Engineering Manager, DevOps

Your Impact
At CS DISCO, our cloud infrastructure is the backbone that enables us to deliver cutting-edge solutions to our clients. As an Engineering Manager on our team, you will be a key technical leader, guiding the evolution and management of our AWS-based cloud infrastructure, focusing on our big data platform. Your expertise will drive enhancements to our system's reliability, scalability, security, and the overall success of our cloud-based solution development. With a thorough understanding of CloudFormation, Terraform, and CodePipeline, you will help to elevate our DevOps practices, ensuring seamless CI/CD pipelines, efficient container orchestration, and robust monitoring solutions. Your technical leadership will not only impact our current operations but will help shape our future cloud strategy

What You'll Do

• Guide your team to deliver value pragmatically and productively while building architecturally sound, well-crafted, secure, testable, interoperable, and easily modifiable systems.
• Foster operational excellence, improving the performance, availability, and scalability of your systems, and your staff’s ability to consistently improve them.
• Evaluate team architectural designs for completeness and coherence with requirements.
• Build an effective team by hiring and developing top talent, instituting and evolving team practices, and fostering a culture of respect, cooperation, dependability, ownership, and gratitude.
• Own the technical backlog for areas such as cloud superstructure, paved path runtimes, build / deployment, and observability.
• Represent the team and charter to internal stakeholders, leadership, and the business.

Who You Are

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• 10+ years of experience including prior hands-on experience developing and operating distributed systems in the cloud.
• 3+ years of engineering management including experience hiring, managing, and growing engineers up to principal level
• 6+ years of hands-on experience with AWS, including a strong understanding of CloudFormation, Terraform, and CodePipeline.
• 6+ years of experience in scripting languages such as Python and Bash.
• 6+ years of experience with Github, CI/CD platforms, and container technologies like Docker.
• Extensive experience in automating deployment/scaling of containerized applications, and Infrastructure As Code (IaC) practices.
• Demonstrated expertise in designing, implementing, and maintaining (through operational observability) high-availability, high-performance, distributed cloud infrastructure and platforms. Your proficiency extends to ensuring seamless deployment, scaling, and management of our cloud resources.
• Strong knowledge of Linux system administration and automation.

Even Better If You Have…

• Technical Proficiency:
• Experience with Windows Servers, ASP.NET Deployments (WebDeploy), PowerShell scripting, and systems integration.
• Proficiency in Kubernetes, Jenkins, and Artifactory.
• Leadership:
• Proven experience in leading technical discussions, mentoring junior engineers, and collaborating across multi-disciplinary teams to drive complex projects to completion.
• Ability to articulate and advocate for best practices in cloud infrastructure management and DevOps processes to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Innovation: A track record of driving continuous improvement, identifying and leveraging emerging cloud technologies to solve complex business challenges.
• Learning & Development: A commitment to continuous learning and staying updated with the latest in cloud platforms, big data technologies, and DevOps practices.
• Polyglot Experience: Demonstrated proficiency in multiple programming languages, including but not limited to Python. 

DISCO's Technology Stack

• Cloud Provider: AWS
• CI/CD: Terraform, Docker, Jenkins, CodeDeploy, GitHub, Artifactory, HashiCorp Consul
• Observability: ELK Stack, Data Dog, New Relic, Sentry.io
• Programming Languages: Python, Bash

Perks of DISCO 

• Open, inclusive, and fun environment
• Benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, as well as 401(k) 
• Competitive salary plus RSUs
• Flexible PTO 
• Opportunity to be a part of a company that is revolutionizing the legal industry
• Growth opportunities throughout the company