DevOps Engineer

The Company

Friedman Vartolo LLP is a fast-growing New York-based law firm specializing in real estate and default services with over 300 employees providing top-tier legal services to our clients in seven states. While our legal expertise sets us apart its our mindset that drives us forward. We bring a fresh fast-paced energy that drives our momentum and shapes how we approach every challenge.

We are a company that chooses to dig deeper solving problems at the root instead of settling for surface fixes. Here there are no passengers because every individual adds value owns outcomes and moves the firm forward. With an underdog mentality we embrace constant elevation always sharpening always climbing and never coasting. When challenges come we row together and lean in as one team to get the job done no matter what.

The Position

We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to own the deployment pipeline that allows our Production Group to ship new internal applications quickly reliably and securely. You will design and maintain the deployment templates CI/CD pipelines identity integration and observability standards that every application produced by the team uses.

This is a force-multiplier role. Every improvement you make to the pipeline reduces the engineering effort required for every subsequent deployment across a growing portfolio of internal automation applications.

You will work closely with the Senior Technology Manager a Production Reliability Engineer (counterpart role) and a group of Production Engineers who use your pipeline daily.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design build and maintain reusable Azure Container Apps deployment templates for the firms internal application portfolio
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions Azure DevOps or equivalent) for the deployment of new applications
• Implement and automate Entra ID / SSO integration Azure Key Vault secret management and managed identity patterns
• Establish observability standards (Azure Monitor Application Insights Log Analytics) and ensure new applications adhere
• Partner with the Production Reliability Engineer to ensure deployment pipelines support reliable operation
• Continuously reduce per-application deployment effort through template improvements and automation
• Maintain documentation of the deployment pipeline including patterns documented in the firms shared engineering reference library
• Contribute to security and compliance posture work (SOC2 readiness Vanta evidence collection) as it relates to the deployment pipeline

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 5 years professional experience as a DevOps Engineer Platform Engineer or Site Reliability Engineer
• Strong Azure cloud experience particularly Container Apps App Service and supporting services
• Hands-on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions Azure DevOps GitLab CI or equivalent)
• Infrastructure-as-Code proficiency (Bicep ARM templates Terraform or equivalent)
• Strong understanding of containerization (Docker) networking fundamentals and Azure RBAC
• Hands-on experience with Entra ID (Azure AD) SSO/SAML and Key Vault
• Comfortable working in Linux/Unix environments
• Strong written and verbal communication - you can explain pipeline decisions clearly to developers who will use them daily

Preferred Skills & Qualifications

• Experience with compliance-automation platforms (Vanta Drata Secureframe)
• Experience instrumenting applications for observability beyond basic uptime - distributed tracing structured logging custom metrics
• Familiarity with Databricks data warehouses or analytics platforms
• Comfort using TypeScript or Python for pipeline tooling and automation
• Experience in regulated industries (legal financial services healthcare)
• Familiarity with security tooling (Huntress Microsoft Defender similar)

Benefits

Friedman Vartolo LLP is proud to offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package designed to support the well-being and security of our team. Our benefits include:

• Paid parental leave options
• Short and long-term disability leave options
• Comprehensive medical dental and vision insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Dependent Care plans
• Commuter benefits including transit and parking options
• Pet insurance to help care for your furry family members
• 401(k) retirement plans with employer contributions
• Gym and fitness reimbursements to support a healthy lifestyle
• Annual business expense reimbursements for attorneys
• Annual $500 travel budget to attend firm sponsored social events
• Hybrid work flexibility available after 90 days of employment *

*Dependent upon specific position requirements and firm business needs

Equal Opportunity Employer

Friedman Vartolo LLP is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin age disability veteran status or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal state and local laws.

ADA Compliance

Friedman Vartolo LLP is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). We will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants and candidates with disabilities unless doing so would impose an undue hardship.

If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete your application participate in a job interview or take part in any stage of the hiring process please contact our Recruitment Team at .

Required Experience:

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