DevOps & platform
Hire DevOps and platform engineers in the US & Canada
Pipelines, infrastructure and observability that let your team ship with confidence.
Slow releases, flaky environments and surprise cloud bills are usually symptoms of a platform that grew without a plan. A good DevOps or platform engineer makes deploying boring, which is the highest compliment in the field.
We place senior platform engineers who have run real infrastructure on AWS and GCP. They can build, and they can explain their choices to the developers who rely on them.
What they typically own
- Designing infrastructure as code with Terraform so environments are reproducible
- Building CI/CD pipelines that are fast, reliable and easy to understand
- Running and upgrading Kubernetes clusters, or helping you decide you don't need one
- Setting up monitoring, alerting and on-call practices that reduce noise
- Reviewing and reducing cloud spend without hurting reliability
How we vet
What we look for in devops & platform engineers
On top of our standard assessment (system design, coding and references), we test the things that matter most for this role.
Incident reasoning
Candidates walk through a realistic outage, from first alert to follow-up fix, and show how they think under pressure.
Infrastructure design
We assess how they'd structure environments, secrets, access and deployment for a growing team.
Developer empathy
References show whether they make life easier for the engineers who use their platform.
Read more in our guide: how to vet a senior engineer.
Questions
Before you hire
Do I need a full-time DevOps engineer?
Many companies don't. A part-time or project-based engineer can build the foundations, then hand over a platform your team can maintain.
Can your engineers work in a regulated environment?
Many have worked with compliance requirements such as SOC 2. Share your needs at intake so we can match someone with the right experience.
Is this available as a project instead of an individual hire?
Yes. Our consulting team delivers cloud and DevOps work as part of software projects, with a senior lead and clear milestones.
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Ready to meet devops & platform engineers?
Tell us about your stack and timeline. We'll introduce engineers who fit, and reply within one business day.