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Cloud DevOps Engineer roles qualify as H-1B visa specialty occupations, making them strong candidates for employer sponsorship. Most hiring companies file LCAs through DOL before submitting your H-1B petition to USCIS. Australian nationals can skip the lottery entirely with an E-3 visa, and F-1 graduates can bridge the gap using OPT or STEM OPT while sponsorship processes.
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Baptist Health is the region's largest not-for-profit healthcare organization, with 12 hospitals, over 29,000 employees, 4,500 physicians and 200 outpatient centers, urgent care facilities and physician practices across Miami-Dade, Monroe, Broward and Palm Beach counties. With internationally renowned centers of excellence in cancer, cardiovascular care, orthopedics and sports medicine, and neurosciences, Baptist Health is supported by philanthropy and driven by its faith-based mission of medical excellence. For 26 years, we've been named one of Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For, and in the 2025-2026 U.S. News & World Report Best Hospital Rankings, Baptist Health was the most awarded healthcare system in South Florida, earning 63 high-performing honors.
What truly sets us apart is our people. At Baptist Health, we create personal connections with our colleagues that go beyond the workplace, and we form meaningful relationships with patients and their families that extend beyond delivering care. Many of us have walked in our patients' shoes ourselves and that shared experience fuels our commitment to compassion and quality. Our culture is rooted in purpose, and every team member plays a part in making a positive impact – because when it comes to caring for people, we're all in.
At Baptist Health, we’re committed to supporting our employees at every stage of their journey, both personally and professionally. Our approach is rooted in a “grow our own” philosophy, designed to help our team members build meaningful, long-term careers with us, supported by benefits that make a real difference, including:
- Career growth and development opportunities, with clear pathways and ongoing support
- Comprehensive health and wellness resources that go beyond traditional benefits
- A wellness program that can help employees eliminate their medical plan deductible, reducing out-of-pocket healthcare costs
- Tuition reimbursement to support continued learning and advancement
- And so much more
Together, these benefits and others reflect our commitment to caring for our people, so they can build fulfilling careers with us while making a meaningful impact every day.
DESCRIPTION:
Systems Engineer supports a large-scale Distributed Infrastructure, providing technical leadership in problem solving, maintenance, and project build situations, formulating solutions for improvement, and working with peers to establish a strategic direction for the environment. This position will install, maintain, and configure systems infrastructure on both on premise and Cloud platforms. Estimated salary range for this position is $110993.26 - $144291.24 / year depending on experience.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Degrees:
- Bachelors.
Additional Qualifications:
- Masters preferred.
- 10+ yrs of exp in Comp Science, Comp Engineering, Electrical Engineering or comparable industry exp.
- Hands-on, proven expertise with developing tech solutions involving multiple apps to solve business/production needs.
- Excellent communication & interpersonal skills, particularly in working within teams/stakeholders.
- Expertise in Linux, MacOS, &/or Windows sys admin.
- Exp managing cloud based solutions using VMware, AWS, GCP, &/or Kubernetes.
- Exp with LDAP, DNS, SSO, MDM, SMTP, sys performance-monitoring tools, virtualization, HTTP, email routing & admin, interacting with REST APIs for app integration & automation, & familiarity with authentication standards.
- Knowl. of programming with Python & other scripting languages such as bash, Perl, etc.
- Knowl. of Git or other version ctrl sys.
- Strong ability to query & visualize data using tools like Grafana, Kibana, &/or ElasticSearch.
- Excellent troubleshooting & problem solving skills.
- Understanding of TCP/IP networks, troubleshooting & related tech.
- Strong, demonstrated skills in the following at a min: AWS, Chef, Docker, Terraform, F5, Couchbase, Apache, Nginx, Tomcat, ElasticSearch, Rabbit MQ, Angular.js, Node.js, Spring/Java, Rundeck.
- Required knowledge & understanding of technical architecture, app sys design & integration in a large enterprise environment.
We are seeking an experienced Lead DevOps & Cloud Engineer to design, build, automate, and operate highly available cloud and application infrastructure in a large-scale enterprise environment.
