STEM OPT Network Coordinator Jobs
Network Coordinator roles in IT infrastructure, telecommunications, and systems administration qualify for STEM OPT's 24-month extension when your degree aligns with an eligible CIP code. Your employer must be enrolled in E-Verify and sign a Form I-983 training plan before your extension begins.
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Executes the design, installation, and maintenance of network infrastructure and related technologies. Uses network management tools to analyze performance in collaboration with senior team members. Coordinates network changes, communicating with stakeholders to ensure smooth transitions. Deploys networks and security policies using automated tools to enhance scalability and reliability. Serves as a technical liaison with customers and internal teams, maintaining network inventory and configuration data. Monitors and maintains network components independently, ensures proper functioning of hardware and software, and manages security and compliance policies. Supports mentoring peers, standardizing tasks, and troubleshooting connectivity issues, proactively addressing potential service impacts and resolving client problems. Some Network Service roles may develop and maintain standard and non-standard automation and scripts to optimize testing, operations, and network tasks, as well as create and customize dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms to monitor network health.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
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Support network service reliability. Monitor, operate, and maintain physical and cloud network services supporting Oracle Health customers. Take ownership of assigned operational tasks and follow issues through resolution or coordinated handoff.
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Support physical networks. Deploy, configure, maintain, upgrade, and troubleshoot routers, switches, firewalls, and load balancers using established designs and procedures.
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Operate cloud networking. Configure and troubleshoot OCI and AWS virtual networks, subnets, routing, security controls, DNS, and load balancing within established patterns. Assist with private connectivity between cloud and data center environments.
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Apply operational automation. Use established Python tools and scripts for provisioning, validation, diagnostics, telemetry, compliance checks, and remediation. Interpret results, investigate common failures, and provide reproducible details to tool owners.
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Use infrastructure as code. Update approved Terraform variables and supported configuration settings, review plans, and execute established deployment workflows. Validate results and follow documented rollout, rollback, and state management procedures.
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Contribute to automation improvements. Identify repetitive operational tasks, describe requirements and expected outcomes, and help test and adopt updated tools, scripts, and configurations.
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Respond to incidents. Independently investigate common and moderately complex issues within familiar services. Gather evidence, apply approved recovery procedures, and escalate unfamiliar, high-impact, or unresolved problems promptly. Contribute to root cause analysis and assigned corrective actions.
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Execute safe production changes. Prepare and perform routine changes and defined portions of upgrades, migrations, and maintenance. Document implementation, validation, and rollback steps, and obtain required reviews and approvals.
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Improve operations. Contribute improvements to monitoring, alerts, configuration consistency, runbooks, and recovery procedures. Collect capacity and performance data and flag emerging concerns.
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Collaborate across teams. Coordinate assigned work with infrastructure, security, SRE, platform, application, and vendor teams. Share knowledge and seek senior engineering guidance when work exceeds established patterns.
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Maintain documentation and handoffs. Keep network diagrams, configuration records, runbooks, and issue updates accurate. Provide clear handoffs across regions and time zones.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
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Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and practical experience required.
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Practical experience supporting production enterprise, data center, or cloud networks, with the ability to complete well-defined operational work semi-independently.
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Working knowledge of networking fundamentals at a level typically associated with CCNA or CCNP study or equivalent practical experience, including TCP/IP, subnetting, switching, VLANs, routing, network segmentation, NAT, VPNs, and high availability.
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Understanding of BGP and OSPF fundamentals, with the ability to inspect routing tables, recognize common adjacency or route advertisement issues, and troubleshoot within established configurations.
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Hands-on experience configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting production network devices, with familiarity supporting routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, DNS, and DHCP.
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Practical cloud networking experience in OCI or AWS, including virtual networks, subnets, routing, security controls, and load balancing, with the ability to learn and support the other platform using established procedures.
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Ability to use packet captures, logs, metrics, telemetry, and basic Linux commands to investigate connectivity and service issues and identify when additional expertise is needed.
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Ability to run and read existing Python scripts, understand their inputs and outputs, investigate common execution errors, and engage tool owners with useful diagnostic information.
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Experience using existing Terraform configurations or modules, updating variables, interpreting planned changes, and following documented deployment and state management procedures.
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Familiarity with Git, pull requests, peer review, and automated validation or CI/CD workflows for configuration changes.
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Experience participating in incident response, documenting findings, following escalation procedures, and completing assigned corrective actions.
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Ability to manage assigned tasks, recognize operational risks, communicate blockers, and seek guidance when requirements or troubleshooting steps are unclear.
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Ability to communicate clearly during time-sensitive conference calls, summarize symptoms and actions taken, and provide audience-appropriate status updates and next steps to customers and partner teams.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
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Experience supporting both OCI and AWS, with familiarity with OCI VCNs, DRGs, and FastConnect, or AWS VPCs, Transit Gateway, and Direct Connect.
