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Cybersecurity Manager roles attract H-1B visa sponsorship from financial institutions, defense contractors, and tech firms. Most require a bachelor's in computer science or information security, and USCIS consistently classifies the role as a specialty occupation with strong approval rates. For detailed occupation requirements, see the O*NET profile.
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Get Access To All JobsDate: Nov 11, 2026
Location(s): Juno Beach, FL, US, 33408
Company: NextEra Energy
Requisition ID: 98757
NextEra Energy Resources is one of America’s largest wholesale electricity generators, harnessing diverse energy sources to power progress. We deliver tailored energy solutions that fuel economic growth, strengthen communities, and help customers achieve their energy goals. Ready to make a lasting impact? Take the next step in your career with us!
Position Specific Description
The Cybersecurity Manager will act as a Cybersecurity Business Partner (CBP) and a trusted security advisor to various financial and trade floor lines of business. The CBP comprehends security risks and technologies and effectively communicates these aspects to business units. Working collaboratively with the business across multiple services and platforms to address risk, the CBP advises business leaders to ensure decisions are made with security in mind. This advanced role is integral to the cybersecurity program, providing leadership, executive support, and strategic and tactical guidance for a world-class cybersecurity initiative supporting enterprise security goals.
As a business enabler, the CBP excels in communication and possesses the technical aptitude to integrate security fundamentals into all business aspects. The CBP must work closely with senior management, third parties, project managers, and business subject matter experts (SMEs). Additionally, the CBP must be personable and adept at translating cybersecurity issues into actionable business initiatives. A solid technical background is essential, enabling the CBP to understand technologies, their purposes, security requirements, and data protection needs, regardless of their location.
Essential Job Duties:
- Serve as a trusted advisor with business unit leadership.
- Act as a liaison to ensure cybersecurity practices are built into business unit initiatives for the entire lifecycle.
- Work closely with security leadership to instill cybersecurity policies and practices throughout business units to address security operations, incident response, application security and infrastructure.
- Be actively informed and engaged in security projects across the business.
- Provide disaster recovery and business continuity planning advice when working with leaders for business and cybersecurity resiliency.
- Enforce the strong security culture set forth by the security leaders, ensuring uniformity across security leadership, business units and employees.
- Foster strong relationships with internal business units and excel in cybersecurity communication.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge related to security threats, vulnerabilities and mitigations set forth to reduce the attack surface; circulate this knowledge through the business units.
- Identify and document threats and vulnerabilities that may impact the business and address them regularly with business units.
- In conjunction with security and business leaders, define key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics aligning with business initiatives and deliver them to non-technical teams in terms that are accessible and comprehensible.
- Provide motivation to business units to adopt cybersecurity controls.
- Remove complexity and obstacles that hinder efficient security controls enterprise-wide.
- Build relationships with business units to deliver security-by-design controls incorporated into projects, architecture, infrastructure and applications.
- Stay abreast of new laws, regulations and standards, and assess their impact to the business.
- Verify security content training initiatives and internal/external communication are conducted regularly.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Job Overview
This position establishes strategy, develops business plans, and oversees and manages the design, development and implementation of technology solutions to meet business needs. Leaders in this role provide leadership and oversight to manage performance and results in one or more Information Technology (IT) disciplines. Individuals will be accountable for the reliability, performance, security, and continuity of IT systems and supported business processes.
Job Duties & Responsibilities:
- Provides leadership, influence, vision, and direction to the organization to contribute to achieving the company's goals.
- Works with IT leaders to develop overall IT strategy in alignment with business strategy.
- Oversees value stream by focusing on cost and risks of technology portfolio to meet business needs.
- Supports and fosters innovative technologies to deliver new ideas that enable business transformation.
- Ensures high levels of ongoing system and application performance in production environments.
- Oversees development of processes and tools to automate code releases from development to operations (DevOps).
- Attracts, develops and retains a high-performing and diverse team.
- Establishes and drives technology roadmaps that align with current and future business needs.
- Manages third party technical and outsourcing relationships to deliver project and operational support objectives.
- Ensures technology processes are conducted in line with applicable standards and company policies.
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned.
Required Qualifications
- High School Grad / GED
- Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience
- Experience: 8+ years
- Supervisor/Management Experience: 2+ years
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree
NextEra Energy offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees and their eligible family members.
Employee Group: Exempt
Employee Type: Full Time
Job Category: Information Technology
Organization: NextEra Energy Resources, LLC
Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable
NextEra Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, age, national origin, religion, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetics, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law.
