Hire DevOps engineers
Cloud, CI/CD, and infrastructure engineers who make deploys boring — in the best possible way.
Starting from $15/hour per engineer · month-to-month · no long-term lock-in
Infrastructure overhaul
Embedded DevOps engineer
Part-time retainer
Cloud cost optimization
Profiles within 48h · month-to-month · full IP assignment
In short
Hire DevOps engineers from Rocket Systems from $15/hour: AWS and GCP architecture, Docker and Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, and monitoring — full-time, part-time, or on a retainer after an initial infrastructure overhaul. Month-to-month, US contracts, full IP assignment. Profiles within 48 hours; most engineers start within 1–2 weeks.
Hire DevOps Engineers
DevOps Engineers who have shipped before
Most teams don't need a platform department; they need one strong DevOps engineer who turns manual deploys, mystery servers, and 2am incidents into pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and dashboards. That's the engagement we staff most.
Our DevOps engineers cover the pragmatic middle of the cloud stack: AWS and GCP architecture, Docker and Kubernetes where it earns its complexity (and plain containers where it doesn't), Terraform for infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD with GitHub Actions or GitLab CI, and observability with Grafana, Prometheus, or Datadog. Security basics — secrets management, least-privilege IAM, backup and recovery — come standard.
Typical engagements: a one-time infrastructure overhaul (audit, IaC migration, pipeline setup) followed by a part-time retainer, or an embedded engineer who owns reliability alongside your developers. Because they work next to our own product teams, they optimize for developer speed, not infrastructure theater. From $15/hour.
Hire a DevOps engineer for AWS, GCP, or Kubernetes
Most engagements begin with an audit: how deploys happen today, where the secrets live, what breaks at 2am, and what the cloud bill looks like. From there the engineer moves infrastructure into Terraform, builds CI/CD in GitHub Actions or GitLab, adds monitoring and alerting, and documents the runbook. Kubernetes is used where it earns its complexity — multi-service platforms with real scaling needs — and plain containers on ECS, Cloud Run, or a VM where it does not. Cost optimization is part of the job: 20–40% cloud-bill reductions are common in the first quarter.
Hire DevSecOps and SRE engineers
For teams with compliance requirements — SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI — the same engineers cover the security side: IAM least privilege, secrets management, image scanning in the pipeline, encrypted storage, audit logging, and the evidence collection auditors ask for. SRE-style engagements add SLOs, on-call rotation design, incident response, and post-mortems. Our HIPAA-compliant AI work runs on infrastructure these engineers build.
What DevOps engineers cost in 2026
US DevOps and platform engineers run $140k–$190k plus 25–30% overhead, and take 60–90 days to hire. Ours are $15–$50/hour month to month: a part-time retainer of 40 hours a month is $600–$2,000; a full-time embedded engineer $2.4k–$8k. Retainers are the most common shape after the first overhaul. DevOps pairs with our cloud & DevOps services for project-based work and with a dedicated development team when you want delivery and operations under one roof; the decision math for augmentation versus hiring is in senior software engineer staff augmentation.
How it works
From request to first commit
Describe the role
A 30-minute call or a short brief: stack, seniority, team setup, and hours needed.
Profiles in 48 hours
We send matching, pre-vetted engineers — real profiles with real project history, not a bench list.
You interview
Technical and culture interviews with your team. No fees until you choose someone.
Start within 1–2 weeks
Engineers join your repos, standups, and hours — month-to-month from $15/hour, full IP assignment.
FAQ
Hiring DevOps Engineers: common questions
Can we hire a DevOps engineer part-time?
Yes — part-time retainers are the most common DevOps engagement after an initial setup phase. Many clients keep 20–60 hours a month for pipeline maintenance, monitoring, and incident support.
Do your DevOps engineers work with existing infrastructure?
Yes — most engagements start with an audit of what exists, then improve incrementally with infrastructure-as-code rather than a risky big-bang rebuild.
What do DevOps engineers cost through Rocket Systems?
From $15/hour, month-to-month — full-time, part-time, or retainer. Profiles within 48 hours.
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