The ideal candidate combines strong cloud and systems engineering expertise with hands-on experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), containers, CI/CD, observability, networking, automation, and production troubleshooting. This role will partner closely with application development, architecture, security, networking, and operations teams to deliver reliable, scalable, secure, and automated platforms.
CLOUD & INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEERING
Demonstrated hands-on experience with:
- AWS cloud architecture, infrastructure, operations, security, and automation.
- Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
- Containerization using Docker and orchestration using Kubernetes.
- Configuration management and automation using Chef or comparable technologies.
- Virtualized and cloud environments, including VMware, AWS, and/or GCP.
- Administration and troubleshooting of Linux systems; Windows and macOS experience is beneficial.
- Enterprise load balancing and application delivery technologies such as F5.
AUTOMATION & DEVOPS
- Strong programming and automation skills using Python; experience with Perl or similar scripting languages is beneficial.
- Experience integrating systems and automating operational processes using REST APIs.
- Strong working knowledge of Git or comparable version-control platforms.
- Strong experience in Terraform and/or Ansible.
- Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, infrastructure provisioning, and configuration management.
- Ability to develop reusable automation that improves deployment consistency, operational efficiency, and system reliability.
NETWORKING, SECURITY & ENTERPRISE SERVICES
- TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, load balancing, routing, and network troubleshooting.
- LDAP, SSO, authentication and authorization standards, and enterprise identity integration.
- SMTP, email routing, and related messaging infrastructure.
- Cloud security fundamentals, certificates, secrets management, identity federation, and least-privilege access.
OBSERVABILITY & PRODUCTION OPERATIONS
- Experience implementing and operating monitoring, logging, alerting, and performance-management solutions.
- Strong ability to query, analyze, and visualize operational data using Open Telemetry, Splunk, Bindplane and Click house.
- Experience troubleshooting distributed systems across infrastructure, networking, operating systems, containers, cloud services, and application layers.
- Ability to identify performance bottlenecks, perform root-cause analysis, and drive complex production incidents through resolution.
- Strong understanding of availability, resiliency, capacity, performance, monitoring, disaster recovery, and operational readiness.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Advanced experience designing and operating production workloads on GCP / AWS.
- Experience managing Kubernetes platforms at enterprise scale.
- Experience creating reusable Terraform modules and standardized cloud infrastructure patterns.
- Experience implementing CI/CD, GitOps, DevSecOps, observability, and operational automation practices.
- Experience with cloud networking, IAM, secrets management, encryption, certificates, and security controls.
- Experience modernizing traditional infrastructure and VM-based workloads into cloud-native and containerized architectures.
Minimum Required Experience: 10 Years
EOE, including disability/vets
INTRODUCTION
Baptist Health is the region's largest not-for-profit healthcare organization, with 12 hospitals, over 29,000 employees, 4,500 physicians and 200 outpatient centers, urgent care facilities and physician practices across Miami-Dade, Monroe, Broward and Palm Beach counties. With internationally renowned centers of excellence in cancer, cardiovascular care, orthopedics and sports medicine, and neurosciences, Baptist Health is supported by philanthropy and driven by its faith-based mission of medical excellence. For 26 years, we've been named one of Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For, and in the 2025-2026 U.S. News & World Report Best Hospital Rankings, Baptist Health was the most awarded healthcare system in South Florida, earning 63 high-performing honors.
What truly sets us apart is our people. At Baptist Health, we create personal connections with our colleagues that go beyond the workplace, and we form meaningful relationships with patients and their families that extend beyond delivering care. Many of us have walked in our patients' shoes ourselves and that shared experience fuels our commitment to compassion and quality. Our culture is rooted in purpose, and every team member plays a part in making a positive impact – because when it comes to caring for people, we're all in.
At Baptist Health, we’re committed to supporting our employees at every stage of their journey, both personally and professionally. Our approach is rooted in a “grow our own” philosophy, designed to help our team members build meaningful, long-term careers with us, supported by benefits that make a real difference, including:
- Career growth and development opportunities, with clear pathways and ongoing support
- Comprehensive health and wellness resources that go beyond traditional benefits
- A wellness program that can help employees eliminate their medical plan deductible, reducing out-of-pocket healthcare costs
- Tuition reimbursement to support continued learning and advancement
- And so much more
Together, these benefits and others reflect our commitment to caring for our people, so they can build fulfilling careers with us while making a meaningful impact every day.
