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Lead System Engineering - Database Architecture and Engineering
AT&T Services INC · 🇺🇸 2 Locations
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 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 roles34 certified filings for “Lead System Engineering” (Information Technology Project Managers) in TX: $155k–$187k, median $170k. Most were filed at wage level IV (67%) — 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.
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 position requires office presence of a minimum of 5 days per week and is only located in the location(s) posted. No relocation is offered. AT&T will not hire any applicants for this position who require employer sponsorship now or in the future. Join AT&T and reimagine the communications and technologies that connect the world. The Technology Services organization is responsible for advancing information technology performance and delivering solutions with a focus on maximizing ROI, increasing efficiency and enhancing the experience of end users. Guided by experienced leaders, Corporate Systems seamlessly integrate with advanced Technology and Operations to drive our enterprise forward. Our Systems Reliability and Software Delivery teams are unwavering in their commitment to excellence, ensuring every solution is robust and efficient. When you step into a career with AT&T, you won't just imagine the future, you'll create it. About the team: The DAE team designs, develops, and maintains standardized automation for enterprise database infrastructure. The team supports database platforms such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, DB2, Informix, and SAP-related database environments across public cloud, private cloud, AWS Outposts, and hybrid platforms. The team’s work includes: • Developing reusable Terraform modules and GitHub Actions workflows. • Provisioning database-ready compute, storage, networking, identity, security, backup, and monitoring components. • Creating standardized database deployment patterns and platform guardrails. • Supporting cloud migrations, database onboarding, and modernization initiatives. • Automating image creation, deployment validation, lifecycle management, and decommissioning. • Integrating database infrastructure with enterprise identity, secrets management, certificate management, backup, observability, audit, and compliance services. • Troubleshooting infrastructure and automation issues across multiple database technologies and cloud environments. • Improving engineering practices through technical reviews, documentation, knowledge sharing, and reusable solutions. What you'll do: The Lead Systems Engineer will provide hands-on technical leadership within the Database Architecture and Engineering team (DAE). The role is responsible for designing, developing, testing, and supporting reusable automation that provisions secure, standardized, and database-ready infrastructure across AWS, AWS Outposts, Azure, and hybrid environments. This is an individual-contributor role with responsibility for coordinating technical work, improving engineering deliverables, resolving complex cross-team issues, and coaching other engineers. The Lead Systems Engineer will work closely with database engineering, cloud platform, architecture, security, migration, backup, monitoring, and operational support teams to deliver resilient and supportable database platform capabilities. Infrastructure as Code and Automation • Design, develop, test, and maintain reusable Terraform modules for database-ready infrastructure. • Build and support GitHub Actions workflows that automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, validation, and teardown. • Develop automation for EC2 instances, virtual machines, storage, encryption, networking, security groups, IAM roles, identity integration, and supporting database services. • Create modules that support multiple database products while allowing product-specific compute, storage, filesystem, networking, and operating-system requirements. • Maintain common automation components that can be reused across Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and other supported database platforms. • Improve module reliability through input validation, dependency managemen