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Infrastructure Software Engineer jobs are strong candidates for OPT work authorization because the role consistently qualifies as a specialty occupation requiring a degree in computer science, systems engineering, or a related field. Most positions support STEM OPT extension, giving you up to three years of authorized work.
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As an Infrastructure Engineer at the Senior Software Engineer I level, you are a proficient infrastructure and platform engineer who is familiar with the patterns and practices of Infrastructure-as-Code and container orchestration. This person contributes to the team's consistent, reliable delivery of the infrastructure that supports the platform's iterative value to clients. The focus of this role is on provisioning, deploying, and operating infrastructure — including cloud resources, Kubernetes clusters, and CI/CD pipelines — rather than on writing application-layer code. This person collaborates with engineering teams to ensure infrastructure is secure, scalable, and reliably deployed across environments.
ROLE
- Provision and maintain cloud infrastructure using Terraform, including authoring and consuming versioned shared modules (e.g. IAM roles, Lambda layers, RDS cluster parameter groups, Secrets Manager secrets, security groups) and supplemental code written in TypeScript
- Manage and evolve Kubernetes (EKS) clusters, Helm charts, and Istio service-mesh configuration across environments
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) supporting trunk-based merges to main
- Support provisioning and lifecycle management of cloud-hosted environments
- Manage secrets via AWS Secrets Manager and enforce least-privilege IAM policies across services and pipelines
- Participate in infrastructure code reviews, providing and incorporating feedback to improve reliability and maintainability
- Contribute to incident resolution and postmortem reviews for infrastructure and platform issues
- Produce clear infrastructure documentation and share knowledge with both technical and non-technical audiences
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform preferred, Cloud Formation)
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes and Helm for packaging, configuring, and deploying containerized workloads
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Minimum of 2 years of experience in an infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering role
- AWS certification (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect or AWS Certified SysOps Administrator)
- Kubernetes certification (CKA or CKAD)
- Experience with Istio or another service mesh technology
- Experience with Aurora Postgres or other managed relational database services
- Experience with EKS or other container orchestration platforms
- Experience authoring and maintaining reusable, versioned Terraform modules
- Experience with observability and monitoring tooling (e.g. CloudWatch, Dynatrace, Splunk)
- Experience in capacity planning and dynamic infrastructure scaling
- Experience implementing different deployment strategies (rolling, blue/green, canary, etc.)
- Experience managing infrastructure with a major cloud provider (AWS preferred)
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or equivalent)
- Basic proficiency with Node.js and TypeScript for authoring infrastructure tooling scripts
- Strong troubleshooting skills, including the ability to reason about distributed systems and infrastructure dependencies
- Effective written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document infrastructure decisions and processes
- Familiarity with Agile practices
WHAT YOU’LL GET
Our team members fuel our strategy, innovation and growth, so we ensure the health and well-being of not just you, but your family, too! We go above and beyond to give you the support you need on an individual level and offer all sorts of ways to help you live your best life. We are proud to offer eligible team members perks and health benefits that will help you have peace of mind. Simply put: We’ve got your back. Check out our full list of Benefits and Perks.
ON-CALL EXPECTATIONS
This role may include participation in an on-call rotation to support production systems and ensure service reliability. On-call responsibilities may include coverage during nights and weekends. If applicable, frequency and scheduling will be determined by team needs and communicated accordingly.
About us
Headquartered in Detroit, Rocket Loans was established to create the most simple, rocket fast personal loan process. We assembled a top-notch team of individuals combining new, passionate team members with some of the best veterans from Rocket Mortgage to create the most user-friendly lending platform in the world. We have given it our best to create an experience that is best-of-breed in the personal loan industry and commit even more to continuously improving it. At Rocket Loans, you’ll build a career that helps you achieve your professional goals while helping clients get the loans they need to reach their financial goals. We’re looking for innovators and those unafraid to disrupt the status-quo. With an inclusive culture and opportunities to make a positive impact, we’re here to help you foster your career growth.
This job description is an outline of the primary responsibilities of this position and may be modified at the discretion of the company at any time. Decisions related to employment are not based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, military or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law. The company provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable state and federal laws. Applicants requiring reasonable accommodations in completing the application and/or participating in the application process should contact a member of the Human Resources team, at Careers@Rocket.com.
