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Infrastructure Engineer roles qualify for EB-2 and EB-3 green card sponsorship when the position requires a bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, electrical engineering, or a related field. Employers file a PERM labor certification with DOL before sponsoring you for permanent residency, making this a direct path to a green card rather than a temporary status.
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OCI is a trusted infrastructure partner to customers running some of the world’s largest and most demanding AI and machine-learning workloads. Our teams design, build, deploy, operate, and continuously optimize large-scale GPU environments where reliability, performance, security, and delivery speed are critical.
Raw Metal Cloud (RMC) is an operating platform for the AI-infrastructure lifecycle, from hardware onboarding and inventory through networking, provisioning, validation, rack certification, and customer handoff.
As Director of Core Infrastructure Engineering, you will lead a high-performing engineering organization responsible for evolving RMC and delivering production-ready GPU infrastructure at scale. You will own the strategy, architecture, execution, and operational health of critical infrastructure services while partnering across hardware, networking, data-center operations, platform engineering, security, product, and customer-facing organizations.
This role requires a leader who combines deep technical judgment with organizational leadership and disciplined execution. You will develop engineering leaders, establish clear ownership across services, drive architectural alignment, and ensure that teams deliver measurable improvements in infrastructure readiness, fleet health, performance, reliability, security, and customer outcomes.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
System Design & Architecture – System Scalability:
- Implements strategies across multiple teams or groups for the architecture and design of interdependent scalable distributed systems, including the use of distributed state management tools, ensuring organizational and system demands are met.
- Spearheads code and/or system optimization initiatives for large-scale data processing and high-throughput requirements across multiple areas, driving improvements that support hyper-scale systems.
- Facilitates collaborations to define system scalability requirements, ensuring the defined requirements meet customer expectations.
- Oversees the design of interdependent systems to scale with elasticity (e.g., effectively scaling both up and down).
- Drives the effective use and implementation of data plane platforms for large-scale data operations.
System Design & Architecture – System Reliability Design:
- Provides strategic oversight for the architecture of fault-tolerant interdependent systems capable of withstanding in-service updates by overseeing implementation across teams of redundancy, replication, and automatic failover mechanisms.
- Influences and sets direction for designing systems to effectively handle service disruptions (e.g., network partitions) by prioritizing consistency, availability, or partition tolerance.
- Leads strategic optimization initiatives for handling network unreliability, including directing the design of load-shedding, throttling, and rate-limiting techniques.
- Holds teams accountable for leveraging formal verification techniques to verify system designs and conduct peer reviews across teams.
- Drives the design of systems that are durable and adhere to service level objectives (SLOs), developing standards for availability and durability of other computing services across the department.
System Design & Architecture – System Reliability Performance:
- Drives strategies for defining key performance indicators (KPIs) and telemetry to identify risks, gaps, or cyclical dependencies in running systems, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
- Directs the creation and customization of complex dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms that proactively monitor and ensure optimal system health across teams.
System Design & Architecture – Correctness / Availability:
- Implements strategies to effectively determine if systems are meeting functional and correctness requirements, and encourages teams to identify improvement opportunities.
- Provides thought leadership on processes for formally verifying complex features to ensure system design correctness.
- Oversees the implementation of data replication and synchronization techniques, ensuring data integrity and availability across the organization.
Operational Troubleshooting & Incident Management:
- Provides strategic oversight for diagnosing, debugging, and resolving issues in active systems to support ongoing operation.
- Directs strategies within teams to prevent interruptions, ensuring no maintenance windows are required for customers and users when resolving issues.
- Drives alignment across teams for operational readiness protocol and standard operating procedures.
- Provides expert guidance for complex incident response and root cause investigations.
Compliance & Security:
- Provides strategic guidance in architecting robust security measures to protect data and applications in multi-tenant environments, ensuring encryption techniques and access controls are implemented.
- Oversees execution of remediation plans to address identified security gaps, promoting significant improvements and continuous advancement of security measures.
- Drives documentation efforts and ensures cloud infrastructure compliance with industry standards and regulations.
