<h3>About the company</h3>
<p>Nelnet Business Services (NBS), a division of Nelnet, Inc., provides payment technology and education services to more than 1,200 higher education institutions, nearly 12,000 K-12 schools, 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.</p>
<h3>Role Summary</h3>
<p>The Senior Database Administrator serves as the technical owner and operational lead for NPS database platforms, supporting mission critical business systems on AWS environments. This role designs, operates, secures, and continuously improves highly available database ecosystems while providing strategic leadership for modernization, automation, and risk reduction initiatives.</p>
<p>The Senior DBA owns end to end accountability for database availability, performance, security, backup/recovery, patching, and disaster recovery for enterprise SQL Server, Aurora Postgres, and supporting database technologies. This position operates with minimal supervision, sets technical direction, and is trusted to make production decisions that directly impact customer facing systems and regulatory commitments.</p>
<p>This role provides significant technical ownership of the NPS database platform. The Senior DBA partners closely with Enterprise and Infrastructure Architects to provide technical leadership for complex or high-risk database changes and help engineering teams identify and mitigate database risks before deployment. The role owns the enterprise Reporting Database, the CDC pipeline, data retention strategy, and the governance of database changes and access provisioning.</p>
<h3>Job Responsibilities</h3>
<ul>
<li>Researches, designs, implements, and manages enterprise database systems based on business and application requirements.</li>
<li>Leads complex database migrations, upgrades, and transformation initiatives.</li>
<li>Designs and supports high availability and disaster recovery solutions.</li>
<li>Monitors, analyzes, and improves database performance, scalability, and reliability.</li>
<li>Ensures database security, compliance, backup, and recovery strategies are properly implemented and maintained.</li>
<li>Recommends improvements to database architecture, standards, and operational processes.</li>
<li>Owns the architecture, health, performance, and operational reliability of the enterprise Reporting Database.</li>
<li>Manages the CDC pipeline's health, reliability, and daily operations.</li>
<li>Manages data truncation processes to meet retention requirements.</li>
<li>Establishes database change governance across PostgreSQL and SQL Server.</li>
<li>Defines and audits database access governance and least privilege.</li>
<li>Reviews complex, high-risk, or performance-sensitive schema and query changes.</li>
<li>Guides engineering teams on database solution design and best practices.</li>
<li>Supports production systems, including participation in on-call support as required.</li>
<li>Continues to update technical knowledge and stay current on emerging database technologies and AI-enabled operational tools.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Education</h3>
<p>Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience supported by relevant technical certifications and demonstrated expertise in enterprise database platforms.</p>
<h3>Experience</h3>
<ul>
<li>7+ years of experience in database administration and architecture.</li>
<li>Experience with Aurora Postgres, Microsoft SQL Server 2019 platforms.</li>
<li>Hands-on experience managing databases in cloud environments.</li>
<li>Experience designing high availability and disaster recovery solutions.</li>
<li>Exposure to data streaming or CDC concepts is a plus.</li>
<li>Familiarity with database schema migration tools such as Liquibase is a plus.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Competencies – Skills / Knowledge / Abilities</h3>
<ul>
<li>Strong technical competency in database architecture, performance tuning, and security.</li>
<li>Logical, analytical, and solution-oriented approach to problem solving.</li>
<li>Ability to work independently and collaboratively across cross-functional teams, including engineering, architecture, and infrastructure.</li>
<li>Experience with AWS RDS and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL.</li>
<li>Knowledge of database security hardening practices.</li>
<li>Experience with database monitoring, alerting, and incident response.</li>
<li>Ability to automate operations via SQL scripting and related tooling.</li>
<li>Ability to design new database clusters and high availability configurations.</li>
<li>Focus on continuous improvement and delivering reliable, scalable database solutions.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Pay Range for this role is - $120,000 DOE</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>

Sr. Database Administrator

