The Less Expensive Ways to Hire DevOps Engineers on a Global Scale

Every company that deploys software today needs to hire DevOps engineers who are masters of managing complex cloud infrastructure, orchestrating CI/CD pipelines, and maintaining absolute site reliability. Hence the demand for these infrastructure experts is reaching unprecedented levels. 

The traditional solutions to this issue would be to raise salaries, expand internal recruiting teams, and wait 4-6 months for a single top-quality hire while deployment velocity stalls. This approach still works for enterprises with deep pockets. But, it’s bleeding many startups and mid-market firms dry.

So, is abandoning their growth ambitions or lowering their recruitment standards the only alternatives left for these less-resourced firms? Nope. At Cerebraix, we help hundreds of low/mid-tier firms get fast access to top-class DevOps engineer for hire every year. 

We do it via our global talent pools. 

DevOps Engineer Outsourcing from India

India now produces a big share of the world’s cloud-certified DevOps talent. These are DevOps engineers for hire who’ve spent years building on AWS, Azure, and GCP.  

Walk through the certifications and production experience of mid-to-senior engineers in cities like Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Pune, and you’ll find candidates with deep proficiency in:

• AWS services
• Docker containerization
• Managing Kubernetes clusters at scale
• Jenkins and GitHub Actions pipeline automation
• Linux system administration
• Automating infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible

The issue for most companies is not that these international talents don’t exist – it’s that they don’t know how to find it, vet it, and integrate it cost-efficiently. The main hesitations companies express when they’re advised to hire DevOps developers from India include: 

• Communication friction
• Time zone coordination
• Bad aftertaste left by previous outsourcing experiences where quality was sacrificed for cost

These issues are real and they do pop up when smaller firms hastily engage in DevOps engineer outsourcing from India. That’s because they practice generic, old-school outsourcing which treats engineers as interchangeable resources. Cerebraix doesn’t offer generic outsourcing. 

We offer a managed talent acquisition service model where: 

• Our managed talent cloud holds over 25k+ ratified DevOps and data science professionals
• Every profile is routinely assessed, every skill claim is cross-verified multiple times
• Our AI-driven matching engine surfaces highly specific candidates from highly specific DevOps talent pools based on domain-specific competencies 

When you hire DevOps developers in India through a managed model like ours, you stop fishing in open markets and get to select from pre-qualified pools where the vetting has already been done.

That’s why companies that hire DevOps engineers via this model get to:

• REDUCE their TALENT EXPENDITURE by up to 30% compared to domestic hiring 
• Access BIGGER POOLS of DevOps talent with equivalent or superior technical expertise
• Get a committed TIME-to-HIRE turnaround of 72 HOURS - from requirement to shortlisted profiles

Remote Recruitment: The Right Way to Hire DevOps Developers from India

Remote candidates can fake their certifications very easily. So, using theoretical interview questions is useless when you want to hire DevOps engineers on a global scale. 

That’s why at Cerebraix, we prioritize practical vetting assessments based on real-world scenarios. 

The candidates we present to clients get thoroughly assessed on their ability to solve practical engineering problems:

• Diagnose a failing CI/CD pipeline
• Architect a cost-optimized multi-cloud deployment
• Troubleshoot a container orchestration issue under constraints

These are the problems they’ll face working for a top software firm so these are the problems we ask them to solve during vetting. 

Remote DevOps teams also need to me master communicators. 

To verify that quality, we use multi-step vetting process.

Our AI engines first perform ‘Algorithmic Scoring’ by scanning thousands of data points for exact skill matches. Then we bring human recruiters into the loop to: 

• Identify DevOps engineers with non-traditional backgrounds that AI keyword filters often miss
• Test and rank candidates on their communication skills on Slack, Zoom, and other remote collaboration tools 
• Test their agile project management skills by devising unique tests on specific topics like Kubernetes orchestration or Terraform state management
• Ensure cultural alignment between the candidate and the client team 

Our DevOps candidates only get linked with clients after undergoing these layered vetting processes.  

Conclusion

The fact that India is home to A-grade senior DevOps engineers isn’t a secret anymore. 

If you want to hire such senior DevOps engineers - you’ll have to compete in the same global market as everyone else. Cerebraix’s managed talent model can give you a big edge in this competition. 

Contact us now and we’ll connect you with premium, pre-vetted Indian DevOps engineers in 72 hours.