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Staff DevOps Engineer roles qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship through the PERM labor certification process, where your employer documents the hire through DOL before filing an I-140 immigrant petition. Infrastructure automation and CI/CD expertise at the staff level typically satisfies the specialty occupation and advanced-degree requirements that EB-2 demands.
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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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Map your credentials to EB-2 or EB-3
A master's degree in computer science or a related field positions you for EB-2. Without one, five or more years of progressive DevOps experience documented through reference letters and performance reviews can support EB-3 as a skilled worker.
Target employers with active PERM filings
Search OFLC disclosure data for companies that have filed PERM applications for DevOps or site reliability titles. Employers already familiar with labor certification for infrastructure roles are far less likely to withdraw sponsorship mid-process due to cost or complexity concerns.
Find sponsoring employers through Migrate Mate
Use Migrate Mate to filter Staff DevOps Engineer roles by employers with verified green card sponsorship history. Targeting companies already active in PERM filings for engineering roles cuts your job search time and reduces the risk of pursuing employers unprepared for the process.
Understand how the PERM job description locks in your role
DOL requires your employer to document the minimum requirements for your position before your application goes public. Inflated requirements, like demanding a specific cloud vendor certification, can trigger audit or denial, so work with your employer early to align the job description to what the role genuinely needs.
Negotiate your start date around PERM processing timelines
PERM labor certification currently takes many months from filing to certification, and the I-140 follows after. If you're changing employers mid-process, your priority date from a previous employer's approved I-140 can potentially transfer, so confirm portability eligibility with your new employer before accepting an offer.
Verify E-Verify enrollment before signing an offer
Employers sponsoring you through PERM must be able to demonstrate ongoing ability to pay your offered wage. Confirm the employer is E-Verify enrolled and financially stable, since USCIS scrutinizes ability to pay from the priority date forward through the entire green card process.
Green Card Staff Devops Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Staff DevOps Engineer role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3?
Staff DevOps Engineer roles most commonly qualify under EB-3 as skilled workers, though EB-2 is available if the position genuinely requires an advanced degree and your employer can document that requirement through PERM. Roles involving complex distributed systems architecture, staff-level technical leadership, or research-adjacent infrastructure work tend to support EB-2 classification more strongly.
How does PERM green card sponsorship differ from H-1B for this role?
The H-1B visa is a temporary work visa with an annual lottery cap, while PERM-based EB-2 and EB-3 sponsorship leads to permanent residency with no lottery involved. PERM is slower overall, often taking one to three years from labor certification through I-140 approval and adjustment of status, but it removes the lottery risk entirely and puts you on a path to a green card rather than a visa you renew every few years.
What documentation strengthens a Staff DevOps Engineer PERM application?
DOL requires your employer to run a supervised recruitment process before filing. On your side, detailed employment verification letters showing progressive responsibility, infrastructure architecture you've owned, and team scope you've led all help establish that you meet the documented minimum requirements. If you're pursuing EB-2, transcripts or a foreign credential evaluation confirming your degree equivalency are essential.
How do I find Staff DevOps Engineer jobs that include green card sponsorship?
Most job postings don't specify PERM sponsorship directly, which makes targeting employers with prior PERM filing history more reliable than filtering job boards by keyword. Migrate Mate surfaces Staff DevOps Engineer roles from employers with verified green card sponsorship activity, so you're not wasting time applying to companies that haven't navigated the process before.
Can I change employers after my PERM is filed but before my green card is approved?
Yes, under AC21 portability rules you can change to a same or similar role after your I-140 has been approved and your adjustment of status application has been pending for at least 180 days. For Staff DevOps Engineers moving between infrastructure or platform engineering roles, the occupational similarity standard is generally met, but you'll want your new employer to confirm in writing before you resign.