<div><strong>About the Work</strong></div><div>As a Platform Engineer, you'll help maintain and grow the infrastructure that powers Planning Center's applications and services. You'll start with clear, well-defined projects and close support and take on more ownership as you grow, eventually managing key pieces of our cloud infrastructure. We're looking for someone reliable and collaborative, who's excited to grow their craft and their understanding of how Planning Center builds and runs platform services.</div><div><br><strong>Responsibilities</strong></div><ul><li>Handle infrastructure work across a growing scope — from hand-picked, low-urgency familiarization tasks (AWS services, Datadog monitoring, deployments, low-impact automation) toward independently managing significant components such as container orchestration, database performance tuning, and cloud-service optimization</li><li>Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure issues with autonomy, seeking guidance on necessary changes and, in time, on architecture decisions</li><li>Implement and troubleshoot scalable, resilient cloud architectures using AWS services such as ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, and SNS</li><li>Engage in infrastructure-as-code projects and play an active role in CI/CD pipeline management, ensuring smooth, efficient deployments</li><li>Analyze and optimize cost and performance, balancing performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency</li><li>Grow in alignment with company infrastructure patterns and best practices</li><li>Engage in and help refine the team's collaborative processes</li><li>Mentor less-experienced engineers and facilitate learning, sharing knowledge through tech talks and documentation</li><li>Proactively identify and implement infrastructure improvements, such as automating manual processes or enhancing security</li><li>Consistently ask questions and provide feedback to teammates that demonstrate an effort to understand their work — growing toward feedback that is high-quality and actionable</li><li>Actively seek feedback and act on it constructively, continuously enhancing their technical and collaborative skills</li><li>Participate in on-call rotation, starting as a secondary observer and growing into a full participant</li><li>Proactively communicate your own needs and the needs of the work you're responsible for</li></ul><div><br><strong>What You Bring</strong></div><ul><li>5+ years of experience building and operating production infrastructure on AWS</li><li>Proven ability to lead infrastructure projects from design through rollout and launch</li><li>Expertise in distributed systems, deployment orchestration, and failure detection / handling</li><li>Hands-on experience with AWS Elastic Container Service, containers, and workload scheduling</li><li>Strong track record in reliability, incident response, and building maintainable, debuggable systems</li><li>Broad technical impact across systems through architecture, code review, mentorship, and team-level technical leadership</li></ul><div><br><strong>Nice to Have</strong></div><ul><li>Experience hosting and maintaining Ruby on Rails applications at scale</li><li>Experience with deployment safety systems such as anomaly detection, progressive delivery, and automated rollback</li><li>Familiarity with event-driven architectures for deployment observability and notifications</li><li>Experience managing Infrastructure-as-Code at scale, including cloud governance and IAM in AWS</li><li>Background building developer platforms and internal tools that improve developer experience</li><li>Experience with core AWS services such as Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, and others</li></ul><div><br><strong>Who We Look For</strong></div><div>The best fits for any role on the Planning Center team are people embodying our <strong>Core Values:</strong></div><ul><li><strong>Engage with Humility: </strong>We actively participate with openness and receptiveness. We are ready to listen, learn, and speak thoughtfully and kindly— regardless of role or experience.</li><li><strong>Invest in our team: </strong>We give our time and energy to the success of those around us—collaborating well, making space for diverse perspectives, and sharing knowledge freely.</li><li><strong>Do Our Best Work:</strong> We strive for excellence and continuously look for ways to improve both our individual contributions and our team’s output.</li><li><strong>Focus on Customer Impact:</strong> We advocate for our customers in our decision-making and ensure our work creates meaningful, positive value for them.</li><li><strong>Think Holistically, Work Iteratively:</strong> We consider the bigger picture while making steady, practical progress— thinking big and working small.</li></ul><div><br>We believe the strongest teams are built from diverse backgrounds and experiences. We’re committed to cultivating that diversity and creating an inclusive, supportive environment where you can do your best work.&nbsp;</div><div><br><strong>Our Hiring Process</strong></div><div>We want this process to feel clear, respectful, and human. You’re getting to know us just as much as we’re getting to know you!</div><div><br>Applications will be accepted until <strong>August 11th, 2026 at 8:00am PT</strong>. We review applications on a rolling basis and may close the posting early once we’ve built a strong pool of candidates, so we encourage you to apply early!</div><div><br>Below is an outline of the steps in our hiring process.