Hire DevOps engineers.
Deploys that are boring. Cloud bills that make sense. Alerts that mean something.
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Senior engineers
In your repo and standups.
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Monthly terms
Stop with 2 weeks' notice.
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No hiring process
No recruiters. No notice periods.
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You own the code
100% of the IP, day one.
To hire DevOps engineers in 2026, look for seniors who put all infrastructure in code (Terraform or OpenTofu), build CI/CD that deploys on every merge with a one-step rollback, run containers on managed services before reaching for Kubernetes, and set up logs, metrics and alerts tied to what users feel. Yarify gives you senior DevOps engineers on monthly terms with 2 weeks' notice, or a fixed-price setup. Senior market rates run about $65–90 per hour in Central Europe and $150–220 in the US.
Accidental ops vs senior DevOps
What we usually inherit
- Servers set up by hand, documented nowhere
- Deploys only one person knows how to run
- Secrets in the repo or a shared doc
- Alerts nobody reads, outages users report
- A cloud bill nobody can explain
What a senior leaves behind
- Every resource in Terraform, reviewed like code
- Deploy on merge, rollback in one step
- Secrets in a secret manager, rotated
- Dashboards and alerts tied to user impact
- Tagged resources and a monthly cost review
What our DevOps engineers build
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CI/CD pipelines
GitHub Actions or GitLab CI: tests, builds, preview environments and deploys on every merge.
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Infrastructure as code
Terraform or OpenTofu for AWS and GCP, with environments you can recreate from scratch.
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Containers and Kubernetes
Docker everywhere; Cloud Run, ECS or Kubernetes depending on what your team can run.
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Observability
Logs, metrics and traces with OpenTelemetry, plus alerts that wake someone only when it matters.
Hiring takes months. We start building.
Hiring a developer
- Job post & sourcing
- Interviews
- Notice period
- Onboarding
- Building
Yarify
- Call + fixed quote
- Building + weekly demos
- Live. Iterating with users.
Illustrative timeline. In-house hiring usually spends months on sourcing, interviews and notice periods before the first commit.
Hire DevOps engineers your way
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Join your team
Part-time or full-time. Monthly.
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Own the platform
Pipelines, cloud and on-call setup.
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Fixed-price setup
CI/CD, Terraform or migration.
First call to first fix
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Walk us through a deploy
From merge to production, including the scary parts. We say on the call where the risk is.
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Short infrastructure review
Access, secrets, backups, pipelines and cost. A written list ordered by risk.
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Fix the dangerous things first
Backups you have actually restored, secrets out of the repo, a deploy anyone on the team can run.
Signs of a senior DevOps engineer
- Has restored a production database from backup, not just configured backups
- Talks you out of Kubernetes when a managed service will do
- Keeps Terraform state remote, locked and reviewed in pull requests
- Sets alerts on symptoms users feel, not on CPU spikes
- Can read your cloud bill and name the three biggest wastes
- Writes runbooks so on-call does not depend on them
Ask a DevOps engineer this
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A deploy broke production. Walk me through it.
Roll back first, then find the cause, then add the check that would have caught it. Blame-free.
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Where do our secrets live?
In a secret manager, injected at runtime, with least-privilege access and short-lived CI credentials.
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Our cloud bill doubled. Where do you look?
Cost by service and tag, idle resources, oversized instances, data egress, forgotten environments.
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Do we need Kubernetes?
Often not. A senior names the team size and workload where it starts to pay back.
DevOps engineer rates by region
Hourly market bands from industry surveys. Not our price list: we quote after a free call.
| Region | Junior | Mid-level | Senior |
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| United States | $75–110 | $110–150 | $150–220 |
| Western Europe | $60–85 | $85–120 | $115–170 |
| Central & Eastern Europe | $32–48 | $48–65 | $65–90 |
| Latin America | $38–55 | $55–72 | $70–95 |
| South & Southeast Asia | $22–35 | $35–45 | $45–60 |
DevOps and cloud skills price above general web development in most surveys. Many teams need a senior part-time, not full-time. Full guide: software developer rates.
Hire monthly. Leave with 2 weeks' notice.
Monthly billing. Stop with 2 weeks' notice. Everything runs in your cloud accounts and lives in your repository as code, so you never depend on us to change a setting.
- Admin access stays with you; we work with scoped roles
- Fixed-price setups: overruns on our estimate are ours
Systems we run in production
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Medical AI That Drafts. Clinicians Decide.
AI software for a hospital: LLM-drafted clinical documents and imaging-report text, mandatory clinician review, full audit logs, GDPR health-data handling and an on-prem or private-cloud deployment option.
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Six Strategies, One Risk Layer
Async Python trading engine for Polymarket: six concurrent strategies, shared risk controls, EIP-712 signed orders via the CLOB API, under one second from signal to order.
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Five Platforms, One Hour a Month
Internal platform for a marketing agency: generates short-form video from three inputs and publishes to YouTube, Instagram, Threads, Reddit and Telegram. Spring Boot, Next.js, MongoDB.
Questions buyers ask us
How much does it cost to hire a DevOps engineer?
Industry surveys put senior DevOps engineers at about $65–90 per hour in Central and Eastern Europe, $115–170 in Western Europe and $150–220 in the US. Many teams need a senior part-time. We quote monthly or fixed-price after a free call.
Do we need a full-time DevOps engineer?
Most product teams under about 20 engineers do not. They need a senior to set up pipelines, infrastructure as code and monitoring, then a few days a month to keep it healthy. We offer exactly that on monthly terms.
AWS or GCP: which do you work with?
Both. We usually recommend staying where you are unless there is a clear reason to move. If you are planning a move, see cloud migration.
Can you reduce our cloud bill?
Usually, yes. Common savings come from idle environments, oversized instances and databases, missing autoscaling, data egress and unused storage. We review the bill first and tell you which changes are worth the effort before touching anything.
Who has access to our infrastructure?
You keep admin ownership of every account. We work through scoped roles you can revoke at any time, and every change lands as reviewed code in your repository.
Is there a minimum commitment?
No long lock-in. Augmentation and dedicated teams bill monthly and end with 2 weeks' notice. You own all code, configuration and IP from day one.
Keep reading
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DevOps services
CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform and monitoring on AWS or GCP. Senior engineers make deploys boring, outages visible and the cloud bill smaller.
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Cloud migration
Move from on-prem servers, a VPS or a legacy platform to AWS or Google Cloud. Containerised, defined in Terraform, rehearsed, and cut over with a rollback plan.
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Free code audit
A free, no-obligation codebase audit by a senior engineer. You get a written report: what is healthy, what is risky, and whether to keep, refactor or rebuild.
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Staff augmentation
Senior engineers embedded in your existing team: your repo, your standups, your tracker. Monthly billing, 2 weeks’ notice, and every line of code is yours.
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Developer rates by country
Hourly software developer rates by country and seniority in 2026: US, Western Europe, Central & Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia, with monthly costs and freelance benchmarks.
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Next.js developers
Senior Next.js engineers for App Router builds, Pages Router migrations, caching and SEO fixes, Stripe and auth. Join your team monthly or own a fixed-price build.
Deploys nobody is afraid of
30 minutes with a senior DevOps engineer. Walk us through your last scary deploy.