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DO-01
10+ years · EST
Senior AWS + EKS Platform Developer
- AWS
- EKS
- Terraform
- Karpenter
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$32/hr
9+ DevOps Engineers on Bench · AWS · Kubernetes · Terraform
Hire DevOps Engineers, Senior Cloud and Infrastructure Specialists
Hire senior DevOps engineers from our 9+ developer bench. AWS, GCP, Azure on EKS, GKE, and AKS. Terraform and Pulumi infra as code, GitOps with ArgoCD or Flux, GitHub Actions and GitLab CI pipelines, observability via Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry, SOC 2 and PCI hardening. From $28 per hour or $3,000 per month.
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ISO 9001 Certified
9+
DevOps Engineers on Bench
5 days
To 3-Developer Shortlist
7 days
No-Risk Trial
Top 1%
Vetting Bar
Senior DevOps Talent
DevOps Engineers Who Run Production, Not Just Spin Up Demos
Time-Zone Aligned, On-Call Ready in 14 Days
Hire from a 9+ DevOps engineer bench cleared through a 5-stage vetting funnel. Senior teams who carry pagers, write Terraform that survives audit, run Kubernetes for paying customers, design CI/CD pipelines you can read, and define SLOs that match what users actually feel. Source code in your repo from day one, NDA signed before brief, 7-day no-risk trial on dedicated engagements.
DevOps Engagements
Where have our DevOps engineers been placed?
Real DevOps and SRE teams running production for paying customers, across 35+ countries
How Much Does It Cost to Hire a DevOps Engineer?
Transparent USD Rate Bands, No Hidden Markup
Hiring a DevOps engineer from Decipher Zone starts at $28 per hour or $3,000 per month for a senior dedicated developer. Staff augmentation runs from $2,700 per month per developer. Fixed-scope infra rebuilds or cloud migrations start at $20,000. Most clients receive a 3-developer shortlist within 5 business days and onboard a DevOps engineer to their sprint within 14 days. 7-day no-risk trial on dedicated engagements.
Hourly senior
from $28/hr
Audits, surge, on-call cover
Dedicated developer
from $3,000/mo
Full-time on your team
Staff augmentation
from $2,700/mo
Plug into your existing SRE
Fixed-scope build
from $20,000
Infra rebuild or migration
DevOps Engineers on Bench
Who is on our DevOps engineer bench?
Anonymised dossiers. Real shortlist matches your cloud, Kubernetes posture, and time-zone needs exactly.
- AvailableRequest
- AvailableGC
DO-02
8+ years · PST
Senior GCP + GKE + Anthos
- GCP
- GKE
- Anthos
- Config Connector
RequestFrom
$32/hr
- 5 daysAZ
DO-03
9+ years · EST
Senior Azure + AKS + Bicep
- Azure
- AKS
- Bicep
- Azure DevOps
RequestFrom
$32/hr
- AvailableCI
DO-04
8+ years · EST
Senior CI/CD + GitOps
- GitHub Actions
- ArgoCD
- Flux
- Renovate
RequestFrom
$30/hr
- AvailableSR
DO-05
9+ years · PST
Senior SRE + Observability
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- OpenTelemetry
- PagerDuty
RequestFrom
$34/hr
- AvailableSC
DO-06
10+ years · EST
Senior Security + Compliance (SOC 2, PCI)
- Vault
- OPA
- Falco
- Cloud Custodian
RequestFrom
$36/hr
Need a DevOps specialist outside these profiles?
Our bench has 9+ DevOps engineers across AWS, GCP, Azure, GitOps, SRE, FinOps, and compliance work. Share your role brief and we will return 3 matched profiles within 5 business days.
Request a custom shortlistStack We Hire For
Which DevOps skills do our engineers bring?
Six layers our DevOps engineers wire together on greenfield platforms. Each layer is reviewable, audit-friendly, and survives the next major cloud release.
