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# Senior DevSecOps Engineer - Velocity Platform

- **Company:** Nelnet
- **Location:** Omaha, NE, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $120,000.0 - $158,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Adobe InDesign, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Availability, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Fault Tolerance, HP Systems Insight Manager, Release Management, Cloud Platform System, Git, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Deployment Automation, Software Version Control, Devsecops
- **Published:** September 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/job/us2466a9b951e71d52bf618865cab698e6/eaa

## About the Role

* 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.)

COMPETENCIES - SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITIES:
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
Knowledge in the area of Federal Government NIST compliance preferred

## Description

Nelnet believes in a hybrid work environment. The standard hybrid work schedule includes 24 hours of in-office work each week, for associates that reside within 30 miles of an office. This is subject to change, based on manager discretion.
NOTE: Internal Associates working in a remote capacity may be considered for this position., An ideal team member will be a DevSecOps engineer that has solid experience with many of these technologies, however select specialization in just a few will also be considered with great interest.
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


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