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Principal DevOps Engineer roles on OPT require demonstrating senior-level ownership of CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and platform reliability. Most employers filing H-1B visa or O-1 visa sponsorship for this title expect hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, or AWS. Your 12-month STEM OPT extension window is where hiring decisions get made.
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At NetApp, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure—delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud.
Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins. Join teams that innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel together across every function.
DevOps Engineer - Engineering Tools and Services
Morrisville, North Carolina, United States
Job category: University
Job ID: 135699-en_US
Job Summary
NetApp’s Engineering Tools and Services (ETS) organization is responsible for deployment and operation of collaborative development tools. We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our globally distributed team that supports a range of tools to serve the needs and improve the efficiency of our developers at NetApp.
Responsibilities
As a DevOps engineer, you can expect your day-to-day responsibilities to include:
- Support services, tools, modules, and applications to improve the quality of life for software development engineers and operations engineers
- Work across different tools and programs such as source code management, project/defect tracking, code security/signing, binary artifact repositories/mirrors and collaboration tools supporting developers across NetApp
- Promote our DevOps best practices by collaborating with developers/managers during various phases of development
- Implement tooling and integrations that improve security posture of platform and our customers/teams
- Managing stakeholders and external interfaces
- Incident management and root cause analysis
- Collaborate across time zones (San Jose, RTP, Bengaluru) teams, and business functions as needed for team projects
Job Requirements
You will need to have hands-on experience, or certifications, in the following:
- Experience working on Linux based infrastructure
- Programming experience: Python, Go, Java, Bash shell scripting
- Administrative experience with any DevOps tools
- Working knowledge of databases – MySQL/PostgreSQL/Mongo
- Experience working with tools like JFrog Artifactory
- Experience with Atlassian tools like Jira, Confluence
- Source code management tools such as GitHub/Bitbucket
- Log ingest and dashboarding tools like Splunk, logscale
- Understanding of Secure Development Lifecycle and system security best practices
- Awareness of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile principles
- Excellent troubleshooting
Education
Typically requires a minimum of 2 years of related experience.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience is required.
Compensation
The target salary range for this position is 113,050 - 168,300 USD. The salary offered will be determined by the candidate's location, qualifications, experience, and education and may be outside of this range. Final compensation packages are competitive and in line with industry standards, reflecting a variety of factors, and include a comprehensive benefits package. This may cover Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Retirement or Pension Plans, Paid Time Off, various Leave options, Performance-Based Incentives, employee stock purchase plan, and/or restricted stocks (RSUs), with all offerings subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies. Benefits may vary by country and region, and further details will be provided as part of the recruitment process.
At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification.
Why You'll Thrive at NetApp
At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment—you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure.
NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security.
Our culture
We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed—they drive everything we do.
If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one. Apply now.
Submitting an Application
To ensure a streamlined and fair hiring process for all candidates, our team only reviews applications submitted through our company website. This practice allows us to track, assess, and respond to applicants efficiently. Emailing our employees, recruiters, or Human Resources personnel directly will not influence your application.
AI Disclosure
For select roles, some stages of our hiring process may use artificial intelligence tools to help evaluate applications and candidate selection. These tools support—rather than replace—human decision-making.
Own Every Moment at NetApp
At NetApp, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure—delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud.
Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins. Join teams that innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel together across every function.
DevOps Engineer - Engineering Tools and Services
Morrisville, North Carolina, United States
Job category: University
Job ID: 135699-en_US
Job Summary
NetApp’s Engineering Tools and Services (ETS) organization is responsible for deployment and operation of collaborative development tools. We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our globally distributed team that supports a range of tools to serve the needs and improve the efficiency of our developers at NetApp.
Responsibilities
As a DevOps engineer, you can expect your day-to-day responsibilities to include:
- Support services, tools, modules, and applications to improve the quality of life for software development engineers and operations engineers
- Work across different tools and programs such as source code management, project/defect tracking, code security/signing, binary artifact repositories/mirrors and collaboration tools supporting developers across NetApp
- Promote our DevOps best practices by collaborating with developers/managers during various phases of development
- Implement tooling and integrations that improve security posture of platform and our customers/teams
- Managing stakeholders and external interfaces
- Incident management and root cause analysis
- Collaborate across time zones (San Jose, RTP, Bengaluru) teams, and business functions as needed for team projects
Job Requirements
You will need to have hands-on experience, or certifications, in the following:
- Experience working on Linux based infrastructure
- Programming experience: Python, Go, Java, Bash shell scripting
- Administrative experience with any DevOps tools
- Working knowledge of databases – MySQL/PostgreSQL/Mongo
- Experience working with tools like JFrog Artifactory
- Experience with Atlassian tools like Jira, Confluence
- Source code management tools such as GitHub/Bitbucket
- Log ingest and dashboarding tools like Splunk, logscale
- Understanding of Secure Development Lifecycle and system security best practices
- Awareness of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile principles
- Excellent troubleshooting
Education
Typically requires a minimum of 2 years of related experience.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience is required.
