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Deputy Chief Engineer Network (Government)
AT&T Services INC · 🇺🇸 Chantilly, Virginia
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 393 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 80 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 AT&T Services INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles4 certified filings for “Senior Network Technology Engineer” (Computer Network Architects) in WA: $178k–$208k, median $187k. Most were filed at wage level II (75%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% 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.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — AT&T Services INC
The US Department of Labor certified 393 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 80 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
This is a full-time onsite role based in the location(s) posted and is performed from the designated work location five days per week. No relocation is offered. AT&T is seeking a Deputy Chief Engineer, Network to provide senior technical expertise supporting the architecture, engineering, integration, and evolution of complex enterprise network and communications solutions for a large-scale federal program. In this role, you will work closely with the Chief Engineer and multidisciplinary engineering teams to define and maintain end-to-end network architecture, engineering standards, and technology roadmaps across WAN, LAN, transport, cloud connectivity, and software-defined networking environments. You will help ensure network solutions are secure, resilient, scalable, interoperable, and capable of supporting mission-critical operational requirements. Job Duties/Responsibilities: · Define and evolve end-to-end network architectures, engineering standards, and technology roadmaps across WAN, LAN, transport, cloud, and software-defined networking environments. · Architect and integrate SD-WAN solutions, including overlays, underlays, routing, segmentation, policy, orchestration, and secure connectivity. · Translate customer, operational, and technical requirements into network architecture, engineering requirements, interface definitions, and implementation strategies. · Support the Chief Engineer in establishing network technical direction, engineering standards, architectural principles, and design approaches. · Develop standardized network designs, configurations, engineering patterns, and implementation approaches while accommodating site-specific operational and technical requirements. · Engineer highly available and resilient network solutions addressing redundancy, diversity, failover, performance, capacity, scalability, and recoverability. · Evaluate network architecture alternatives and conduct technical trade studies involving performance, resiliency, security, interoperability, cost, and lifecycle considerations. · Develop network migration and transition strategies that minimize operational risk and support modernization of existing infrastructure. · Provide technical oversight through high-level and detailed design, integration, test, implementation, migration, and transition to operations. · Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to incorporate network security, segmentation, access control, encryption, and applicable security requirements into solution designs. · Partner with systems, cloud, transport, infrastructure, operations, and test engineering teams to ensure end-to-end interoperability and design integrity. · Establish network capacity and performance requirements and support performance analysis, optimization, and troubleshooting. · Review network designs, configurations, engineering documentation, interface definitions, test procedures, and vendor/OEM solutions for technical completeness and architectural alignment. · Provide senior technical expertise during network implementation, troubleshooting, performance degradation, and resolution of complex incidents and engineering issues. · Evaluate emerging networking technologies, product lifecycle considerations, capacity demands, and technology obsolescence to support long-term network modernization. · Partner with test and evaluation teams to ensure all technical solutions are fully tested, verified, and validated against applicable system, design, performance, interface, security, and operational requirements prior to deployment or operational acceptance. · Support execution of all applicable Contractor Master Test Plan (C