Automation & Change Management:
- Provides strategic guidance across teams on developing and maintaining automation scripts and tools (e.g., Infrastructure as Code (IaC)) to manage cloud infrastructure.
- Drives strategic alignment of change management plans for patching, updating, and rolling back applications, and oversees that system designs allow for automation of these processes.
Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:
- Oversees and guides multiple teams on managing complex projects or initiatives, monitoring timelines, deliverables, and budgets (when applicable) to ensure strategic objectives are met.
- Serves as a role model for appropriately delegating work, setting priorities, and ensuring alignment with business needs.
- Coaches others on adjusting resources or project timelines in anticipation of business changes.
Collaboration & Partnership:
- Role models leading cross-functional collaborative efforts to ensure alignment of expectations and strategic objectives.
- Empowers teams to build and maintain partnerships with business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to address barriers and contribute to organizational success.
- Drives transparency and inclusivity by modeling actively seeking, listening to, and leveraging diverse perspectives.
Problem Solving:
- Shares problem-solving strategies across teams, providing oversight on complex operational and/or technical issues, as needed.
- Coaches teams on analyzing highly complex data and/or information to identify solutions to ambiguous issues.
- Provides direction on identifying root causes to prevent recurrence of issues.
Continuous Learning:
- Pursues strategic learning opportunities to maintain expertise and apply best practices at the organizational level.
- Creates opportunities for team members and leaders to build their expertise in new areas, coaching them to build innovative skills.
- Identifies skill gap trends across the organization and upholds a culture that places significant emphasis on sharing knowledge and pursuing learning opportunities that advance the organization.
- Evaluates the efficiency of learning strategies and recommends adjustments as needed.
Continuous Improvement:
- Empowers teams to own the development and implementation of ideas that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows across the department.
- Coaches teams to gain buy-in for ideas and to seek feedback on approaches and methods for continued improvement.
- Prioritizes and reviews the roadmap of improvement initiatives to ensure alignment with strategic direction and maximize return on investments.
Performance and Development:
- Serves as a role model for driving performance across teams through tailored feedback and coaching in alignment with performance management processes, guidelines, and expectations.
- Drives consistency in the application of talent development procedures and socializes performance expectations across the organization.
- Ensures that individual development goals are aligned with organizational strategic initiatives.
- Collaborates with HR to implement talent strategy through hiring and promotion processes.
INTRODUCTION
OCI is a trusted infrastructure partner to customers running some of the world’s largest and most demanding AI and machine-learning workloads. Our teams design, build, deploy, operate, and continuously optimize large-scale GPU environments where reliability, performance, security, and delivery speed are critical.
Raw Metal Cloud (RMC) is an operating platform for the AI-infrastructure lifecycle, from hardware onboarding and inventory through networking, provisioning, validation, rack certification, and customer handoff.
As Director of Core Infrastructure Engineering, you will lead a high-performing engineering organization responsible for evolving RMC and delivering production-ready GPU infrastructure at scale. You will own the strategy, architecture, execution, and operational health of critical infrastructure services while partnering across hardware, networking, data-center operations, platform engineering, security, product, and customer-facing organizations.
This role requires a leader who combines deep technical judgment with organizational leadership and disciplined execution. You will develop engineering leaders, establish clear ownership across services, drive architectural alignment, and ensure that teams deliver measurable improvements in infrastructure readiness, fleet health, performance, reliability, security, and customer outcomes.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
System Design & Architecture – System Scalability:
- Implements strategies across multiple teams or groups for the architecture and design of interdependent scalable distributed systems, including the use of distributed state management tools, ensuring organizational and system demands are met.
- Spearheads code and/or system optimization initiatives for large-scale data processing and high-throughput requirements across multiple areas, driving improvements that support hyper-scale systems.
- Facilitates collaborations to define system scalability requirements, ensuring the defined requirements meet customer expectations.
- Oversees the design of interdependent systems to scale with elasticity (e.g., effectively scaling both up and down).
