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.

Position summary: The Senior Technology Development Operations (Dev Ops)
Manageris 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 willprimarilywork to improve the efficiency,security,and availability/reliability of the enterprise Dev Ops and related infrastructure. This role will workin 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:

Position responsibilities:

• 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

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
• 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 scripting in Linux/Windows
• Knowledge of open-source and No
  
  SQL databases (e.g., MS SQL, Mongo
  
  DB, Elasticsearch)
• Experience with APM tools (Datadog, New Relic, etc.) and IaC security tools (Snyk, tfsec)

Preferred:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or associated discipline
• Experience working with advanced ETL data workflows including technologies such as AWS EMR, Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory, or Apache Hive/Spark/Airflow
• Supervisory experience
• Experience with IaC deployment of AKS/EKS/GKE architecture is highly desired
• Experience with enterprise Data Lake environments using technologies such as Data Bricks or Snowflake

Competencies:

• Expert analytical/quantitative, problem-solving, and deductive reasoning skills, with experience performing advanced troubleshooting and root cause analysis of complex…