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Senior Network Operations Engineer
Intel Corporation · 🇺🇸 2 Locations
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 1,731 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 1,112 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 Intel Corporation paid sponsored hires in similar roles1 certified filing for “Operations Research Engineer” (Operations Research Analysts) in AZ: $94k–$94k, median $94k. Most were filed at wage level II (100%) — 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 — Intel Corporation
The US Department of Labor certified 1,731 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 1,112 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Job Details: Job Description: Position Summary Intel IT is a global organization delivering connectivity services across manufacturing and foundry environments, campus spaces, cloud services, and corporate services, seeking a Senior Network Operations Engineer for an exciting opportunity to help shape the future of global network operations. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on actively engaging in technical details, operational issues, and execution barriers across Intel's global network footprint. This engineer will help ensure the quality, reliability, uptime, and operational readiness of the network services that enable Intel's business, while raising the standard of operational execution, service reliability, accountability, and future-ready network operations. The role will focus on improving incident response, change quality, operational readiness, root cause follow-through, documentation, monitoring, and execution consistency across network operations teams. This person will also help lead the global operational deployment of new engineering-released network products, ensuring new capabilities are supportable, well-documented, monitored, and ready for reliable execution at scale. The successful candidate will bring strong enterprise networking experience, practical operational judgment, and the ability to lead cross-functional improvements across globally distributed teams. This role is intended for someone who is viewed as a technical leader today and has the potential to grow into formal leadership or management responsibilities in the future. ________________________________________ Key Responsibilities • Provide senior technical leadership across global network operations teams, helping improve execution quality, accountability, and operational discipline. • Drive improvements in incident management, problem management, change quality, operational readiness, service reliability, and root cause follow-through. • Lead through influence across operations teams, engineering teams, architecture teams, service owners, vendors, and business stakeholders. • Help lead global operational deployments of new engineering-released network products, ensuring operational readiness, supportability, documentation, monitoring, and scalable handoff into production operations. • Establish and reinforce operational standards, runbooks, escalation models, handoff expectations, service health reviews, and execution practices. • Improve major incident response by strengthening technical triage, escalation quality, communication discipline, recovery planning, and post-incident learning. • Partner with Network Engineering and Network Architecture to ensure new services, platforms, and capabilities are supportable, documented, monitored, and ready for operational handoff. • Identify recurring operational issues and drive corrective actions that reduce repeat incidents, improve stability, and increase service reliability. • Improve change execution quality through better risk assessment, technical validation, peer review, rollback planning, communication, and post-change review. • Use operational data, metrics, dashboards, and service health indicators to identify gaps, prioritize improvements, and measure progress. • Mentor engineers and technical leads across operations teams to strengthen troubleshooting methods, ownership mindset, and disciplined execution. • Help define operational expectations for network services across enterprise, manufacturing, campus, lab, data center, wireless, WAN, and related infrastructure environments. • Partner with automation, monitoring, and tools teams to improve visibility, reduce manual effort, and increase operational consistency. • Communicate technical risks, operational gaps, service health co