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Production Engineer roles at U.S. manufacturers regularly qualify for EB-2 and EB-3 green card sponsorship through PERM labor certification, which requires employers to document that no qualified U.S. worker is available before filing an I-140 immigrant petition on your behalf. Strong process engineering credentials and a relevant bachelor's degree put you firmly in the sponsorship pipeline.
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We are looking for an experienced Production Service Developer to build automation and improve the infrastructure, platforms, and services supporting Oracle Health production environments.
You will combine software development, infrastructure engineering, and production troubleshooting to solve operational problems at scale. The role includes Citrix, Windows Server, and virtualization platforms such as OLVM/KVM, along with the supporting systems, integrations, and workflows used across the team.
Automation is a central focus of this position. You will identify opportunities to reduce manual work, design and develop maintainable solutions, and own those solutions through testing, deployment, and ongoing production use. You will also provide technical leadership, collaborate across teams, and help improve engineering and operational practices.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Automation and development:
- Design, develop, and maintain automation for infrastructure provisioning, configuration, deployments, upgrades, validation, and operational workflows.
- Build tools and integrations that improve consistency, reduce manual effort, and prevent recurring production issues.
- Develop reliable solutions with appropriate error handling, logging, testing, documentation, and recovery procedures.
- Participate in code and design reviews and improve the maintainability and reuse of automation across teams.
Production infrastructure and reliability:
- Engineer and improve scalable production infrastructure supporting application delivery and related services.
- Lead complex maintenance, migration, and lifecycle initiatives across Citrix, Windows Server, virtualization, and supporting infrastructure.
- Improve monitoring, alerting, capacity management, performance, and service resilience.
- Evaluate technical dependencies and risks, and develop implementation, validation, and rollback plans.
- Participate in a rotating on-call schedule to respond to production incidents, restore service, and coordinate escalations as needed.
Troubleshooting and continuous improvement:
- Lead investigations into complex production issues across applications, operating systems, virtualization, networking, and storage.
- Use logs, metrics, source code, and other diagnostic evidence to identify root causes and implement lasting fixes.
- Turn recurring incidents and operational gaps into engineering improvements.
- Automate pre-production testing and post-change validation to improve release quality and operational readiness.
Technical leadership and collaboration:
- Independently lead technical initiatives from requirements gathering through production delivery.
- Work with engineering, operations, security, and service delivery teams to design solutions that meet shared needs.
- Contribute to system architecture, engineering standards, and technical reviews.
- Mentor team members and document designs, troubleshooting.
Key Responsibilities
Production Infrastructure:
- Leads production infrastructure, platforms maintenance, and services which support the growing client base as well as designs and implements highly scalable environments.
- Collaborates closely with other team leads in the organization to direct work and provides and adapts solutions for their needs.
- Proactively designs new, scalable solutions for fast changing environment with advanced needs in various fields (e.g., configuration deployments, monitoring, and logging).
Troubleshooting, Testing, and Improvements - Drilldown Analysis/Troubleshooting:
- Leads deep drill down analysis into production support operations and identifies and provides necessary fixes.
- Investigates errors, debugs source code and performance bottlenecks, and helps determine if root cause analysis (RCA) are needed across teams.
- Proactively enhances troubleshooting processes.
Troubleshooting, Testing, and Improvements - Testing and Improvements:
- Builds complex enhancements (e.g., automating alerts) and reviews proposed enhancements that resolve defects.
- Globally works with cross functional teams to ensure service health with pre-production testing of new releases, post-change validation, and automation work to improve the testing framework and methodology.
- Identifies and implements changes and new ideas for the improvement of production infrastructure, platforms, and/or services.
- Leverages the standard template to create the user acceptance test plans and participates in use of new service operational readiness.
System Design and Architecture - System Design:
- Drives the design, development, configuration, and/or deployment of enterprise supporting systems.
- Builds working relationships with external or internal customers to implement large scale solutions, business process architecture, application system design, and implementation, impacting results within and beyond the team.
- Leads engagement in stakeholders meetings for requirements gathering.
System Design and Architecture - System Architecture:
- Takes proactive steps to identify solutions in experience of application or server architecture and networking.
- Drives the development of architecture standards and practices in alignment with business goals.
Product/Service Development:
- Drives the design, development, and enhancement of new and existing products and services from inception and design, advocating for adherence to business feature requirements.
- Leads code and architecture reviews of the products and services.
- Resolves complex performance and scalability issues related to products and services.
- Identifies and capitalizes on opportunities to improve health, scalability, and resiliency of products and services.
- Participates in performance benchmarking.
Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:
- Manages and coordinates moderately complex tasks, monitoring timelines and deliverables to ensure timely completion and adherence to requirements for a moderately-sized project or initiative. Efficiently delegates, monitors, and prioritizes work across multiple projects, providing technical oversight and adjusting plans to address shifts in resources or timelines.
Collaboration & Partnership:
- Collaborates across the organization to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives. Leverages understanding of business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to ensure proposed solutions meet their needs. Supports inclusivity by actively seeking and listening to diverse perspectives, ensuring others feel heard and respected.