DESCRIPTION:
Systems Engineer supports a large-scale Distributed Infrastructure, providing technical leadership in problem solving, maintenance, and project build situations, formulating solutions for improvement, and working with peers to establish a strategic direction for the environment. This position will install, maintain, and configure systems infrastructure on both on premise and Cloud platforms. Estimated salary range for this position is $110993.26 - $144291.24 / year depending on experience.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Degrees:
- Bachelors.
Additional Qualifications:
- Masters preferred.
- 10+ yrs of exp in Comp Science, Comp Engineering, Electrical Engineering or comparable industry exp.
- Hands-on, proven expertise with developing tech solutions involving multiple apps to solve business/production needs.
- Excellent communication & interpersonal skills, particularly in working within teams/stakeholders.
- Expertise in Linux, MacOS, &/or Windows sys admin.
- Exp managing cloud based solutions using VMware, AWS, GCP, &/or Kubernetes.
- Exp with LDAP, DNS, SSO, MDM, SMTP, sys performance-monitoring tools, virtualization, HTTP, email routing & admin, interacting with REST APIs for app integration & automation, & familiarity with authentication standards.
- Knowl. of programming with Python & other scripting languages such as bash, Perl, etc.
- Knowl. of Git or other version ctrl sys.
- Strong ability to query & visualize data using tools like Grafana, Kibana, &/or ElasticSearch.
- Excellent troubleshooting & problem solving skills.
- Understanding of TCP/IP networks, troubleshooting & related tech.
- Strong, demonstrated skills in the following at a min: AWS, Chef, Docker, Terraform, F5, Couchbase, Apache, Nginx, Tomcat, ElasticSearch, Rabbit MQ, Angular.js, Node.js, Spring/Java, Rundeck.
- Required knowledge & understanding of technical architecture, app sys design & integration in a large enterprise environment.
We are seeking an experienced Lead DevOps & Cloud Engineer to design, build, automate, and operate highly available cloud and application infrastructure in a large-scale enterprise environment.
The ideal candidate combines strong cloud and systems engineering expertise with hands-on experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), containers, CI/CD, observability, networking, automation, and production troubleshooting. This role will partner closely with application development, architecture, security, networking, and operations teams to deliver reliable, scalable, secure, and automated platforms.
CLOUD & INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEERING
Demonstrated hands-on experience with:
- AWS cloud architecture, infrastructure, operations, security, and automation.
- Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
- Containerization using Docker and orchestration using Kubernetes.
- Configuration management and automation using Chef or comparable technologies.
- Virtualized and cloud environments, including VMware, AWS, and/or GCP.
- Administration and troubleshooting of Linux systems; Windows and macOS experience is beneficial.
- Enterprise load balancing and application delivery technologies such as F5.
AUTOMATION & DEVOPS
- Strong programming and automation skills using Python; experience with Perl or similar scripting languages is beneficial.
- Experience integrating systems and automating operational processes using REST APIs.
- Strong working knowledge of Git or comparable version-control platforms.
- Strong experience in Terraform and/or Ansible.
- Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, infrastructure provisioning, and configuration management.
- Ability to develop reusable automation that improves deployment consistency, operational efficiency, and system reliability.
NETWORKING, SECURITY & ENTERPRISE SERVICES
- TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, load balancing, routing, and network troubleshooting.
- LDAP, SSO, authentication and authorization standards, and enterprise identity integration.
- SMTP, email routing, and related messaging infrastructure.
- Cloud security fundamentals, certificates, secrets management, identity federation, and least-privilege access.
OBSERVABILITY & PRODUCTION OPERATIONS
- Experience implementing and operating monitoring, logging, alerting, and performance-management solutions.
- Strong ability to query, analyze, and visualize operational data using Open Telemetry, Splunk, Bindplane and Click house.
- Experience troubleshooting distributed systems across infrastructure, networking, operating systems, containers, cloud services, and application layers.
- Ability to identify performance bottlenecks, perform root-cause analysis, and drive complex production incidents through resolution.
- Strong understanding of availability, resiliency, capacity, performance, monitoring, disaster recovery, and operational readiness.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Advanced experience designing and operating production workloads on GCP / AWS.