NextEra Energy provides reasonable accommodation in its application and selection process for qualified individuals, including accommodations related to compliance with conditional job offer requirements, consistent with federal, state, and local laws. Supporting medical or religious documentation will be required where applicable and permitted by applicable law. To request a reasonable accommodation, please send an e-mail to recruiting-coordinator.sharedmailbox@nexteraenergy.com, providing your name, telephone number and the best time for us to reach you.
NextEra Energy will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.
NextEra Energy does not accept any unsolicited resumes or referrals from any third-party recruiting firms or agencies.
Nearest Major Market: Palm Beach
Nearest Secondary Market: Miami
Date: Nov 11, 2026
Location(s): Juno Beach, FL, US, 33408
Company: NextEra Energy
Requisition ID: 98757
NextEra Energy Resources is one of America’s largest wholesale electricity generators, harnessing diverse energy sources to power progress. We deliver tailored energy solutions that fuel economic growth, strengthen communities, and help customers achieve their energy goals. Ready to make a lasting impact? Take the next step in your career with us!
Position Specific Description
The Cybersecurity Manager will act as a Cybersecurity Business Partner (CBP) and a trusted security advisor to various financial and trade floor lines of business. The CBP comprehends security risks and technologies and effectively communicates these aspects to business units. Working collaboratively with the business across multiple services and platforms to address risk, the CBP advises business leaders to ensure decisions are made with security in mind. This advanced role is integral to the cybersecurity program, providing leadership, executive support, and strategic and tactical guidance for a world-class cybersecurity initiative supporting enterprise security goals.
As a business enabler, the CBP excels in communication and possesses the technical aptitude to integrate security fundamentals into all business aspects. The CBP must work closely with senior management, third parties, project managers, and business subject matter experts (SMEs). Additionally, the CBP must be personable and adept at translating cybersecurity issues into actionable business initiatives. A solid technical background is essential, enabling the CBP to understand technologies, their purposes, security requirements, and data protection needs, regardless of their location.
Essential Job Duties:
- Serve as a trusted advisor with business unit leadership.
- Act as a liaison to ensure cybersecurity practices are built into business unit initiatives for the entire lifecycle.
- Work closely with security leadership to instill cybersecurity policies and practices throughout business units to address security operations, incident response, application security and infrastructure.
- Be actively informed and engaged in security projects across the business.
- Provide disaster recovery and business continuity planning advice when working with leaders for business and cybersecurity resiliency.
- Enforce the strong security culture set forth by the security leaders, ensuring uniformity across security leadership, business units and employees.
- Foster strong relationships with internal business units and excel in cybersecurity communication.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge related to security threats, vulnerabilities and mitigations set forth to reduce the attack surface; circulate this knowledge through the business units.
- Identify and document threats and vulnerabilities that may impact the business and address them regularly with business units.
- In conjunction with security and business leaders, define key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics aligning with business initiatives and deliver them to non-technical teams in terms that are accessible and comprehensible.
- Provide motivation to business units to adopt cybersecurity controls.
- Remove complexity and obstacles that hinder efficient security controls enterprise-wide.
- Build relationships with business units to deliver security-by-design controls incorporated into projects, architecture, infrastructure and applications.
- Stay abreast of new laws, regulations and standards, and assess their impact to the business.
- Verify security content training initiatives and internal/external communication are conducted regularly.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Job Overview
This position establishes strategy, develops business plans, and oversees and manages the design, development and implementation of technology solutions to meet business needs. Leaders in this role provide leadership and oversight to manage performance and results in one or more Information Technology (IT) disciplines. Individuals will be accountable for the reliability, performance, security, and continuity of IT systems and supported business processes.
Job Duties & Responsibilities:
- Provides leadership, influence, vision, and direction to the organization to contribute to achieving the company's goals.
- Works with IT leaders to develop overall IT strategy in alignment with business strategy.
- Oversees value stream by focusing on cost and risks of technology portfolio to meet business needs.
- Supports and fosters innovative technologies to deliver new ideas that enable business transformation.
- Ensures high levels of ongoing system and application performance in production environments.
- Oversees development of processes and tools to automate code releases from development to operations (DevOps).
- Attracts, develops and retains a high-performing and diverse team.
- Establishes and drives technology roadmaps that align with current and future business needs.
- Manages third party technical and outsourcing relationships to deliver project and operational support objectives.
- Ensures technology processes are conducted in line with applicable standards and company policies.
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned.
Required Qualifications
- High School Grad / GED
- Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience
- Experience: 8+ years
- Supervisor/Management Experience: 2+ years
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree
NextEra Energy offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees and their eligible family members.