- Drives the effective use and implementation of data plane platforms for large-scale data operations.
System Design & Architecture – System Reliability Design:
- Provides strategic oversight for the architecture of fault-tolerant interdependent systems capable of withstanding in-service updates by overseeing implementation across teams of redundancy, replication, and automatic failover mechanisms.
- Influences and sets direction for designing systems to effectively handle service disruptions (e.g., network partitions) by prioritizing consistency, availability, or partition tolerance.
- Leads strategic optimization initiatives for handling network unreliability, including directing the design of load-shedding, throttling, and rate-limiting techniques.
- Holds teams accountable for leveraging formal verification techniques to verify system designs and conduct peer reviews across teams.
- Drives the design of systems that are durable and adhere to service level objectives (SLOs), developing standards for availability and durability of other computing services across the department.
System Design & Architecture – System Reliability Performance:
- Drives strategies for defining key performance indicators (KPIs) and telemetry to identify risks, gaps, or cyclical dependencies in running systems, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
- Directs the creation and customization of complex dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms that proactively monitor and ensure optimal system health across teams.
System Design & Architecture – Correctness / Availability:
- Implements strategies to effectively determine if systems are meeting functional and correctness requirements, and encourages teams to identify improvement opportunities.
- Provides thought leadership on processes for formally verifying complex features to ensure system design correctness.
- Oversees the implementation of data replication and synchronization techniques, ensuring data integrity and availability across the organization.
Operational Troubleshooting & Incident Management:
- Provides strategic oversight for diagnosing, debugging, and resolving issues in active systems to support ongoing operation.
- Directs strategies within teams to prevent interruptions, ensuring no maintenance windows are required for customers and users when resolving issues.
- Drives alignment across teams for operational readiness protocol and standard operating procedures.
- Provides expert guidance for complex incident response and root cause investigations.
Compliance & Security:
- Provides strategic guidance in architecting robust security measures to protect data and applications in multi-tenant environments, ensuring encryption techniques and access controls are implemented.
- Oversees execution of remediation plans to address identified security gaps, promoting significant improvements and continuous advancement of security measures.
- Drives documentation efforts and ensures cloud infrastructure compliance with industry standards and regulations.
Automation & Change Management:
- Provides strategic guidance across teams on developing and maintaining automation scripts and tools (e.g., Infrastructure as Code (IaC)) to manage cloud infrastructure.
- Drives strategic alignment of change management plans for patching, updating, and rolling back applications, and oversees that system designs allow for automation of these processes.
Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:
- Oversees and guides multiple teams on managing complex projects or initiatives, monitoring timelines, deliverables, and budgets (when applicable) to ensure strategic objectives are met.
- Serves as a role model for appropriately delegating work, setting priorities, and ensuring alignment with business needs.
- Coaches others on adjusting resources or project timelines in anticipation of business changes.
Collaboration & Partnership:
- Role models leading cross-functional collaborative efforts to ensure alignment of expectations and strategic objectives.
- Empowers teams to build and maintain partnerships with business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to address barriers and contribute to organizational success.
- Drives transparency and inclusivity by modeling actively seeking, listening to, and leveraging diverse perspectives.
Problem Solving:
- Shares problem-solving strategies across teams, providing oversight on complex operational and/or technical issues, as needed.
- Coaches teams on analyzing highly complex data and/or information to identify solutions to ambiguous issues.
- Provides direction on identifying root causes to prevent recurrence of issues.
Continuous Learning:
- Pursues strategic learning opportunities to maintain expertise and apply best practices at the organizational level.
- Creates opportunities for team members and leaders to build their expertise in new areas, coaching them to build innovative skills.
- Identifies skill gap trends across the organization and upholds a culture that places significant emphasis on sharing knowledge and pursuing learning opportunities that advance the organization.
- Evaluates the efficiency of learning strategies and recommends adjustments as needed.
Continuous Improvement:
- Empowers teams to own the development and implementation of ideas that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows across the department.
- Coaches teams to gain buy-in for ideas and to seek feedback on approaches and methods for continued improvement.
