Cooley LLP

Senior Innovation DevSecOps Engineer

Cooley LLP • $135K — $160K *
Santa Monica, CA 90405In-Person
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in DevSecOps or related roles
  • Strong proficiency in Terraform on AWS
  • Hands-on experience with GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines
  • Familiarity with security tools like Snyk
  • Experience with Datadog for monitoring and logging

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain secure infrastructure-as-code modules for cloud environments
  • Design and support CI/CD pipelines automating build and deployment workflows
  • Configure observability and monitoring throughout the tech stack
  • Coordinate and manage third-party penetration tests
  • Develop threat models for new features and products

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • Excellent benefits program
Full Job Description
Senior Innovation DevSecOps Engineer
Cooley is seeking a Sr. DevSecOps Engineer to join the Innovation team.

Position summary: The DevSecOps 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. Specific duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

Position responsibilities:
  • 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


Skills and experience:

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 DevSecOps, 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 GitHub 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

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


Competencies:
  • 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.

About Cooley LLP

Cooley LLP is an American international law firm, headquartered in Palo Alto, California with offices worldwide. The firm's practice areas include corporate, litigation, intellectual property, fund formation, public markets, employment, life sciences, clean tech, real estate, and tax. Cooley's clients include private and public companies, financial institutions, venture capital firms, and nonprofit organizations. Cooley has been recognized as one of the top law firms for technology and life sciences companies. The firm has also been recognized for its diversity and inclusion initiatives.
Learn more about Cooley LLP
Size
1,200 employees
Industry
Legal & Accounting
Founded
1920
* Ladders Estimates

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