Compensation
The target salary range for this position is 113,050 - 168,300 USD. The salary offered will be determined by the candidate's location, qualifications, experience, and education and may be outside of this range. Final compensation packages are competitive and in line with industry standards, reflecting a variety of factors, and include a comprehensive benefits package. This may cover Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Retirement or Pension Plans, Paid Time Off, various Leave options, Performance-Based Incentives, employee stock purchase plan, and/or restricted stocks (RSUs), with all offerings subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies. Benefits may vary by country and region, and further details will be provided as part of the recruitment process.
At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification.
Why You'll Thrive at NetApp
At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment—you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure.
NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security.
Our culture
We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed—they drive everything we do.
If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one. Apply now.
Submitting an Application
To ensure a streamlined and fair hiring process for all candidates, our team only reviews applications submitted through our company website. This practice allows us to track, assess, and respond to applicants efficiently. Emailing our employees, recruiters, or Human Resources personnel directly will not influence your application.
AI Disclosure
For select roles, some stages of our hiring process may use artificial intelligence tools to help evaluate applications and candidate selection. These tools support—rather than replace—human decision-making.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding OPT Sponsorship as a Principal Devops Engineer
Lead with infrastructure ownership, not task execution
Principal-level DevOps roles require demonstrating that you have owned platforms end-to-end, not just contributed to them. Quantify uptime improvements, migration scope, or cost reductions you drove directly. Employers sponsoring at this level expect autonomous decision-making, not team participation.
Target companies with active STEM OPT hiring patterns
Large tech firms, cloud-native startups, and financial services companies file the most H-1B visa petitions for DevOps titles. Prioritize employers with a documented history of sponsoring senior engineers. Hiring patterns from prior years are a reliable signal of sponsorship willingness at this level.
Apply during your first OPT year, not the final months
Principal DevOps roles have longer hiring cycles due to multiple interview rounds and committee approvals. Starting your search early gives employers enough runway to complete the process before your OPT expires. Waiting until the final quarter significantly reduces your options.
Certifications accelerate credibility at the principal level
AWS Solutions Architect Professional, CKA, or HashiCorp Terraform Associate certifications signal depth that resumes alone cannot. For OPT candidates without a U.S. work history, certifications from recognized bodies reduce employer hesitation and strengthen your technical credibility during evaluation.
Address sponsorship directly and confidently in recruiter calls
Senior hiring managers at principal-level understand visa sponsorship better than most. State your OPT status and STEM extension eligibility upfront. Ambiguity wastes everyone's time. Confident, clear communication about your timeline positions you as organized and serious, not as a liability.
Build a portfolio of platform decisions, not just implementations
Principal engineers are hired for judgment, not just execution. Document architectural decisions you have made, trade-offs you evaluated, and outcomes that followed. A GitHub repository showing infrastructure-as-code projects alongside written decision rationale is far more compelling than a list of tools used.
Principal Devops Engineer OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Can F-1 OPT students work as Principal DevOps Engineers without a visa sponsor on day one?
Yes. F-1 OPT authorization lets you work for any employer in a role directly related to your degree without employer sponsorship during the OPT period itself. Principal DevOps Engineer roles typically qualify under computer science, information systems, or engineering degrees. You will need sponsorship only if you intend to continue working after OPT and your STEM extension period expire.
Does the Principal DevOps Engineer title qualify for a STEM OPT extension?
It depends on your degree field, not the job title alone. If your degree is in computer science, electrical engineering, information technology, or a related STEM field, and the role involves applying that knowledge directly, it will generally qualify. Your DSO must authorize the extension, and your employer must be enrolled in E-Verify. Most tech employers hiring at this level already meet that requirement.
Where can OPT students find Principal DevOps Engineer roles at companies open to sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for F-1 OPT and international students seeking roles at sponsorship-willing employers. The platform filters for companies with active OPT and H-1B hiring history, so you are not cold-applying to employers who will immediately screen you out. Principal DevOps Engineer listings on Migrate Mate are curated for international candidates navigating the sponsorship process.
Will the seniority of a Principal DevOps Engineer title affect my H-1B sponsorship chances?
Seniority generally helps. Principal-level roles carry higher prevailing wage requirements, which some employers find more straightforward to justify under LCA filings. More importantly, employers investing in H-1B sponsorship prefer candidates with demonstrated long-term value, and a principal designation signals that the employer sees you as a critical hire, not a replaceable resource.
What happens to my OPT authorization if my Principal DevOps Engineer employer does a layoff?
Your OPT authorization remains valid, but you enter a 60-day unemployment grace period. You must find a new qualifying employer within that window or risk falling out of status. At the principal level, a well-maintained professional network and documented infrastructure accomplishments significantly speed up re-employment. Start your search immediately and notify your DSO about the employment gap.