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Staff DevOps Engineers occupy a specialty occupation category that qualifies for H-1B visa sponsorship, with roles typically requiring a bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field. Large tech, fintech, and enterprise software companies file LCAs for this title regularly, making it one of the more sponsorship-active senior engineering roles.
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BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year—to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities.
Job Description
Summary
The Staff DevOps Engineer will serve as the organization's subject matter expert for Salesforce DevOps, leading the strategic direction, operational support, and continuous optimization of our deployment pipelines, release processes, and development workflows. This individual will work independently, partner closely with software engineering, quality assurance, architecture, product, Salesforce administration, and business teams, and ensure the delivery of reliable, scalable, and secure solutions across a complex multi-org Salesforce environment.
Success in this role requires deep technical expertise, strong ownership, exceptional accountability, and a proactive mindset focused on driving efficiency, reducing risk, improving release velocity, and advancing DevOps maturity across the enterprise. Expectations in this Staff level role include strong troubleshooting, analytical, communication, and organizational skills, proven ability to work independently with minimal supervision while managing multiple priorities and demonstrated history of ownership, accountability, and reliable execution of critical operational responsibilities.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary owner and technical authority for Salesforce DevOps practices, processes, tools, and release management activities.
- Administer, configure, maintain, and optimize Copado as the enterprise DevOps platform supporting Salesforce development and deployment activities.
- Design, implement, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines supporting Salesforce Health Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Commerce Cloud, and related platform integrations.
- Manage and support complex deployment workflows across multiple Salesforce organizations, environments, and release streams.
- Define and implement release governance, deployment standards, branching strategies, code promotion processes, and DevOps best practices.
- Partner with development teams to ensure consistent adoption of SDLC processes and release management standards.
- Lead Salesforce DevOps governance by partnering with Salesforce Administrators and technical teams to mature source control adoption, deployment automation, environment management, change management, and release processes across the Salesforce ecosystem.
- Support daily operational requests related to deployments, environment management, source control, release planning, and production support activities.
- Develop and execute a long-term roadmap for Salesforce DevOps maturity, automation, platform stability, and operational excellence.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives that increase deployment reliability, reduce manual effort, and improve developer productivity.
- Support source code management and repository administration utilizing Azure DevOps and related tools.
- Collaborate with software engineering, architecture, QA, infrastructure, security, and business stakeholders to align DevOps capabilities with organizational objectives.
- Establish and maintain environment management strategies, release schedules, deployment runbooks, and operational procedures.
- Monitor deployment performance, platform health, release quality, and DevOps metrics to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Troubleshoot and resolve deployment issues, environment conflicts, source control challenges, and pipeline failures.
- Evaluate new technologies, tools, and platform capabilities that can improve software delivery performance and operational effectiveness.
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance related to DevOps methodologies, release management, and CI/CD best practices.
- Participate in production releases, release rehearsals, system maintenance activities, and after-hours deployments as required.
- Ensure compliance with organizational security, audit, change management, and regulatory requirements.
Minimum Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of experience in software development, DevOps engineering, release engineering, or application lifecycle management.
- 5+ years of hands-on Salesforce platform experience supporting enterprise-scale implementations.
- Expert-level experience administering and implementing Copado within complex Salesforce environments.
- Expert-level knowledge of Salesforce deployment methodologies, metadata management, environment strategies, and release management best practices.
- Advanced experience supporting Salesforce Health Cloud, Service Cloud, and Experience Cloud environments.
- Strong experience supporting Salesforce Commerce Cloud deployment processes and release management workflows.
- Expert-level knowledge of Azure DevOps repositories, branching strategies, pull request workflows, and source control management.
- Deep understanding of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies including Agile, Scrum, DevOps, and release governance practices.
- Experience managing CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments, teams, and application platforms.
- Strong understanding of Git-based source control concepts, branching models, merge strategies, and version management.
- Demonstrated experience developing DevOps roadmaps and implementing continuous improvement initiatives.
- Experience working across multiple technical teams, external vendors, and business stakeholders.
- Willingness and ability to participate in after-hours deployments, production support, and release activities.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Salesforce Health, Service, Experience, Commerce, Data, and Marketing Clouds.
