Senior DevSecOps Lead for Cloud-Native Velocity Platform

Nelnet, Inc.; Oklahoma; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 158,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental & Vision

401K

Student loan repayment

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Nelnet seeks a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to own Velocity’s infrastructure, deployment automation, and security posture in AWS. Velocity is a fully serverless platform with Node.js/TypeScript microservices, Lambda, API Gateway, and Aurora PostgreSQL, managed via CloudFormation.

The role demands defining problems, proposing approaches, and setting standards for the team. You will be a senior technical voice, shaping automation, security controls, and scalable deployment pipelines while

Qualifications

• 1-3+ years of experience in 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.).

Responsibilities

• Monitor and support all installed systems and infrastructure.
• Evaluate system performance, identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions, and implement change via the change management process.
• Design, implement and monitor enterprise-grade secure fault-tolerant infrastructure.
• Define and evolve Build & Release best practice by working within teams and educating the other stakeholder teams.
• Ensure continuous availability of various DevOps tools supporting SCM & Release Management.
• Work with cross-functional teams in design, development and implementation of enterprise scalable features.
• Build infrastructure automation tools and frameworks.
• Integrate newly developed and existing applications into cloud environments.
• Automate deployment pipelines in a scalable, secure and reliable manner.
• Leverage application monitoring tools to troubleshoot and diagnose environment issues.
• Have a culture of automation where any repetitive work is automated.
• Work closely with Cloud Infrastructure and Security teams to ensure policies are followed.
• Automation of security controls.

Skills

AWS DevOps

Cloud architecture

Networking

Infrastructure as Code

Git / Source Control

Agile / Iterative development

Security mindset

Problem solving

Tools

CloudFormation

AWS Lambda

Datadog

CloudWatch

Job description

Nelnet seeks a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to own Velocity’s infrastructure, deployment automation, and security posture in AWS. Velocity is a fully serverless platform with Node.js/TypeScript microservices, Lambda, API Gateway, and Aurora PostgreSQL, managed via CloudFormation.

The role demands defining problems, proposing approaches, and setting standards for the team. You will be a senior technical voice, shaping automation, security controls, and scalable deployment pipelines while