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Platform Engineer roles sit squarely within H-1B visa specialty occupation requirements, making them strong candidates for employer sponsorship. Infrastructure-as-code, Kubernetes, and cloud platform skills map cleanly to degree-level engineering work USCIS recognizes. Many employers with active LCA filing history actively sponsor for these roles.
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Salary Range:
$117,600.00 - $196,200.00 This pay range represents the minimum and maximum compensation that the position offers, and final compensation can vary within the range depending on work location, job experience, skills, and relevant educational attainment and/or training.
Job Title: Software Development Platform Architect & Administrator
Key Responsibilities
Platform Administration & Governance
- Administer and maintain Azure DevOps and GitHub organizations, including projects, repositories, pipelines, permissions, and policies.
- Manage platform governance, including branch protections, environment controls, and repository standards.
- Support onboarding, configuration, and lifecycle management of development tools, integrations, and automation services.
Identity, Access, and Security Management
- Manage and govern service principals, managed identities, and application registrations used across CI/CD and automation workflows.
- Implement best practices for token lifecycle management, including PATs, OAuth tokens, GitHub App tokens, and workload identities.
- Enforce secure authentication and authorization patterns, including least privilege access, role-based access control (RBAC), and conditional access policies.
- Monitor and audit identity usage across platforms to detect anomalies, expired credentials, or misconfigurations.
- Partner with security teams to ensure compliance with enterprise identity standards and regulatory requirements.
SDLC & CI/CD Enablement
- Support teams in implementing and optimizing SDLC processes aligned with organizational standards.
- Build, maintain, and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines across Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.
- Improve build, test, and deployment workflows to increase reliability, repeatability, and speed.
- Promote best practices in automation, artifact management, and release engineering.
Security & Compliance
- Implement and maintain security tooling such as SAST, dependency scanning, secrets detection, and policy enforcement.
- Ensure secure configuration of pipelines, runners/agents, and platform integrations.
- Assess, govern, and securely integrate AI-assisted development tools (e.g., copilots, code review assistants, chat/agent automations) into Azure DevOps/GitHub and SDLC workflows by enforcing data protection and access controls (least privilege, secrets isolation, token hygiene), validating vendor/security posture, defining acceptable-use and logging/audit requirements, and mitigating risks such as sensitive data leakage, prompt injection, and supply-chain compromise.
- Participate in incident response and root cause analysis for platform or identity related issues.
- Document standards, patterns, and platform configurations to support operational excellence.
Architecture & Continuous Improvement
- Contribute to the design and evolution of the software development platform architecture.
- Evaluate new tools, integrations, and identity models to improve developer productivity and platform scalability.
- Identify opportunities to simplify workflows, reduce friction, and standardize platform usage across teams.
Qualifications
Required
- Hands-on experience administering Azure DevOps and GitHub in an enterprise environment.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD concepts, pipelines, and automation workflows.
- Familiarity with SDLC methodologies and development lifecycle tooling.
- Experience managing service principals, tokens, and identity based automation.
- Understanding of identity and access management (IAM) principles, including RBAC, least privilege, birthright, and credential hygiene.
- Ability to troubleshoot platform, pipeline, identity, integration issues, and REST APIs.
- Experience with security tooling such as code scanning, dependency management, or secrets detection.
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
- Scripting experience (PowerShell, Bash, Python) for automation and identity governance.
- Applies Azure CLI to manage service principals, role assignments, and identity policies supporting secure DevOps architectures across Azure DevOps, GitHub, and Azure services.
Preferred
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, ARM/Bicep) for platform and identity provisioning.
- Knowledge of cloud platforms, especially Azure and Microsoft Entra ID.
- Exposure to workload identity federation and modern token based authentication patterns.
- Experience administering Identity Governance platforms, including ConductorOne and SailPoint, with a focus on enterprise-level access governance and platform administration.