</div><ul><li><strong>Step One</strong>: Apply with your resume and complete the application questions so we can learn more about your background and experience. <em>Our application questions are a chance for us to get to know you, so feel free to answer them the way you might in a cover letter.&nbsp;</em></li><li><strong>Step Two</strong>: Phone screen with our Talent Acquisition team to get to know one another and discuss work and culture</li><li><strong>Step Three</strong>: Initial technical interview with two of our platform engineers, including a technical exercise and time to discuss your background</li><li><strong>Step Four</strong>: Final technical interview with a few team members, including a technical exercise and more in-depth discussion on your experience and interest in joining the team</li><li><strong>Step Five:</strong> Pending all goes well, we'll extend an offer</li></ul><div><br><strong>Compensation and Logistics&nbsp;</strong></div><ul><li>This is a US-based role; candidates must reside in and be authorized to work in the United States. We are not able to sponsor H-1B visas at this time.</li><li>Candidates must be willing to travel three times each year to connect with the rest of the team</li><li>The annual salary range for this position is $200,000 - $235,000.</li></ul><div><em>Note: If you've applied for this same role within the past 9 months, we kindly ask that you do not reapply at this time. We thoughtfully review each application, and while we may not move forward now, we encourage you to apply for future opportunities that align with your experience.</em></div><div><br><strong>Benefits</strong></div><div>We love our team. It's one of the core pillars that guides how we work, which is why we invest deeply in your well-being, growth, and balance. Here are some highlights (you can explore all our benefits <a href="https://www.planningcenter.com/careers">here</a>):</div><div><br><strong>Get paid:</strong></div><ul><li>401(k) with a 3% company contribution after 90 days</li><li>Charitable giving match up to $2,000/year</li><li>Up to $300 monthly coworking stipend</li><li>Allowance for continued education</li></ul><div><br><strong>Get out:</strong></div><ul><li><strong>Paid Fridays off, all year long!</strong></li><li>A month-long sabbatical every five years</li><li>A week off between Christmas and New Year's</li><li>A paid week each year to serve with a globally focused nonprofit</li><li>Two weeks of paid vacation (growing to three over time)</li></ul><div><br><strong>Be healthy:</strong></div><ul><li>95% medical and 100% dental premium coverage</li><li>$200/month toward physical fitness and mental health</li><li>Paid sick time</li></ul><h3><strong>About Planning Center</strong></h3><div>Planning Center exists to help churches build stronger, more connected communities.</div><div>Since 2006, over 80,000 churches have trusted our tools to care for their people—whether that’s communicating with their congregation, organizing important information, or coordinating the details that make ministry happen.</div><div><br>We’re an independent, profitable company with no outside investors. That means we get to focus on building products thoughtfully, caring for our team well, and making decisions for the long term.&nbsp;</div><div><br>Our team is fully remote, working together daily through tools like Slack, Asana, Linear, Notion, and Zoom. Three times a year, we gather in Carlsbad, CA to connect in person, strengthen relationships, and align on where we’re headed.</div>

Platform Engineer

<strong>ABOUT US</strong><br>Compassion is looking for a DevOps AWS expert who is passionate about making an eternal difference utilizing technology. We need someone who can join our other AWS staff in managing and maturing our AWS platform, while still mentoring our internal customers to pursue ever increasing value from AWS utilizing strong DevOps practices!<br><br><strong>WHAT WILL YOU DO?</strong><ul><li>Maintains a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Is a consistent witness for Jesus Christ, maintains a courteous, Christ-like attitude in dealing with people within and outside of Compassion, and faithfully upholds Compassion’s ministry in prayer.</li><li>Acts as an advocate to raise the awareness of the needs of children. Understands Christ’s mandate to protect children. Commits to and prioritizes child protection considerations in all decision-making, tasks and activities across the ministry. Abides by all behavioral expectations in Compassion’s Statement of Commitment to Child Protection and Code of Conduct. Reports any concerns of abuse, neglect or exploitation of children through Compassion’s internal reporting process and appropriately supports responses to incidents if they occur.</li><li>Matures DevOps disciplines and champions the lean agile mindset for major initiatives regarding issues such as Test Driven Development, flow, and systems thinking.</li><li>Continually improves integration of complex infrastructure builds with application deployment processes across major projects and systems.</li><li>Troubleshoots complicated technical problems relating to information systems, providing insight and guidance to other specialists.</li><li>Analyzes, designs and evaluates large automation scripts and systems.