Nelnet - Englewood, CO
posted 3 months ago
Nelnet Business Services (NBS), a division of Nelnet, Inc., is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to play a crucial role in ensuring the stability, performance, and availability of the organization's IT systems. This position involves designing, implementing, and maintaining the infrastructure, tools, and processes necessary for efficient software development, deployment, and operations. The DevSecOps Engineer will collaborate with development, security, and IT operations teams to automate workflows and ensure the seamless delivery of high-quality applications. The responsibilities of the DevSecOps Engineer include provisioning, configuring, and monitoring infrastructure resources for systems hosted in AWS and/or Azure cloud environments. The role emphasizes the importance of a DevSecOps framework, where maintaining security standards is paramount. The team supports a wide range of development teams looking to modernize their applications through a container-first strategy. An ideal candidate will have solid experience with various technologies, particularly in designing, building, and optimizing continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines. They will implement best practices for automated testing, code quality checks, and deployment automation, while also working heavily with Microsoft cloud-hosted code management services such as Azure DevOps, GitHub, and GitHub Actions. The role requires deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications using Kubernetes, understanding Kubernetes concepts such as pods, services, deployments, and namespaces. Additionally, the engineer will evaluate system performance, identify potential bottlenecks, and develop solutions through the change management process. The position also involves defining and evolving Build & Release best practices, ensuring continuous availability of various DevOps tools, and working with cross-functional teams to design and implement enterprise scalable features that enhance developer productivity and facilitate autonomous delivery teams. The engineer will build infrastructure automation tools, integrate applications into cloud environments, and automate deployment pipelines in a scalable, secure, and reliable manner. A culture of automation is encouraged, where repetitive tasks, including security controls, are automated. The engineer will work closely with Cloud Infrastructure, Security, and Development teams to ensure adherence to organizational best practices, policies, and procedures.