Senior DevSecOps Engineer - Velocity Platform

Nelnet is a diversified company providing financial, education, payments, and renewable energy services. The company is seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to own infrastructure, deployment automation, and security for its cloud-native Velocity loan servicing platform running entirely on AWS. The role involves defining and implementing solutions, establishing DevSecOps standards, automating infrastructure and deployments, and mentoring engineering teams.

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. These best practices should support traceability & auditability of change
• Ensure continuous availability of various DevOps tools supporting SCM & Release Management including Source Control, Continuous Integration, & Change Management
• Work with cross-functional teams in design, development and implementation of enterprise scalable features related to enabling higher developer productivity, environment monitoring and self-healing, and facilitate autonomous delivery teams
• 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 organizational best practices, policies, and procedures are followed
• Automation of security controls

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.)
• Contributes to a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Educates teams on adoption and support of DevSecOps practices and tooling
• Takes individual initiative to follow industry thought leaders, maintain professional qualifications, and participate in company as well as global communities of interest
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; with the ability to communicate technical concepts and strategies at all levels of the organization
• Must be detail oriented, critical thinker, possess 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
• At this time, we are unable to consider external candidates that reside in these states: Alabama, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington
• Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. To be considered, candidates must already be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship
• Knowledge in the area of Federal Government NIST compliance preferred