Senior DevSecOps Engineer – Velocity Platform

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Colorado

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USD 90,000 - 130,000

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6 days ago

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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

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

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 (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
Ability to handle a dynamic work environment
Effective organization and time management skills
Ability to obtain a security clearance
Knowledge in Federal Government NIST compliance preferred
External candidates must reside within a 30-mile radius of Centennial, CO; Lincoln, NE; or Madison, WI
Must already be authorized to work in the United States without current or future visa sponsorship

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in AWS DevOps, cloud architecture, and infrastructure automation, with a strong focus on security compliance and deployment processes. Proven ability to mentor team members and enhance technical standards while ensuring continuous availability of DevOps tools.

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