- Salesforce certifications including Salesforce Administrator, Platform App Builder, Platform Developer, or Architecture certifications.
- Copado certifications.
- Experience supporting healthcare, regulated, or highly governed environments.
- Experience integrating Salesforce with enterprise applications, middleware platforms, and cloud technologies.
- Knowledge of deployment automation, DevOps maturity models, infrastructure automation, and release metrics.
- Experience establishing DevOps governance frameworks and enterprise release management practices.
- Familiarity with Azure services, enterprise integration patterns, and cloud-native application delivery practices.
Desired Key Success Attributes
- Ownership mindset with the ability to independently lead the Salesforce DevOps function.
- Highly reliable, accountable, and dependable under pressure.
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to operational excellence.
- Continuous improvement orientation with a passion for automation and optimization.
- Strategic thinker capable of balancing long-term vision with day-to-day operational execution.
- Collaborative leader who builds effective partnerships across engineering, architecture, QA, product, and business teams.
- Exceptional problem-solving skills with the ability to navigate complex technical environments and competing priorities.
Why Join Us?
To find purpose in the possibilities, we need people who can see the bigger picture, who understand the human story that underpins everything we do. We welcome people with the imagination and drive to help us reinvent the future of healthcare. At BD, you’ll discover a culture in which you can learn, grow and thrive.
We believe that when people connect in person, we learn faster, collaborate more deeply, and build a stronger culture. Join us and enjoy a culture where face-to-face collaboration supports your learning, your progress, and your success.
Primary Work Location
USA FL - Stuart Airport Road
Work Shift
At BD, we reward, support and develop our associates through our comprehensive Total Rewards program. We are committed to attracting and retaining high quality talent by providing reward and recognition opportunities that promote a performance-based culture, as well as a competitive package of compensation and benefits programs. You can learn more on our career site under "Our Commitment to You."
Our salary or hourly rate ranges reward associates fairly and competitively. We regularly review these ranges and factors, such as location, contribute to the range displayed.
Our pay is based on the role and the necessary skills and education to perform it successfully. The salary or hourly rate offered is determined by the role's specific requirements, including any applicable step rate pay system at the work location. Salary or hourly pay ranges are influenced by labor laws and Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) requirements applicable to the work location which may also affect the workplace arrangement of the role.
Salary Range Information
$117,800.00 - $188,600.00 USD Annual
Becton, Dickinson, and Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, marital or domestic or civil union status, familial status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, disability, military eligibility or veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.
We are the people who give possibilities purpose
BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year—to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities.
Job Description
Summary
The Staff DevOps Engineer will serve as the organization's subject matter expert for Salesforce DevOps, leading the strategic direction, operational support, and continuous optimization of our deployment pipelines, release processes, and development workflows. This individual will work independently, partner closely with software engineering, quality assurance, architecture, product, Salesforce administration, and business teams, and ensure the delivery of reliable, scalable, and secure solutions across a complex multi-org Salesforce environment.
Success in this role requires deep technical expertise, strong ownership, exceptional accountability, and a proactive mindset focused on driving efficiency, reducing risk, improving release velocity, and advancing DevOps maturity across the enterprise. Expectations in this Staff level role include strong troubleshooting, analytical, communication, and organizational skills, proven ability to work independently with minimal supervision while managing multiple priorities and demonstrated history of ownership, accountability, and reliable execution of critical operational responsibilities.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary owner and technical authority for Salesforce DevOps practices, processes, tools, and release management activities.
- Administer, configure, maintain, and optimize Copado as the enterprise DevOps platform supporting Salesforce development and deployment activities.
- Design, implement, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines supporting Salesforce Health Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Commerce Cloud, and related platform integrations.
- Manage and support complex deployment workflows across multiple Salesforce organizations, environments, and release streams.
- Define and implement release governance, deployment standards, branching strategies, code promotion processes, and DevOps best practices.
- Partner with development teams to ensure consistent adoption of SDLC processes and release management standards.
- Lead Salesforce DevOps governance by partnering with Salesforce Administrators and technical teams to mature source control adoption, deployment automation, environment management, change management, and release processes across the Salesforce ecosystem.
