DevOps Engineer - Release/Environment Management (Remote Bucharest)
Nelnet, Inc.2 months ago
Bucharest, RomaniaSenior
Responsibilities
- Oversee DevOps release processes and frameworks for promoting release packages from lower environments to production.
- Develop release implementation plans and deploy packages to QA, test, performance, and production environments.
- Maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment environments, automation scripts, and infrastructure-as-code delivery processes.
- Provision, configure, monitor, upgrade, and troubleshoot Azure infrastructure and development, QA, and performance environments.
- Ensure lower environments are available, maintained, configured, and suitable for developer and QA testing.
- Maintain CMDB records for applications, services, databases, servers, URLs, and infrastructure.
- Research and implement automation tools and establish monitoring for environment health and performance.
- Enforce environment and application security policies and document procedures and tools.
- Establish and manage proof-of-concept environments and report on design outcomes.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
- At least 6 years of experience in software development, DevOps frameworks, and DevOps methodologies.
- At least 4 years of practical experience in DevOps release management, Azure environment management, and deployments.
- Deep understanding of hardware, software, network, and data configurations for designing and maintaining test environments.
- Strong experience with Microsoft Azure, Azure ARM templates, Azure DevOps pipelines, infrastructure as code, Azure networking, firewalls, WAF, ExpressRoute, IPSec tunnels, and Virtual WAN.
- Experience with Linux and Windows, GitLab or GitHub, Docker, Kubernetes, Python, Bash, PowerShell, Batch, and Shell scripting.
- Understanding of DNS, load balancing, SSL, TCP/IP, networking, security, virtualization, and operating systems.
- Experience with Azure cloud delivery methodologies, engineering standards, frameworks, best practices, ALM, and SDLC.
- Experience with .NET, .NET Core, HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, Java, C#, XML, REST, SQL/NoSQL, Angular, Node.js, and Redis.
- Experience supporting production releases and environments.
Benefits
- Full-time remote work from Bucharest.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus HSA and FSA options.
- Generous earned time off, life insurance, AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, and an employee assistance program.
- 401(k) and student-loan repayment support, employee stock purchase program, tuition reimbursement, and performance-based incentive pay.
- Robust wellness program.
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About Nelnet, Inc.
Nelnet, Inc. is a publicly traded financial services and education technology company that serves students, families, schools, and government agencies through loan servicing, refinancing, and payment solutions. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska, it also operates Nelnet Bank and multiple service divisions. Its Nelnet Business Services unit provides payment technology and education services to over 1,200 higher education institutions and nearly 12,000 K–12 schools.