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Senior Manager, Network Operations
Natera INC · 🇺🇸 Austin, TX
Sponsorship verdict
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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 48 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 12 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 Natera INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles2 certified filings for “Senior Product Manager, Salesforce” (Project Management Specialists) in TX: $104k–$124k, median $114k. Most were filed at wage level III (50%) — 3 lottery entries, ≈46% 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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The US Department of Labor certified 48 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 12 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Natera is seeking a hands-on, highly accountable Senior Manager of Network Operations to be our Austin site lead. This position will lead the day-to-day operations, reliability, and continuous improvement of a global enterprise network supporting critical healthcare and genomic operations. This role is responsible for managing a distributed network operations team, ensuring high availability across LAN, WAN, wireless, firewall, cloud, and on-premise environments. The Senior Manager will partner closely with Infrastructure, Information Security, DevOps, Engineering, and Lab/Business Operations teams to support a secure, scalable, and resilient network environment. The ideal candidate brings strong technical depth, operational discipline, and people leadership experience. This individual will help execute network modernization initiatives, improve observability and incident response, maintain compliance with change management and regulatory controls, and ensure the network team delivers consistent, reliable support to the business. Key Responsibilities • Manage the stability, performance, security, and availability of Natera’s global enterprise network, including LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, wireless, firewalls, VPN, cloud, and on-premise environments. • Lead a team of network engineers, providing coaching, prioritization, and technical guidance. • Execute network operations initiatives aligned with the broader IT infrastructure strategy, including automation, resiliency, lifecycle management, and performance improvements. • Serve as an escalation point for high-severity network incidents, coordinating troubleshooting, communication, root cause analysis, and service restoration. • Remain hands-on with network design, configuration, troubleshooting, optimization, and implementation activities as needed. • Partner with Information Security on firewall policy management, segmentation, remote access, vulnerability remediation, and secure network architecture practices. • Support network capacity planning, hardware/software lifecycle refreshes, redundancy improvements, and operational risk reduction efforts. • Improve monitoring, alerting, and observability practices using tools such as SolarWinds, LogicMonitor, Wireshark, NetFlow, SNMP, and related platforms. • Ensure network changes follow established change management, documentation, compliance, and operational governance processes. • Maintain and improve operational KPIs such as uptime, incident volume, MTTR, change success rate, alert quality, and recurring issue reduction. • Support vendor management activities, including technical reviews, support escalations, renewals, and service performance discussions. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support business growth, new site deployments, cloud connectivity, application performance, and infrastructure modernization efforts. Technical Skill Requirements Strong hands-on experience with: • Enterprise network operations, troubleshooting, implementation, and support across hybrid cloud and on-premise environments. • Routing and switching technologies, including BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, VLANs, VRFs, STP, Layer 2/Layer 3 design, and high-availability network topologies. • Next-generation firewalls, preferably Palo Alto Networks. • Wireless networking, preferably Cisco Meraki. • VPN technologies, IPSec, GRE, NAT, QoS, load balancing, and secure remote access solutions. • Monitoring and diagnostic tools such as SolarWinds, LogicMonitor, Wireshark, NetFlow, SNMP, and related observability platforms. • Network platforms including Juniper, Palo Alto Networks, Cisco Meraki, and Opengear. • Cloud networking concepts, preferably within AWS environments. • Network documentation, standards, change control, incident management, and