Jobs / United States / Nvidia Corporation
Senior DevOps Engineer
Nvidia Corporation · 🇺🇸 US, CA, Santa Clara
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 2,374 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 394 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Nvidia Corporation paid sponsored hires in similar roles701 certified filings for “Engineer Senior Systems Software” (Software Developers) in CA: $173k–$214k, median $190k. Most were filed at wage level IV (82%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
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The US Department of Labor certified 2,374 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 394 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will help lead the evolution of infrastructure operations within our Networking Software group. Building on a strong Linux systems administration foundation, you will build, automate, and operate scalable platforms that support networking software development and testing. This role offers an outstanding opportunity to work with elite technology and collaborate with ambitious engineers across global sites. If you are passionate about automation, reliability, technical leadership, and continuous improvement, this is the perfect opportunity for you! What you'll be doing: • Build, provision, configure, and maintain scalable Linux infrastructure for networking feature creation and validation, including physical servers, network switches, virtualization platforms, containers, and remote-management interfaces. • Develop automation for infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, software deployment, upgrades, and day-to-day operations using infrastructure-as-code and configuration-management practices. • Build reusable tools and self-service capabilities that simplify infrastructure operations, improve engineering efficiency, and reduce repetitive manual work. • Diagnose and resolve complex issues spanning hardware, firmware, operating systems, virtualization, containers, storage, network communications, and application environments. • Implement monitoring, observability, capacity management, and reliability practices to improve infrastructure performance, availability, and operational readiness. • Partner with engineering, IT, facilities, security, and network teams to define technical standards, maintain documentation and runbooks, and establish scalable operational processes. • Provide technical leadership, guide infrastructure initiatives, and mentor team members in automation, troubleshooting, and operational guidelines. What we need to see: • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience. • 10+ years of experience in systems engineering, DevOps, site reliability engineering, or infrastructure operations, including significant hands-on experience coordinating production or engineering Linux environments. • Experience working in the semiconductor industry or a hardware-focused engineering environment, with deep hands-on expertise in bare-metal Linux systems and server components—including CPUs, GPUs, memory, PCIe devices, NICs, storage, BIOS/UEFI, BMC/IPMI/Redfish, power, and cooling. • Proficiency in generative AI tools and skill in applying them effectively to automation, troubleshooting, documentation, operational analysis, and engineering efficiency. • Skilled at diagnosing complex issues across hardware, firmware, and operating-system layers. • Strong data-center networking knowledge, including TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, routing, switching, firewalls, and network troubleshooting tools. • Strong analytical, problem-solving, written communication, and cross-departmental collaboration skills, with the ability to guide technical initiatives to completion. Ways to stand out from the crowd: • Experience managing Linux KVM/QEMU virtualization, Kubernetes clusters, multi-user engineering lab environments, NFS or distributed storage systems, and automated OS or cluster provisioning platforms. • Experience supporting fast-growing engineering labs, large-scale data-center environments, or globally distributed infrastructure. • Familiarity with observability platforms, including metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, incident management, and service-level objectives. • Experience crafting self-service infrastructure platforms and reusable automation that improves developer efficiency and theaAbility to establish clear, reliabl