Senior Innovation DevSecOps Engineer

Senior Innovation Dev Sec Ops  Engineer Cooley is seeking a Sr. Dev Sec Ops  Engineer to join the Innovation team.

Position summary:

As a leading technology law firm, Cooley is determined to become a leader in the digital practice of law. The Dev Sec Ops  Engineer is the primary hands-on builder of the platform infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and security tooling. The engineer will turn the architecture into working, automated systems that every developer inherits by default.

• Build and maintain secure, reusable infrastructure-as-code modules for cloud environments, including networking, computer, storage, identity, secrets, logging, and monitoring components
• Design, implement, and support CI/CD pipelines that automate build, test, security scanning, artifact management, release approval, and deployment workflows, including SAST, DAST, and penetration testing
• Configure observability and monitoring across the stack: infrastructure monitoring, APM, log pipelines, Cloud SIEM detection rules, and compliance dashboards
• Coordinate third-party pentests
• Build threat models for new features and products
• 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
• 5+ years directly applicable experience in Dev Sec Ops , cloud infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or software delivery automation, with hands-on responsibility for infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, cloud security tooling, and production deployment workflows
• Strong Terraform skills across AWS
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines in Git Hub Actions (complex, multi-stage, with security gates)
• Hands-on with Snyk (or similar) integrated into developer workflows and CI
• Datadog configuration experience including log management and SIEM features
• Comfortable context-switching between IaC, IAM debugging, monitoring configuration, and pipeline troubleshooting

• Bachelor's degree
• Familiarity with SOC2 control expectations for change management and monitoring is a strong plus

• 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

Cooley LLP offers a competitive compensation and excellent benefits program. EOE.