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Cooley LLP · 18 hours ago

Senior Technology Site Reliability Engineering Manager

San Francisco, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$165K/yr - $235K/yr

7+ years exp

Cooley LLP is seeking a Senior Technology Site Reliability Engineering Manager to join their Infrastructure & Development Operations team. This role involves leading a team of SREs to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of the firm’s infrastructure and services, while collaborating with various teams to create resilient systems and improve operational practices.

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Comp. & Benefits

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Define and execute the SRE strategic roadmap aligned with business goal, providing 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)

Build and mentor a high-performing SRE team, fostering a culture of trust, collaboration, and continuous improvement

Partner with cross-functional leaders in infrastructure, DevOps, and application development to scale reliability practices across the enterprise

Oversee incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems with a focus on accountability and learning

Establish and enforce Service-level objectives (SLOs), service-level indicators (SLI’s), and service-level agreements (SLA’s)

Drive proactive monitoring, alerting, observability, and capacity planning

Lead automation initiatives for deployment, scaling, failover, and recovery

Promote observability practices using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, or Splunk

Collaborate with development teams to build self-healing, fault-tolerant systems

Champion reliability-first thinking across engineering and operations

Encourage blameless postmortems and a learning-oriented incident culture

Ensure compliance with security, risk, and regulatory requirements

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 CN HR, participate in hiring, performance appraisals, counseling, termination and other employee lifecycle events

All other duties as assigned or required

Qualification

Site Reliability EngineeringCloud platforms (AWS)TerraformDistributed systemsProgramming PythonProgramming GoProgramming JavaConfiguration management toolsIncident responseAnalytical skillsEmotional intelligenceTeam collaborationCommunication skills

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' direct applicable experience (e.g., DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering) with 2+ years of exempt/management experience in relevant roles

Experience managing cross-functional projects and SRE planning and programing

Proficiency in Terraform and programming languages such as Python, Go, or Java

Deep expertise in cloud platforms, particularly AWS, and container orchestration

Strong background in distributed systems, performance tuning, and automation

Hands-on experience with configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, or Salt

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

Experience with IaC deployment of AKS/EKS/GKE architecture

Experience with enterprise Data Lake environments using technologies such as DataBricks or Snowflake

Benefits

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

Other parental support benefits

Firm-paid life insurance

AD&D

LTD

Short term medical benefits

21 days of Paid Time Off (“PTO”)

10 paid holidays each year

Generous parental leave

Fertility benefits

Company

Cooley LLP

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Clients partner with Cooley on transformative deals, complex IP and regulatory matters, and high-stakes litigation.

Founded in 1920

Palo Alto, California, USA

1001-5000 employees

http://www.cooley.com

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