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Principal DevOps Engineer roles qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship through PERM labor certification, which requires your employer to document that no equally qualified U.S. worker is available. Employers in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, and site reliability typically file at the EB-2 level for advanced-degree candidates. Sponsorship timelines vary significantly by country of birth.
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12 Months Contract
Mountain View, CA- Onsite
The Development Efficiencies pillar owns the paved roads, PDLC velocity, and self-serve tooling behind Intuit's 8x developer velocity gain, built on Modern SaaS AIR AI-native dev platform on Kubernetes, Argo, Istio, Envoy, and AWS. Intuit is an active CNCF/Argo contributor; this role works on the same stack upstream.
The Problem This Role Exists to Solve
Development is AI-accelerated; delivery must keep pace. Every human-gated step in CI/CD, environments, and release process erodes the 8x gain. This role makes the delivery pipeline itself AI-first: paved-road pipelines where agents diagnose failures, triage PRs, provision environments, and automate release toil — directly serving the FY26 Reduced Human Effort and PR Merge Velocity KPIs.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and extend paved-road CI/CD: pipeline templates, golden paths, and policy-as-code gates that product teams adopt self-serve — no tickets, no mandates.
- Build Argo-based GitOps delivery (CD / Workflows / Rollouts): progressive delivery pipelines including the paved road for shipping AI agents to production the way teams ship microservices — AI Model Deployment Events/Time is a tracked KPI.
- Build agentic delivery automation into the pipeline: failure-diagnosis agents, PR triage and review-assist agents, environment provisioning automation, change summarization — measured against FY26 Reduced Human Effort.
- Extend developer inner-loop tooling: cloud workspaces, fast local-to-cluster iteration.
- Instrument delivery: PR merge velocity, AI-assisted code share, and DORA-style flow metrics feeding org KPIs.
- Harden the supply chain on the paved road: signing, provenance, SBOM as pipeline defaults.
- Seam with SRE: you build the rollout pipeline; SRE owns canary analysis and rollback gates — you integrate their gates, not define them.
- Production support for delivery tooling; self-serve docs and inner-source contributions (tracked PDX metric).
Must-Have Qualifications
- 7+ years DevOps/release/platform engineering; has designed enterprise CI/CD systems, not just operated them.
- Production depth in Argo (CD, Workflows, Rollouts) and the GitOps operating model; Kubernetes + AWS at scale.
- IaC (Terraform or equivalent) and policy-as-code (OPA / Kyverno or equivalent) in production.
- Strong Go or Python — delivery tooling built as products, with tests and observability.
- Hands-on agentic/LLM automation applied to the SDLC: has shipped agents or LLM-powered bots into a delivery flow — pipeline triage, review assist, automated remediation — not just personal Copilot use.
- Fluent AI-assisted development workflow — AI-assisted code in PRs is a tracked Intuit KPI.
Nice-to-Have
- SLSA / supply-chain security depth; Backstage or internal developer platform (IDP) experience.
- Ephemeral / preview environment platforms at scale; FinOps.
- MCP tool integrations; CNCF or other open-source contributions.
If interested, Kindly reply with the following details to Email- jnehru@nam-it.com
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AI-First DevOps Engineer (Senior)
12 Months Contract
Mountain View, CA- Onsite
The Development Efficiencies pillar owns the paved roads, PDLC velocity, and self-serve tooling behind Intuit's 8x developer velocity gain, built on Modern SaaS AIR AI-native dev platform on Kubernetes, Argo, Istio, Envoy, and AWS. Intuit is an active CNCF/Argo contributor; this role works on the same stack upstream.
The Problem This Role Exists to Solve
Development is AI-accelerated; delivery must keep pace. Every human-gated step in CI/CD, environments, and release process erodes the 8x gain. This role makes the delivery pipeline itself AI-first: paved-road pipelines where agents diagnose failures, triage PRs, provision environments, and automate release toil — directly serving the FY26 Reduced Human Effort and PR Merge Velocity KPIs.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and extend paved-road CI/CD: pipeline templates, golden paths, and policy-as-code gates that product teams adopt self-serve — no tickets, no mandates.
- Build Argo-based GitOps delivery (CD / Workflows / Rollouts): progressive delivery pipelines including the paved road for shipping AI agents to production the way teams ship microservices — AI Model Deployment Events/Time is a tracked KPI.
- Build agentic delivery automation into the pipeline: failure-diagnosis agents, PR triage and review-assist agents, environment provisioning automation, change summarization — measured against FY26 Reduced Human Effort.
- Extend developer inner-loop tooling: cloud workspaces, fast local-to-cluster iteration.
- Instrument delivery: PR merge velocity, AI-assisted code share, and DORA-style flow metrics feeding org KPIs.
- Harden the supply chain on the paved road: signing, provenance, SBOM as pipeline defaults.
- Seam with SRE: you build the rollout pipeline; SRE owns canary analysis and rollback gates — you integrate their gates, not define them.