Problem Solving:
- Identifies and addresses moderately complex issues by analyzing a wide range of data and/or information to identify solutions in accordance with standard practices. Proactively escalates unresolved or critical issues with a thorough assessment and suggests potential solutions. Reviews, contributes to, and documents problem solving strategies.
Continuous Learning:
- Pursues learning opportunities to expand knowledge and skills and/or tools in new areas and stays abreast of the latest industry trends and best practices. Proactively seeks and leverages ongoing feedback and training to improve skills. Coaches and mentors junior team members, fostering continuous learning and knowledge sharing within and across teams.
Continuous Improvement:
- Develops ideas, recommends updates, and/or collaborates on the implementation of process improvements to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows across teams, and evaluates the impact on key stakeholders. Solicits feedback from others on ideas for alternative approaches and methods for continued improvement.
Performance and Development:
- Contributes to the talent development pipeline by participating in candidate interviews, assessing candidates, and providing hiring recommendations.
INTRODUCTION
We are looking for an experienced Production Service Developer to build automation and improve the infrastructure, platforms, and services supporting Oracle Health production environments.
You will combine software development, infrastructure engineering, and production troubleshooting to solve operational problems at scale. The role includes Citrix, Windows Server, and virtualization platforms such as OLVM/KVM, along with the supporting systems, integrations, and workflows used across the team.
Automation is a central focus of this position. You will identify opportunities to reduce manual work, design and develop maintainable solutions, and own those solutions through testing, deployment, and ongoing production use. You will also provide technical leadership, collaborate across teams, and help improve engineering and operational practices.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Automation and development:
- Design, develop, and maintain automation for infrastructure provisioning, configuration, deployments, upgrades, validation, and operational workflows.
- Build tools and integrations that improve consistency, reduce manual effort, and prevent recurring production issues.
- Develop reliable solutions with appropriate error handling, logging, testing, documentation, and recovery procedures.
- Participate in code and design reviews and improve the maintainability and reuse of automation across teams.
Production infrastructure and reliability:
- Engineer and improve scalable production infrastructure supporting application delivery and related services.
- Lead complex maintenance, migration, and lifecycle initiatives across Citrix, Windows Server, virtualization, and supporting infrastructure.
- Improve monitoring, alerting, capacity management, performance, and service resilience.
- Evaluate technical dependencies and risks, and develop implementation, validation, and rollback plans.
- Participate in a rotating on-call schedule to respond to production incidents, restore service, and coordinate escalations as needed.
Troubleshooting and continuous improvement:
- Lead investigations into complex production issues across applications, operating systems, virtualization, networking, and storage.
- Use logs, metrics, source code, and other diagnostic evidence to identify root causes and implement lasting fixes.
- Turn recurring incidents and operational gaps into engineering improvements.
- Automate pre-production testing and post-change validation to improve release quality and operational readiness.
Technical leadership and collaboration:
- Independently lead technical initiatives from requirements gathering through production delivery.
- Work with engineering, operations, security, and service delivery teams to design solutions that meet shared needs.
- Contribute to system architecture, engineering standards, and technical reviews.
- Mentor team members and document designs, troubleshooting.
Key Responsibilities
Production Infrastructure:
- Leads production infrastructure, platforms maintenance, and services which support the growing client base as well as designs and implements highly scalable environments.
- Collaborates closely with other team leads in the organization to direct work and provides and adapts solutions for their needs.
- Proactively designs new, scalable solutions for fast changing environment with advanced needs in various fields (e.g., configuration deployments, monitoring, and logging).
Troubleshooting, Testing, and Improvements - Drilldown Analysis/Troubleshooting:
- Leads deep drill down analysis into production support operations and identifies and provides necessary fixes.
- Investigates errors, debugs source code and performance bottlenecks, and helps determine if root cause analysis (RCA) are needed across teams.
- Proactively enhances troubleshooting processes.
Troubleshooting, Testing, and Improvements - Testing and Improvements:
- Builds complex enhancements (e.g., automating alerts) and reviews proposed enhancements that resolve defects.
- Globally works with cross functional teams to ensure service health with pre-production testing of new releases, post-change validation, and automation work to improve the testing framework and methodology.
- Identifies and implements changes and new ideas for the improvement of production infrastructure, platforms, and/or services.
- Leverages the standard template to create the user acceptance test plans and participates in use of new service operational readiness.
System Design and Architecture - System Design:
- Drives the design, development, configuration, and/or deployment of enterprise supporting systems.
- Builds working relationships with external or internal customers to implement large scale solutions, business process architecture, application system design, and implementation, impacting results within and beyond the team.
- Leads engagement in stakeholders meetings for requirements gathering.
System Design and Architecture - System Architecture:
- Takes proactive steps to identify solutions in experience of application or server architecture and networking.
- Drives the development of architecture standards and practices in alignment with business goals.
Product/Service Development:
- Drives the design, development, and enhancement of new and existing products and services from inception and design, advocating for adherence to business feature requirements.
- Leads code and architecture reviews of the products and services.
- Resolves complex performance and scalability issues related to products and services.
