Senior DevSecOps Engineer: Cloud Security & Automation

Jobtailor; Colorado; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Velocity, Nelnet's cloud-native loan servicing platform, is seeking an experienced DevOps professional to own infrastructure, deployment automation, and security posture. You will monitor all systems, evaluate performance, and implement changes through formal change management.

You will design fault-tolerant enterprise infrastructure, evolve Build & Release practices, and ensure continuous availability of DevOps tools.

Qualifications

• 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 (Git, branching, merging, etc.)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Detail oriented and critical thinker with excellent problem-solving skills.
• Ability to coach, mentor, and teach team members.

Responsibilities

• Own the infrastructure, deployment automation, and security posture of Velocity, Nelnet's cloud-native loan servicing platform.
• Monitor and support all installed systems and infrastructure.
• Evaluate system performance, identify bottlenecks, develop solutions, and implement changes through change management.
• Design, implement, and monitor secure, fault-tolerant enterprise infrastructure.
• Define and evolve Build & Release best practices supporting traceability and auditability.
• Ensure continuous availability of DevOps tools for source control, continuous integration, and change management.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on scalable features that improve developer productivity, environment monitoring, self-healing, and autonomous delivery.
• Build infrastructure automation tools and frameworks.
• Integrate applications into cloud environments.
• Automate scalable, secure, and reliable deployment pipelines.
• Use application monitoring tools to troubleshoot and diagnose environment issues.
• Automate repetitive work.
• Collaborate with Cloud Infrastructure and Security teams to follow organizational best practices, policies, and procedures.
• Automate security controls.
• Define problems, propose approaches, socialize them with architecture and delivery teams, and implement solutions.
• Set technical standards and raise the technical capability of other engineers.

Skills

AWS DevOps

Cloud Architecture

Infrastructure as Code

Deployment Automation

Problem Solving

Communication

Mentoring

Time Management

Education

Bachelor/Associate degree

Tools

Git

CI/CD Pipelines

Monitoring Tools

Automation Frameworks

Job description

Velocity, Nelnet's cloud-native loan servicing platform, is seeking an experienced DevOps professional to own infrastructure, deployment automation, and security posture. You will monitor all systems, evaluate performance, and implement changes through formal change management.

You will design fault-tolerant enterprise infrastructure, evolve Build & Release practices, and ensure continuous availability of DevOps tools.