Screened for how they keep delivery fast and production calm.
Why STACK IT
Most agencies optimize for volume. We optimize for the one hire who’s right, vetted by people who understand the work.
We screen for how a candidate automates toil, designs pipelines, and reasons about failure, not how many tools they can name. No one reaches you without two of our recruiters signing off.
Fake profiles, proxy interviews, and AI-assisted answers are everywhere in tech hiring. We meet each candidate face-to-face on video and screen for AI patterns, so who you interview is who shows up.
Strong DevOps people own systems for years, and churn resets that knowledge. We align trajectory, growth, and total comp so your hire stays, and the runbooks stay with them.
Success-based and non-exclusive, no upfront fees, no retainers. We invoice on your hire’s first day, not before.
The payoff
Hiring well costs less than you think, and a strong hire changes far more than the work in front of them.
Deploys become routine.
Automated, repeatable pipelines take the drama out of shipping.
Incidents stay short and rare.
Real observability and runbooks mean faster detection and recovery.
Infrastructure is code, not tribal knowledge.
IaC makes every environment consistent and rebuildable.
Teams ship on their own, safely.
Self-service guardrails unblock developers without losing control.
You scale without surprise bills.
Right-sized, automated infrastructure keeps cost in line with load.
How we screen
We screen for how devops engineers actually think. Every shortlist is judged against the same five criteria that predict whether someone delivers in your codebase.
Designs and maintains pipelines that build, test, and deploy reliably, removing manual toil instead of scripting around it.
Real command of a major cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and the infrastructure underneath: networking, compute, storage, and how they fail.
Builds for failure: monitoring, alerting, and SLOs that catch problems early, with calm, methodical incident response when they don’t.
Manages infrastructure declaratively (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar) so environments are consistent, versioned, and rebuildable.
Bridges developers and operations: builds guardrails teams actually use, and explains trade-offs without turning into a gatekeeper.
Proof it works
Discover what changed once the right hire joined our clients’ team.
A SaaS team shipped once a week through a fragile manual process, and every release risked a rollback. The engineer we placed rebuilt the pipeline with automated testing and one-click deploys, taking them from weekly releases to several a day inside six weeks.
Added structured logging, dashboards, and alerting across a fintech platform, cutting mean time to resolve incidents by 70%.
Migrated a healthcare platform’s hand-built environments to Terraform, making every environment consistent, versioned, and rebuildable on demand.
Real technical screening, a calibrated shortlist in days, and candidates vetted for fit, not just resumes. Let’s start your search.
Specializations
Whatever your team runs on, we screen for the people who do the work right.
Pipelines that build, test, and ship safely, many times a day.
Production-grade infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Declarative, versioned infrastructure that rebuilds the same way every time.
Workloads packaged and scheduled to scale cleanly across environments.
Metrics, logs, and traces that turn incidents into quick fixes.
Security shifted left into the pipeline instead of bolted on at the end.
The cost of waiting
An empty seat doesn’t delay work, it redistributes it. The longer the search drags, the more it costs.
Every week a role stays open, the cost lands on the team you already have.
Speed isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s the difference between a gap and a setback.
Time to fill this role
How you hire
Two models, one standard of quality. Bring on the devops engineers you need the way that fits your timeline and budget.
Permanent
Best when you’re building the team for the long term.
Contract
Best when you need delivery capacity now, without adding headcount.
Not sure which fits? Compare permanent vs. contract
FAQ
The questions teams usually ask before starting a search with us.
We probe how they run things under pressure, not just their tool list. We walk through CI/CD pipelines and incidents a candidate has handled and check for rollback logic, deployment safety, and monitoring they actually trust, then have them explain a real outage and what they changed afterward. That is how we tell people who set up tools from people who keep delivery safe.
Reliability ownership. A senior owns incident response, deployment safety, and the guardrails a team depends on, while a more junior engineer maintains existing pipelines. We calibrate to the level you need.
Build-outs and tooling overhauls can fit contract, but the on-call reliability of your delivery pipeline is usually a permanent responsibility. We will tell you honestly which the role calls for.
Strong DevOps and platform talent stays in demand, so we benchmark against recent placements and move quickly to land people before competing offers do.
Permanent hires are success-based: you pay only when someone starts, with no upfront fee, backed by our 90-day guarantee. Contract runs on a transparent hourly rate. We will walk you through the specifics on an intro call.
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