For teams whose bottleneck is the path to production

Hire DevOps Engineers

Most teams do not need more feature developers. They need the path to production to stop being the reason good work waits. These engineers are matched to that problem, evaluated on the work above, and onboarded inside the process your team already runs.

  • Profiles typically within two business days
  • Replacement Assurance: If an engineer is not the right fit, a replacement from our own team starts within ten business days of your request, at no extra cost
  • You interview before placement if you want to
  • At least four hours a day inside your core working hours. Two hours plus a daily written handover for the US West Coast
  • 14-Day Risk-Free Trial: For your first engineer on a time-and-materials engagement. Up to 14 calendar days or 80 logged working hours, whichever comes first. End within the trial and pay nothing for trial hours. Continue beyond it and those hours are billed at the agreed rate. Unpaid trial work remains ours if you stop
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The evaluation is published, not promisedReplacement is our cost, not yoursAI augmented, human governedEvidence before estimatesYour IP from day oneOne accountable owner per engagementFounded in 2011. Part of the Vinove Group500+ full-time engineers, as of September 2026NASSCOM member
Watch · the 90-second brief

How we evaluate a DevOps engineer

The tasks, the signals and the onboarding, walked through by the people who run them.

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01Published, not promised

The assessment behind every engineer we send.

Every staffing company claims their people are vetted. Almost none will show you the vetting. Below is the actual evaluation: five competencies, the task set for each one, and the signal that separates a strong engineer from a plausible one. Read it as a decision aid, and reuse any of it in your own interviews.

What we listen forWhether they design a release path your team will trust on a Friday afternoon.

The task we set

Given a monolith with a 40-minute test suite and manual approvals, redesign the path to production. State what you parallelise, what you gate and what you would deliberately leave slow.

What strong sounds like
Separates fast feedback from full verification, gates on risk rather than on ceremony, and can defend which stage they left slow on purpose.
What gives us pause
Recites a tool chain without a single trade-off, or promises to make every stage faster with no mention of what that costs in confidence.
Pipelines

GitHub Actions · GitLab CI · Jenkins · Argo CD

Infrastructure

Terraform · Pulumi · Ansible · Helm

Runtime

Kubernetes · Docker · AWS · Azure · GCP

Observability

Prometheus · Grafana · OpenTelemetry · Datadog

02Who you actually meet

The bench, priced by seniority.

Three seniority tiers, priced honestly, and the engineers who fill each one today. Real names and photos take their place as soon as we can share them, and the standard stays exactly the same.

Engineer

Features scoped tightly enough to ship inside your review bar, every time.

The right first hire when your seniors already set the standard.

$2,900–3,600per month

Senior

The hard module nobody else wants to own, taken end to end.

Ownership of a surface, without adding a manager to your headcount.

$3,900–4,900per month

Lead

The workstream's decisions, made daily, so nothing waits on a meeting.

One accountable voice for a pod or initiative that can't afford to drift.

$5,100–6,400per month

  • DevOps engineer

    4 yrs · US East overlap

    Ran CI for a 40-engineer platform team; cut pipeline time by half

    • Docker
    • Jenkins
    • AWS
    • Prometheus

  • Senior DevOps engineer

    7 yrs · UK + EU hours

    Took a fintech's deploys from monthly to daily; owned the rollback drill

    • Kubernetes
    • Terraform
    • GitHub Actions
    • Datadog

  • Lead platform engineer

    10 yrs · EU + US split

    Built the paved-road platform two product teams now ship on

    • Argo CD
    • Pulumi
    • Grafana
    • OpenTelemetry

Indicative ranges, representative profiles. Exact figures and named engineers arrive with your shortlist.

Weighing this against a freelancer, a direct hire or a marketplace? See the honest comparison

03From stated problem to first change

Four steps, each one closing on evidence.

Hiring here is a sequence you can audit rather than a black box that produces profiles. Each step ends with something you can inspect, and you can stop after any of them without owing us a commitment.

  1. Define the delivery problem

    We map what is actually slow: the pipeline, the environments, the on-call load. The role brief describes the problem to solve, not a list of tools to match on a CV.

