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# DevOps Engineer

- **Company:** Cooley LLP
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Law Practice Management Software, Cloud Computing, System Configuration, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Github, Microsoft Office, Security Information and Event Management, Datadog, Delivery Pipeline, Git Flow, Deployment Automation, Terraform, Static Application Security Testing, Dynamic Application Security Testing
- **Published:** July 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/974379b9-6cc6-446e-a360-737ec40c9c4c

## About the Role

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

## Description

* 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


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