- Production support for delivery tooling; self-serve docs and inner-source contributions (tracked PDX metric).
Must-Have Qualifications
- 7+ years DevOps/release/platform engineering; has designed enterprise CI/CD systems, not just operated them.
- Production depth in Argo (CD, Workflows, Rollouts) and the GitOps operating model; Kubernetes + AWS at scale.
- IaC (Terraform or equivalent) and policy-as-code (OPA / Kyverno or equivalent) in production.
- Strong Go or Python — delivery tooling built as products, with tests and observability.
- Hands-on agentic/LLM automation applied to the SDLC: has shipped agents or LLM-powered bots into a delivery flow — pipeline triage, review assist, automated remediation — not just personal Copilot use.
- Fluent AI-assisted development workflow — AI-assisted code in PRs is a tracked Intuit KPI.
Nice-to-Have
- SLSA / supply-chain security depth; Backstage or internal developer platform (IDP) experience.
- Ephemeral / preview environment platforms at scale; FinOps.
- MCP tool integrations; CNCF or other open-source contributions.
If interested, Kindly reply with the following details to Email- jnehru@nam-it.com
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Document your architecture leadership for PERM
PERM requires your employer to define minimum job requirements before advertising the role. Make sure your resume reflects specific infrastructure scope, such as multi-cloud orchestration or CI/CD pipeline ownership, so the job description accurately captures what you actually do.
Identify employers with active PERM filing history
Target companies that have filed PERM applications for DevOps or platform engineering roles in the past two years. OFLC disclosure data shows which employers regularly sponsor these positions rather than treating green cards as a case-by-case exception.
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Migrate Mate filters Principal DevOps Engineer jobs by employers with documented green card sponsorship history, so you can focus applications on companies already set up to run the PERM process rather than negotiating sponsorship from scratch.
Understand EB-2 versus EB-3 classification early
If your role requires a master's degree or you have a bachelor's plus five years of progressive DevOps experience, EB-2 may apply. EB-3 covers roles requiring a standard bachelor's degree. The classification affects your priority date and wait time, especially if you were born in India or China.
Negotiate PERM timing before accepting an offer
Ask the employer when they plan to initiate PERM after your start date. DOL processing currently runs several months before your employer can file the I-140 with USCIS. Getting a clear timeline commitment protects you from indefinite delays after you've already joined.
Verify your employer's E-Verify enrollment status
If you're currently on OPT or STEM OPT, your employer must be E-Verify enrolled. Confirming this before your first day prevents work authorization gaps while your PERM case moves through DOL and USCIS adjudication.
Green Card Principal Devops Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
Do Principal DevOps Engineer roles typically qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship?
Most Principal DevOps Engineer positions qualify for EB-2 sponsorship because they require a master's degree or a bachelor's degree plus substantial progressive experience in infrastructure, automation, or platform engineering. EB-3 applies when the employer's minimum requirement is a standard four-year degree. O*NET classifies DevOps engineering roles in Job Zone 4, consistent with EB-2 eligibility for advanced-degree candidates. Your employer's attorney will determine the correct category based on the actual job duties and requirements.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B for a Principal DevOps Engineer?
H-1B visa grants temporary status in three-year increments and is subject to the annual lottery for most candidates. Green card sponsorship through PERM and I-140 leads to permanent residency with no annual cap at the EB-2 or EB-3 petition level. The tradeoff is time: PERM labor certification alone takes several months, and candidates born in India or China face priority date backlogs measured in years. The outcome, however, is permanent authorization tied to your status rather than a single employer.
What does the PERM process look like for a Principal DevOps Engineer?
Your employer files an application with DOL certifying that the prevailing wage will be met and that recruitment efforts found no qualified U.S. workers. DOL uses the OFLC Wage Search to set the wage floor, which for senior DevOps roles is typically at a Level III or Level IV rate. After DOL certifies the PERM, your employer files an I-140 immigrant petition with USCIS. Once the I-140 is approved and your priority date becomes current, you can file for adjustment of status or an immigrant visa.
How do I find Principal DevOps Engineer jobs where the employer is already set up for green card sponsorship?
Migrate Mate lets you search Principal DevOps Engineer roles filtered specifically by employers with active green card sponsorship history, so you're not spending time applying to companies that have never run a PERM case. This matters at the principal level because sponsoring a senior infrastructure role requires the employer's legal team to document complex job duties accurately, and companies with prior PERM experience handle that more efficiently.
Can I change jobs after my employer files the PERM application?
Changing employers after PERM is filed but before the I-140 is approved generally requires starting the entire process over with your new employer. Once your I-140 has been approved for at least 180 days, portability rules under AC21 let you transfer that approved petition to a new employer in a same or similar occupational category. For Principal DevOps Engineers, demonstrating role similarity across employers typically requires matching SOC codes and comparable infrastructure responsibilities.