- Support daily operational requests related to deployments, environment management, source control, release planning, and production support activities.
- Develop and execute a long-term roadmap for Salesforce DevOps maturity, automation, platform stability, and operational excellence.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives that increase deployment reliability, reduce manual effort, and improve developer productivity.
- Support source code management and repository administration utilizing Azure DevOps and related tools.
- Collaborate with software engineering, architecture, QA, infrastructure, security, and business stakeholders to align DevOps capabilities with organizational objectives.
- Establish and maintain environment management strategies, release schedules, deployment runbooks, and operational procedures.
- Monitor deployment performance, platform health, release quality, and DevOps metrics to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Troubleshoot and resolve deployment issues, environment conflicts, source control challenges, and pipeline failures.
- Evaluate new technologies, tools, and platform capabilities that can improve software delivery performance and operational effectiveness.
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance related to DevOps methodologies, release management, and CI/CD best practices.
- Participate in production releases, release rehearsals, system maintenance activities, and after-hours deployments as required.
- Ensure compliance with organizational security, audit, change management, and regulatory requirements.
Minimum Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of experience in software development, DevOps engineering, release engineering, or application lifecycle management.
- 5+ years of hands-on Salesforce platform experience supporting enterprise-scale implementations.
- Expert-level experience administering and implementing Copado within complex Salesforce environments.
- Expert-level knowledge of Salesforce deployment methodologies, metadata management, environment strategies, and release management best practices.
- Advanced experience supporting Salesforce Health Cloud, Service Cloud, and Experience Cloud environments.
- Strong experience supporting Salesforce Commerce Cloud deployment processes and release management workflows.
- Expert-level knowledge of Azure DevOps repositories, branching strategies, pull request workflows, and source control management.
- Deep understanding of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies including Agile, Scrum, DevOps, and release governance practices.
- Experience managing CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments, teams, and application platforms.
- Strong understanding of Git-based source control concepts, branching models, merge strategies, and version management.
- Demonstrated experience developing DevOps roadmaps and implementing continuous improvement initiatives.
- Experience working across multiple technical teams, external vendors, and business stakeholders.
- Willingness and ability to participate in after-hours deployments, production support, and release activities.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Salesforce Health, Service, Experience, Commerce, Data, and Marketing Clouds.
- Salesforce certifications including Salesforce Administrator, Platform App Builder, Platform Developer, or Architecture certifications.
- Copado certifications.
- Experience supporting healthcare, regulated, or highly governed environments.
- Experience integrating Salesforce with enterprise applications, middleware platforms, and cloud technologies.
- Knowledge of deployment automation, DevOps maturity models, infrastructure automation, and release metrics.
- Experience establishing DevOps governance frameworks and enterprise release management practices.
- Familiarity with Azure services, enterprise integration patterns, and cloud-native application delivery practices.
Desired Key Success Attributes
- Ownership mindset with the ability to independently lead the Salesforce DevOps function.
- Highly reliable, accountable, and dependable under pressure.
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to operational excellence.
- Continuous improvement orientation with a passion for automation and optimization.
- Strategic thinker capable of balancing long-term vision with day-to-day operational execution.
- Collaborative leader who builds effective partnerships across engineering, architecture, QA, product, and business teams.
- Exceptional problem-solving skills with the ability to navigate complex technical environments and competing priorities.
Why Join Us?
To find purpose in the possibilities, we need people who can see the bigger picture, who understand the human story that underpins everything we do. We welcome people with the imagination and drive to help us reinvent the future of healthcare. At BD, you’ll discover a culture in which you can learn, grow and thrive.
We believe that when people connect in person, we learn faster, collaborate more deeply, and build a stronger culture. Join us and enjoy a culture where face-to-face collaboration supports your learning, your progress, and your success.
Primary Work Location
USA FL - Stuart Airport Road
Work Shift
At BD, we reward, support and develop our associates through our comprehensive Total Rewards program. We are committed to attracting and retaining high quality talent by providing reward and recognition opportunities that promote a performance-based culture, as well as a competitive package of compensation and benefits programs. You can learn more on our career site under "Our Commitment to You."