- Prioritizes and reviews the roadmap of improvement initiatives to ensure alignment with strategic direction and maximize return on investments.
Performance and Development:
- Serves as a role model for driving performance across teams through tailored feedback and coaching in alignment with performance management processes, guidelines, and expectations.
- Drives consistency in the application of talent development procedures and socializes performance expectations across the organization.
- Ensures that individual development goals are aligned with organizational strategic initiatives.
- Collaborates with HR to implement talent strategy through hiring and promotion processes.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as an Infrastructure Engineer
Translate your credentials into PERM language
PERM job requirements must match your actual education and experience. If your degree is in a adjacent field like computer science rather than information systems, get a credential evaluation early so your employer's job description can be written to fit what you hold.
Target employers with active PERM filing history
Infrastructure Engineer roles at cloud providers, financial institutions, and large defense contractors generate consistent PERM filings. Use Migrate Mate to filter companies that have sponsored this occupation before, so you're applying to employers already familiar with the process.
Ask about EB-2 versus EB-3 placement before accepting
Your offer letter's stated minimum requirements determine which preference category your employer files under. EB-2 requires a master's degree or equivalent; EB-3 covers bachelor's-level roles. For most countries except India and China, the distinction affects cost and timeline more than wait time.
Verify the prevailing wage before your employer files
DOL must certify your offered salary meets or exceeds the prevailing wage for your location and job zone. Run your title, SOC code, and work location through the OFLC Wage Search before your employer submits the PERM application to catch mismatches early.
Understand that PERM recruitment takes months
Before USCIS sees your I-140, your employer must complete 60 days of mandatory DOL-supervised recruitment. Infrastructure Engineer roles often require advertising in specialized channels. Factor at least six to twelve months from job acceptance to I-140 filing into your timeline planning.
Document your specialized technical experience precisely
PERM audits for infrastructure roles often focus on whether your experience matches niche requirements like network architecture, IaC tooling, or hybrid cloud management. Keep dated records of projects, technologies, and scope so your employer's attestation during a PERM audit is airtight.
Green Card Infrastructure Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does an Infrastructure Engineer role typically qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship?
Most Infrastructure Engineer positions are filed under EB-3 because employers set a bachelor's degree as the minimum requirement. EB-2 applies when the role genuinely requires a master's degree or when you pursue a National Interest Waiver self-petition. Your placement depends on how the employer drafts the job requirements in the PERM application, not on your personal credentials alone.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B for this role?
H-1B visa is temporary, subject to an annual lottery, and tied to a specific employer. EB-2 and EB-3 green card sponsorship through PERM leads to permanent residency with no cap concerns at the EB-3 preference level for most countries. The tradeoff is timeline: PERM plus I-140 plus adjustment of status typically takes one to three years before you receive your green card, compared to H-1B approval in a few months.
What does the PERM process look like for an Infrastructure Engineer position?
Your employer submits a PERM labor certification to DOL showing no qualified U.S. workers are available for the role. DOL requires a 60-day supervised recruitment window, including job postings and internal notices. After certification, the employer files an I-140 immigrant petition with USCIS. Once that's approved, you file for adjustment of status or an immigrant visa, depending on whether you're already in the U.S.
How do I find Infrastructure Engineer jobs where the employer will sponsor a green card?
Start your search on Migrate Mate, which filters job listings specifically by green card sponsorship history. Not every employer lists PERM willingness in a job posting, so targeting companies with past PERM filings in infrastructure roles saves time and avoids rejections late in the hiring process after you've already disclosed your sponsorship need.
Can I use O*NET data to strengthen my PERM application for an Infrastructure Engineer role?
O*NET profiles for Infrastructure Engineer and related SOC codes describe the tasks, tools, and knowledge areas DOL expects for the occupation. Your employer's PERM job description should align with O*NET's definition without requiring skills so narrow that no U.S. worker could plausibly qualify, which would trigger a PERM audit or denial. Reviewing O*NET before drafting the job order helps flag potential mismatches early.