- Experience managing Kubernetes platforms at enterprise scale.
- Experience creating reusable Terraform modules and standardized cloud infrastructure patterns.
- Experience implementing CI/CD, GitOps, DevSecOps, observability, and operational automation practices.
- Experience with cloud networking, IAM, secrets management, encryption, certificates, and security controls.
- Experience modernizing traditional infrastructure and VM-based workloads into cloud-native and containerized architectures.
Minimum Required Experience: 10 Years
EOE, including disability/vets
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as a Cloud DevOps Engineer
Map your degree to DevOps requirements
USCIS requires a direct connection between your degree field and the Cloud DevOps role. A computer science, software engineering, or information systems degree maps cleanly. A business or unrelated degree requires extra documentation linking your coursework to infrastructure or systems work.
Pull LCA data before targeting employers
Search the OFLC Wage Search tool to see which companies have certified LCAs for DevOps and cloud infrastructure roles. Employers with a consistent LCA filing history in your target metro have already built the internal process to sponsor you, reducing approval friction significantly.
Align your resume with specialty occupation evidence
DevOps roles that mix general IT tasks with cloud engineering sometimes draw USCIS Requests for Evidence challenging specialty occupation status. Load your resume with platform-specific work: Kubernetes orchestration, Terraform provisioning, CI/CD pipeline architecture, AWS or Azure certifications that signal degree-level technical depth.
Find sponsors through Migrate Mate by role
Search Cloud DevOps Engineer roles on Migrate Mate to surface employers with verified H-1B and E-3 LCA filing history. This cuts out the guesswork of cold-applying to companies that have never sponsored before and aren't set up to do it quickly.
Clarify STEM OPT E-Verify status before accepting offers
If you're on STEM OPT, your employer must be enrolled in E-Verify before you can extend. Cloud-native startups and smaller DevOps shops frequently aren't enrolled. Confirm E-Verify status during the offer stage, not after you've signed, to avoid a gap in your work authorization.
Negotiate H-1B filing timing into your offer
H-1B is subject to an annual cap and selection process, so start dates depend on when your employer files. Get written confirmation that your employer will file in the next registration window and understand what happens to your offer if you're not selected in the lottery.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Cloud DevOps Engineer role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, Cloud DevOps Engineer consistently qualifies as a specialty occupation under H-1B rules because the role requires at least a bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a directly related field. USCIS scrutinizes job descriptions that blend general IT support with cloud engineering, so your offer letter and LCA should emphasize platform-specific duties like infrastructure-as-code, container orchestration, and cloud architecture rather than broad system administration tasks.
Which visa types do Cloud DevOps Engineers typically use for U.S. work authorization?
H-1B is the most common path for non-Australian nationals, covering up to three years initially with extensions to six. Australian citizens can use the E-3 visa, which has a separate annual cap that has never been exhausted and requires no lottery. F-1 graduates can work on OPT for 12 months, with a 24-month STEM OPT extension available if the DevOps role ties to a STEM-designated degree and the employer is enrolled in E-Verify.
What degree does a Cloud DevOps Engineer need for visa sponsorship?
A bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, electrical engineering, or information systems is the standard for H-1B and E-3 sponsorship. USCIS may accept degrees in related fields if your coursework covered systems architecture, networking, or programming. A three-year Australian bachelor's degree is generally accepted as equivalent to a U.S. four-year degree, though your employer's immigration attorney should confirm this for your specific credential.
How do I find Cloud DevOps Engineer jobs where employers are ready to sponsor?
Browse Cloud DevOps Engineer roles on Migrate Mate, which lists employers with verified visa sponsorship history so you're not applying blind to companies that have never filed an LCA before.
Can a Cloud DevOps Engineer on H-1B change employers without losing status?
Yes. Under H-1B portability rules, you can start working for a new employer as soon as they file a new H-1B petition on your behalf, with no waiting period for USCIS approval. The new employer files Form I-129, and you're authorized to begin once USCIS receives it. The new LCA must list a prevailing wage for the specific location and job duties, so a role change involving significantly different DevOps responsibilities may require a fresh specialty occupation assessment.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Cloud DevOps Engineer jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.