IT Engineer Jobs in USA with Visa Sponsorship
IT engineers are among the most sponsored roles in the U.S., with employers regularly filing H-1B visa, L-1 visa, and O-1 visa petitions for software, systems, network, and infrastructure positions. Most roles qualify as specialty occupations, making visa approval straightforward for candidates with a relevant bachelor's degree or higher. For detailed occupation requirements, see the O*NET profile.
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Lead is a fintech building banking infrastructure for embedded financial products and services. We operate an FDIC-insured bank headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. Additionally, we have offices in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, and New York City, where our technical, product, design, and legal teams operate. We are built for a constantly evolving financial landscape, where new ventures and technological advancements emerge daily. Guided by a team of entrepreneurs and technologists with decades of experience navigating intricate banking and payments regulations, Lead blends regulatory and technological expertise to help our fintech partners scale their operations with compliance and creativity. Simply put, Lead offers the essential attributes that every fintech seeks in a partner bank. First, unparalleled technical expertise from a distinguished team of developers with an extensive understanding of the banking and payments systems. Second, oversight expertise, automated compliance systems, and bespoke program management to navigate the ever-shifting regulatory landscape. Finally, a commitment to transparency and operational rigor to ensure everyone's money does what it's supposed to do.
ROLE DESCRIPTION
We are seeking a highly skilled Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to oversee and enhance our cloud IT infrastructure, including networks, identity, storage, cloud services, and enterprise applications. In this role, you will serve as a technical expert ensuring our systems are secure, reliable, and optimized for performance and cost. This position does not involve direct people management, but you will provide technical guidance, best practices, and mentorship to the broader team, driving the strategy and execution of infrastructure improvements. You'll also play a hands-on role in troubleshooting and resolving issues, ensuring seamless operation of IT services across the organization.
In This Role You Will
Technical Strategy & Collaboration:
- Develop and maintain infrastructure best practices, standards, and policies to enhance security, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Collaborate with IT team members and stakeholders to define and execute the infrastructure roadmap, aligning with business goals.
- Research and recommend new tools, technologies, and automation to improve IT operations and efficiency.
- Participate in incident response and problem management efforts, including triage, resolution, and post-incident reviews for complex infrastructure issues.
Infrastructure Management & Operations:
- Design, deploy, and maintain networking, identity management, storage/file systems, and cloud-based services.
- Ensure high availability, security, and performance of applications and data, including backup and disaster recovery planning.
- Manage user identity and access controls, enforcing security best practices across systems.
- Deploy and maintain infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD practices to improve consistency and delivery speed.
- Optimize and maintain enterprise applications (SaaS and internal), ensuring seamless integration, licensing, and functionality.
- Work closely with security teams to monitor, assess, and remediate infrastructure vulnerabilities and risks.
Support & Troubleshooting:
- Act as an escalation point for critical infrastructure issues, troubleshooting complex problems across IT systems.
- Provide hands-on support for network, cloud, identity, and end-user device issues affecting employees.
- Collaborate with internal IT engineering and support staff and external vendors to resolve technical challenges efficiently.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS
- 6+ years of experience in IT infrastructure engineering or a related field.
- Deep expertise in the following:
+ Networking: Zscaler, DNS, AWS VPCs
+ Identity & Access Management (IAM): MS Entra ID or Okta, SSO, AWS IAM
+ Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform or equivalent
+ Container Platforms: Kubernetes or equivalent
+ Cloud Infrastructure: AWS
+ Monitoring & Logging: Datadog or equivalent
- Strong scripting/automation ability (Python, Bash, or PowerShell) — used regularly to extend IaC, CI/CD, and operational tooling.
- Solid experience with:
+ CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or equivalent)
+ Backup and disaster recovery planning (RTO/RPO, backup strategy)
+ Storage and file systems (e.g., S3, NAS/file shares)
+ Secrets and certificate management (e.g., Vault, AWS Secrets Manager/KMS)
- Working knowledge of enterprise application administration (SaaS admin, SSO/SCIM integration, license management).
- Familiarity with security best practices and compliance frameworks relevant to infrastructure, identity, and devices (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001).
- Awareness of cloud cost management/optimization practices.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across applications, network, and infrastructure issues.
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to lead projects and initiatives without direct managerial responsibility.
- Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect, CKA, Security+) are a plus.
WHAT WE OFFER
- At Lead, we design our benefits to support company culture and principles, to foster an efficient and inspiring work environment, and to create the conditions for our team to give their best in both work and life.
