Senior DevOps Engineer: Cloud, CI/CD & Observability

Cooley AI; New York (NY); On-site; USD 165,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

HSA option

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

PTO 21 days

Job summary

Cooley AI, the innovation arm of Cooley LLP, seeks a Sr. DevOps Engineer to design, build, and run cloud-native platforms and CI/CD pipelines in a enterprise environment.

You will implement IaC standards, monitor cloud spend, respond to incidents, and collaborate with security and application teams to define deployment processes. The role requires 4+ years of relevant experience and a strong focus on observability and SOC 2 controls.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience designing, building, and operating cloud infrastructure and DevOps pipelines in enterprise environments.
• Strong Terraform skills across AWS and ideally Azure.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions (multi-stage, with security gates).
• Hands-on experience with SAST/DAST integrated into developer workflows and CI.
• Experience configuring and administering Datadog logging and SIEM features.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, cloud infrastructure, and observability tooling across the engineering platform.
• Respond to and resolve production incidents, conducting root cause analysis and implementing preventative measures
• Maintain documentation for infrastructure, pipelines, and runbooks in support of SOC 2 change management controls
• Enforce and continuously improve infrastructure-as-code standards, ensuring all changes are version controlled, peer reviewed, and deployed through automated pipelines with no manual drift
• Collaborate with application and security teams to define and implement deployment standards, branching strategies, and release processes across the engineering organization
• Monitor cloud spend and resource utilization, identifying optimization opportunities and flagging anomalies to maintain cost efficiency at scale
• All other duties as assigned or required

Skills

DevOps

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

Cloud architecture

Security gates

Datadog

SIEM

AWS

Azure

SAST/DAST

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

GitHub Actions

Job description

Cooley AI, the innovation arm of Cooley LLP, seeks a Sr. DevOps Engineer to design, build, and run cloud-native platforms and CI/CD pipelines in a enterprise environment.

You will implement IaC standards, monitor cloud spend, respond to incidents, and collaborate with security and application teams to define deployment processes. The role requires 4+ years of relevant experience and a strong focus on observability and SOC 2 controls.