Engineer: Platform Engineering

Overview

Mayer Brown is an international law firm positioned to represent the world’s major corporations, funds, and financial institutions in their most important and complex transactions and disputes. We are recognized by our clients as strategic partners with deep commercial instincts and a commitment to creatively anticipating their needs and delivering excellence in everything we do.

We are a collegial, collaborative firm where highly motivated individuals with an unwavering commitment to excellence receive the opportunity, support, and development they need to grow, thrive, and realize their greatest potential all while supporting the Firm’s client service principles of excellence, strategic partnership, commercial instinct, integrated strengths, innovation, and collaboration across our international firm.

If you enjoy working with team members whose defining characteristics are exceptional client service, initiative, professionalism, responsiveness, and adaptability, you may be the person we are seeking to join our Information Technology department in our Chicago office, as an Engineer:
Platform Engineering.

The Engineer:
Platform Engineering is responsible for developing pipelines and scripts that will deliver IT Infrastructure in both public and private cloud, incorporating security best practices. This role will work with other teams to identify and prioritise automation opportunities, building reusable solutions following best practices, then helping that team with adoption so they can provide support. This role will also support fundamental cloud infrastructure technologies including tooling, as well being an escalation point if needed by other infrastructure departments.

Essential Functions:

• Works with infrastructure and application teams to understand current processes and opportunities for automation
• Provides effort and impact estimates of automation opportunities to assist with prioritisation
• Designs and develops standardised delivery pipelines that can be consumed by application teams to deploy infrastructure
• Be a subject matter expert for infrastructure automation, signposting learning opportunities and mentoring others to help build an automation centre of excellence across infrastructure
• Integrates other firm tooling such as Service Now for the provisioning of services
• Designs, develops and deploys modular cloud-based systems
• Develops and maintains cloud solutions in accordance with best practices
• Ensures efficient functioning of data storage and processing functions in accordance with the firms security policies and best practices in cloud security
• Identifies, analyses, and resolves cloud infrastructure vulnerabilities and deployment issues
• Interacts with other IT teams, providing cloud support, and making recommendations based on their requirements
• Develops and documents cloud best practices, guidelines, and guardrails for cloud technologies
• Creates clear & concise documentation of cloud infrastructure development and standards
• Ensures the CMDB is kept up to date, using automation wherever possible
• Provides automation enhancements to help keep the environment consistent, ease large tasks, ensure compliance, and help with life cycle management
• Operationalise solutions from proof-of-concept through production, using automation for repeatability, maintainability, and to enforce standards
• Works closely with Infrastructure, Application and Security Architects when new solutions are being conceived
• Works with vendor partners to test and benchmark new technologies. Provides findings to Infrastructure Architects team and appropriate levels of management
• Attends regular vendor meetings for areas of expertise, stays informed of latest technology roadmaps, security notifications, and bug/hot fixes
• Ensures vendors provide proper levels of support, maintain SLA’s and provide root cause analysis for escalated issues
• Works with application and infrastructure architects, application teams, and other infrastructure groups to ensure both new and existing systems follow BC/DR guidelines, have documented plans, and are tested and reviewed on a yearly basis
• Acts as third level escalation point for…