Senior DevOps Engineer

📋 Description

• • Lawhive Inc. is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior DevOps Engineer to play a pivotal role in constructing and maintaining the robust infrastructure that powers all of our innovative legal tech products. This is a hands-on position where you will be entrusted with the ownership of our cloud environments, the seamless operation of our deployment pipelines, the fortification of our security foundations, and the meticulous management of our observability systems. You will collaborate closely with our talented product engineering teams, ensuring they possess the tools and environment necessary to deploy features rapidly and reliably, thereby accelerating our mission to make legal services accessible to everyone.
• • As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be instrumental in shaping the future of our platform. Your responsibilities will encompass the design, implementation, and ongoing management of deployment patterns and practices. This includes building and maintaining sophisticated CI/CD pipelines utilizing tools such as GitHub Actions, AWS, Elastic Container Service (ECS), and Kubernetes (K8s). You will be at the forefront of infrastructure and system architecture, contributing significantly to the design of our systems as we navigate rapid scaling and evolving technological landscapes. Your expertise will be crucial in building and maintaining our platform infrastructure, ensuring it is both resilient and scalable.
• • A critical aspect of this role involves a strong focus on security and compliance. You will be responsible for executing our security and compliance roadmaps, diligently hardening our software, systems, and data security. This includes establishing and enforcing stringent access controls, implementing comprehensive audit processes, and ensuring adherence to all relevant compliance standards. Furthermore, you will own our observability and reliability initiatives, developing and managing monitoring and alerting systems that provide deep insights into our services, enabling swift and effective incident response.
• • Beyond technical responsibilities, you will significantly contribute to enhancing the developer experience and fostering cross-team collaboration. You will work hand-in-hand with product engineering teams to identify and implement solutions that streamline their workflows, improve productivity, and simplify the process of moving from idea to production. Our engineering culture is characterized by a commitment to shipping daily, transforming concepts into live features within hours. We foster an environment of deep empathy for our users – lawyers and legal clients – ensuring our products are built with their unique needs and expectations at the forefront. We strive for excellence, driven by an ambition to be a category-defining legal tech company, and we embrace a culture of constant learning and experimentation, pragmatically applying cutting-edge technologies like AI to solve real-world problems.
• • The ideal candidate will possess deep experience in DevOps, infrastructure, and security within fast-paced startup or scale-up environments where hourly deployments are the norm. You should have a proven track record with extensive experience in CI/CD systems and modern cloud deployment patterns, including proficiency with GitHub Actions, Docker, Terraform, and AWS. A genuine passion for improving developer experience and productivity is essential, as is the ability to collaborate effectively with product engineers to devise simple, efficient solutions. Familiarity with modern product engineering patterns and practices, experience in product-centric companies, and a solid understanding of system design fundamentals are highly valued. Crucially, you must bring a strong security mindset, with demonstrable experience in environments handling sensitive data and systems requiring robust access controls.
• • This role offers a unique opportunity to be a foundational member of a rapidly growing, well-funded legal tech company that is revolutionizing access to justice. You will have a direct impact on the scalability, reliability, and security of our platform, enabling us to serve more clients and achieve our ambitious mission. You will work with a talented and passionate team dedicated to innovation and excellence in a dynamic and supportive environment.