Hire DevOps engineers who make deploys boring
Our engineers built the pipelines, monitoring and rollback paths behind ZhoopZhoop, Elevent and TrialTriage. They work in your repo and your standups, and you interview them before anyone starts.
What you are getting
4 things that decide this
- 01Senior engineers only, each with pipelines, monitoring and rollback paths already running for named clients you can read about on this site.
- 02You interview every engineer before they join, so nobody is assigned to your team from a profile you never saw.
- 03They embed in your tools and your standups instead of working behind a ticket queue, and they stay on the same project instead of rotating.
- 04If the fit is wrong, say so and we replace the engineer. Every pipeline, script and config file they write is yours from the first commit.
What a DevOps engineer actually does here
Very little of this job is writing YAML for its own sake. Most of it is deciding what happens when something breaks, before it breaks.
On ZhoopZhoop they containerised a voice-agent platform with Docker and ran it behind Nginx on AWS. GitLab CI shipped every change to the call-handling code through the same pipeline, never a manual copy. On Elevent they built GitHub Actions CI/CD for a real-time trivia platform. It has to hold a multi-server Socket.IO cluster steady from 10 players to over 1,000, with New Relic watching latency as load climbs. On TrialTriage they ran GitHub Actions with SonarQube gating every merge into a HIPAA-aligned clinical system. There, a bad deploy is a compliance incident as much as downtime.
Three different products, one repeated question. If this deploy goes wrong at 2am, does the system tell someone? Can it get back to the last good version without a person remembering the steps?
What they take off your roadmap
Pipelines that run without a person watching
Build, test and deploy on every push, with the gate configured so a broken test blocks the merge instead of the release.
Rollback before rollout
A tested path back to the last good version, built and proven before the team is allowed to lean on the new one.
Monitoring and alerting as part of done
Latency, error rate and queue depth wired to an alert a human sees, not a dashboard nobody opens until an incident.
Infrastructure documented, not clever
Configuration written down and boring on purpose, so the next engineer can read it instead of asking the one who wrote it.
- PushCode lands on a branch
- Build & testCI runs the suite, blocks on failure
- DeployShips through the pipeline, not by hand
- WatchMonitoring flags the regression
- Roll backTested path to the last good version
Every stage is a gate, not a hope. A merge that fails a check never reaches production.
Pipelines and monitoring behind live systems
How hiring works
- 01
Tell us what is stuck
A free call about your deploy process today: what is manual, what has broken before, and what a bad release actually costs you.
- 02
Meet the engineers
We shortlist people who have built pipelines and rollback paths for systems under real load, and you interview them. Say no and we go back to the shortlist.
- 03
They embed
Your repo, your cloud account, your standups. One engineer owns the pipeline and monitoring setup and is named as accountable for it.
- 04
They hand over
Documented pipelines, alert configuration and a tested rollback path, plus someone on your team trained to run it. The first 2 months of support and maintenance are free, with every build.
Stack
Pipelines
Infrastructure
Monitoring
Tell us what breaks when you deploy
Bring the last release that went wrong and what it took to fix. The scoping call is free, and you will leave it knowing what a working pipeline actually needs.
01How is this different from hiring a freelance DevOps contractor?
You get an engineer who has already run pipelines and monitoring for production systems, plus a company accountable if it goes wrong. A freelancer hands you their availability and a hiring risk you carry alone. If our engineer is not right, we replace them, which is not a conversation you can have with a contractor you found yourself.
02Can they take over infrastructure someone else set up badly?
Yes. Most engagements start by reading the existing pipeline and cloud setup before changing anything. A rewrite that skips understanding what is actually running is how an outage gets worse. A free scoping call is where that assessment starts.
03How much overlap do we get with our working day?
A daily overlap with your hours, fixed before anyone starts. Incident response and deploy reviews happen while both sides are awake, because a pipeline problem is a conversation, not a ticket. We agree the window during scoping and it does not move without you.
04Who owns the pipeline configuration and the infrastructure code?
All of it is yours from the first commit. That includes CI configuration, deployment scripts and monitoring setup, so nothing stops working the day the engagement ends.
05What actually drives the cost of a DevOps engagement?
How much of your deploy process is undocumented, more than anything else. A team with a working pipeline that needs monitoring added is quick; a team deploying by hand with no rollback path is the work. Scoping calls are free. Where we have to get into existing infrastructure before answering, a paid two-week diagnostic produces a fixed price rather than a guess.
