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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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Translate your infrastructure skills into PERM documentation
PERM requires your employer to define a specific minimum education requirement for the role. Make sure your offer letter and job description specify your degree field, because a generic 'bachelor's in computer science or related field' weakens the specialty occupation argument at the I-140 stage.
Target employers with active PERM filing histories
Search the OFLC public disclosure data for companies that have filed PERM applications under SOC code 15-1244 (Network and Computer Systems Administrators) or 15-1252 (Software Developers). Employers with recent filings already have internal processes for sponsoring DevOps roles.
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Migrate Mate filters job listings specifically by green card sponsorship availability, so you aren't sifting through roles where PERM is never offered. Use it to identify Senior DevOps Engineer positions at employers already set up to file.
Distinguish EB-2 versus EB-3 eligibility before accepting an offer
If you hold a master's degree or a bachelor's plus five years of progressive DevOps experience, push for an EB-2 filing. EB-2 can mean a shorter priority date wait for nationals of most countries and skips the supervised recruitment period that extends EB-3 timelines.
Negotiate who controls the PERM job description
During offer negotiation, confirm that your employer's immigration counsel will tailor the PERM job description to your actual role, not a recycled template. Overly broad descriptions that don't reflect specialized DevOps duties such as Kubernetes orchestration or infrastructure-as-code increase the risk of a DOL audit.
Audit your prevailing wage tier before PERM is filed
DOL assigns your PERM a Wage Level I through IV based on the job description complexity. Ask your employer to share the prevailing wage determination and verify it matches your offered salary using the OFLC Wage Search before submission, since a mismatch triggers denial.
Green Card Senior Devops Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Senior DevOps Engineer role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3?
It qualifies for both, and the tier depends on how the employer frames the job requirements. EB-2 applies if the role requires a master's degree or a bachelor's plus five years of progressive experience. EB-3 covers roles requiring at least a bachelor's degree. Most employers file under EB-3 because the job description is easier to defend at audit, but EB-2 can be faster for nationals of countries without significant backlogs.
How does PERM green card sponsorship differ from H-1B for this role?
H-1B visa is a temporary status with a three-year initial period, annual lottery selection, and no path to permanence by itself. PERM is the first step toward lawful permanent residency, has no annual cap at the EB-3 level for most nationalities, and does not require lottery selection. The tradeoff is timeline: PERM labor certification alone takes roughly six to eighteen months before the I-140 petition is even filed.
Where can I find Senior DevOps Engineer jobs that include green card sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for this search. It surfaces Senior DevOps Engineer listings from employers that have indicated willingness to sponsor employment-based green cards, so you're not spending time on applications where PERM sponsorship was never on the table. Filtering by sponsorship type upfront saves weeks of back-and-forth with recruiters.
What happens to my PERM case if I change employers mid-process?
If you leave before USCIS approves your I-140, the PERM labor certification is tied to the original employer and cannot be transferred. Once your I-140 is approved and your priority date has been pending for 180 days or more, portability rules under AC21 allow you to move to a same or similar DevOps role with a new employer without restarting the process.
Can my employer file PERM while I'm on H-1B status?
Yes, and many DevOps professionals pursue both simultaneously. Holding H-1B status does not affect your PERM eligibility, and filing early extends your options if H-1B renewals become complicated. USCIS processes the I-140 petition after DOL certifies the PERM application, and you can remain on H-1B status while both stages are pending.