IT Engineer - DevSecOps

Nelnet - Springfield, IL

Full-time - Mid Level

Springfield, IL

1,001-5,000 employees

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About the position

Nelnet Business Services (NBS), a division of Nelnet, Inc., is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer who will 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, automate workflows, and ensure seamless delivery of high-quality applications. The role is pivotal in provisioning, configuring, and monitoring the infrastructure resources for systems hosted in our AWS and/or Azure cloud environment. At NBS, we strongly believe in the value of DevOps and a DevSecOps framework. Our team is challenged to maintain security standards while understanding that DevOps processes are key to meeting this challenge. We support a wide range of development teams looking to modernize their applications via a container-first strategy. The ideal candidate will have solid experience with various technologies, although specialization in a few will also be considered with great interest. The responsibilities of the DevSecOps Engineer include designing, building, and optimizing continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, implementing best practices for automated testing, code quality checks, and deployment automation. The engineer will work heavily with Microsoft cloud-hosted code management services for repositories and pipelines, deploy and manage containerized applications using Kubernetes, evaluate system performance, and design secure fault-tolerant systems. Additionally, the engineer will define and evolve Build & Release best practices, ensure continuous availability of DevOps tools, and work with cross-functional teams to enhance developer productivity and facilitate autonomous delivery teams.

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 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.
• Promote 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.

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

• 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