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Infrastructure Engineer roles qualify for H-1B visa sponsorship as specialty occupations requiring at least a bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field. Employers file a Labor Condition Application with DOL before petitioning USCIS, and most large infrastructure teams have established sponsorship pipelines for this role.
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Barclays Services Corp. seeks Release and Infrastructure Engineer in New York, NY (multiple positions available):
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
What will you be doing?
- Responsible for the control and maintenance of multiple testing and pre-production environments (approx. 200 servers with Linux, Windows OS and MSSQL, Oracle DBs, PostgreSQL) and manage stability of Reference Data application services on non-production environments – on internal cloud - OpenShift as well as on AWS.
- Manage environment refreshes from production.
- Assign suitable environments for development and testing efforts to best avoid conflicts.
- Liaise with external teams to meet their testing requirements.
- Work with development team to manage the non-production services stability.
- Manage JIRA tickets for deployments into environments.
- Manage forecasts and delivery checkout of infrastructure including Unix and Windows OS.
- Notify business users and other IT teams of the impact of release and liaise with them to obtain UAT sign-off.
- May telecommute from anywhere in the United States.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
To build and maintain infrastructure platforms and products that support applications and data systems, using hardware, software, networks, and cloud computing platforms as required with the aim of ensuring that the infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and secure. Ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of the systems, platforms, and technology through the application of software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response.
ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Build Engineering: Development, delivery, and maintenance of high-quality infrastructure solutions to fulfil business requirements ensuring measurable reliability, performance, availability, and ease of use. Including the identification of the appropriate technologies and solutions to meet business, optimisation, and resourcing requirements.
- Incident Management: Monitoring of IT infrastructure and system performance to measure, identify, address, and resolve any potential issues, vulnerabilities, or outages. Use of data to drive down mean time to resolution.
- Automation: Development and implementation of automated tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention, utilising software scripting/coding disciplines.
- Security: Implementation of a secure configuration and measures to protect infrastructure against cyber-attacks, vulnerabilities, and other security threats, including protection of hardware, software, and data from unauthorised access.
- Teamwork: Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, architects, and other engineers to define IT Infrastructure requirements, devise solutions, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives via a data driven approach.
- Learning: Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations, and actively contribute to the organization's technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT EXPECTATIONS
- To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/business divisions.
- Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.
- If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
- OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
- Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
- Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
- Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
- Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
- Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
- Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc.) to solve problems creatively and effectively.
- Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
- Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Salary / Rate Minimum/yr: $157K per year
- Salary / Rate Maximum/yr: $175K per year
The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.
This position is eligible for incentives pursuant to Barclays Employee Referral Program.
All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.
INTRODUCTION
Barclays Services Corp. seeks Release and Infrastructure Engineer in New York, NY (multiple positions available):
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
What will you be doing?
- Responsible for the control and maintenance of multiple testing and pre-production environments (approx. 200 servers with Linux, Windows OS and MSSQL, Oracle DBs, PostgreSQL) and manage stability of Reference Data application services on non-production environments – on internal cloud - OpenShift as well as on AWS.
- Manage environment refreshes from production.
- Assign suitable environments for development and testing efforts to best avoid conflicts.
- Liaise with external teams to meet their testing requirements.
- Work with development team to manage the non-production services stability.
- Manage JIRA tickets for deployments into environments.
- Manage forecasts and delivery checkout of infrastructure including Unix and Windows OS.
- Notify business users and other IT teams of the impact of release and liaise with them to obtain UAT sign-off.
- May telecommute from anywhere in the United States.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
To build and maintain infrastructure platforms and products that support applications and data systems, using hardware, software, networks, and cloud computing platforms as required with the aim of ensuring that the infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and secure. Ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of the systems, platforms, and technology through the application of software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response.
ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Build Engineering: Development, delivery, and maintenance of high-quality infrastructure solutions to fulfil business requirements ensuring measurable reliability, performance, availability, and ease of use. Including the identification of the appropriate technologies and solutions to meet business, optimisation, and resourcing requirements.
- Incident Management: Monitoring of IT infrastructure and system performance to measure, identify, address, and resolve any potential issues, vulnerabilities, or outages. Use of data to drive down mean time to resolution.