- Competitive compensation based on experience, geographic location, and role.
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, 401k Matching, and other wellness benefits, including FSA, HSA and HRA.
- Paid parental leave.
- Flexible vacation policy, including PTO and paid holidays.
- A fun and challenging team environment in a dynamic industry with ample opportunities for career growth.
Lead Bank is proud to have an inclusive culture committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity in all employment decisions regardless of race, color, gender, national origin, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, military status, veteran status or any other legally protected status.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. Pay is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on geographical market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. These ranges may be modified in the future.
Zone 1: $150,000 - $167,166 (NYC)
INTRODUCTION
Lead is a fintech building banking infrastructure for embedded financial products and services. We operate an FDIC-insured bank headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. Additionally, we have offices in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, and New York City, where our technical, product, design, and legal teams operate. We are built for a constantly evolving financial landscape, where new ventures and technological advancements emerge daily. Guided by a team of entrepreneurs and technologists with decades of experience navigating intricate banking and payments regulations, Lead blends regulatory and technological expertise to help our fintech partners scale their operations with compliance and creativity. Simply put, Lead offers the essential attributes that every fintech seeks in a partner bank. First, unparalleled technical expertise from a distinguished team of developers with an extensive understanding of the banking and payments systems. Second, oversight expertise, automated compliance systems, and bespoke program management to navigate the ever-shifting regulatory landscape. Finally, a commitment to transparency and operational rigor to ensure everyone's money does what it's supposed to do.
ROLE DESCRIPTION
We are seeking a highly skilled Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to oversee and enhance our cloud IT infrastructure, including networks, identity, storage, cloud services, and enterprise applications. In this role, you will serve as a technical expert ensuring our systems are secure, reliable, and optimized for performance and cost. This position does not involve direct people management, but you will provide technical guidance, best practices, and mentorship to the broader team, driving the strategy and execution of infrastructure improvements. You'll also play a hands-on role in troubleshooting and resolving issues, ensuring seamless operation of IT services across the organization.
In This Role You Will
Technical Strategy & Collaboration:
- Develop and maintain infrastructure best practices, standards, and policies to enhance security, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Collaborate with IT team members and stakeholders to define and execute the infrastructure roadmap, aligning with business goals.
- Research and recommend new tools, technologies, and automation to improve IT operations and efficiency.
- Participate in incident response and problem management efforts, including triage, resolution, and post-incident reviews for complex infrastructure issues.
Infrastructure Management & Operations:
- Design, deploy, and maintain networking, identity management, storage/file systems, and cloud-based services.
- Ensure high availability, security, and performance of applications and data, including backup and disaster recovery planning.
- Manage user identity and access controls, enforcing security best practices across systems.
- Deploy and maintain infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD practices to improve consistency and delivery speed.
- Optimize and maintain enterprise applications (SaaS and internal), ensuring seamless integration, licensing, and functionality.
- Work closely with security teams to monitor, assess, and remediate infrastructure vulnerabilities and risks.
Support & Troubleshooting:
- Act as an escalation point for critical infrastructure issues, troubleshooting complex problems across IT systems.
- Provide hands-on support for network, cloud, identity, and end-user device issues affecting employees.
- Collaborate with internal IT engineering and support staff and external vendors to resolve technical challenges efficiently.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS
- 6+ years of experience in IT infrastructure engineering or a related field.
- Deep expertise in the following:
+ Networking: Zscaler, DNS, AWS VPCs
+ Identity & Access Management (IAM): MS Entra ID or Okta, SSO, AWS IAM
+ Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform or equivalent
+ Container Platforms: Kubernetes or equivalent
+ Cloud Infrastructure: AWS
+ Monitoring & Logging: Datadog or equivalent
- Strong scripting/automation ability (Python, Bash, or PowerShell) — used regularly to extend IaC, CI/CD, and operational tooling.
- Solid experience with:
+ CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or equivalent)
+ Backup and disaster recovery planning (RTO/RPO, backup strategy)
+ Storage and file systems (e.g., S3, NAS/file shares)
+ Secrets and certificate management (e.g., Vault, AWS Secrets Manager/KMS)
- Working knowledge of enterprise application administration (SaaS admin, SSO/SCIM integration, license management).
- Familiarity with security best practices and compliance frameworks relevant to infrastructure, identity, and devices (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001).
