Hire a DevOps Engineer.
Build the CI/CD, infrastructure, and observability that lets the rest of the team ship with confidence.
Pre-vetted, full-time dedicated, with HR & payroll handled.
Overview
What a DevOps Engineer actually does.
DevOps engineers we place own the platform surface — pipelines, infra-as-code, observability, and the incident discipline that keeps an on-call rotation humane. We vet for reasoning about tradeoffs (build vs. buy, simple vs. scalable) rather than tool name-dropping.
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines
- Own infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi)
- Manage observability — logs, metrics, traces, alerts
- Lead on security hygiene and secrets management
- Participate in incident response and post-mortems
Core Skills
What they bring on day one.
WHAT A SHORTLIST LOOKS LIKE
What a placement for this role looks like.
Representative seniority bands and the stacks that come with them, for professionals recruited from Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and the wider Middle East.
Mid-Level, 5 years
Mid-Level tier, $2,500–$3,500 CAD/month
Docker, GitHub Actions, GCP, Grafana
Senior, 8 years
Senior tier, $3,500–$5,000 CAD/month
Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS, Datadog
Illustrative bands, not real candidates and not a browsable roster. Your actual shortlist is briefed, vetted, and presented by a co-founder after the discovery call.
PRICING
Tiers that apply to this role.
One flat CAD monthly rate — sourcing, vetting, onboarding, HR, payroll, and account management included. No recruiter fees, no currency surprises.
- Everything in Junior
- Domain expertise
- Independent ownership
- Priority matching
- Everything in Mid
- Architecture-level skills
- Mentoring capability
- Strategic contribution
- Everything in Senior
- Team management
- Process design
- Executive presence
Need the full comparison against a local Canadian hire? See the pricing page →
How We Vet This Role
Role-scoped, not one-size-fits-all.
DevOps candidates walk through an incident they led — we grade hypothesis formation, communication, and what they changed afterwards, not heroics.
See The Obelisk Vetting ProcessRELATED ROLES
Hiring more than one?
Start with one role and add more under the same contract. These are the roles that pair most naturally with this one.
Ready to brief a DevOps Engineer?
15-minute call, written brief same day, shortlist within a week. If the first devops engineer is not the right fit, the 30-day replacement guarantee covers the second one.
Talk to a Co-Founder