Employee Group: Exempt
Employee Type: Full Time
Job Category: Information Technology
Organization: NextEra Energy Resources, LLC
Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable
NextEra Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, age, national origin, religion, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetics, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law.
NextEra Energy provides reasonable accommodation in its application and selection process for qualified individuals, including accommodations related to compliance with conditional job offer requirements, consistent with federal, state, and local laws. Supporting medical or religious documentation will be required where applicable and permitted by applicable law. To request a reasonable accommodation, please send an e-mail to recruiting-coordinator.sharedmailbox@nexteraenergy.com, providing your name, telephone number and the best time for us to reach you.
NextEra Energy will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.
NextEra Energy does not accept any unsolicited resumes or referrals from any third-party recruiting firms or agencies.
Nearest Major Market: Palm Beach
Nearest Secondary Market: Miami
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as a Cybersecurity Manager
Target regulated industries first
Banks, healthcare systems, and defense contractors face mandatory compliance requirements that make cybersecurity managers essential, not discretionary. These employers sponsor visas more reliably because the role directly affects their regulatory standing and legal obligations.
Align your degree to the role explicitly
USCIS scrutinizes whether your degree field matches cybersecurity management. Computer science, information systems, or information security degrees strengthen your petition. A general business degree alone may trigger a Request for Evidence, so document any specialized coursework carefully.
Highlight CISSP, CISM, or equivalent certifications
Professional certifications signal industry-standard expertise and reinforce the specialty occupation argument in your H-1B petition. Employers and immigration attorneys use them to support the case that the role requires specialized, degree-level knowledge beyond general IT management.
Clarify management scope in your job offer letter
The offer letter should describe specific technical responsibilities, not just team oversight. USCIS is less likely to question specialty occupation status when the role involves hands-on threat analysis, architecture decisions, or compliance frameworks alongside managerial duties.
Ask about cap-exempt sponsorship pathways
Universities, nonprofits, and government research institutions are exempt from the H-1B lottery. Cybersecurity roles at these organizations can be sponsored any time of year, giving you a viable path if you've missed the annual cap or weren't selected in the lottery.
Browse Migrate Mate for sponsorship-confirmed openings
Not every cybersecurity manager listing comes with confirmed visa sponsorship. Migrate Mate filters specifically for roles where employers have indicated willingness to sponsor, saving you from applying to positions that will reject international candidates at the screening stage.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Cybersecurity Manager role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, in most cases. USCIS generally accepts cybersecurity management as a specialty occupation because the role requires at minimum a bachelor's degree in computer science, information security, or a related technical field. Where petitions run into trouble is when the job description reads as general IT management without specific technical requirements. The offer letter and job duties need to reflect technical depth, not just team supervision.
Which industries sponsor the most Cybersecurity Manager H-1B visas?
Financial services, defense and government contracting, healthcare, and large technology companies account for the majority of cybersecurity manager sponsorships. These sectors face strict regulatory requirements around data protection and information security, making the role operationally critical. Browse Migrate Mate to find current openings specifically filtered for employers actively sponsoring international candidates in this field.
Can I get an H-1B for a Cybersecurity Manager role if my degree is in a different field?
It depends on the degree and the gap between it and the role. A degree in electrical engineering or mathematics paired with substantial cybersecurity experience may be acceptable with proper documentation. A general business or unrelated liberal arts degree will likely require evidence of equivalent experience using the three-for-one rule, where three years of specialized work substitutes for one year of formal education. An immigration attorney should evaluate your specific combination before filing.
Do Cybersecurity Manager H-1B petitions have a high approval rate?
Approval rates for cybersecurity roles have historically been strong relative to other IT categories, partly because the technical requirements are well-established and USCIS examiners have clear precedent for the specialty occupation determination. Denial risk increases when job descriptions are vague, when degree fields don't align with the role, or when the employer has a history of RFE-heavy petitions. Premium processing is worth considering to get a decision within 15 business days and reduce uncertainty.
Can a Cybersecurity Manager on OPT or STEM OPT maintain status while waiting for H-1B?
Yes, provided your employer files the H-1B visa petition before your OPT expires and you receive cap-gap protection. STEM OPT extensions give F-1 graduates up to 36 months of post-graduation work authorization, which covers two H-1B lottery cycles if needed. The cap-gap rule automatically extends your status and work authorization if your OPT expires between April 1 and October 1 and your H-1B visa petition is pending or approved. Confirm your I-20 reflects the STEM extension before your standard OPT ends.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Cybersecurity Manager 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.