# Hire a full-time DevOps engineer

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Hire a full-time offshore DevOps engineer from $2,500/mo. CI/CD, AWS or Google Cloud, Docker, Terraform, and monitoring. 14-day start, 1-week trial.

## Hire a full-time DevOps engineer

A DevOps engineer builds and runs the systems that ship and host your software: CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure as code, containers, and monitoring. Rekruuto places full-time DevOps engineers based in the Philippines from $2,500 a month. They work your hours, can start in 14 days, and begin with a 1-week trial.

From $2,500/mo. Start in 14 days. 1-week trial.

### Key facts

- Price: A full-time DevOps engineer starts at $2,500 a month.
- Hours: full time, 40 hours a week, in your time zone.
- Where: developers based in the Philippines.
- Start: hiring and onboarding take 14 days.
- Trial: 1 week. If you are not satisfied, we find a replacement or refund your money.
- Contract: no long-term contract. Pause or cancel with 2 weeks' notice.

### What does a DevOps engineer do?

- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines so every merge is tested and deployable
- Manage cloud infrastructure on AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure as code
- Containerize services with Docker and run them on ECS, Kubernetes, or a platform you choose
- Set up monitoring, logging, and alerts that wake the right person
- Manage secrets, backups, and access with least privilege
- Review cloud bills and remove unused resources

### Skills we screen for

- Infrastructure as code: A paid take-home: Terraform for a small service with a database, a bucket, and least-privilege access.
- CI/CD: Ask them to write a pipeline that tests, builds a Docker image, and deploys to staging.
- Containers: Give a Dockerfile that builds a large image and ask them to shrink it.
- Monitoring and incidents: Ask what alerts they would set on day one, and walk through an outage they handled.
- Security and access: Ask how they would rotate a leaked key without downtime.

### Sample interview questions

- How do you roll back a bad deploy, and how long does it take in your last setup?
- What belongs in Terraform and what should stay out of it?
- How do you keep secrets out of the repository and the build logs?
- Tell me about an incident you handled. What changed afterward?
- How do you find what is driving a cloud bill up?

### Tools and stack

- AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure
- Terraform
- Docker
- Kubernetes or ECS
- GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
- Linux and Bash
- Prometheus and Grafana
- Datadog or New Relic
- Cloudflare
- Vault or a secrets manager

### How hiring works

- Tell us your needs. Share your requirements, and we'll match you with pre-vetted professionals who fit your unique needs.
- Meet your matches. We'll introduce you to carefully selected candidates. Interview and choose the perfect fit for your team.
- Start your trial. Work with your new team member for a week. Love them, or we'll find a replacement or refund your money.
- Onboard and embed. Seamlessly integrate your new hire into your team and watch your business grow.

### How we vet developers

- We accept only the top 2% of applicants.
- A practical exercise in the stack you name, reviewed before you meet anyone.
- A technical interview on how they plan, test, and explain their work.
- Written and spoken English checked in the interview and in their written answers.
- Previous experience working with US companies.

### How much does a DevOps engineer cost?

Full time, starting at: $2,500 per month

- Full time, 40 hours a week, embedded in your team
- Works your hours, in your time zone
- Vetted in the stack you name
- Top 2% talent in the Philippines
- 1-week trial: replacement or refund
- Healthcare insurance provided by us
- No long-term contract. Pause or cancel with 2 weeks' notice

### Frequently asked questions

#### When does a small team need a DevOps engineer?

When deploys are manual or scary, nobody owns the cloud account, or outages are found by customers first. A DevOps engineer turns that into repeatable pipelines and alerts.

#### Can an offshore DevOps engineer have access to production?

Yes, with the same controls you would use for anyone: named accounts, least privilege, two-factor authentication, and logged access. Our professionals sign NDAs.

#### Will a DevOps engineer be on call?

They work your hours. Agree on what happens outside them before the hire starts, and write it into the role.

#### How much does a DevOps engineer cost with Rekruuto?

A full-time DevOps engineer starts at $2,500 a month. Hiring can start in 14 days, with a 1-week trial.

#### Will an offshore developer work my hours?

Yes. Our developers work in your time zone, so stand-ups, code review, and questions happen during your working day. The Philippines is on UTC+8 all year, so for a U.S. team that usually means a night shift in Manila.

#### Who owns the code an offshore developer writes?

Your business. Keep the repositories, cloud accounts, and app store accounts in your company's name and give the developer access to them. Our professionals sign NDAs.

#### How does the 1-week trial work?

You work together for a full week first. If you are not satisfied, we find a replacement or refund your money.

Source: https://www.rekruuto.net/devops-engineer