Hire DevOps Engineers

Hire DevOps engineers who treat your environments as a product with users, not a collection of scripts only one person understands. PS3G’s DevOps engineers build pipelines, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes platforms, monitoring and cost controls on Azure, AWS and Google Cloud, and they document what they build so that it survives them. They join your team as named individuals or as a dedicated platform team, for organizations of every size: a founder whose deployments still happen by hand, a company whose single DevOps engineer is a single point of failure, or an IT department inside a larger organization moving workloads to the cloud under its own security rules.

Hire DevOps engineers who are managed, not just placed

The DevOps engineers you hire through PS3G come from our DevOps practice, which runs the pipelines and cloud environments for our own products and our clients’. They are PS3G employees, screened by our senior platform engineers and supported by a technical lead and an account manager for the whole engagement. We are an engineering firm, not a staffing agency, and in DevOps that difference is operational: when an incident runs past one person’s knowledge at an awkward hour, the engineer has senior colleagues to bring in.

Our engineers work daily with .NET, Node.js, Python and Java applications and the developers who build them, which keeps pipelines and environments practical.

What they can do for you

DevOps engineers for hire through PS3G are matched to the kind of work below.

• CI/CD pipelines. Build, test, security scan and deploy pipelines in Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or GitLab, with environments, approvals and rollbacks that developers can use without a ticket.
• Infrastructure as code. Terraform, Bicep or CloudFormation for networks, compute, databases and identity, reviewed and versioned like application code.
• Containers and Kubernetes. Containerizing applications, running them on AKS, EKS, GKE or simpler managed container services where Kubernetes is more than you need, with Helm, ingress, secrets and autoscaling handled.
• Monitoring, logging and alerting. Dashboards, structured logs, traces and alerts that page the right person for the right reason, with runbooks attached.
• Cloud cost control. Right-sizing, reservations, scheduling non-production environments, storage tiers and tagging, with a monthly report that shows what changed. Our guide to cloud cost optimization lists the usual sources of waste.
• Security and compliance in the platform. Identity and access, secrets management, network boundaries, backup and restore testing, and the evidence that audits and customer questionnaires ask for.

Seniority levels

A mid-level DevOps engineer builds and maintains pipelines, writes infrastructure code within an established structure, handles routine operations and responds to alerts with runbooks. A senior engineer designs the environment layout, the network and identity model, the deployment strategy and the monitoring, sets the cost controls and reviews infrastructure changes. A lead or platform engineer owns the platform across teams and clouds, the incident process, the security posture and the conversation with your developers, security and finance.

How hiring works

1. Brief. A first conversation on the clouds and accounts, the applications and how they are deployed today, the pipeline and infrastructure tooling, the monitoring, the compliance requirements, and the reporting line, on-call expectations and hours you need.
2. Vetted profiles in days. A short list of DevOps engineers with the platforms they have built, the clouds and tools they know well, their incident experience and their availability.
3. Interviews. Your team interviews each candidate. We suggest a walkthrough of a pipeline or a Terraform module they wrote and a tabletop incident, because operations skill shows under questions.
4. Start. Least-privilege access to cloud accounts, repositories and monitoring, a review of the current state with a written findings list in the first weeks, and first changes made through pull requests so that your team sees how the engineer works.
5. Scale monthly. Add an engineer for a migration or a Kubernetes rollout, reduce to a part-time operations retainer once things are stable, or convert an individual into a dedicated platform team, with notice.

Tell us how you deploy today and we will send DevOps profiles that fit.

Vetting: a technical screen by our own engineers

Senior PS3G platform engineers screen every DevOps candidate on real configuration and a real incident. The candidate reviews infrastructure code and pipeline definitions with planted problems (a storage bucket open to the internet, a secret in a pipeline variable instead of a vault, an identity with owner rights used by a build agent, a deployment with no health check or rollback, a Kubernetes workload with no resource limits, a database with backups but no restore test) and explains each. They then work through a tabletop incident: a production service is slow after a deploy, and they talk through what they check, in what order, and how they communicate.

The pitfalls when you hire cloud engineers are consistent. Many candidates have used a cloud console extensively but have never written infrastructure as code, so nothing they build is repeatable. Some know Kubernetes well and recommend it everywhere, including where a managed service would do. Monitoring is often configured but alerts are not tuned, so they are ignored. Security is treated as someone else’s job. And documentation is thin, which recreates the single-point-of-failure problem you were trying to solve. Our screen checks each of these before a profile reaches you.

Individual developers vs a dedicated team vs a fixed-scope project

You can hire Azure DevOps engineers or AWS engineers individually into your team, engage a dedicated platform team led by PS3G, or hand us a defined piece of platform work to deliver as a project.

Option	Who manages	Fits when	Example
Individual DevOps engineers	Your technical lead	You have a platform and a process, and need more hands or specific experience such as Kubernetes or Terraform	A senior DevOps engineer joining your team to move deployments to GitHub Actions and infrastructure to Terraform
Dedicated platform team	A PS3G lead, against your priorities	You want the platform and its operations run as a stream of work, with on-call covered	Two DevOps engineers and a lead running the cloud environments, pipelines and monitoring for several product teams
Fixed-scope project	PS3G owns delivery	The deliverable is defined and you want a price for it	A landing zone on Azure with identity, networking, policies and pipelines, delivered with documentation and a handover

The individual and team rows are monthly engagements under our staff augmentation terms, with notice to change; the project row is quoted as a whole. Operating the platform afterwards, including on-call, is a managed service with a defined SLA. A cloud or DevOps assessment before you decide what to build is advisory. The first steps are the same for each: a first conversation, a short assessment and a written proposal that lists roles, seniority, location and monthly cost. We do not publish hourly rates.

Related services

• Hire developers and dedicated teams: every technology we staff.
• DevOps services: the practice our DevOps engineers come from.
• Cloud migration: when the engagement starts with moving workloads.
• IT staff augmentation: monthly terms, replacements and IP ownership.
• IT staffing: QA, security and other roles alongside your engineers.

Frequently asked questions

Can I hire Kubernetes engineers specifically, or will you tell me I do not need Kubernetes?

Both. If you run Kubernetes or have decided to, the profiles will show engineers who have operated clusters in production, not just deployed a tutorial. If you have not decided, a senior engineer will assess whether managed container services or platform-as-a-service would serve you with less operational load, and say so in writing.

Do your DevOps engineers cover on-call and incident response?

Yes, when it is in the brief. Individual engineers can join your on-call rotation within agreed hours. A dedicated platform team can own on-call under a defined SLA as a managed service, with escalation to senior PS3G engineers. Either way, incidents get a written post-incident review with actions.

Can you hire SRE roles as well as DevOps?

Yes. In the brief we distinguish between DevOps work (pipelines, infrastructure, environments) and site reliability work (service-level objectives, error budgets, capacity, on-call design and reliability engineering with developers), and the profiles reflect which you need. Many organizations need one person who does both, and we staff that too.

Which clouds and tools do your engineers work in?

Azure, AWS and Google Cloud; Terraform, Bicep and CloudFormation; Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions and GitLab; Docker and Kubernetes; and the monitoring stacks each cloud provides plus common third-party tools. We match on what you run and test the fundamentals of identity, networking, deployment and recovery regardless of brand.

Where are your DevOps engineers located?

Both locations, which for DevOps is an advantage: a mix of US and India-based engineers extends the hours in which someone who knows your platform is awake. Account management is in Wilmington, Delaware. India-based engineers keep overlapping hours with US teams and join stand-ups live, and the proposal prices each role by location.