</li><li>Researches new technologies that will be efficient, effective, and highly scalable.</li><li>Coaches and provides expertise, and may oversee the work of other professionals and support staff in the business analysis discipline.</li></ul><br><strong>WHAT DO YOU BRING?</strong><ul><li><strong>AWS production experience</strong> — Extensive experience operating and optimizing AWS environments at scale</li><li><strong>Cloud Operations</strong> — Deep understanding of AWS Cloud Operations life cycle management including security, governance, compliance, and disaster recovery models</li><li><strong>Landing Zone Accelerator (LZA)</strong> — Hands‑on experience implementing and operating AWS Landing Zone Accelerator (LZA), including governance, multi‑account architecture, security controls, and automation patterns</li><li><strong>AWS Lattice & advanced networking</strong> — Experience designing and operating service‑to‑service communication using AWS Application Networking (AWS Lattice), including secure connectivity, traffic routing, service mesh patterns, cross‑account communication and hybrid networking.</li><li><strong>AI/ML platform engineering</strong> — Experience driving innovation by integrating AI/ML capabilities into AWS platform engineering, including designing and maintaining foundational services. Skilled at leveraging AI to enhance operational efficiency, accelerate delivery workflows, and improve platform reliability.</li><li><strong>Automation expertise</strong> — Strong automation skills, eliminating manual work whenever possible, e.g., Infrastructure as Code, pipelines, and operational scripting</li><li><strong>Workload migration</strong> — History of migrating complex workloads onto AWS</li><li><strong>Kubernetes & Serverless</strong> — Ability to design, build, and operate workloads in Kubernetes and AWS serverless architectures</li><li><strong>Python engineering</strong> — Strong Python development skills for operational tooling, automation scripts, and AWS Lambda functions</li></ul><br><strong>WHY WORK HERE?</strong><ul><li><strong>The mission:</strong> Join a team that is motivated to release children from poverty in Jesus’ name.</li><li><strong>Our benefits:</strong> Receive generous paid time off, 10% contribution to a 403(b) retirement fund on top of your salary, excellent healthcare coverage, free short-term professional counseling, and more.</li><li><strong>Spiritual growth:</strong> Participate in regular chapel services, prayer groups, and department devotionals.</li></ul>

Sr. DevOps Engineer

<div><strong>About the Team&nbsp;</strong></div><div>The Subsplash Product and Engineering Team is responsible for all products that the company develops including the tools and services we offer our clients as well as the App Platform that serves our clients’ end users. We are a team of designers, developers, and coordinators, creating polished experiences for our clients and end users. The Product and Engineering Team is responsible for the entire user experience including: End-User Mobile Apps, the Subsplash Dashboard (our Content Management System), Subsplash Giving, the Web App, TV apps, APIs, analytics, and more. The Product and Engineering Team supports our Clients by helping them maximize digital engagement, fuel their mission and expand their reach.</div><div><br><strong>About the Role</strong></div><div>As a Software Development Engineer III, you will report to one of our Software Development Managers. This is a senior level role within our team, and with that comes a high degree of influence. You will work closely with Designers, Project Managers and other Engineers to build systems that people want to use and can rely upon. You recognize the importance of stability and uptime for web services and financial software systems. You are cautious and contemplative with architectural decisions, working alongside others to deliver secure, stable, and elegant solutions. You enjoy reviewing other team member’s work, and receiving constructive feedback as well. You treat security concerns as first class citizens, and will help coach others to understand industry best practices.</div><div><br><strong>Compensation</strong></div><div>The total overall compensation for this role will be between $135,000-155,000/yr.</div><div><br></div><h3><strong>Required Education + Experience</strong></h3><ul><li>7+ years of full time programming experience in a group/team environment</li><li>Experience and proficiency making architectural decisions both in expanding existing projects and planning/implementing new systems&nbsp;</li><li>Significant experience with server-side web technologies (Examples: Unix/Linux, Golang, PHP,&nbsp; MySQL, MongoDB)</li><li>Networking and Network Security proficiency</li><li>Experience protecting against security risks such as XSS, SQL Injection, appropriate use of SSL, session hijacking etc.