Hire DevOps Engineers

There are a few situations where hiring a DevOps engineer will bring a lot of value to the company. On many projects, developers take care of infrastructure, continuous delivery, and monitoring. As the project grows in size and complexity, these tasks start to take away a lot of time from their main tasks. As a result, your deployments become less stable. At this point, it becomes necessary to hire a dedicated engineer to take care of automation.

Another common scenario is a larger team that has already implemented infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and other DevOps best practices. They often have faulty logic and become disarrayed when the DevOps specialist leaves the team. Another possibility is when the project simply becomes too complex for a single engineer. 

In 2023, the median salary of a DevOps engineer in the US hovers around $69,4 a year, according to Glassdoor. The national average for DevOps freelance hourly rate is $61/hour. And enterprise-grade DevOps outsourcing agencies like MindK can lend their services for $50-99/hour.

With MindK, you pay a fixed monthly fee per DevOps engineer for as long as you need. There are no setup and project management fees. 

All our DevOps engineers have experience working on international projects. To mitigate the time zone difference, we make the most out of the golden hours. This is the time when one team is just starting the work day while the other hasn’t yet left the office. We can also help you hire a nearshore DevOps developer for maximum convenience.

You can swap a DevOps engineer for another specialist at any time or cancel the service on short notice. Moreover, we offer a one-month probation period for our DevOps engineers. 

MindK has a multi-step vetting process that eliminates 96% of candidates based on their technical and soft skills. Those who passed the final interview, go on to work with a perfect track record for 5 years on average. But you don’t have to trust our words. Feel free to run as many interviews as needed and give your own test assignments to ensure the right fit for your company. 

First of all, we’ve implemented a rigorous pre-vetting process to ensure all candidates have good English and soft skills. Our DevOps engineers work daily on international projects, participate in Sprint plannings with clients and demo the projects to stakeholders. This helps them grow soft skills, along with regular English lessons.

We cultivate four key values in our DevOps engineers:

• Get things done. We take the initiative to offer solutions instead of passively complaining about problems.
• Self-management. We don’t hire a boss or two for each project. Our engineers kick themselves up every day to do the job because they know how and why. 
• Relentless strive for self-realization. Each Mindkicker strives to become a professional in their field on their own initiative, not because they are forced.
• Positive thinking. Life is all about overcoming challenges and obstacles. A positive attitude helps us solve problems without dwelling on them.

We recommend our clients sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) even before they share the first details of their project. You can also request an additional Non-Compete Clause that would prohibit us from working for your competitors.

A good DevOps engineer has a wide range of technical and soft skills:

• Linux and scripting skills.
• Knowledge of version control systems, containerization, infrastructure orchestration, configuration management, and CI/CD tools.
• Understanding of cloud computing and major providers.
• Knowledge of open-source automation tools like Ansible and Terraform.
• Programming skills in languages such as Python and Bash. 
• Familiarity with testing, monitoring, and alerting tools.
• Security skills – code analysis tools like SonarQube; vulnerability analysis, threat investigation, change management, and so on.
• Soft skills like problem-solving, teamwork and collaboration, self-management, proactiveness, and good English.

There’s no minimum term for a contract when hiring a DevOps consultant at MindK. The minimum term for hiring a dedicated DevOps engineer starts at 3 months

Your first option is to search for DevOps candidates on sites like Indeed, Glassdoor, Monster, AngelList, and Dice.com. According to LinkedIn, there were over 81K DevOps vacancies in the US at the start of 2023. At the same time, the site shows about 86K DevOps engineers in the US. Most of these people already have cushy jobs, so competition for top talent is as fierce as ever.

Your second option is to look for DevOps freelancers on sites like Fiverr and Upwork. Lastly, you can contact a DevOps outsourcing company like MindK. Just fill out the contact form and our CTO will soon contact you to learn more about your needs. We’ll assess our in-house engineers and send you the CVs of the most relevant specialists in just a couple of days. You can then run as many interviews as you need to ensure they make a perfect fit for your company.