Senior DevSecOps Engineer - Velocity Platform (AWS)

nelnet; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Nelnet is seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to own the infrastructure, deployment automation, and security posture of Velocity, Nelnet's cloud-native loan servicing platform running entirely in AWS. Velocity uses serverless Node.js/TypeScript microservices on AWS Lambda with API Gateway, SNS/SQS, and Aurora PostgreSQL, managed via CloudFormation and GitHub Actions across four environments.

This senior role expects you to define problems, propose approaches, and deliver secure, scalable

Qualifications

• 1–3+ years of AWS DevOps, cloud architecture, networking, deployment processes, and IaC tools.
• Experience solving complex problems and challenging requirements.
• Experience in agile, iterative software development.
• Experience with source control (Git).

Responsibilities

• Monitor and support all installed systems and infrastructure.
• Evaluate system performance and implement changes via change management.
• Design and monitor secure, fault-tolerant infrastructure.
• Define Build & Release best practices for auditability and traceability.
• Automate deployment pipelines in a scalable, secure manner.
• Collaborate with Cloud Infrastructure and Security teams on best practices.
• Integrate applications into cloud environments.

Skills

AWS DevOps

Cloud architecture

Networking

Deployment processes

IaC tools

Git

Agile development

Tools

Git

CloudFormation

Terraform

Datadog

CloudWatch

Job description

Nelnet is seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to own the infrastructure, deployment automation, and security posture of Velocity, Nelnet's cloud-native loan servicing platform running entirely in AWS. Velocity uses serverless Node.js/TypeScript microservices on AWS Lambda with API Gateway, SNS/SQS, and Aurora PostgreSQL, managed via CloudFormation and GitHub Actions across four environments.

This senior role expects you to define problems, propose approaches, and deliver secure, scalable