</li><li>Experience, knowledge, and mindfulness of security best practices with server-side and client-side (e.g. Javascript) languages as well as industry standards</li><li>Hands-on experience with AWS or similar hosting providers</li><li>Experience writing technical documentation and proposals</li><li>Value collaboration, reviewing others work, mentoring others, as well as receiving constructive feedback</li><li>Able to navigate ambiguous requirements while prioritizing multiple projects, tasks, and bug fixes</li><li>Ability to mentor others, communicate complex technical requirements with clarity, and the ability to influence others' technical design decisions</li><li>Participate in the team’s on-call rotation as needed</li><li>Bachelor of Science in Computer Science/Engineering, or equivalent experience</li></ul><div><br></div><h3>Desired Skills and Experience</h3><ul><li>Experience with Golang, Microservice architecture, NGINX, Redis, and PHP</li><li>Extensive knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, AJAX, JSON, and cross-browser compatibility</li><li>Solid understanding of OAuth2 and Authentication protocols</li><li>Knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery</li><li>Knowledge of data security best practices related to PCI/DSS/CISP/SOC2</li><li>Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes, etc.)</li><li>Experience with AI-driven development agents (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) and integrating LLMs into the SDLC to significantly accelerate engineering velocity.</li><li>Proficiency in prompt engineering and agent orchestration, with an ability to effectively review, debug, and refine code generated by agents.</li><li>Understanding of AI-native development patterns, including managing agent-specific context (e.g., CLAUDE.md), utilizing Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations, and adhering to automated guardrails for security and code quality.</li><li>Strong product-design intuition to define requirements, oversee agent-led implementation, and maintain high code quality in a high-velocity, automated environment.</li><li>Familiar with Agile principles and Scrum</li></ul><div><br><strong>You are…</strong></div><ul><li><strong>Passionate: </strong>You demonstrate our core values of Humility, Innovation, and Excellence</li><li><strong>Trustworthy: </strong>You understand the importance of confidentiality with sensitive information</li><li><strong>Efficient:</strong> You naturally have the ability to prioritize multiple projects and tasks</li><li><strong>A Communicator:&nbsp; </strong>You have a knack for clear and concise communication&nbsp;</li><li><strong>A Driver:</strong> You are smart, persistent, and not easily blocked</li><li><strong>Team-Oriented: </strong>You love your Designer, because technical architecture only matters if people want to use the tools and you love your Project Manager, because great software doesn’t count if it never ships.</li><li><strong>A Learner:</strong> You are<strong> </strong>committed to staying current with new technologies and industry trends.</li><li><strong>A Mentor: </strong>You have a love for learning and teaching others while maintaining a posture of humility.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Location</strong></div><div>Subsplash currently has operations in 27 states across the US! As much as we would love to have employees in as many states and countries as we have clients, we are currently limiting hiring to the states we already operate in. As a result of that,<strong> this role is only available as a 100% remote position if you reside in one of the following states:&nbsp;</strong></div><div><br>AL, AR, AZ, CO, FL, GA, ID, IA, IN, KS, KY, MO, MI, MN, NC, NM, OK, OH, OR, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WY.</div><div><br>Unfortunately, if you do not <strong>currently</strong> reside in one of these states, we are unable to consider your application.</div><div><br><strong>Benefits</strong></div><div>Generous Paid Time Off (Accrual rate of 15 days for the first year and then 20 vacation days per year beginning on your 1 year anniversary), Medical Coverage, Dental Coverage, Vision Coverage, short and long term disability and life insurance all free of charge, Competitive Compensation, 401k Matching, Professional Development, Top of the Line Equipment, Referral Program, Parental Leave, Family-Friendly Culture, and the chance to work side-by-side with thought leaders in emerging tech</div><div><br><strong>About Subsplash</strong></div><div>Subsplash is an exciting, award-winning team of 290+ mission-driven people who are committed to our core values of humility, innovation, and excellence. Founded in 2005, we’ve remained family owned and operated while pioneering the market with the first ever church mobile app. Since then, we’ve been working together to build The Ultimate Engagement Platform™ for churches, Christian ministries, non-profits, and businesses around the world. We find excitement in serving our 17,000+ clients, creating impactful products, and delighting the 40 million real people who use our platform every day. Subsplash has won awards for best mobile experience, been voted top 100 Washington's Best Workplaces by the Puget Sound Business Journal, created some of the most downloaded apps of all time, and built enterprise software for world-class brands like XBOX, Microsoft, Samsung, Expedia, and Cisco; yet, at the end of the day, we love making a lasting impact and a difference in our world.</div>

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