- Experience integrating GHAS findings into Azure DevOps, SIEM/SOAR platforms, and secure SDLC pipelines to drive automated remediation and continuous hardening.
- Experience applying Hypervelocity engineering principles to accelerate developer workflows, reduce cognitive load, and streamline platform operations across Azure DevOps and GitHub.
- Experience designing and implementing Azure DevOps pipeline decorators to enforce organization-wide governance, inject mandatory security and compliance tasks, and standardize CI/CD behavior across all pipelines without requiring changes from individual development teams.
USA Benefits include:
Flex work hours, 20 days PTO rising to 25 with service, three paid volunteering days, primary and secondary parental leave, well-being support, medical, dental, vision, and 401K.
It’s possible we’re hiring for this position in multiple countries, in which case the above benefits apply to the primary location. Specific benefits vary by country, but our packages are similarly comprehensive.
Hybrid working
We work in a hybrid way at AVEVA. Most roles are based at a local AVEVA office, with an expectation of being on-site 50% of your working hours to support collaboration and connection. Some positions are fully office-based depending on the nature of the work, and certain roles that support specific customers or markets may be remote. The working arrangement for this position will be confirmed during the hiring process.
Hiring process
Interested? Great! Get started by submitting your cover letter and CV through our application portal. AVEVA is committed to recruiting and retaining people with disabilities. Please let us know in advance if you need reasonable support during your application process.
About AVEVA
AVEVA is a global leader in industrial software with more than 6,500 employees in over 40 countries. Our cutting-edge solutions are used by thousands of enterprises to deliver the essentials of life – such as energy, infrastructure, chemicals, and minerals – safely, efficiently, and more sustainably.
We are committed to embedding sustainability and inclusion into our operations, our culture, and our core business strategy. Learn more about how we are progressing against our ambitious 2030 targets.
AVEVA requires all successful applicants to undergo and pass a drug screening and comprehensive background check before they start employment. Background checks will be conducted in accordance with local laws and may, subject to those laws, include proof of educational attainment, employment history verification, proof of work authorization, criminal records, identity verification, credit check. Certain positions dealing with sensitive and/or third-party personal data may involve additional background check criteria.
AVEVA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to being an exemplary employer with an inclusive culture, developing a workplace environment where all our employees are treated with dignity and respect. We value diversity and the expertise that people from different backgrounds bring to our business. AVEVA provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities where appropriate. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify your recruiter. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.
AVEVA is creating software trusted by over 90% of leading industrial companies.
Salary Range:
$117,600.00 - $196,200.00 This pay range represents the minimum and maximum compensation that the position offers, and final compensation can vary within the range depending on work location, job experience, skills, and relevant educational attainment and/or training.
Job Title: Software Development Platform Architect & Administrator
Key Responsibilities
Platform Administration & Governance
- Administer and maintain Azure DevOps and GitHub organizations, including projects, repositories, pipelines, permissions, and policies.
- Manage platform governance, including branch protections, environment controls, and repository standards.
- Support onboarding, configuration, and lifecycle management of development tools, integrations, and automation services.
Identity, Access, and Security Management
- Manage and govern service principals, managed identities, and application registrations used across CI/CD and automation workflows.
- Implement best practices for token lifecycle management, including PATs, OAuth tokens, GitHub App tokens, and workload identities.
- Enforce secure authentication and authorization patterns, including least privilege access, role-based access control (RBAC), and conditional access policies.
- Monitor and audit identity usage across platforms to detect anomalies, expired credentials, or misconfigurations.
- Partner with security teams to ensure compliance with enterprise identity standards and regulatory requirements.
SDLC & CI/CD Enablement
- Support teams in implementing and optimizing SDLC processes aligned with organizational standards.
- Build, maintain, and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines across Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.
- Improve build, test, and deployment workflows to increase reliability, repeatability, and speed.
- Promote best practices in automation, artifact management, and release engineering.
Security & Compliance
- Implement and maintain security tooling such as SAST, dependency scanning, secrets detection, and policy enforcement.
