Engineer: Cloud and Infrastructure Architecture

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 recognised 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, and diverse firm where highly motivated individuals with an unwavering commitment to excellence receive the opportunity, support, and development they need to grow, thrive, and realise 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 IT department in our London office as an Engineer:
Cloud and Infrastructure Architecture.

9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. with flexibility in accordance with the needs of the business.

Our current working from home policy allows for two days working from home, subject to business need. This policy is subject to change and does not form part of contractual terms.

Participation in an on‑call rotation. Given the global nature of this role, there is often the need for off‑hours (e.g. late evening and/or early morning) conference calls or video conferences.

• Ensures efficient functioning of data storage and processing functions in accordance with the firms security policies and best practices in cloud security
• Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards for code quality and thoughtful design
• Identifies, analyzes, and resolves legacy and cloud infrastructure vulnerabilities and deployment issues
• Implement and manage cloud environments in accordance with company security guidelines
• Educate teams on the implementation of new cloud‑based initiatives, providing associated training when necessary
• Responsible for optimizing the use of cloud resources to help the company balance performance with costs.
• Responsible for assessing current technologies and preparing for cloud transformation, working with the Platform Engineering team
• Demonstrate exceptional problem‑solving skills, with an ability to see and solve issues before they affect business productivity
• Troubleshoot incidents, identify root causes, fix and document problems, and implement preventive measures
• Develops, maintains and documents infrastructure best practices, guidelines, and guardrails for on‑premise and cloud technologies
• Develops and deploys modular cloud‑based systems
• Working with the Platform Engineering team, provide automation enhancements to help keep the environment consistent, ease large tasks, ensure compliance, and helps with life cycle management
• Works with vendor partners to test and benchmark new infrastructure solutions. 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 optimization of architecture is accessed before, during and after cloud migrations
• Ensures vendors provide proper levels of support, maintain SLA’s and provide root cause analysis for escalated issues
• Works with application and Infrastructure teams, to ensure both new and existing systems follow BC/DR guidelines, have documented plans, and are tested and reviewed on an agreed basis
• Ensures all team, departmental…