Senior Engineer, Infrastructure Operations

Firm Summary

White & Case is an elite global law firm serving leading companies, financial institutions and governments worldwide. Our long history as an international firm means we are perfectly placed to help our clients resolve their most complex legal challenges wherever they may be.

With lawyers operating from more than 40 locations, working in virtually every country of the world, we have invested heavily in building a high-quality full-service practice competing at the top of the market. We are distinguished by our on-the-ground presence in the world’s key financial markets and our strengths in handling complex cross-border work. 

It’s not just about our global network of offices; it’s the global interconnectedness of the Firm that our people, and our clients, value most. We work well together across geographic and practice boundaries. It’s one of the reasons we attract and retain cross-border work. 

Our lawyers are globally minded, enterprising, collaborative and committed to excellence. Our people represent 90 nationalities and speak 80 languages.

Position Summary

You will share the responsibility for aligning and integrating the global infrastructure technology and methods within the Firm’s complete technology portfolio, particularly around the integration of applications, services, and infrastructure.

Our Global Technology Services Team

Our team comprises of three functions: Business Services – who maintain, develop and support our enterprise systems, Operations – who design, build and support our communications and data centre operations, and Support Services – who provide desktop, meeting and training support in the Firm’s offices. Together we support our lawyers with leading edge technology and systems to deliver elite legal and best-in-class client service.

Globally minded and diverse, our team covers a range of technical disciplines and business skill sets. This encompasses business analysts, data architects, application developers and engineering staff covering a range of technologies that include virtualization, cloud, networking, storage, collaboration services and security. We deploy the latest technology and hardware within our state-of-the-art offices. Our technical support staff support and train our people in the latest hardware and operating systems, remote working capability and mobile devices. Our Shared Services centres provide Service Desk and Operation Centres that providing support and monitoring of Firm systems 24 x 7.

Working closely with our business services colleagues in support of the Firm’s Finance, HR, Marketing and Knowledge Information Technology systems, Global Technology Services is at the heart of the Firm’s global operations.

Duties and Accountabilities

• Work within a team focused on infrastructure automation and efficiency, following the principles of Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Design, deploy, and manage infrastructure across both AWS and Azure, ensuring consistent governance, scalability, and security posture
• Collaborate with application teams to assess and enhance cloud readiness, facilitating smooth deployment and operations in Azure and AWS
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the deployment and testing of infrastructure and applications using GitLab or similar platforms.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts that integrate cloud services with enterprise tools such as CyberArk, Duo, and other identity or security platforms
• Write Terraform code to deploy infrastructure as code, following community and internal best practices
• Create Ansible playbooks and workflows to automate infrastructure and business processes
• Architect cloud infrastructure solutions with an emphasis on security, reliability, and usability
• Review code