- Identifies and capitalizes on opportunities to improve health, scalability, and resiliency of products and services.
- Participates in performance benchmarking.
Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:
- Manages and coordinates moderately complex tasks, monitoring timelines and deliverables to ensure timely completion and adherence to requirements for a moderately-sized project or initiative. Efficiently delegates, monitors, and prioritizes work across multiple projects, providing technical oversight and adjusting plans to address shifts in resources or timelines.
Collaboration & Partnership:
- Collaborates across the organization to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives. Leverages understanding of business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to ensure proposed solutions meet their needs. Supports inclusivity by actively seeking and listening to diverse perspectives, ensuring others feel heard and respected.
Problem Solving:
- Identifies and addresses moderately complex issues by analyzing a wide range of data and/or information to identify solutions in accordance with standard practices. Proactively escalates unresolved or critical issues with a thorough assessment and suggests potential solutions. Reviews, contributes to, and documents problem solving strategies.
Continuous Learning:
- Pursues learning opportunities to expand knowledge and skills and/or tools in new areas and stays abreast of the latest industry trends and best practices. Proactively seeks and leverages ongoing feedback and training to improve skills. Coaches and mentors junior team members, fostering continuous learning and knowledge sharing within and across teams.
Continuous Improvement:
- Develops ideas, recommends updates, and/or collaborates on the implementation of process improvements to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows across teams, and evaluates the impact on key stakeholders. Solicits feedback from others on ideas for alternative approaches and methods for continued improvement.
Performance and Development:
- Contributes to the talent development pipeline by participating in candidate interviews, assessing candidates, and providing hiring recommendations.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as a Production Engineer
Align your credentials with PERM job requirements
PERM requires the employer to document the minimum requirements for the role. Make sure your degree field, job titles, and experience descriptions in your resume mirror the exact language used in DOL labor certification filings for Production Engineer positions.
Target manufacturers with active PERM filing history
Companies in automotive, aerospace, semiconductor, and consumer goods manufacturing file PERM applications regularly for production and process engineering roles. Prioritize employers whose job postings list EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship, signaling an established internal process for foreign national engineers.
Search green card sponsors using Migrate Mate
Use Migrate Mate to filter Production Engineer openings by employers with verified green card sponsorship history. This narrows your search to companies already familiar with PERM timelines, reducing the risk of starting a role with an employer who later declines to file.
Verify the role qualifies as a specialty occupation
EB-2 eligibility depends on the position requiring an advanced degree or its equivalent. Review the O*NET profile for Production Engineers to confirm the role's typical education and training requirements, which strengthens your case if USCIS scrutinizes the petition.
Request the prevailing wage determination early in negotiations
Your employer must pay at least the DOL-certified prevailing wage before USCIS approves your I-140. Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up the wage level for your metro area before accepting an offer, so you can spot gaps between the offer and the certification requirement.
Understand how EB-3 priority dates affect your timeline
For most countries outside India and China, EB-3 priority dates are current or nearly current, meaning your green card can proceed without a multi-year backlog wait. Confirm your country's EB-3 cutoff date in the monthly Visa Bulletin before evaluating how quickly you can adjust status after I-140 approval.
Green Card Production Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
Do Production Engineer jobs commonly qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
Yes. Production Engineer roles typically require at least a bachelor's degree in mechanical, industrial, or manufacturing engineering, which satisfies the EB-3 professional classification. Roles requiring a master's degree or demonstrating specialized expertise in process optimization, automation, or quality systems can qualify under EB-2. The degree-field match between your credentials and the job description is what determines which category applies.
How does the PERM green card process differ from H-1B sponsorship for a Production Engineer?
PERM leads to permanent residency, not a temporary work authorization period. Unlike H-1B visa, there is no annual lottery, and EB-3 has no numerical cap that directly delays most nationalities. The tradeoff is timeline: PERM requires a DOL-supervised recruitment process before your employer can file the I-140 petition, adding months to the process compared to an H-1B transfer. The result, though, is a path to a green card rather than a renewable temporary status.
What does the PERM recruitment process require of my employer?
Your employer must conduct supervised recruitment, including print and online job advertisements, to show no qualified U.S. worker is available for the Production Engineer role. DOL prescribes the ad formats, minimum posting periods, and documentation requirements. The employer must file the ETA-9089 application with DOL, and only after DOL certifies the application can the I-140 immigrant petition be filed with USCIS.
How do I find Production Engineer employers that sponsor green cards?
Use Migrate Mate to search Production Engineer openings filtered by employers with documented green card sponsorship history. This surfaces companies that have completed PERM filings for engineering roles before, which is a strong indicator they have internal legal resources and a willingness to sponsor again, rather than employers who list sponsorship as a possibility but have never executed it.
Can I switch employers after my PERM is filed but before my green card is approved?
You can change employers under portability rules once your I-485 adjustment of status application has been pending for 180 days or more, provided the new role is in the same or a similar occupational classification as the PERM-certified position. For Production Engineers, a move to a comparable process or manufacturing engineering role at a new employer generally satisfies the same-or-similar standard, but confirm the specifics with an immigration attorney before resigning.