Our salary or hourly rate ranges reward associates fairly and competitively. We regularly review these ranges and factors, such as location, contribute to the range displayed.
Our pay is based on the role and the necessary skills and education to perform it successfully. The salary or hourly rate offered is determined by the role's specific requirements, including any applicable step rate pay system at the work location. Salary or hourly pay ranges are influenced by labor laws and Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) requirements applicable to the work location which may also affect the workplace arrangement of the role.
Salary Range Information
$117,800.00 - $188,600.00 USD Annual
Becton, Dickinson, and Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, marital or domestic or civil union status, familial status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, disability, military eligibility or veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Staff Devops Engineer
Align your resume to SOC codes
LCA filings use Standard Occupational Classification codes, and Staff DevOps Engineers most often fall under SOC 15-1244. Framing your resume around infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, and SRE responsibilities strengthens the specialty occupation argument your employer must make to USCIS.
Search LCA filing history before applying
Use Migrate Mate to filter Staff DevOps Engineer roles by employers with verified LCA filing history, so you're targeting companies that have already navigated the H-1B process for this exact occupation code rather than guessing at sponsorship willingness.
Confirm prevailing wage tier before negotiating
Run your target title and work location through the OFLC Wage Search before any offer conversation. DOL sets four wage levels for each SOC code, and your offer must meet the certified LCA wage, so knowing Level III or Level IV thresholds for your metro gives you a realistic floor.
Distinguish staff from senior on your credentials
Hiring managers and immigration counsel both scrutinize whether your experience justifies a staff-level designation, which affects the wage tier on the LCA. Document system-wide ownership, cross-team technical leadership, and scope of infrastructure decisions explicitly in your portfolio and resume.
Ask about cap-exempt entity affiliations early
If a company has a nonprofit research arm or university partnership, it may qualify as cap-exempt, letting your petition bypass the annual H-1B lottery entirely. Ask HR whether the entity sponsoring your role has filed cap-exempt petitions before the offer stage, not after.
Time your start date around the October 1 activation window
Cap-subject H-1B petitions have an April filing window and an October 1 employment start date. If you're on OPT, verify your OPT end date against both the lottery timeline and any cap-gap protection period USCIS provides so you don't have an unauthorized gap between statuses.
H-1B Visa Staff Devops Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Staff DevOps Engineer role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes. USCIS evaluates specialty occupation based on whether the role normally requires at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field. Staff DevOps Engineer roles involving infrastructure architecture, platform engineering, and systems reliability consistently meet this threshold. The O*NET profile for related SOC codes confirms the theoretical and practical application of computer science knowledge required.
Which types of employers sponsor H-1B visas for Staff DevOps Engineers?
Enterprise software companies, cloud infrastructure firms, fintech organizations, and large-scale e-commerce platforms are the most active sponsors for this title. These employers file LCAs regularly under SOC codes tied to software and network systems occupations. You can browse verified sponsors filtered by this role on Migrate Mate, which surfaces employers with documented DOL Labor Condition Application filing history.
What happens to my H-1B status if I change employers after sponsorship?
You can change employers under H-1B portability rules once your petition has been approved and you've worked in H-1B status for at least a short period. Your new employer must file an H-1B transfer petition before your current status ends. For Staff DevOps Engineers, the new LCA must reflect the prevailing wage for your role and work location at the new company.
How does the H-1B lottery affect my job search timeline as a DevOps professional?
Cap-subject petitions are filed in April for an October 1 start date, so if you're selected in the lottery, there's typically a six-month gap between filing and employment authorization. Some employers offer bridge arrangements or remote contracts during this window. If the target employer qualifies as cap-exempt, this timeline doesn't apply and your petition can be filed and approved year-round.
What documentation strengthens an H-1B petition for a Staff DevOps Engineer?
Your employer's counsel will need documentation showing the role requires a specialized degree and that your credentials match. Useful materials include a detailed job description specifying technical scope, your degree transcripts, any cloud or platform certifications, and evidence of staff-level responsibilities such as architecture ownership or cross-functional technical leadership. USCIS may issue a Request for Evidence if the specialty occupation argument isn't sufficiently detailed in the initial filing.