DevOps engineer
Builds repeatable delivery workflows, automates infrastructure, and helps turn operational friction into a smoother release.
Fully Managed Senior DevOps Talent Custom to Your Company
Stop wasting months on DevOps searching, interviewing, hiring, managing, implementing, and trying to avoid common pitfalls. We already have the Senior DevOps talent, and we'll help you get your DevOps in perfect shape.
Who we are meant for
Support for teams across industries, from Cyber & Medical startups to Biotech and Insurance.
Companies at different stages enjoy different parts of our service:
They aren't sure where to start searching for talented DevOps engineers, maybe they're already 2-5 months into the search.
The foundations are far from perfect, and they deal with common pitfalls instead of avoiding them.
They would do everything themselves, but they need to focus on building the product.
We help early stage startups get a perfect setup on day 1, and then give them fractional capacity to continue growing. In other cases we just help them skip months of searching for a full-time DevOps engineer.
They have more and more requests from the developers, as well as production incidents popping up.
In other cases, they have a big effort that needs extra capacity, or just a growing backlog, but they don't want to distract their own team.
They need talented DevOps engineers urgently to handle those requests, incidents, and growing backlog.
We give them senior DevOps talent within less than 1-week, at the capacity they need, with flexible terms.
P.S. - We share our secret sauce, so we share The DevOps Hiring Kit with them to help hire the right DevOps engineers.
They usually need help with a specific project, or a experienced engineer in a specific technology.
They want to get exactly the capacity they need: not more, not less.
Hiring someone full-time for it wouldn't be justified, and finding the right person would take a long time.
We bring them the exact expert for the job, at the capacity they need, for as long as they need, without the long search or a full-time hire.
A human approach to operations
Different perspectives.
One clear direction.
Meet the roles behind a thoughtful engagement. These playful dots illustrate how the work fits together.
Senior architect
Connects technical choices to the bigger picture: architecture, reliability, maintainability, and the trade-offs worth discussing.
Site Reliability Engineer
Improves service reliability, sharpens observability, and helps reduce operational risk through practical engineering and calm incident response.
Account manager
Keeps goals, scope, priorities, and communication aligned so everyone knows where the work is going.
On-call engineer
Supports agreed on-call shifts, follows your runbooks, and works within your team’s incident and escalation process.
Founder / CEO
Keeps the conversation tied to your business goals and helps shape a practical next step.
The hard part
Hiring a great DevOps engineer takes months. Production won't wait.
Posting the role is easy. Filling it with someone genuinely senior is not, and production does not pause while you search.
Hiring on your own
Monthsuntil day one
- Sourcing candidates
- Screens & interviews
- Offer & negotiation
- Notice period
The seat stays empty the whole time.
With Seismic Paradise Ops
Daysuntil day one
- Intro call this week
- Meet your named engineer
- Senior work, shipping
The same stretch of time, spent shipping.
How Seismic Paradise Ops works
One senior engineer, on your team, billed by the hour
No agency layers, no fixed retainer. A vetted, senior DevOps engineer joins your team and does the real work, from a one-off fix to a full platform build. You choose how you engage them, and pay only for the hours they put in.
- A named senior engineer, not an agency queue
- Working in your Slack, tools, and delivery rhythm
- clear progress updates at the end of every month
- No retainer, no lock-in, and you meet them before anything starts
On-call support, by the hour
Share the rotation.
Give your team room to breathe.
Bring an engineer into your on-call rotation to support your full-time employees. Add hourly coverage for agreed shifts, planned leave, or a busy period, with responsibilities and escalation paths defined before the first shift.
Cover the gaps
Plan coverage around your existing rotation, whether you need a recurring shift or extra help while someone is away.
Respond with context
Onboard to your systems, runbooks, alerting, and escalation process so support follows your team’s way of working.
Keep the hours clear
Agree coverage windows, hourly rates, response expectations, and incident responsibilities before work begins.
Coverage and availability are agreed per engagement. Around-the-clock coverage is not assumed.
Discuss your on-call rotationThree ways to work with us
Pick the shape that fits the moment. What never changes: you are billed only for the hours actually worked, with no retainer and no lock-in.
Every model is hourly. You meet the engineer who would join before anything begins, and regular progress updates keep the work visible.
- Hourly
Hours Bank
Senior DevOps help on tap, for teams who want expertise without a hire.
- Start from 40 hours, top up whenever you like
- The right expert for the task, within the agreed scope
- clear progress updates at the end of every month
- Hourly
Project
A defined outcome, planned and delivered: a migration, a platform build.
- Free deep-dive and written work plan before any work starts
- We plan and implement the whole outcome end to end
- No obligation: meet your engineer, then decide
- Hourly
Staff Augmentation
Steady embedded capacity, part-time or full-time, like a team member.
- Free deep-dive and written work plan before any work starts
- Part-time or full-time, embedded with your team
- Kickoff, weekly syncs, and a shared Slack channel
No obligation. We will help you find the right shape on the call.
Looking for a specific specialist?
Cloud
Configuration Management
Containerization
Continuous Delivery
Continuous Deployment
Continuous Integration
Databases
FinOps
GitOps
HPC
Infrastructure-as-Code
Internal Development Platforms
Logging
Message Queues
MLOps
Monitoring
Networking
Operating Systems
Orchestration
Secrets Management
Security
Service Mesh
Storage
Vector Databases
Version Control
Virtualization
Zero Trust
Questions worth asking first
The honest answers to what most teams want to know before booking a call. If yours is not here, ask us in the consultation.
- Work is billed according to the hourly rates and scope agreed before an engagement begins. Coverage windows and any on-call arrangements are defined in the proposal.
- No. We introduce you to the engineer who'd join your team so you can decide whether it's a fit. There's no obligation, and for Project and Staff Augmentation, we run a deep-dive and deliver a work plan free of charge before any work or billing begins.
- If you want senior help on tap, start with an Hours Bank (from 40 hours). If you have a defined outcome (a migration, a platform build), choose Project. If you need steady, embedded capacity like a team member, go with Staff Augmentation. Not sure? That's exactly what the free consultation is for.
- Engineers pass hands-on technical screens, architecture interviews, and a communication review. You then meet the person proposed for your work and assess the fit directly before deciding whether to proceed.
- We discuss the expertise your project needs before agreeing the scope. If a need falls outside the engagement, we will work with you on an appropriate next step rather than assume coverage.
- We start with the production constraint, identify the right engineering profile, and introduce the proposed engineer. You align the initial priorities, working rhythm, and commercial model before any billed work begins.
Ready to relax around your infrastructure?
Meet the senior engineer proposed for your work, talk through the constraint, and decide whether the fit is right. No slide-deck detour and no obligation to proceed.
A 30-minute fit call. No obligation.