Senior DevOps Engineer

Nelnet Business Solutions; Canada; Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Nelnet is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to provision, configure, and monitor Azure cloud resources using IaC, with a container-first approach. The role emphasizes GitOps, security, and automation across CI/CD pipelines.

You will collaborate with development and QA teams to enhance secure build/release processes, while adhering to NIST security standards and infrastructure as code best practices in a hybrid work setting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or related field; 6+ years in software development and DevOps.
• 4+ years of automation build/delivery operations.
• Strong understanding of Azure services, ARM templating, and security components.
• Experience managing GitHub organizations/projects and CI/CD tooling.
• Familiarity with virtualization, Linux/Windows, networking, scripting languages.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain IaC modules for Azure resources and automated deployments.
• Build/maintain CI/CD pipelines with security checks and compliance reporting.
• Configure and optimize GitHub Actions workflows for infra and app deployments.
• Collaborate with dev and QA teams to support secure, scalable pipelines.
• Monitor health and performance of environments and enforce security policies.

Skills

IaC development

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Azure

Security tooling

CI/CD pipelines

Networking concepts

Scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell)

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Azure DevOps

Terraform

GitHub

Kubernetes

Jira

Job description

Nelnet is a diversified and innovative company committed to enriching lives through the power of service as a student loan servicer, professional services company, consumer loan originator and servicer, payments processor, renewable energy solutions, and K-12 and higher education expert. For over 40 years, Nelnet has been serving its customers, associates, and communities.

The perks of working at Nelnet go beyond our benefits package. When you join the Nelnet team, you're part of a community invested in the success of each individual. That support comes through in our work, as we are united by our mission of creating opportunities for people where they live, learn, and work.

We are looking for a DevSecOps Engineer that is responsible for provisioning, configuring, and monitoring the infrastructure resources for systems hosted in our Azure cloud environment. We strongly believe in the value of GitOps, DevOps, and DevSecOps. We are building a Cloud Application Platform team to accelerate our migration out of the datacenter and fuel our modernization. Our team believes the full lifecycle of cloud systems (deployment, maintenance, retirement) should be managed via code. Our team is challenged to maintain NIST security standards and understands GitOps processes are the key to meeting this challenge. As we continue our move into the cloud, we plan to support a wide range of development teams who are looking to modernize their applications via a container-first strategy. Reporting to the Senior DevOps Manager, the Senior DevOps Engineer would join a team of experts focusing on Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Development, Automation, Innovations using DevOps practices, processes and frameworks.

Job Responsibilities

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Development & Management
  • Design, develop, and maintain reusable Terraform modules for provisioning and configuring cloud resources across Azure environment
  • Implement and manage IaC pipelines for automated infrastructure deployment, updates, and decommissioning
  • Ensure IaC practices adhere to security policies, compliance requirements, and industry best practices
• Automation & CI/CD
  • Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions for both infrastructure and application deployments, integrating security best practices
  • Automate routine operational tasks, security checks, and compliance reporting
  • Integrate and administer Test automation and Application Security tools for continuous code quality checks
• GitHub Expertise
  • Administer and optimize GitHub Organization and Project settings, including team and repo management.
  • Set up, monitor, and troubleshoot GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows.
  • Develop and maintain automation scripts to streamline DevOps operations and infrastructure workflows.
• Collaborate with development and QA teams to support secure, scalable, and reliable build/release pipelines.
• Document processes and mentor team members on tooling best practices.
• Participate actively in agile planning and work tracking through tools such as Jira.
• Research and implement new tools for automating various tasks that adds value in terms of cost, time and effort at DevOps, development/QA communities.
• Involve and establish monitoring solution to check health and performance of Development, QA and Performance environments and execute relevant maintenance tasks or fixes.
• Enforce and maintain Environment and Application Security based on established policies and procedures.

Compensation

Compensation Range for this Role: $110,000-$135,000 CAD (based on experience)

Work Arrangement

This role has a hybrid work requirement of 2 days minimum in office per week.

Security Clearance

Additionally, this position requires the successful completion of a Government of Canada Reliability Clearance (PERC) as a condition of employment. Candidates must be eligible to obtain and maintain the required clearance throughout their employment.

Experience

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering or a related field and 6+ years of experience in software development, DevOps frameworks and methodology
• Minimum 4+ years of practical experience in Automation Build and Delivery Operations.
• Strong understanding of Microsoft's Azure, Azure ARM Templating, Azure DevOps Pipeline implementation of "infrastructure as code" deliveries, and templating/delivery of Firewalls, Azure ExpressRoute & IPSec Tunnels, Azure Virtual WAN, WAF and other network and security components of Azure
• Solid experience managing GitHub Orgs and Projects, including access control, repo management, and configuration.
• Understand technology concepts - virtualization, operating systems (Linux, Windows), cloud (Azure), networking (IP, routing, firewall), source code management platforms (GitLab, GitHub), container systems (Docker, Kubernetes), scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell)