IT Engineer - DevSecOps -NBS

About the position

Nelnet Business Services (NBS), a division of Nelnet, Inc., provides payment technology, education services, and learning management solutions to education and faith-based organizations, serving more than 1,300 higher education institutions, 11,500 K-12 schools, 3,500 churches, and millions of individual students, families, and supporters across the globe. Our culture of service enables us to form long-lasting and trusted partnerships, while our focus on creativity and innovative solutions empowers our customer communities to thrive. As a Nelnet company, the perks at NBS go beyond our benefits package. You're part of a community, invested in you as an individual and united by our mission to create opportunities for people where they live, learn and work. We are looking for a DevSecOps Engineer who will play a crucial role in ensuring the stability, performance, and availability of the organization's IT systems by designing, implementing, and maintaining the infrastructure, tools, and processes necessary for efficient software development, deployment, and operations. The DevSecOps Engineer collaborates with development, security, and IT operations teams, automates workflows, and ensures seamless delivery of high-quality applications. This position offers a hybrid work option. Nelnet values flexibility and understands the importance of work-life integration. Our hybrid work environment allows associates living within 30 miles of an office location to work remotely for part of the week, while also fostering collaboration and team connection through in-office presence three days per week.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Implement best practices for automated testing, code quality checks, and deployment automation.
• Work heavily with Microsoft cloud hosted code management services for repositories, pipelines (Azure DevOps and Boards, GitHub and GitHub Actions).
• Deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications using Kubernetes.
• 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 systems (e.g., Datadog, Azure Application Insights).
• 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 Software Configuration Management (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, including automation of security controls.
• Work closely with Cloud Infrastructure, Security, and Development teams to ensure organizational best practices, policies, and procedures are followed.
• Hands-on experience with public cloud platforms (AWS and Azure).

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience with AWS DevOps, cloud architecture, networking, deployment processes, and infrastructure as code tools.
• Industry certifications (e.g., Azure, AWS, Kubernetes).
• Experience solving complex problems, creating algorithms, and working through challenging requirements.
• Experience creating software in an agile, iterative environment.

Nice-to-haves

• Contributes to a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Educates teams on adoption and support of DevSecOps practices and tooling.
• 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, and handle a dynamic work environment.
• Effective organization and time management skills.
• Strong programming skills (Python, Bash, or PowerShell).
• Strong working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines in a globally distributed environment.
• Understanding of full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Familiarity with Git, Docker, and container orchestration.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, HSA and FSA.
• Generous earned time off.
• 401K/student loan repayment.
• Life insurance & AD&D insurance.
• Employee assistance program.
• Employee stock purchase program.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Performance-based incentive pay.
• Short- and long-term disability.
• Robust wellness program.