    A brief your leads sign

  2. Match against your stack

    Candidates are screened against your cloud, your pipeline tooling and your review culture. Three engineers who fit beat thirty who merely list the right words.

    Three fits, not thirty CVs

  3. Assess on the real tasks

    The pipeline and incident exercises run in front of your engineers whenever you choose to attend. You see judgement under uncertainty rather than rehearsed answers.

    Evaluation you can watch

  4. Onboard inside your process

    Access, standards and a first bounded change to your pipeline. Continuity cover keeps a departure from ever reaching your on-call rota unmanaged.

    A merged change in week one

04Evidence and proof

Engineers who made deployment boring.

DevOps proof is release frequency, incident recovery and an on-call rota people can live with. Every record here waits for written client approval before production, and these previews show the standard.

Explore case studies
A delivery pipeline rebuilt into a fast, automated path to production.
Orra Systems · Workflow SaaS, US

One engineer took deploys from fortnightly to daily.

Orra Systems shipped every two weeks behind a manual release checklist. A single embedded DevOps engineer rebuilt the pipeline inside their existing process, with no new delivery model.

Release frequency
Fortnightly to daily
Time to first merged change
Week one
Sample · pending client approval
Portrait of a CTO reviewing an engineering evaluation.

The evaluation was the sell. They showed us the tasks before we met anyone, and the engineer we hired answered them the way they said a strong one would.

Daniel MercerCTO, Vela Ledger
Sample · pending client approval
Portrait of an operations director in an engineering environment.

She fixed the on-call rota before touching the pipeline, because that was what was actually burning the team out. Nobody briefed her to do that.

Mei TanakaDirector of Operations, Tern
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05Three shapes, one standard

Add an engineer, a platform pod, or a practice.

Most teams start with one named engineer and grow from evidence. Some need a platform pod that owns the whole delivery surface. Sometimes the honest answer is that you need the capability rather than the headcount. When that happens, the cloud DevOps practice is the better door and we will say so.

  • One named engineer

    A single DevOps specialist inside your direction and your reviews. The smallest commitment and the most common starting point.

    Team extension

  • A platform pod

    Engineers and a lead who own the delivery surface end to end. You set priorities and acceptance while the pod carries the platform.

    Engineering teams

  • The practice, not the person

    If the work is a cloud programme rather than a seat to fill, the DevOps service practice carries delivery accountability instead.

    Cloud DevOps services

06Straight answers

Asked before a DevOps hire is signed.

Not answered here?

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What does a DevOps engineer actually do day to day?

Builds and maintains the path from commit to production, provisions infrastructure as code, keeps monitoring honest and responds when things break. The unglamorous majority of the work is removing the manual steps and tribal knowledge that make releases stressful.

How is this different from hiring cloud engineers?

DevOps work centres on delivery flow and reliability: pipelines, environments, incident response. Cloud engineering centres on the platform itself: architecture, migration and cost. Many teams need both, and the cloud and DevOps route covers that combined scope when it applies.

Can we run our own interviews as well?

Yes, and most clients do. The evaluation above is a starting point rather than a replacement, and your engineers are welcome to sit in on ours. Reusing our tasks in your own process is fine too, which is part of why they are published.

How fast can a DevOps engineer start?

Days to a shortlist because DevOps matching starts from a standing, continuously evaluated bench. Access provisioning on your side then sets the true start date.

Who manages the engineer day to day?

You do. Your leads set priorities, run reviews and hold the standards. We carry continuity, payroll, replacement risk and the awkward conversations, so direction stays where the context is.

What if the engineer is not the right fit?

Say so early and plainly. The replacement bill sits with us, and the successor arrives briefed on the precise gap rather than guessing at it. A quiet mismatch that drags on is worse for everyone than a fast, honest swap.

Do your DevOps engineers use AI tooling in their work?

Yes, deliberately and in the open. AI drafts pipeline configuration and runbook scaffolding fast; the engineer stays accountable for what deploys, what alerts and what happens during an incident. Infrastructure changes are never merged on a tool's confidence.

How does pricing work for a hired DevOps engineer?

The tier bands above carry the honest range; exact figures come per engineer with the shortlist. No placement fee, notice-period exit only.