Layer 01
Cloud
AWS, GCP, Azure
Multi-account AWS landing zones with Control Tower, GCP Org with folders and projects, Azure subscriptions with Management Groups, IAM least-privilege baseline
Layer 02
Compute + K8s
EKS, GKE, AKS, Karpenter
Managed Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, AKS), Karpenter or Cluster Autoscaler for node groups, Argo Rollouts for canary, Linkerd or Istio when service mesh is justified
Layer 03
Infra as Code
Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane
Terraform with remote state and lock, modular composition, Pulumi for teams that prefer TypeScript, Crossplane for app-driven infra, OpenTofu where licensing matters
Layer 04
CI/CD + GitOps
GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Flux
GitHub Actions or GitLab CI pipelines, reusable workflows, ArgoCD or Flux for GitOps deploys, Renovate for dependency PRs, signed container images via cosign
Layer 05
Observability
Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Loki
Prometheus + Thanos or Mimir for long-term metrics, Grafana dashboards, OpenTelemetry traces, Loki for logs, SLOs and error budgets tracked, on-call runbooks
Layer 06
Security + Compliance
Vault, OPA Gatekeeper, Falco, Trivy
Vault or AWS Secrets Manager for secrets, OPA Gatekeeper policies in cluster, Falco for runtime threat detection, Trivy or Snyk for image scans, SOC 2 and PCI evidence collection
How to Hire
How fast can you onboard a DevOps engineer?
Predictable, documented, audit-friendly. Procurement can scope it. Development can verify it.
- 01Day 0 to 1
Brief Reaches a Senior Developer
Send your role brief. A senior DevOps engineer reads it within one business day. No sales filter, no junior gatekeeping.
- 02Day 2 to 5
3-Developer Shortlist
We propose 3 DevOps engineers from our 9+ bench. CVs, GitHub, real Terraform modules, Kubernetes clusters they have run. Each to the top 1% bar.
- 03Day 6 to 7
Interview the Shortlist
You run the interviews. Walk through a Terraform module, design a CI/CD pipeline live, debug a real outage timeline, review an SLO definition.
- 04Day 8 to 10
SOW, NDA, Cloud Access
Mutual NDA before code. SOW with rate band. Read-only audit access to your cloud first, scoped write access after onboarding sign-off.
- 05Day 11 to 13
Onboard to Your Sprint
Developer joins your Jira, Slack, GitHub, PagerDuty rotation. Your sprint cadence, standups, code review process. Your tools, your runbooks.
- 06Day 14 onward
Changes Shipped Through CI/CD
Developer pushes Terraform PRs through your pipeline, takes first on-call shift, first sprint runs as no-risk trial. Walk away free if the fit is wrong.
7-day No-Risk Trial
The first week is on us
On dedicated DevOps engineer engagements, the first week is on us. Walk away free if the fit is wrong.
Engagement Models
What engagement models do you offer for DevOps hires?
Transparent USD rate bands, rolling monthly cancel, no setup fees, no markup.
Hourly
Pay only for hours used
$28/hour
Tracked weekly, billed monthly
- Cloud audits and FinOps
- Pipeline tuning
- Incident postmortems
- No minimum commitment
- Mutual NDA before brief
Most Popular Dedicated
Senior DevOps engineer, full-time on your team
$3,000/month
Monthly rolling, cancel anytime
- One developer, only you
- Embedded in your sprint
- On-call rotation member
- 7-day no-risk trial
- 48-hour replacement guarantee
Staff Aug
Plug into your existing SRE team
$2,700/month
Per-developer monthly
- Joins your standups
- Your runbooks, your tools
- Your cloud accounts
- Scale up or down monthly
- 48-hour replacement
Fixed Scope
Locked deliverables and timeline
$20,000+ project
Per-milestone payments
- Best for infra rebuilds and migrations
- Locked scope upfront
- Locked timeline
- Demo-based acceptance
- No surprise change orders
Anonymised Engagements
What have our DevOps engineers shipped recently?
Four anonymised engagements across FinTech SaaS, real-time platforms, HIPAA workloads, and FinOps. Client names are protected by NDA. References available on request after a mutual NDA.
- AAWS · EKS
DO-A
FinTech · Multi-region SaaS
DevOps engineers placed for a FinTech SaaS running on EKS across two AWS regions. Terraform modules for the landing zone, GitHub Actions and ArgoCD for deploys, SOC 2 evidence collection, on-call rotation with PagerDuty.
- Regions
- 2
- MTTR
- <15m
- SOC 2
- passed
- BGCP · GKE
DO-B
SaaS · Real-time platform
Platform developers placed for real-time SaaS on GKE with autopilot and Karpenter-like node scaling. Pulumi for infra, Argo Rollouts for canary, Cloud Run for stateless workers, OpenTelemetry traces end to end.
- Tick latency
- <60ms
- Canary
- Argo
- Trace
- OTel
- CAWS · EKS + RDS
DO-C
Healthcare · HIPAA workloads
Compliance-focused DevOps engineers placed to harden a HIPAA workload on AWS. PrivateLink-only networking, KMS-encrypted RDS, Vault for app secrets, Falco runtime detection, audit log retention with Athena.