- Automation: Development and implementation of automated tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention, utilising software scripting/coding disciplines.
- Security: Implementation of a secure configuration and measures to protect infrastructure against cyber-attacks, vulnerabilities, and other security threats, including protection of hardware, software, and data from unauthorised access.
- Teamwork: Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, architects, and other engineers to define IT Infrastructure requirements, devise solutions, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives via a data driven approach.
- Learning: Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations, and actively contribute to the organization's technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT EXPECTATIONS
- To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/business divisions.
- Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.
- If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
- OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
- Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
- Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
- Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
- Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
- Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
- Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc.) to solve problems creatively and effectively.
- Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
- Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Salary / Rate Minimum/yr: $157K per year
- Salary / Rate Maximum/yr: $175K per year
The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.
This position is eligible for incentives pursuant to Barclays Employee Referral Program.
All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as an Infrastructure Engineer
Verify your degree maps to infrastructure
USCIS evaluates whether your degree field directly relates to the role. A computer science or information systems degree is straightforward, but an unrelated degree requires a credential evaluation showing equivalency to a qualifying U.S. bachelor's.
Search LCA filings by occupation code
Infrastructure Engineer roles file under SOC codes like 15-1244. Use the OFLC Wage Search to filter employers who have filed LCAs for that code, so you're targeting companies with a documented sponsorship history for your exact role type.
Target E-Verify enrolled employers early
STEM OPT extensions require E-Verify enrollment, and many infrastructure teams at non-enrolled companies can't bridge the gap between OPT expiry and H-1B approval. Check E-Verify enrollment before accepting an offer if you're currently on OPT.
Use Migrate Mate to filter verified sponsors
Search Infrastructure Engineer roles on Migrate Mate to see employers filtered by DOL Labor Condition Application filing history, so every listing reflects a company that has actively sponsored this role rather than one that might consider it.
Clarify cap-exempt status with university employers
Infrastructure roles at nonprofit research institutions and universities are cap-exempt, meaning no lottery and no October 1 start date requirement. If you're open to higher education employers, your H-1B can start any time of year.
Confirm prevailing wage level before negotiating
Your offer must meet the DOL prevailing wage for your location and SOC code. Pull the current Level I through IV thresholds from the OFLC Wage Search before negotiating, so you know the floor your employer is legally required to meet.
H-1B Visa Infrastructure Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does an Infrastructure Engineer role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B?
Yes. Infrastructure Engineer roles typically qualify because they require at minimum a bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, electrical engineering, or a closely related field. USCIS looks at whether the specific duties, not just the title, require that theoretical and practical application of specialized knowledge. Roles involving cloud architecture, network design, or systems reliability consistently satisfy this standard.
Which employers actually sponsor H-1B visas for Infrastructure Engineers?
Large technology companies, financial services firms, cloud service providers, and defense contractors sponsor Infrastructure Engineers at high volumes. The most reliable signal is an employer's DOL Labor Condition Application history for the relevant SOC code. Migrate Mate surfaces employers with verified LCA filing history for infrastructure roles, so you can focus applications on companies that already have an active sponsorship pipeline.
How does the H-1B prevailing wage requirement affect Infrastructure Engineer offers?
DOL sets four wage levels for each SOC code and metropolitan area. Your employer's LCA must certify your offered salary meets at least Level I for your location. Infrastructure roles in high-cost metros like San Francisco or New York carry significantly higher prevailing wage floors than the same role in smaller markets, which directly affects where employers are willing to sponsor.
Can I switch employers as an Infrastructure Engineer on H-1B?
Yes, through H-1B portability. Once USCIS has approved or received your petition for 365 days or more and you've maintained valid status, you can start with a new employer as soon as they file an H-1B transfer petition, without waiting for approval. Your new employer still needs to file a fresh LCA and I-129, but you don't lose your place in the cap.
Does on-call infrastructure work or contractor placement affect H-1B sponsorship?
Third-party placement arrangements, where a staffing firm sponsors you but places you at a client site, receive heightened USCIS scrutiny for specialty occupation eligibility and employer-employee relationship requirements. Direct employment with the end client avoids this issue. If you're evaluating staffing-firm offers, confirm the petitioner can document day-to-day supervision and that the work qualifies under the specialty occupation definition for your SOC code.