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Experience supporting healthcare technology or other environments with demanding availability, privacy, security, and compliance requirements.
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Experience making small, reviewed changes to existing scripts or using network device APIs, Ansible, or other configuration management tools.
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Experience contributing to monitoring, configuration compliance, capacity reviews, or disaster recovery exercises.
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Relevant networking or cloud certifications, such as CCNA, CCNP, or OCI/AWS certifications, or equivalent demonstrated technical knowledge.
On-Call and Global Collaboration
Participate as part of a team in a global on-call rotation and planned maintenance outside normal business hours, including weekends and holidays as assigned. Use established runbooks and escalation procedures, engage senior engineers for complex or high-impact issues, and maintain ownership of assigned actions through resolution or coordinated handoff.
INTRODUCTION
Executes the design, installation, and maintenance of network infrastructure and related technologies. Uses network management tools to analyze performance in collaboration with senior team members. Coordinates network changes, communicating with stakeholders to ensure smooth transitions. Deploys networks and security policies using automated tools to enhance scalability and reliability. Serves as a technical liaison with customers and internal teams, maintaining network inventory and configuration data. Monitors and maintains network components independently, ensures proper functioning of hardware and software, and manages security and compliance policies. Supports mentoring peers, standardizing tasks, and troubleshooting connectivity issues, proactively addressing potential service impacts and resolving client problems. Some Network Service roles may develop and maintain standard and non-standard automation and scripts to optimize testing, operations, and network tasks, as well as create and customize dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms to monitor network health.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
-
Support network service reliability. Monitor, operate, and maintain physical and cloud network services supporting Oracle Health customers. Take ownership of assigned operational tasks and follow issues through resolution or coordinated handoff.
-
Support physical networks. Deploy, configure, maintain, upgrade, and troubleshoot routers, switches, firewalls, and load balancers using established designs and procedures.
-
Operate cloud networking. Configure and troubleshoot OCI and AWS virtual networks, subnets, routing, security controls, DNS, and load balancing within established patterns. Assist with private connectivity between cloud and data center environments.
-
Apply operational automation. Use established Python tools and scripts for provisioning, validation, diagnostics, telemetry, compliance checks, and remediation. Interpret results, investigate common failures, and provide reproducible details to tool owners.
-
Use infrastructure as code. Update approved Terraform variables and supported configuration settings, review plans, and execute established deployment workflows. Validate results and follow documented rollout, rollback, and state management procedures.
-
Contribute to automation improvements. Identify repetitive operational tasks, describe requirements and expected outcomes, and help test and adopt updated tools, scripts, and configurations.
-
Respond to incidents. Independently investigate common and moderately complex issues within familiar services. Gather evidence, apply approved recovery procedures, and escalate unfamiliar, high-impact, or unresolved problems promptly. Contribute to root cause analysis and assigned corrective actions.
-
Execute safe production changes. Prepare and perform routine changes and defined portions of upgrades, migrations, and maintenance. Document implementation, validation, and rollback steps, and obtain required reviews and approvals.
-
Improve operations. Contribute improvements to monitoring, alerts, configuration consistency, runbooks, and recovery procedures. Collect capacity and performance data and flag emerging concerns.
-
Collaborate across teams. Coordinate assigned work with infrastructure, security, SRE, platform, application, and vendor teams. Share knowledge and seek senior engineering guidance when work exceeds established patterns.
-
Maintain documentation and handoffs. Keep network diagrams, configuration records, runbooks, and issue updates accurate. Provide clear handoffs across regions and time zones.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
-
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and practical experience required.
-
Practical experience supporting production enterprise, data center, or cloud networks, with the ability to complete well-defined operational work semi-independently.
-
Working knowledge of networking fundamentals at a level typically associated with CCNA or CCNP study or equivalent practical experience, including TCP/IP, subnetting, switching, VLANs, routing, network segmentation, NAT, VPNs, and high availability.
-
Understanding of BGP and OSPF fundamentals, with the ability to inspect routing tables, recognize common adjacency or route advertisement issues, and troubleshoot within established configurations.
-
Hands-on experience configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting production network devices, with familiarity supporting routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, DNS, and DHCP.
-
Practical cloud networking experience in OCI or AWS, including virtual networks, subnets, routing, security controls, and load balancing, with the ability to learn and support the other platform using established procedures.
-
Ability to use packet captures, logs, metrics, telemetry, and basic Linux commands to investigate connectivity and service issues and identify when additional expertise is needed.
-
Ability to run and read existing Python scripts, understand their inputs and outputs, investigate common execution errors, and engage tool owners with useful diagnostic information.
-
Experience using existing Terraform configurations or modules, updating variables, interpreting planned changes, and following documented deployment and state management procedures.
-
Familiarity with Git, pull requests, peer review, and automated validation or CI/CD workflows for configuration changes.
-
Experience participating in incident response, documenting findings, following escalation procedures, and completing assigned corrective actions.