- Awareness of cloud cost management/optimization practices.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across applications, network, and infrastructure issues.
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to lead projects and initiatives without direct managerial responsibility.
- Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect, CKA, Security+) are a plus.
WHAT WE OFFER
- At Lead, we design our benefits to support company culture and principles, to foster an efficient and inspiring work environment, and to create the conditions for our team to give their best in both work and life.
- Competitive compensation based on experience, geographic location, and role.
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, 401k Matching, and other wellness benefits, including FSA, HSA and HRA.
- Paid parental leave.
- Flexible vacation policy, including PTO and paid holidays.
- A fun and challenging team environment in a dynamic industry with ample opportunities for career growth.
Lead Bank is proud to have an inclusive culture committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity in all employment decisions regardless of race, color, gender, national origin, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, military status, veteran status or any other legally protected status.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. Pay is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on geographical market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. These ranges may be modified in the future.
Zone 1: $150,000 - $167,166 (NYC)
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as an IT Engineer
Align your degree to your exact role
USCIS requires your degree field to match the position. A computer science or information systems degree supports most IT engineer titles directly. If your degree is in a different field, gather evidence showing how it's directly relevant to the specific role.
Target employers with H-1B filing history
Many IT employers sponsor visas regularly and have established relationships with immigration attorneys. Prioritizing companies with a documented history of H-1B filings significantly increases your chances of a smooth, fast sponsorship process from offer through approval.
Know which visa fits your situation
H-1B is the most common path for IT engineers, but Australians can use the E-3 visa, Canadians and Mexicans qualify for TN visa, and intracompany transferees may access L-1. Identifying the right visa before applying helps you target employers who can actually sponsor it.
Highlight specialized, not generalist, skills
USCIS scrutinizes IT roles more heavily than many other fields. Positioning yourself around a specific discipline, such as cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, or DevOps, strengthens the specialty occupation argument and makes your petition harder for USCIS to challenge.
Start the sponsorship conversation early
Bring up visa sponsorship before the final offer stage, ideally during the second interview. Employers need time to engage immigration counsel and file the LCA before any petition goes to USCIS. Surprising them at the offer letter stage creates unnecessary friction.
Use Migrate Mate to find pre-vetted sponsors
Not every IT job posting comes from an employer willing to sponsor. Migrate Mate filters for roles where sponsorship is confirmed, saving you from applying to positions that will reject you the moment you mention your visa situation.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does an IT engineer role qualify as a specialty occupation for the H-1B?
Most IT engineer roles qualify, but USCIS scrutinizes them closely. The key is demonstrating that the position normally requires at least a bachelor's degree in a specific field, not just any degree. Roles involving software development, network architecture, cloud engineering, or cybersecurity typically clear this bar. Generic titles like 'IT support' or 'helpdesk engineer' face much higher denial rates because the degree requirement is harder to establish.
What degree do I need to get sponsored as an IT engineer?
A bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, information technology, computer engineering, or a closely related field is the standard requirement. Some employers accept degrees in adjacent fields like electrical engineering or mathematics if your coursework and experience directly support the role. USCIS may issue a Request for Evidence if your degree field isn't an obvious match, so documentation of relevance matters.
How do I find IT engineer jobs that actually sponsor visas?
Migrate Mate specializes in IT engineering roles where employers have confirmed they're open to sponsorship. Browsing general job boards wastes time because most postings don't disclose sponsorship status upfront, and many employers who say 'no sponsorship' simply mean they won't go through the H-1B lottery, not that they won't sponsor at all. Migrate Mate cuts through that ambiguity.
Are IT engineers affected by the H-1B lottery, and what are the approval odds?
Yes, cap-subject IT engineer roles go through the H-1B lottery, which in recent years has seen selection rates around 25 percent. However, cap-exempt employers such as universities, nonprofit research institutions, and certain healthcare organizations can bypass the lottery entirely. Once selected, H-1B approval rates for IT roles with strong specialty occupation arguments and matching degrees historically run above 85 percent, though scrutiny has increased.
Can IT engineers transfer their H-1B to a new employer mid-status?
Yes. H-1B portability allows you to start working for a new employer as soon as the transfer petition is filed, without waiting for approval, as long as you've been maintaining valid H-1B status. The new employer files a fresh I-129 petition, and you don't re-enter the lottery. This makes switching jobs less risky than many IT workers assume, though timing the transition carefully with your immigration attorney matters.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored IT 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.