Hire engineers
Hire DevOps engineers for pipelines, cloud and releases
These engineers take over the path from a developer's commit to a running service: build pipelines, cloud setup, monitoring and release controls. They work in your repositories and your cloud accounts.
What these engineers do
- Own the CI/CD pipelines that test each change and ship it.
- Write infrastructure as code, so environments match and can be rebuilt.
- Set up monitoring, tracing and alerts that show a fault before users report it.
- Release with feature flags, canary rollouts and a tested rollback.
- Manage environments and secrets with least-privilege access.
- Write runbooks, so the next person on call knows what to try first.
- Run on-call practice with service-level objectives, error budgets and written post-incident reviews.
Stack
- Pipelines
- GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
- Infrastructure
- Terraform and Ansible
- Monitoring
- Prometheus, Grafana and OpenTelemetry
- Runtime
- Kubernetes or PM2 on a server
- Cloud
- AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, chosen to fit your estate
Pipelines run in your accounts, so your own staff can read and change them. Access is least-privilege for each environment.
The kind of work
On a commerce rebuild for a growth-stage brand, the infrastructure half of the job covered servers that scale with load, caching at the network edge and a queue that protects checkout. See the case.
For a platform we run after launch, the same practices apply, with a primary and a secondary engineer on call.
Who this role fits
Hire these engineers when releases still depend on one person at a keyboard, when environments drift apart, or when faults reach users before they reach your team. They suit a company that owns its cloud accounts and wants pipelines, monitoring and release controls that its own staff can run.
What to put in your brief
- Your cloud provider and the accounts involved
- The services you run, and how they reach production today
- How often you release, and what usually goes wrong
- The monitoring and alerts you have now
- Whether the engineer joins an existing team or starts the practice
How a team starts
You send the stack, the cloud accounts and the pipeline you have today. We shortlist, you interview and approve each engineer, and they join your repositories and ticketing. One engineer is the smallest start, with a one-month minimum and 30 days' notice. Hire terms apply. How soon engineers start is agreed at the start of the engagement.
Tell us the role
Which release step takes your team the longest?
Tell us what you want to build.
The first call is 45 minutes with an architect, usually the founder. It is free, and we will sign an NDA first if you ask.