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Hire a DevOps & Cloud Engineer.

Cloud, CI/CD and monitoring, set up and kept reliable.

Also called: DevOps Engineer, Cloud Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer

From £5.50 an hour£5.50-25/hr

  • SaaS & tech
  • Startups
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  • Works your hours
  • Nigeria hub, on London time or an hour ahead
  • Month to month
What your DevOps & Cloud Engineer gets doneSample day
  • Provisions and manages cloud resourcesInfrastructure
  • Builds and maintains pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI for testCI/CD
  • Writes efficient DockerfilesContainers
  • Sets up monitoring, logging and alertingReliabilityDoing
In your tools
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Google Cloud
  • Terraform
  • Pulumi
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI

Pick the level. See the price.

£9.50an hourFull time, 38 hours a week, all-in

Level 2 of 4, also called mid-level.Recommended
Even a local mid-level admin costs£16/hr
A tested Intermediate DevOps & Cloud Engineer£9.50/hr
At least 40% lessBasis: a Seat's hourly price against the hourly wage of a comparable local hire at the same level. Employer National Insurance, pension and on-costs would add to the local cost.

Owns a pipeline or environment end to end: builds CI/CD for a service and writes Terraform modules.

  • Complete CI/CD pipeline for a new service with staging and production
  • Reusable Terraform module
  • Datadog or Grafana dashboard with actionable alerts

2-4 years, with AWS Solutions Architect Associate, Azure Administrator or Terraform Associate, or equivalent experience.

How the Intermediate level works

Per hour, all-in: recruiting, testing and management. Prices exclude VAT.

What you hand to your DevOps & Cloud Engineer

Tasks

  • Infrastructure

    • Provisions and manages cloud resources
    • Designs and maintains networking
    • Manages separate dev, staging and production environments

  • CI/CD

    • Builds and maintains pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI for test
    • Sets up safe release patterns

  • Containers

    • Writes efficient Dockerfiles
    • Runs workloads on ECS, EKS, AKS or GKE

  • Reliability

    • Sets up monitoring, logging and alerting
    • Takes part in on-call, lead incident response
    • Runs backups and test disaster recovery restores

  • Security and compliance

    • Enforces least-privilege IAM, SSO and MFA
    • Patches servers and images

  • Cost and developer support

    • Tags resources, rightsize instances, buy savings plans
    • Publishes a monthly cloud cost report with savings actions
    • Writes runbooks and documentation

Tested before you meet them

  1. Incident communication writing testAll levels30 min
  2. Cloud and Linux fundamentals testAll levels45 min
  3. Terraform and pipeline take-homeIntermediate and up4 hrs
  4. Live break-fix sessionIntermediate and up60 min
  5. Architecture and cost design interviewExpert and Specialist60 min
  6. Trial weekIntermediate and up15 hrs

One score on every profileSample shown

87%

Three checks before your shortlist

  • Skills tested: A skills test for the role, marked by a senior
  • English and comms: written English tested, spoken English checked on a call
  • ID, work history and references: photo ID, past roles and two referees

From booked call to day one

  1. Step 1: Book a demo

    Tell us the role, your hours and your tools.

  2. Step 2: Meet your shortlist

    Their level and hourly price, tested before you meet.

  3. Step 3: Pick your person

    Month to month. We handle the contract, the equipment and the onboarding, and make sure it all runs.

  4. Step 4: They start work

    In your tools, within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview.

Questions answered

An Intern DevOps & Cloud Engineer is £5.50 an hour, Intermediate £9.50, Expert £14.50 and Specialist £25, full time (38 hours a week). That is all-in: recruiting, testing and management, month to month. Prices exclude VAT.

Infrastructure, ci/cd, containers and reliability, run to your priorities. You choose what they own first.

Six practical tests, marked by a senior, including incident communication writing test, cloud and Linux fundamentals test and terraform and pipeline take-home. You see the score before you meet.

Tell us and we replace them free, with a new shortlist of tested people to meet. Seats are month to month with 30 days' notice.

More questions

Within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview. First you meet your shortlist, interview the people you like and pick your person.

Yes. Your DevOps & Cloud Engineer works your business hours in your time zone and joins your Teams or Slack like anyone else. The hub matched to United Kingdom clients is in Nigeria, on London time or an hour ahead.

Yes, where it helps. Your DevOps & Cloud Engineer works in the AI tools you already use. They use AI for first drafts and routine work, check every output, and follow your AI policy. You can ask for no AI on any task.

An Intermediate DevOps & Cloud Engineer owns a pipeline or environment end to end: builds CI/CD for a service and writes Terraform modules. An Expert DevOps & Cloud Engineer owns reliability and cost outcomes. We usually recommend Intermediate.

It stays under your rules: your admin settings and AI policy apply. Our talent rules ban client data in personal or free AI accounts, and passwords, card numbers, health details and ID numbers never go into any AI tool.

You direct the work day to day. We handle recruiting, equipment and quality checks.

Yes. Every DevOps & Cloud Engineer is tested live in the tools on your job description, such as AWS and Microsoft Azure, before you meet them.

In week one: grant access to infrastructure repositories, Terraform state backend; grant monitoring access and add to PagerDuty as a shadow on-call first; and architecture walkthrough with the tech lead. You agree the first priorities with them on day one.

Yes. It's also called DevOps Engineer, Cloud Engineer and Site Reliability Engineer. Same tasks, tests and prices, whatever the name.

Their written English, with a scored test, and their spoken English, on a call with us. We also check their ID, work history and references.

Yes. You meet your shortlist on a short call and pick the person you want. Nobody joins without your yes.

In our talent hubs in the Philippines, Vietnam, Kenya, Nigeria, Brazil and Colombia, and we hire from 60+ countries. Wherever they are, they work your hours.

Pay only for the hours they work. All your Seats are on one bill, and Studio plans are billed monthly.

It can, at most once a year. Your person's hourly rate may rise by up to 5% a year, from the first anniversary of the Seat's start, with 60 days' notice and the right to end the Seat before it applies.

Only when you and your person both agree to it in advance. Otherwise they work the hours you set, and you pay for the hours they log.

You aren't charged for hours your person doesn't work, apart from paid leave. After their third month, your person earns 8 hours of paid leave a month. Paid leave hours are charged at their usual rate.

Your person logs their hours each day in the Get Hands client app, where you can see them. Your next invoice is adjusted to those hours.

Yes, with no minimum hours. From 20 to 37 hours a week, the hourly rate is 10% higher than full-time. Under 20 hours, it's 20% higher.

Yes. Tell us the roles on a call and we shortlist tested people for each.

Yes. You give them access in your own systems, and you can change or remove it at any time.

They get their own login in each of your systems, never a shared one. Any password that has to be shared goes through your own password manager, never email, chat, code or prompts.

A tested shortlist within 72 hours of your call, or your first week is free. That's part of The Right Hands Guarantee.

Yes. Call us on +61 3 4421 6491, or choose Talk now on the booking form for a Microsoft Teams link straight away, any time.

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Meet the people who fit your work.

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