- Ensure secure configuration of pipelines, runners/agents, and platform integrations.
- Assess, govern, and securely integrate AI-assisted development tools (e.g., copilots, code review assistants, chat/agent automations) into Azure DevOps/GitHub and SDLC workflows by enforcing data protection and access controls (least privilege, secrets isolation, token hygiene), validating vendor/security posture, defining acceptable-use and logging/audit requirements, and mitigating risks such as sensitive data leakage, prompt injection, and supply-chain compromise.
- Participate in incident response and root cause analysis for platform or identity related issues.
- Document standards, patterns, and platform configurations to support operational excellence.
Architecture & Continuous Improvement
- Contribute to the design and evolution of the software development platform architecture.
- Evaluate new tools, integrations, and identity models to improve developer productivity and platform scalability.
- Identify opportunities to simplify workflows, reduce friction, and standardize platform usage across teams.
Qualifications
Required
- Hands-on experience administering Azure DevOps and GitHub in an enterprise environment.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD concepts, pipelines, and automation workflows.
- Familiarity with SDLC methodologies and development lifecycle tooling.
- Experience managing service principals, tokens, and identity based automation.
- Understanding of identity and access management (IAM) principles, including RBAC, least privilege, birthright, and credential hygiene.
- Ability to troubleshoot platform, pipeline, identity, integration issues, and REST APIs.
- Experience with security tooling such as code scanning, dependency management, or secrets detection.
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
- Scripting experience (PowerShell, Bash, Python) for automation and identity governance.
- Applies Azure CLI to manage service principals, role assignments, and identity policies supporting secure DevOps architectures across Azure DevOps, GitHub, and Azure services.
Preferred
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, ARM/Bicep) for platform and identity provisioning.
- Knowledge of cloud platforms, especially Azure and Microsoft Entra ID.
- Exposure to workload identity federation and modern token based authentication patterns.
- Experience administering Identity Governance platforms, including ConductorOne and SailPoint, with a focus on enterprise-level access governance and platform administration.
- Experience integrating GHAS findings into Azure DevOps, SIEM/SOAR platforms, and secure SDLC pipelines to drive automated remediation and continuous hardening.
- Experience applying Hypervelocity engineering principles to accelerate developer workflows, reduce cognitive load, and streamline platform operations across Azure DevOps and GitHub.
- Experience designing and implementing Azure DevOps pipeline decorators to enforce organization-wide governance, inject mandatory security and compliance tasks, and standardize CI/CD behavior across all pipelines without requiring changes from individual development teams.
USA Benefits include:
Flex work hours, 20 days PTO rising to 25 with service, three paid volunteering days, primary and secondary parental leave, well-being support, medical, dental, vision, and 401K.
It’s possible we’re hiring for this position in multiple countries, in which case the above benefits apply to the primary location. Specific benefits vary by country, but our packages are similarly comprehensive.
Hybrid working
We work in a hybrid way at AVEVA. Most roles are based at a local AVEVA office, with an expectation of being on-site 50% of your working hours to support collaboration and connection. Some positions are fully office-based depending on the nature of the work, and certain roles that support specific customers or markets may be remote. The working arrangement for this position will be confirmed during the hiring process.
Hiring process
Interested? Great! Get started by submitting your cover letter and CV through our application portal. AVEVA is committed to recruiting and retaining people with disabilities. Please let us know in advance if you need reasonable support during your application process.
About AVEVA
AVEVA is a global leader in industrial software with more than 6,500 employees in over 40 countries. Our cutting-edge solutions are used by thousands of enterprises to deliver the essentials of life – such as energy, infrastructure, chemicals, and minerals – safely, efficiently, and more sustainably.
We are committed to embedding sustainability and inclusion into our operations, our culture, and our core business strategy. Learn more about how we are progressing against our ambitious 2030 targets.
