Hire a DevOps engineer who keeps deployments moving

CI/CD, cloud and releases managed, globally or locally.

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Meet our vetted devops engineers

David G. Colombia · 4 years experience
CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions $26/hr

Best fit: A team that needs cI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions.

Core responsibilities
  • Build and maintain your CI/CD pipeline in Jenkins
  • GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
  • Manage release schedules and rollback plans
  • Catch broken builds before they reach production
Core Competencies
GitHub Actions Jenkins GitLab CI Argo CD
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Valentina P. Argentina · 5 years experience
Cloud infrastructure, Docker and Kubernetes $26/hr

Best fit: Cloud infrastructure, Docker and Kubernetes, handled as its own dedicated lane.

Core responsibilities
  • Provision and maintain AWS
  • Azure or GCP infrastructure
  • Manage containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Keep infrastructure-as-code current (Terraform, CloudFormation)
Core Competencies
AWS Kubernetes Docker Terraform
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Ayesha K. South Africa · 5 years experience
Monitoring, alerting and incident response $21/hr

Best fit: Best fit for a team leaning on someone for monitoring, alerting and incident response.

Core responsibilities
  • Set up monitoring, logging and alerting across your infrastructure
  • Respond to incidents and run postmortems
  • Keep on-call runbooks current, so a 2am page has an answer attached
Core Competencies
Datadog Grafana PagerDuty Splunk
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Jorge R. Mexico · 7 years experience
Release management and rollback planning $35/hr

Best fit: Suited to companies whose release management and rollback planning keeps slipping down the priority list.

Core responsibilities
  • Review pull requests for standards and security issues before merge
  • Maintain the automated checks that enforce them
  • Keep the review queue from becoming a bottleneck
Core Competencies
GitHub Actions Argo CD Jira LaunchDarkly
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Ethan K. USA · 9 years experience
Senior DevOps lead, multi-cloud $75/hr

Best fit: The senior pick: devOps lead, multi-cloud, with enough range to own more than one lane at once.

Core responsibilities
  • Build and maintain your CI/CD pipeline in Jenkins
  • GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
  • Manage release schedules and rollback plans
  • Catch broken builds before they reach production
  • Provision and maintain AWS
  • Azure or GCP infrastructure
  • Manage containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Keep infrastructure-as-code current (Terraform, CloudFormation)
  • Set up monitoring, logging and alerting across your infrastructure
  • Respond to incidents and run postmortems
  • Keep on-call runbooks current, so a 2am page has an answer attached
  • Review pull requests for standards and security issues before merge
  • Maintain the automated checks that enforce them
  • Keep the review queue from becoming a bottleneck
Core Competencies
AWS Azure Kubernetes Terraform
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What this role costs you

Specialized recruiters Vetted candidates in 10 days Six core markets
Global talent
Starting at
$12/hour
No placement fee
WhereLatin America, Philippines, South Africa, Eastern Europe, Canada You payOne monthly fee, all-inclusive EmployerHireHawk employs, pays and manages compliance Guarantee100% performance replacement After the hireA dedicated Client Success Manager, for the life of the engagement CommitmentMonth to month, no lock-in Learn more →
US talent
Placement fee
12.5%of first-year salary
+ $995 retainer
WhereAll 50 states You pay$995 retainer to start the search, plus 12.5% at placement. Or 15% with no retainer EmployerThe hire joins your payroll directly Guarantee60-day replacement After the hireYours to manage from day one. There is no Client Success Manager on this offer CommitmentOne-time fee, no recurring cost Learn more →
Up to 70%is what you save with global talent 20–30%of first-year salary is what traditional agencies charge

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What this role handles for your team

A DevOps engineer owns the automation, cloud infrastructure, and release workflows that keep software delivery reliable.

DevOps CI/CD and release management
Build and maintain your CI/CD pipeline in Jenkins GitHub Actions or GitLab CI Manage release schedules and rollback plans Catch broken builds before they reach production
Cloud infrastructure
Provision and maintain AWS Azure or GCP infrastructure Manage containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) Keep infrastructure-as-code current (Terraform, CloudFormation)
Monitoring and incident response
Set up monitoring, logging and alerting across your infrastructure Respond to incidents and run postmortems Keep on-call runbooks current, so a 2am page has an answer attached
Code review and quality
Review pull requests for standards and security issues before merge Maintain the automated checks that enforce them Keep the review queue from becoming a bottleneck
Three steps

Hire a Devops engineer in 3 steps

From your first brief to a Devops engineer working in AWS and GitHub Actions, you stay with one recruiter from scope through start.

