Senior DevOps Engineer

Cooley AI•Washington, DC

4d•$165,000 - $215,000

About The Position

Cooley AI is seeking a Sr. DevOps Engineer to join the Innovation team. Cooley AI is the wholly-owned subsidiary of Cooley LLP, serving as the frontier development arm of a leading technology law firm. Our mission is to integrate best-in-class technology practices into the legal domain, guiding our firm and the legal industry into the AI era. All Cooley AI employees are employees of Cooley and are seconded to Cooley AI. As a leading technology law firm, Cooley is committed to pioneering the digital practice of law. The DevOps Engineer will be a hands-on builder of the platform infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, responsible for designing, building, and managing cloud-native applications within our cloud environment.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

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.

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.