DevOps Engineer ReleaseENV Management

Nelnet is a diversified and innovative company committed to enriching lives through the power of service as a student loan servicer professional services company consumer loan originator and servicer payments processor renewable energy solutions and K-12 and higher education expert. For over 40 years Nelnet has been serving its customers associates and communities.

The perks of working at Nelnet go beyond our benefits package. When you join the Nelnet team youre part of a community invested in the success of each individual. That support comes through in our work as we are united by our mission of creating opportunities for people where they live learn and work.

An ideal team member will be a DevSecOps engineer that has working experience with Release and Environment management skills as expected below -

• Overseeing the DevOps Release process and frameworks which are used as part of release package promotion from lower environments to production.

• Developing release implementation plans by working with various project teams to deploy the release packages to test environments and production.

• Deploy the release packages to QA and production environments as requested by developers/QA teams.

• Maintain automated CI/CD pipelines and Environments used to build and deploy to target environments.

• Need to provide support to ensure the availability of all lower environments to developers and QA teams for testing activities.

• Need to ensure that the test environment is regularly maintained upgraded and configured to reflect the latest software and hardware releases.

• Responsible for checking and resolving any problems or issues with the test environment. This includes diagnosing and fixing hardware and software problems as well as managing resource constraints and ensuring that the test environment is available for testing when needed.

• Enhance and support existing automation scripts and Plan and upgrade all automation related tools as required.

• Ensure that CMDB is updated with all details of App/Service and database details along with infrastructure details (server/URLs/application/services/database etc.)

• Research and implement new tools for automating various tasks that adds value in terms of cost time and effort at DevOps development/QA communities.

• Involve and establish monitoring solution to check health and performance of Development QA and Performance environments and execute relevant maintenance tasks or fixes.

• Enforce and maintain Environment and Application Security based on established policies and procedures.

• Document all procedures related to the processes and tools developed.

• Identify establish and manage Proof of Concept (POC) environments and report on design outcomes

Compensation for this role starts at 245000 ROM

EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelors degree in computer science Engineering or a related field and 6 years of experience in software development DevOps frameworks and methodology

• Minimum 4 years of practical experience in DevOps release management Azure environment management and deployments

• Need to have a deep understanding of hardware software network and data configurations and can use this knowledge to design implement and maintain the test environments.

• Strong understanding of Microsofts Azure Azure ARM Templating Azure DevOps Pipeline implementation of infrastructure as code deliveries and templating/delivery of Firewalls Azure ExpressRoute & IPSec Tunnels Azure Virtual WAN WAF and other network and security components of Azure

• Understand technology concepts - virtualization operating systems (Linux Windows) cloud (Azure) networking (IP routing firewall) source code management platforms (GitLab GitHub) container systems (Docker Kubernetes) scripting (Python Bash PowerShell)

• Experience with establishing engineering standards frameworks best practices and tools aligned with the ALM and SDLC.

• Extensive experience with scripting languages PowerShell Batch Shell

• Experience supporting both Windows and Linux environments.

• Understanding of fundamental technologies like DNS Load Balancing SSL TCP/IP networking and security.

• Experience with Cloud Delivery Methodologies using Microsoft Azure Products and Technologies.

• Experience with a variety of relevant technologies including .Net Core HTML5 PowerShell JavaScript CSS Java C# XML REST SQL/NoSQL Angular NodeJS Redis.

• Experience in providing support for Production Releases and Environments.

• Experience with Agile development methodologies.

Our benefits package includes 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 and a robust wellness program. Click here to learn more about our benefits: Benefits & Perks - Nelnet Inc.

Nelnet is committed to providing a welcoming and respectful workplace where all associates have the opportunity to succeed. As an Equal Opportunity Employer we ensure that all qualified applicants are considered for employment. Employment decisions are made without regard to race color religion/creed national origin gender sex marital status age disability use of a guide dog or service animal sexual orientation military/veteran status or any other status protected by federal state or local law. We value the unique contributions of every team member and believe that a positive work environment benefits everyone.

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