- Public exposure
- 0 services
- Encryption
- at rest + in flight
- Audit
- annual
- DAWS · multi-account
DO-D
Marketplace · Cost optimisation
DevOps engineers placed to drive FinOps and pipeline cleanup for a marketplace on AWS. Savings Plan coverage, Karpenter rebalancing, S3 lifecycle policies, Compactor for cold storage, CI minute reduction on GitHub Actions.
- Compute saving
- 32%
- CI minutes
- -45%
- S3 spend
- -28%
Want references for a specific cloud or compliance posture?
Send a brief with your cloud, Kubernetes posture, and compliance scope. After a mutual NDA we share named references and case study detail.
Request referencesFrequently Asked
DevOps Hiring Questions Platform Leaders Actually Ask
Rate bands, clouds, on-call, SOC 2 and PCI, Terraform, FinOps, answered up front.
How much does it cost to hire a DevOps engineer?
A dedicated DevOps engineer from Decipher Zone starts at $28 per hour or $3,000 per month for a senior (6+ years experience). Staff augmentation runs from $2,700 per month per developer. Fixed-scope infra rebuilds or cloud migrations start at $20,000.
How fast can a DevOps engineer start on our project?
Most clients get a 3-developer shortlist in 5 business days, finish technical interviews by day 7, and have a DevOps engineer pushing Terraform PRs by day 14. Fast-track placement in 48 hours if a bench match exists.
Do you support clients in the US, UK, EU, and Middle East?
Yes. Active DevOps engagements in the US, UK, Germany, Netherlands, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Australia, and Canada. USD, GBP, and EUR billing. 35+ countries served, 11+ years in market.
How do you handle time zones and on-call?
DevOps engineers run their working day with 4+ hours overlap with your business hours. After sprint 1, dedicated engineers join your PagerDuty or Opsgenie rotation as full members and follow your runbooks. EST, PST, GMT, CET, GST covered.
What is your hiring and screening process?
Five-stage funnel: 400 apply per year, 80 pass phone screen, 32 pass coding test, 12 pass live technical with senior SRE leads, 4 are hired. Top 1% bar. Only senior (6+ years) DevOps and SRE engineers reach your shortlist.
How do you protect our NDA and cloud account access?
Mutual NDA signed within 24 hours of the first call. All Terraform, Pulumi, and pipeline code lives in your repository under your organisation. Cloud resources live in your accounts. IAM least privilege, MFA, audit log forwarding. Standard SOW includes IP and copyright assignment.
Is there a trial period?
Yes. A 7-day no-risk trial in week one. Walk away with no fees and no notice period. Plus ongoing replacement in 48 hours throughout the engagement, no questions asked.
What seniority level can we expect?
Senior only. Average 7+ years of production cloud and platform work, two-thirds with 9+ years across AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and observability tooling. Principal engineers available for platform engineering and SRE leadership roles.
Can we scale the team up or down?
Yes. Add an engineer in 5 to 14 days, drop one with 15 days notice, no penalty. Move between dedicated, staff augmentation, and fixed-scope inside one engagement. 9+ DevOps engineers on bench at any time.
Are you compliant with ISO 9001, GDPR, SOC 2, and PCI?
ISO 9001:2015 certified for quality management. GDPR aligned with documented sub-processor list, DPAs on request, EU SCCs. SOC 2 Type II controls implemented internally and delivered for client environments. PCI DSS 4.0 scope reduction, HIPAA-aligned controls on AWS and GCP.
Which clouds and Kubernetes platforms do your developers work with?
AWS (EKS), GCP (GKE), Azure (AKS) as the defaults. We also run self-managed Kubernetes on bare metal or DigitalOcean when latency or cost demands it. Multi-cloud only when you actually need it.
Do your DevOps engineers write Terraform we can read?
Yes. Modular Terraform with versioned modules in a private registry, remote state with locking, plan diffs in PRs, drift detection, tflint and Checkov in CI. We avoid 5,000-line root modules and clever HCL tricks that no one else can maintain.
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Send a short role brief. A senior DevOps engineer reads it personally and replies within one business day with a 3-developer shortlist and a written engagement recommendation. No sales call, no pitch deck.
- 5-day shortlist with 3 developers
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- Mutual NDA + IP before brief