-
Ability to manage assigned tasks, recognize operational risks, communicate blockers, and seek guidance when requirements or troubleshooting steps are unclear.
-
Ability to communicate clearly during time-sensitive conference calls, summarize symptoms and actions taken, and provide audience-appropriate status updates and next steps to customers and partner teams.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
-
Experience supporting both OCI and AWS, with familiarity with OCI VCNs, DRGs, and FastConnect, or AWS VPCs, Transit Gateway, and Direct Connect.
-
Experience supporting healthcare technology or other environments with demanding availability, privacy, security, and compliance requirements.
-
Experience making small, reviewed changes to existing scripts or using network device APIs, Ansible, or other configuration management tools.
-
Experience contributing to monitoring, configuration compliance, capacity reviews, or disaster recovery exercises.
-
Relevant networking or cloud certifications, such as CCNA, CCNP, or OCI/AWS certifications, or equivalent demonstrated technical knowledge.
On-Call and Global Collaboration
Participate as part of a team in a global on-call rotation and planned maintenance outside normal business hours, including weekends and holidays as assigned. Use established runbooks and escalation procedures, engage senior engineers for complex or high-impact issues, and maintain ownership of assigned actions through resolution or coordinated handoff.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding STEM OPT Authorization as a Network Coordinator
Verify your CIP code matches network roles
Check your degree's Classification of Instructional Programs code against the STEM OPT designated degree list before applying. Computer and information sciences CIP codes under 11.xx and engineering technology codes under 15.xx commonly support Network Coordinator positions, but your DSO confirms the match.
Confirm E-Verify enrollment before accepting offers
Ask recruiters for their E-Verify company ID or check enrollment status through the E-Verify employer search before any offer stage. An employer not enrolled in E-Verify cannot legally support your STEM OPT extension, regardless of how willing they are to hire you.
Build an I-983 training plan around network operations
Draft your Form I-983 learning objectives before your first interview so you can discuss them with hiring managers. Network Coordinator duties like configuring routers, monitoring traffic, and managing VLANs translate directly into concrete, assessable training goals that satisfy USCIS requirements.
Target mid-size IT services firms with federal contracts
Companies holding federal IT contracts are already E-Verify enrolled by law, making them reliable targets for STEM OPT candidates. Network Coordinator roles at managed service providers and government contractors often involve structured on-the-job training that aligns naturally with I-983 reporting requirements.
Use Migrate Mate to filter for STEM OPT employers
Search Network Coordinator openings on Migrate Mate, which filters for employers with active E-Verify enrollment and STEM OPT hiring history. This removes the guesswork of researching employer eligibility manually and puts you in front of companies already set up to support your authorization.
Time your extension application against your OPT end date
File your STEM OPT extension application at least 90 days before your initial OPT EAD expires and no later than 60 days after your program end date. Cap-gap protection only applies if your H-1B visa petition is filed on time, so your extension timeline directly affects future status continuity.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Network Coordinator role qualify for the STEM OPT extension?
It depends on your degree, not just the job title. Network Coordinator positions typically involve network administration, systems configuration, and infrastructure management, which align with STEM fields like computer science, information technology, and electrical engineering. Your DSO confirms whether your specific degree's CIP code appears on the STEM OPT designated degree list. The role itself must also relate directly to your field of study as documented in your I-983 training plan.
What does my employer need to do to support my STEM OPT?
Your employer must be enrolled in E-Verify and sign Form I-983, the training plan that documents your learning objectives, supervision structure, and how the Network Coordinator role relates to your STEM degree. USCIS requires the employer to evaluate your progress every six months and report any material changes to your DSO within five business days. Without E-Verify enrollment, the employer cannot lawfully support your extension regardless of their intent.
How do I verify that a Network Coordinator employer is enrolled in E-Verify?
You can confirm enrollment through the E-Verify employer search tool before accepting an offer. Ask the recruiter directly for the company's E-Verify company ID number during the offer stage, not after signing. Staffing agencies and third-party vendors who place you at a client site must also separately verify which entity serves as your employer of record, since the E-Verify requirement applies to that entity specifically.
How do I find Network Coordinator jobs that are open to STEM OPT candidates?
Migrate Mate lists Network Coordinator openings filtered for employers with E-Verify enrollment and documented STEM OPT hiring history, so you're not manually screening every posting for eligibility. When you apply, lead with your STEM OPT authorization timeline clearly stated in your application materials. Employers familiar with STEM OPT expect candidates to provide their OPT end date and STEM extension eligibility upfront.
What happens to my STEM OPT authorization if my employer changes my role or location?
Material changes to your training plan, including a significant shift in job duties, a new supervisor, or a change in work location, must be reported to your DSO within five business days under USCIS regulations. Your DSO may need to update your SEVIS record and issue a new I-20. A minor location change within the same metro area typically does not require a new training plan, but a role change from network coordination to an unrelated function would likely disqualify the position from supporting your extension.