All employees of Cooley AI are employees of Cooley and are seconded to Cooley AI.

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 

Cooley LLP offers a competitive compensation and excellent benefits program. EOE.

The expected annual pay range for this position with a full-time schedule is $165,000 - $215,000. Please note that final offer amount will be dependent on geographic location, applicable experience and skillset of the candidate. Senior level candidates may be considered for this position and would be eligible for a higher salary range based on experience.

We offer a full range of elective benefits including medical, health savings account (with applicable medical plan), dental, vision, health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, long-term care coverage, backup care for children and/or adults and other parental support benefits. In addition to elective benefit options, benefited employees receive firm-paid life insurance, AD&D, LTD, short term medical benefits as well as 21 days of Paid Time Off (“PTO”) and 10 paid holidays each year. We provide generous parental leave and fertility benefits. New employees will attend a detailed benefit orientation to learn more about our many benefits and resources.