Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Cooley AI; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

HSA

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

FSAs

Commuter benefits

Life insurance

AD&D

LTD

PTO 21 days

Paid holidays 10

Parental leave

Fertility benefits

Job summary

Cooley AI seeks a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to own platform infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and security tooling. You will build automated systems with IaC, manage cloud security tooling, and ensure secure deployments across AWS.

The role requires hands-on experience with GitHub Actions, Snyk, and Datadog, and collaboration with the Innovation team. The position emphasizes security-first development, observability, and cross-functional coordination, with a strong focus on production readiness

Qualifications

• 5+ years directly applicable experience in DevSecOps, cloud infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or software delivery automation.
• Hands-on responsibility for infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, cloud security tooling, and production deployment workflows.
• Strong Terraform skills across AWS and experience building CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions with security gates.
• Hands-on with Snyk integrated into developer workflows and CI.
• Datadog configuration including log management and SIEM features.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain secure, reusable infrastructure-as-code modules for cloud environments.
• Design, implement, and support CI/CD pipelines including SAST/DAST and deployment workflows.
• Configure observability and monitoring across the stack, including Cloud SIEM and dashboards.
• Coordinate third-party penetration tests and develop threat models for new features.

Skills

DevSecOps

Cloud infrastructure

CI/CD pipelines

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Snyk

Datadog

IaC

IAM debugging

Security tooling

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

GitHub Actions

Snyk

Datadog

Terraform

Job description

Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Cooley AI is seeking a Sr. DevSecOps Engineer to join the Innovation team.

About Cooley AI:

Cooley AI is the wholly-owned subsidiary of Cooley LLP. The frontier development arm of the leading technology law firm in the world. Our mission is to bring the best-in-class practices from the technology field into the legal domain to help lead our firm and the legal industry into the AI era. All employees of Cooley AI are employees of Cooley and are seconded to Cooley AI.

Position summary:

As a leading technology law firm, Cooley is determined to become a leader in the digital practice of law. 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. EOE.

The expected annual pay range for this position with a full-time schedule is $165,000 - $215,000. Please note that final offer amount will be dependent on geographic location, applicable experience and skillset of the candidate. Senior level candidates may be considered for this position and would be eligible for a higher salary range based on experience.

We offer a full range of elective benefits including medical, health savings account (with applicable medical plan), dental, vision, health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, long-term care coverage, backup care for children and/or adults and other parental support benefits. In addition to elective benefit options, benefited employees receive firm-paid life insurance, AD&D, LTD, short term medical benefits as well as 21 days of Paid Time Off ("PTO") and 10 paid holidays each year. We provide generous parental leave and fertility benefits. New employees will attend a detailed benefit orientation to learn more about our many benefits and resources.