How to Hire Dev Ops Engineers in India Who Are Force Multipliers
Most companies approach the decision to hire Dev Ops engineer in India like they’re just filling another seat. They write a job description looking for someone to ‘handle DevOps.’
Someone to own the CI/CD pipeline.
Someone to manage the Terraform and Kubernetes infrastructure.
What they actually create, almost every time, is a new silo. The problem isn’t the role. It’s the entire philosophy behind the hire.
What your scaling business REALLY needs isn’t just another DevOps Engineer. It’s a DevOps ‘force multiplier.’ This is a completely different profile.
The DevOps ‘Silo’ Trap
Here’s a story we see play out constantly.
A company grows. The leadership team decides to find certified DevOps engineers for hire to build a proper pipeline. The hired engineer sets up Jenkins. They wrangle the cloud infrastructure. They become indispensable. Then the company REALLY grows.
More developers. More microservices. More complexity. Suddenly, that one indispensable engineer is a bottleneck. Then they hire another, and they become a ‘team.’
But this team isn’t enabling DevOps. They’ve just become a new silo. They are the ‘Terraform Team’ or the ‘Jenkins Crew’ now. Every deployment needs their approval. Every request for a new staging environment becomes a JIRA ticket.
This is the exact OPPOSITE of the DevOps philosophy.
The real goal of DevOps was never to create a new team of specialists. The goal was to EMPOWER DEVELOPERS to own their code, all the way to production. It was to eliminate handoffs. To make infrastructure secure, observable, and accessible - not restricted.
The Force Multiplier Profile
A force multiplier is fundamentally different from traditional certified DevOps engineers for hire. Their job isn’t to DO the repetitive work. It’s to build the platform that makes the work unnecessary. We vet for three core traits that define this profile:
1. They Build Tools, Not Tickets
A force multiplier looks at a manual, repetitive task and sees it as a bug in the system. They don’t just RUN the script. They build the self-service portal.
They are platform builders. They create Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs), reusable automation frameworks, and robust dashboards.
When a developer needs a new environment, they don’t file a ticket. They click a button.
When a deployment fails, the logs are already in their Slack, and the system has triggered an automated rollback.
That’s how one true force multiplier can effectively support 50 developers, not just 5.
2. Low-Ego, High-Empathy
Most ops engineers see their ‘customer’ as the server. A force multiplier knows their real customer is the developer. They obsess over developer experience (DevEx).
When a developer says ‘the deployment process is too complex,’ a force multiplier doesn’t defend the process. They see it as a failure of their platform and rebuild it to be simpler.
This high-empathy, low-ego approach is what transforms DevOps from a gatekeeping role into a force-multiplying one.
This is the only profile that scales when you hire cloud DevOps engineers in India for a growing, distributed team.
3. Automation-Obsessed
A force multiplier has strong coding skills, typically in Python, Go, or Bash. They use tools like Ansible, Puppet, and Jenkins to:
- Automate processes
- Improve efficiency
- Systematically remove themselves from the critical path
Their goal is to automate their own manual tasks out of existence.
How We Find Force Multipliers
Finding this profile is the hard part. It’s what our Managed Talent Cloud is built for. We’ve assessed over 25k professionals, so we know how to find the ‘force multiplier’ DNA.
First, we verify the core technical skills. We confirm expert-level knowledge of automation tools like Jenkins and Ansible. We check their coding skills in at least one language.
We also ensure they have deep experience with cloud platforms like AWS or Azure.
Then, we assess their ‘force multiplier’ traits:
- We evaluate communication and collaboration skills
- Can they explain a complex concept (like a service mesh) to a junior developer?
- Can they write clear, concise documentation?
- ‘A deployment failed at 2 AM - walk us through your remote diagnostic process’ (to assess their problem-solving capabilities)
All of this assessment is even more critical when you hire remote DevOps engineers in India, as their teaching must be done asynchronously.
Conclusion
This shift in hiring philosophy changes everything. Your deployment velocity accelerates. Your system reliability improves. Your developers feel empowered, not blocked.
Ready to hire Dev Ops engineers in India? Let’s talk about finding you this profile. Find your next force multiplier in the Cerebraix Talent Cloud.
