Hire DevOps engineers · Dedicated, monthly
Hire DevOps engineers who start in 5 to 10 days.
Infrastructure engineers who turn deployments from a monthly event into a daily non-event: cloud architecture, pipelines, containers and observability, with cost control built in. Vetted in five steps, working in your tools and time zone, with a two-week replacement guarantee.
Monthly rates
| Level | Experience | Monthly |
|---|---|---|
| Mid-level | 3 to 5 years | $3,400 to $4,400 |
| Senior | 5 to 8 years | $4,400 to $6,200 |
| Lead | 8+ years | $6,200 to $7,800 |
Full-time, 160 hours a month, equipment and HR included. Hourly equivalents $21 to $49. No recruitment fee.
What our DevOps engineers bring.
- AWS, Azure, Google Cloud
- Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation
- Docker, Kubernetes, ECS
- GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins
- Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch
- Linux, networking, security hardening
- Cost optimisation and FinOps
- Incident response and runbooks
When teams hire this role from us.
- Move a product from manual deploys to CI/CD with staging and production environments
- Migrate to Kubernetes or ECS and cut cloud spend by 20 to 40 percent
- Set up monitoring, alerting and on-call so incidents are caught before customers notice
From brief to first commit.
- 01
Brief
Tell us the stack, seniority and start date. 15 minutes on a call or a short form.
- 02
Shortlist in 48 hours
Two or three profiles with CVs, code samples and interview notes.
- 03
Interview
You interview them your way. Technical test optional; we already ran ours.
- 04
Start in 5 to 10 days
Access, onboarding and first stand-up in your hours. Two-week replacement guarantee.
Five steps before you see a profile.
Two-week free replacement if an engineer is not the right fit, and a 30-day notice to scale down.
- 01CV and portfolio screen against the role brief
- 02Technical interview with a senior engineer in the same stack
- 03Live coding or take-home exercise reviewed for quality, not speed
- 04English communication and async-writing check
- 05Reference check and background verification before onboarding
What a DevOps engineer does on our teams
A DevOps engineer owns the path from a merged pull request to a healthy production system. On client teams they design the cloud architecture, write it as Terraform or Pulumi, build the CI/CD pipelines that test and deploy every change, run containers on Kubernetes or ECS, and set up the monitoring and alerting that tells everyone when something is wrong before a customer does. They also watch the bill: most engagements start with a cost audit that finds 20 to 40 percent of spend in idle resources, oversized instances and forgotten storage. A senior DevOps engineer pairs with your developers so that deployment, secrets and environments stop being tribal knowledge and become code in your repository.
How we assess DevOps engineers
- Architecture: designing a multi-environment AWS setup with networking, IAM, secrets and backups for a realistic SaaS workload
- Infrastructure as code: reviewing and extending a Terraform module, including state management and drift
- Delivery: building a pipeline with tests, security scanning, blue-green or canary deploys and rollback
- Operations: diagnosing a production incident from logs and metrics, writing the runbook and the post-mortem
- Sample task: take a small containerised service and produce the Terraform, pipeline and dashboards to run it in two environments
| Comparison | Innovation Insight | Toptal-style marketplace | Local hire |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost (senior) | $4,400 to $6,200, all-inclusive | $9,000 to $15,000 plus fees | $14,000 to $20,000 with benefits and overhead |
| Time to start | 5 to 10 business days | 1 to 3 weeks | 6 to 12 weeks |
| Replacement | Two weeks, free | Depends on platform terms | Repeat the search |
| Who manages | You, with our delivery lead available | You | You |
What it's like to work with us.
Unedited, from founders and product leads who trusted us with their roadmap.
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Do your DevOps engineers hold cloud certifications?
Most senior engineers hold AWS Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer certifications, and several hold Azure or Google Cloud equivalents. We share certificates with each profile.
Can they work in our existing AWS account?
Yes. They work in your accounts under least-privilege IAM roles, with every change made through infrastructure as code and reviewed in your repository.
Do you offer on-call coverage?
Yes, as part of a managed operations retainer with defined response times, or by adding our engineers to your existing rotation.
Other roles
Prefer a managed project? See our cloud and devops service.