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As one of the world’s leading law firms, we serve a broad range of clients with market-leading practices in private equity, M&A and other complex corporate transactions; investment fund formation and alternative asset management; restructurings; high-stakes commercial and intellectual property litigation; and government, regulatory and internal investigations. We handle the most complicated and sophisticated legal matters because we don’t just meet industry standards, we create them. We bring innovation and entrepreneurialism to every engagement and, as a result, have long-standing client relationships with leading global corporations and financial sponsors. With 6,500 employees (including 3,500 lawyers) operating from 20 offices across the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, we are one of the largest law firms in the world and a top financial performer.
Essential Job Functions
This position will be responsible for working with Product Engineering team to lead Infrastructure-as-Code development effort with Terraform CLI. He/she will establish strategy for IaC pipelines aligned with Kirkland’s Cloud strategy. He/she will partner closely with infrastructure teams and architecture teams to understand their road maps. Manage and enable reusable infrastructure for IaC consumers. This individual must be able to take high level direction, formulate a plan to achieve the goals and execute the plan.
Software applications are typically focused around the day-to-day business processes supporting legal and administrative staff. Job duties may include, but are not limited to research, evaluation, and recommendations of enabling technologies. Job responsibilities also include providing production support activities during non-business hours.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS (This list is not exhaustive and may be supplemented and changed as necessary.)
- Lead or participate on designing, developing and testing IAC solutions for IaaS and PaaS solutions for Cloud (Azure) platforms
- Support DevOps operations by integrating developed IaC into CI/CD pipeline builds
- Automate the provisioning of environments leveraging Terraform and deploying environments including test automation
- Define SLAs, standards, metrics, processes for the IaC development team
- Administer Terraform infrastructure and provide SME level support
- Provide intermediate Level 3 support. Investigates operational or systematic problems and provides resolution using intermediate analytical skills and tools as necessary.
- Maintain up-to-date awareness of current and future directions of business industry and associated technologies.
- Coordinate with the cloud/ infrastructure teams;
- May develop and maintain application security, design and documentation according to legal compliance requirements.
OTHER FUNCTIONS (This list is not exhaustive and may be supplemented and changed as necessary. Delete if not applicable.)
Communication
- Effectively listens to understand and articulates technical and non-technical information (both written and oral formats) to customers, peers and/or management in a one-on-one or team context with some oversight.
- Provides production support activities, including advanced technical writing.
- Documents small to medium scale projects with some supervision, and may be involved in developing and delivering presentations to aid in custom product development decision making.
Decision Making
- Ability to solicit input from internal and external sources, including the ability to investigate and weigh best practices from other firms, analyzes input and use sound judgment.
- Provides manager with supporting information and recommendation for key decisions; demonstrates keen judgment in knowing when to escalate for approval. Follows all change management, and all required procedures, per documented Firm and IT policies and procedures.
- Involved in anticipating problem troubleshooting scenarios and analyzing ways in which to avoid the problem completely or greatly mitigate its risk. The goal is to minimize the trade-offs between cost containment and/or timeliness of service so that both are somewhat achievable.
Interpersonal Skills
- Does "whatever it takes" to support the tactical and strategic goals of the team and in the Firm.
- Recognized as a positive, full engaged, highly responsive and effective team member. Recognizes and Defuses complex interpersonal issues effectively while managing customer expectations. Sets follow up steps in accordance with best practices.
- Negotiates skillfully and compromises in very difficult situations to build relationships internally and externally for the team.
Strategic/Change Leadership
- Manages organizational development by dissecting complex situations and refocusing on the most critical technology tasks.
- Contributes through technical expertise/professional experience in solving problems and/or delivering on opportunities facing the team or group.
- Provides feedback to management on strategic recommendations. Fosters environment of innovation and change.
- Aligns changes with the organization's strategic direction and objectives and customer expectations.
- Recognizes the scope of problems and understands the impact of changes on others.
- Identifies short and long-range organizational needs.
- Creates a clear focus on internal and external customer needs.
- Promotes cooperation.
Program/Project Management
- Demonstrates proficiency in the application of the Firm’s project management and software development (SDLC) methodology.
- Reports on progress and project milestones.
- Frequently updates teams and management via formal presentations.
- Focuses on outcomes and achieves results.
Technical Ability
- Strong and growing knowledge of and experience with at least one technology (e.g., architecture, design).
- Understands multiple projects in order to integrate them into business solutions.
Qualifications & Requirements
Education, Work Experience, Skills
A Bachelor’s Degree is preferred in mechanical, computer, or electrical engineering discipline.
Required:
- 8 plus years of experience building and releasing infrastructure-as-code in a controlled environment.
- 2 plus years of experience leading small to medium size teams.
- Prior experience establishing Infrastructure as Code strategy
- Prior experience with developing coding/scripting to build required automation and tools using Terraform CLI, Terraform Cloud, YAML, JSON, Azure CLI, Powershell, etc.,
- Experience in implementing a continuous integration and continuous development pipelines
- Broad technical experience with infrastructure services
- Must possess requirement and component level estimation, database design and development skills.
- Strong knowledge and prior working experience with Azure infrastructure
- A strong desire to stay current on development best practices using emerging technologies and industry trends.
- The ideal candidate must have excellent judgment, problem-solving, oral, written and interpersonal communication skills, as well as the ability to work in a fast-paced, multi-project environment while building positive working relationships.
- Proven change management skills.
- In addition, candidate must be self-motivated, organized, and able to multi-task and effectively prioritize competing demands on time and attention.
Preferred/Desired:
- Experience in a law firm or global professional services environment preferred.
Technologies/Software
Core Technologies
- Must understand Microsoft Azure technologies
- Must participate in daily team scrums and code reviews
Current K&E Technologies
- Microsoft Azure DevOps
- Terraform CLI
- Terraform Cloud
- Microsoft Azure
- Advanced Awareness of the Software Development Life Cycle and development methodology (i.e. Scrum Agile)
How to Apply
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For applicants who are based in New York, visit the following link for pay range information: http://staffjobsus.kirkland.com/pages/JOBID7458
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