Scope the Devops engineer role

Tell us the work to own, from devops ci/cd and release management to cloud infrastructure, plus the systems, coverage hours, and outcomes that matter. We turn that into a focused search brief.

Review vetted Devops engineer candidates

We screen candidates for devops ci/cd and release management, cloud infrastructure, and practical fluency in AWS and GitHub Actions. You review a shortlist with relevant context.

Hire and onboard your Devops engineer

Choose your candidate and hiring model. We coordinate the handoff into your tools, operating process, and first-week priorities.

What changes for your team

Best for product teams that need more reliable releases, cloud operations, and incident response.

Faster, more reliable deployments

Your CI/CD pipeline gets built and maintained continuously, instead of patched together whenever a release breaks something.

Fewer production incidents

Monitoring and alerting stay current across your infrastructure, so issues get caught before users notice them.

Cleaner infrastructure-as-code

Terraform or CloudFormation configs stay current and reviewed, instead of drifting from what is actually running in production.

Lower cost than a full platform team

One dedicated engineer costs less than the salary, benefits and payroll taxes a full-time in-house platform team adds up to.

More engineering time spent building

Your developers stop getting pulled into deployment fires, and spend that time shipping the product instead.

Why teams choose HireHawk for this role

Screened on your stack, instead of a generic checklist

Tell us your cloud provider and CI/CD tools on the discovery call, and we match candidates with hands-on experience in that exact combination.

Vetted before you meet them

5-Stage Vetting with AI-assisted screening. Fewer than 1% of applicants are presented to clients.

Bilingual where it matters

Bilingual English and Spanish talent from Latin America, strongest in medical and legal, and strong technical talent across Eastern Europe and South Africa.

Two ways to hire

Fully managed global talent from $12 an hour, or US direct hire from 12.5% of first-year salary. Compare the two on our [staffing solutions page](/solutions/).

Proof

What our clients say

"They built the analytics and automation our leadership now runs on, recovered tens of thousands in freight claims and cut manual work by 96%."

Siobhan Manager of Outbound Global Transportation

"It was very easy working with HireHawk, from looking for viable candidates, the interview process, all the way to implementation of your hire, they handle it all. We are also very happy with our hire. Very easy and seamless process."

Work Injury Law Group Legal services

"HireHawk filled two senior roles in under two weeks. The candidates were sharper than anything our in-house recruiter surfaced in months."

August Consumer brand

"Her scope grew within months and our leadership asked to meet her in person. We came back to HireHawk to expand the rest of the team."

Anthony Director of Operations

"When our workflow broke down she built a tracking system to stop it happening again, without being asked."

Mikayel Revenue Cycle Manager

One partner, wherever your next hire lives.

The right model depends on the seat, not the company. Some roles need someone in the building; the rest do not, and cost far less remotely.

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Staffing agency HireHawk

HireHawk is a staffing agency for growing US companies with industry-specialized recruiters. This is one of the seats we fill most: we recruit for it, run 5-Stage Vetting, and either employ the hire on global talent or place them directly on your payroll.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about hiring for this role

Can they work in our specific cloud stack?

Yes, and we screen for it directly rather than for generic DevOps experience. Name your cloud provider, CI/CD tools and orchestration setup on the discovery call, and we match you with an engineer who already runs that exact combination, instead of someone learning your stack on your infrastructure.

Do you cover network security specifically?

Infrastructure-level monitoring and incident response are already part of this role, so basic security visibility is covered by default. Dedicated network security work, hardening, firewall configuration and compliance audits, is staffed separately instead, since it's a genuinely different discipline. See our network security engineer page for that specific hire.

What about release engineering and code review specifically?

Both are already covered. Release engineering, meaning CI/CD pipelines, release schedules and rollback plans, sits inside the role alongside code review, infrastructure work and monitoring. Tell us how your team actually splits this work today, and we staff to match that split instead of assuming a single generic job description.

How fast can a DevOps engineer start?

You'll see vetted candidates within 10 business days of your discovery call, so you're not waiting weeks to start interviewing. Once you've made your pick, onboarding takes 21 days, whether the hire joins your payroll directly or comes on as a fully managed global hire through HireHawk.

What if the engineer is not the right fit?

You're covered either way. If you go with global talent, you get 100% performance replacement at no extra cost. If you choose US direct hire, you're backed by a 60-day replacement guarantee, so a bad fit doesn't turn into a bad quarter for your business.

What should a DevOps engineer already know before they start?

They should already be comfortable with the cloud provider, infrastructure-as-code tools, CI/CD workflow, and monitoring stack your team uses. We scope those systems before sourcing and test for them during vetting, so the candidate is not learning your release process from scratch.

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