Senior Technology Development Operations Manager

Senior Technology Development Operations Manager

Cooley is seeking a Senior Dev Ops Manager to join the Infrastructure & Development Operations team.

The Senior Technology Development Operations (Dev Ops) Manager is responsible for leading the team that designs, architects, deploys, tests, maintains, and documents the Dev Ops technology stack. This stack is responsible for facilitating a secure, CI/CD-enabled, and highly available SaaS-based delivery and hosting environment for Cooley's custom applications. The Senior Dev Ops Manager will build and deploy green‑field solutions where needed, and otherwise will primarily work to improve the efficiency, security, and availability/reliability of the enterprise Dev Ops and related infrastructure.

This role will work in an integrated fashion with the development teams to build in-depth knowledge of the products and code, attending daily stand‑ups as needed. In addition to being technically advanced, this position will use a high degree of emotional intelligence and the ability to work as a team towards complex and layered objectives. Specific duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Provide experienced leadership in developing solutions for highly scalable, highly available, hybrid cloud (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) infrastructure patterns and platform integrations across physical colocations and hyperscalers (AWS and Azure)
• Manage, build, configure, administer, operate, and maintain all components that comprise our Dev Ops environment
• Leverage industry standard Frameworks and Blueprints as a foundation to create best-in-class Terraform IaC module libraries
• Lead the evolution of our Dev Ops and Dev Sec Ops  practice maturity
• Act as a key member of the infrastructure architecture team to identify optimization opportunities throughout the infrastructure
• Define, document, and enforce configuration standards and governance through IaC
• Develop, test, deploy, and optimize Dev Ops IaC code deployment pipelines and practices
• Provision automation using CI/CD (Dev Ops Pipelines) and IaC (Terraform) tooling
• Serve as a technical escalation point
• Work with our development and data teams to integrate products into a Dev Ops-managed environment
• Develop and maintain scripts to automate tool/service deployments to our Hybrid Cloud environment through Dev Ops Pipelines and Releases
• Participate in software releases and deployments
• Contribute to the design, update, refinement, and documentation of operational processes
• Provide technical mentorship and educate team members as a subject matter expert on IaC, containerization, and CI/CD
• Brainstorm new ideas and ways to improve product delivery and efficiency
• Consult peer teams for feedback during the design, testing, and implementation stages
• Serve as direct supervisor and mentor to direct reports
• Provide day-to-day supervision of direct reports, ensure compliance with assigned work hours and monitor for compliance with all firm and department policies. Manage staffing coverage, review and process time logs/time off requests
• Support business professional development and continued educational opportunities
• In collaboration with immediate supervisor and HR, participate in hiring, performance appraisals, counseling, termination and other employee lifecycle events
• All other duties as assigned or 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
• 7+ years of relevant experience in cloud infrastructure and Dev Ops with 2+ years of exempt/management experience in relevant roles
• Proficiency in AWS or Azure architecture, configuration, and security
• Skilled in CI/CD pipeline design using Azure Dev Ops, Jenkins, or Git Hub Actions
• Strong Terraform expertise, including advanced workflows and tools like Terragrunt
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and Git Ops tools (Flux, ArgoCD)
• Familiarity with microservices deployment and release automation
• Hands‑on with .NET Core containers on Linux and…