AVEVA requires all successful applicants to undergo and pass a drug screening and comprehensive background check before they start employment. Background checks will be conducted in accordance with local laws and may, subject to those laws, include proof of educational attainment, employment history verification, proof of work authorization, criminal records, identity verification, credit check. Certain positions dealing with sensitive and/or third-party personal data may involve additional background check criteria.
AVEVA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to being an exemplary employer with an inclusive culture, developing a workplace environment where all our employees are treated with dignity and respect. We value diversity and the expertise that people from different backgrounds bring to our business. AVEVA provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities where appropriate. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify your recruiter. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Platform Engineer
Align your resume to SOC codes
Platform Engineer roles often get filed under SOC 15-1244 (Network and Computer Systems Administrators) or 15-1252 (Software Developers). Check O*NET to confirm which code matches your actual duties, then tailor your resume language accordingly so your LCA and petition align.
Verify prevailing wage before negotiating
Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up the Level I through IV wage for your SOC code and work location. If an offer falls below the posted prevailing wage, the employer can't file a compliant LCA, which blocks the H-1B petition entirely.
Target employers with cap-exempt filing options
Universities, nonprofit research institutions, and government research organizations are cap-exempt, meaning they can file H-1B petitions year-round without waiting for the April lottery. Platform Engineer roles at these institutions are a direct path around the annual cap.
Search verified sponsors on Migrate Mate
Filter by Platform Engineer roles on Migrate Mate to see employers with documented LCA filing history for infrastructure and platform positions. This surfaces companies that have already committed to the sponsorship process, not just those that say they're open to it.
Confirm your employer handles H-1B specialty occupation documentation
USCIS requires employers to document why a Platform Engineer role requires a specific bachelor's degree or higher. Get written confirmation that the employer's counsel can articulate the degree requirement clearly, since vague job descriptions are a common RFE trigger for platform and infrastructure titles.
Use your 60-day grace period strategically
If your H-1B employment ends, you have 60 days to secure a new employer and have them file a transfer petition. Platform Engineer skills are in high demand across cloud-native teams, so prioritize reaching out to companies with active infrastructure hiring before the window closes.
H-1B Visa Platform Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Platform Engineer role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes. Platform Engineer positions typically require a bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, computer engineering, or a related technical field. USCIS treats roles that involve designing and maintaining cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, or distributed systems as specialty occupations, provided the employer documents the degree requirement clearly in the petition.
Which SOC code does a Platform Engineer role fall under for LCA filing?
Most Platform Engineer roles are filed under SOC 15-1252 (Software Developers) or SOC 15-1244 (Network and Computer Systems Administrators), depending on whether the work is primarily software-defined infrastructure or network-layer operations. Cross-check your actual job duties against both profiles on O*NET to confirm which code your employer's counsel should use, since the SOC code determines the prevailing wage requirement.
How do I find employers that actively sponsor H-1B visas for Platform Engineers?
Migrate Mate shows verified LCA filing history by role and employer, so you can filter specifically for companies that have filed for Platform Engineer or related infrastructure titles. This is more reliable than asking recruiters, since LCA data reflects actual sponsorship activity rather than stated willingness.
Can a Platform Engineer transfer their H-1B to a new employer mid-petition?
Yes. Under AC21 portability, you can transfer your H-1B to a new employer once your I-140 has been approved and your I-485 has been pending for 180 days or more, as long as the new role is in the same or a similar occupational classification. For earlier-stage transfers, the new employer simply files a new H-1B transfer petition and you can begin work as soon as USCIS receives it.
What documentation should I gather before an employer files my H-1B petition as a Platform Engineer?
Compile your educational credentials, including degree certificates and transcripts, and get a credential evaluation if your degree is from outside the U.S. Collect documentation of any specialized certifications in Kubernetes, Terraform, or cloud platforms, since these can support the specialty occupation argument. Your employer will also need an active LCA from DOL before USCIS will accept the I-129 petition.