The compensation information below is provided in compliance with all applicable job posting disclosure requirements. The compensation for this position is $112,000.00-$239,000.00. The position may also be eligible for an annual bonus, incentives, and other employment-related benefits including, but not limited to, medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401K retirement plan, and paid-time off. More information regarding these benefits and others can be found here. The information regarding compensation and other benefits included in this paragraph is the company’s current, good faith estimate at the time of posting. [Compensation and benefits are subject to modification from time to time as the Company, in its sole and exclusive discretion, deems appropriate.] The Company may determine during its future reviews of the proposed compensation and benefits provided for this position, that the compensation and benefits for such position should be reduced. In no event will the Company reduce the compensation for the position to a level below the applicable jurisdictional minimum wage rate for the position. Los Angeles County and San Francisco Candidates only: qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment per the Fair Chance Ordinance and the Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.
INTRODUCTION
As an Infrastructure Engineer at the Senior Software Engineer I level, you are a proficient infrastructure and platform engineer who is familiar with the patterns and practices of Infrastructure-as-Code and container orchestration. This person contributes to the team's consistent, reliable delivery of the infrastructure that supports the platform's iterative value to clients. The focus of this role is on provisioning, deploying, and operating infrastructure — including cloud resources, Kubernetes clusters, and CI/CD pipelines — rather than on writing application-layer code. This person collaborates with engineering teams to ensure infrastructure is secure, scalable, and reliably deployed across environments.
ROLE
- Provision and maintain cloud infrastructure using Terraform, including authoring and consuming versioned shared modules (e.g. IAM roles, Lambda layers, RDS cluster parameter groups, Secrets Manager secrets, security groups) and supplemental code written in TypeScript
- Manage and evolve Kubernetes (EKS) clusters, Helm charts, and Istio service-mesh configuration across environments
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) supporting trunk-based merges to main
- Support provisioning and lifecycle management of cloud-hosted environments
- Manage secrets via AWS Secrets Manager and enforce least-privilege IAM policies across services and pipelines
- Participate in infrastructure code reviews, providing and incorporating feedback to improve reliability and maintainability
- Contribute to incident resolution and postmortem reviews for infrastructure and platform issues
- Produce clear infrastructure documentation and share knowledge with both technical and non-technical audiences
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform preferred, Cloud Formation)
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes and Helm for packaging, configuring, and deploying containerized workloads
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Minimum of 2 years of experience in an infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering role
- AWS certification (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect or AWS Certified SysOps Administrator)
- Kubernetes certification (CKA or CKAD)
- Experience with Istio or another service mesh technology
- Experience with Aurora Postgres or other managed relational database services
- Experience with EKS or other container orchestration platforms
- Experience authoring and maintaining reusable, versioned Terraform modules
- Experience with observability and monitoring tooling (e.g. CloudWatch, Dynatrace, Splunk)
- Experience in capacity planning and dynamic infrastructure scaling
- Experience implementing different deployment strategies (rolling, blue/green, canary, etc.)
- Experience managing infrastructure with a major cloud provider (AWS preferred)
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or equivalent)
- Basic proficiency with Node.js and TypeScript for authoring infrastructure tooling scripts
- Strong troubleshooting skills, including the ability to reason about distributed systems and infrastructure dependencies
- Effective written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document infrastructure decisions and processes
- Familiarity with Agile practices
WHAT YOU’LL GET
Our team members fuel our strategy, innovation and growth, so we ensure the health and well-being of not just you, but your family, too! We go above and beyond to give you the support you need on an individual level and offer all sorts of ways to help you live your best life. We are proud to offer eligible team members perks and health benefits that will help you have peace of mind. Simply put: We’ve got your back. Check out our full list of Benefits and Perks.
ON-CALL EXPECTATIONS
This role may include participation in an on-call rotation to support production systems and ensure service reliability. On-call responsibilities may include coverage during nights and weekends. If applicable, frequency and scheduling will be determined by team needs and communicated accordingly.
About us
Headquartered in Detroit, Rocket Loans was established to create the most simple, rocket fast personal loan process. We assembled a top-notch team of individuals combining new, passionate team members with some of the best veterans from Rocket Mortgage to create the most user-friendly lending platform in the world. We have given it our best to create an experience that is best-of-breed in the personal loan industry and commit even more to continuously improving it. At Rocket Loans, you’ll build a career that helps you achieve your professional goals while helping clients get the loans they need to reach their financial goals. We’re looking for innovators and those unafraid to disrupt the status-quo. With an inclusive culture and opportunities to make a positive impact, we’re here to help you foster your career growth.
