Senior DevSecOps Engineer - Velocity Platform
Nelnet, Inc.2 days ago
Remote, United States or Centennial, CO, USASenior
Base Salary
$120k - $158k/yr
Responsibilities
- Monitor and support installed systems and infrastructure, evaluate performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement changes.
- Design, implement, and monitor enterprise-grade secure and fault-tolerant infrastructure.
- Define and improve build-and-release practices with traceability and auditability of changes.
- Maintain continuous availability of source control, continuous integration, change management, and release management tools.
- Build infrastructure automation tools and frameworks and automate repetitive work.
- Integrate applications into cloud environments and automate deployment pipelines securely, reliably, and at scale.
- Use application monitoring tools to troubleshoot and diagnose environment issues.
- Develop scalable capabilities for developer productivity, environment monitoring, self-healing, and autonomous delivery teams.
- Partner with Cloud Infrastructure and Security teams to follow organizational policies, procedures, and best practices.
- Automate security controls and educate teams on DevSecOps practices and tooling.
- Define problems, propose approaches, align with architecture and delivery teams, and independently build solutions.
- Coach, mentor, and teach team members while serving as a senior technical voice.
Requirements
- 1–3+ years of experience with AWS DevOps, cloud architecture, networking, deployment processes, and infrastructure as code tools.
- Experience solving complex problems, creating algorithms, and working through challenging requirements.
- Experience creating software in an agile, iterative environment.
- Experience with source control, including Git, branching, and merging.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to communicate technical concepts and strategies at all organizational levels.
- Strong problem-solving, critical-thinking, organizational, and time-management skills.
- Ability to coach, mentor, and teach team members and work effectively in a dynamic environment.
- Ability to obtain a security clearance.
- Knowledge of Federal Government NIST compliance is preferred.
- Commitment to innovation, collaboration, continuous improvement, and maintaining professional qualifications.
Benefits
- Hybrid work environment with both in-office and remote work; associates within 30 miles of an office generally work 24 hours in the office each week, subject to manager discretion.
- External candidates residing in Alabama, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, or Washington are not currently considered; internal remote associates may be considered.
- Benefits include medical, dental, vision, HSA and FSA, earned time off, 401K/student loan repayment, life insurance, AD&D insurance, employee assistance, employee stock purchase, tuition reimbursement, incentive pay, disability coverage, and a wellness program.
- Nelnet is a drug-free and tobacco-free workplace.
Tech Stack
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.