This job description is an outline of the primary responsibilities of this position and may be modified at the discretion of the company at any time. Decisions related to employment are not based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, military or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law. The company provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable state and federal laws. Applicants requiring reasonable accommodations in completing the application and/or participating in the application process should contact a member of the Human Resources team, at Careers@Rocket.com.
The compensation information below is provided in compliance with all applicable job posting disclosure requirements. The compensation for this position is $112,000.00-$239,000.00. The position may also be eligible for an annual bonus, incentives, and other employment-related benefits including, but not limited to, medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401K retirement plan, and paid-time off. More information regarding these benefits and others can be found here. The information regarding compensation and other benefits included in this paragraph is the company’s current, good faith estimate at the time of posting. [Compensation and benefits are subject to modification from time to time as the Company, in its sole and exclusive discretion, deems appropriate.] The Company may determine during its future reviews of the proposed compensation and benefits provided for this position, that the compensation and benefits for such position should be reduced. In no event will the Company reduce the compensation for the position to a level below the applicable jurisdictional minimum wage rate for the position. Los Angeles County and San Francisco Candidates only: qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment per the Fair Chance Ordinance and the Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding OPT Sponsorship as an Infrastructure Software Engineer
Lead with your systems experience upfront
Hiring managers for infrastructure roles scan for specific technologies fast. Put Kubernetes, Terraform, Linux, or CI/CD tools in the top third of your resume so recruiters see your technical fit before they reach your visa status.
Target companies with existing OPT infrastructure
Companies that have sponsored OPT students before already have HR processes, legal contacts, and DSO workflows in place. They move faster and with less friction than employers encountering OPT for the first time.
Confirm your role qualifies for STEM OPT extension early
Infrastructure Software Engineer almost always qualifies under CIP code 14.0901 or 11.0701, but confirm with your DSO before accepting an offer. You need the correct degree field on record to file the STEM extension without issues.
Frame your OPT timeline clearly for employers
Tell hiring managers you have up to three years available through STEM OPT. Many assume OPT is only 12 months. Correcting this early removes a common objection and repositions you as a lower-risk hire than they initially assumed.
Get your EAD application in before your program end date
USCIS recommends filing your OPT EAD application up to 90 days before your program end date. Late applications mean gaps in authorization, which disqualify you from starting a new role until the card arrives.
Use internship or co-op infrastructure work as direct evidence
Employers sponsoring OPT for infrastructure roles want proof you can operate in production environments. Internship work managing cloud deployments, monitoring systems, or network configurations carries more weight than academic projects alone.
Infrastructure Software Engineer OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Does an Infrastructure Software Engineer role qualify for STEM OPT extension?
Yes, in most cases. Infrastructure Software Engineer roles typically fall under STEM-designated degree fields including computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering. As long as your degree is on the STEM OPT eligible CIP code list and your employer is E-Verify registered, you can apply for the 24-month STEM extension before your standard 12-month OPT expires.
How do I find Infrastructure Software Engineer jobs that support OPT authorization?
Browse Migrate Mate to find Infrastructure Software Engineer roles at employers that have hired OPT and visa-sponsored workers before. Filtering by sponsorship history saves you from applying to companies that will decline at the offer stage. Most infrastructure roles at mid-size and enterprise tech companies actively support OPT without treating it as a blocker.
Can I work as an Infrastructure Software Engineer on OPT without my employer filing any paperwork?
Yes. During standard OPT, your employer does not file any petition with USCIS. Your EAD card is your authorization to work, and the employer simply verifies it on Form I-9. For the STEM OPT extension, your employer must be E-Verify enrolled and sign a formal training plan, but there is no government filing fee or lottery involved.
What happens to my OPT if my Infrastructure Software Engineer job is laid off?
You have a 60-day unemployment grace period during standard OPT and 150 days total across your STEM OPT period. Infrastructure layoffs can happen fast in tech downturns, so tracking your unemployment days against these limits is critical. Exceeding the limit terminates your OPT, and you must either find a new role, transfer to a different status, or depart the U.S.
Do infrastructure roles at startups typically support OPT?
Many do, but the key variable is E-Verify enrollment, which is required for STEM OPT extension. Smaller startups sometimes are not E-Verify registered and may be unwilling to enroll. If you are targeting early-stage companies, ask about E-Verify status before getting deep into the interview process to avoid surprises at the offer stage.