HIRE · DEVOPS ENGINEER
CI/CD, your cloud, backups you've actually restored, and alerts before your users notice. Contributing in 15 days, from $3,375 a month.
Your cloud account · NDAs are standard
15 days
From kickoff to merged contributions
$3,375
Retainers from, per month, for 150 hours
Every merge
Reviewed by a senior engineer
Day 1
Your repo, your cloud, your IP
WHAT YOU GET
01
A CI/CD pipeline that builds, tests and ships from a merge, with zero-downtime releases.
02
Your cloud set up as code in your repo, so it can be rebuilt and reviewed like any other change.
03
Scheduled backups and a restore test, so you know yesterday's data comes back.
04
Uptime, error and latency alerts routed to the people who can act on them.
05
Spend tracked per service, with the waste cut and budget alerts set.
06
Least-privilege accounts in your cloud, logged, and revocable by you at any time.
SKILLS & STACK
HOW AI MAKES THIS ROLE FASTER
Infrastructure work is full of boilerplate: pipeline files, container builds, permission policies, runbooks. AI drafts it quickly. A mistake in infrastructure takes the whole product down, so every change is reviewed and previewed before it's applied.
| Step | What AI does | What the engineer does | Gate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Build | Drafts Dockerfiles, pipeline config and infrastructure code | Tightens permissions, pins versions, removes anything unneeded | Senior review before merge |
| Plan | Explains what a change will create, change or delete | Checks the plan against what's running | Plan approved before apply |
| Investigate | Reads logs and metrics during an incident and suggests likely causes | Confirms the cause and fixes it | Written incident note |
| Document | Drafts runbooks and the restore procedure | Runs the restore to prove the runbook works | Restore test passes |
A senior engineer reviews every change before merge. CodeRabbit found AI-co-authored pull requests carried ~2.7× more security defects, which matters most in infrastructure, so nothing reaches production without review. Client code is never used to train models.
WAYS TO WORK TOGETHER
Moving off a single server or a hosted prototype? Start with a Cloud Migration & Hardening sprint from $6,500, then keep a DevOps engineer on prepaid hours or a retainer.
Recommended
from $3,375/month · 150 hours
150 hours a month of your DevOps engineer on a backlog we agree with you, with senior review on every merge. The price depends on the role and is confirmed on a 30-minute call.
See the retainer →$45/hour · 20-hour minimum
Buy 20 to 120 hours for scoped work, valid for 12 months. Bigger blocks cost less per hour. Need more than 120? The retainer fits better.
See hour blocks →lead + 1 engineer from $8,000/month
A tech lead plus your DevOps engineer inside your repo, your Slack and your sprint rituals. Bigger teams are quoted to fit.
See embedded teams →HIRING VS. SOCIILABS
| Hiring your own | Working with SociiLabs | |
|---|---|---|
| Time to first contribution | A search, interviews, notice period, then onboarding | Contributing in 15 days |
| If it doesn't work out | 46% of new hires fail within 18 months (Leadership IQ) | We replace the engineer, handover time isn't billed, and you keep the code and history |
| Who reviews the code | Whoever you already have | A senior engineer, on every merge |
| How AI is used | Depends on the person | AI in the loop on every task, behind a review gate |
| Commitment | Salary, benefits, equity | Monthly retainer or a block of hours |
PROOF
0 crashes in 6 months
Booking SaaS
Five years of growth had outgrown a single server, and it crashed weekly. We moved it to Google Cloud Run with Docker and zero-downtime deploys. Zero crashes in the six months since. Delivered by an embedded team of 4 over a 12-month engagement.
Read the ZapBook case study →12 weeks
Hospitality
A Replit build rebuilt on Next.js, NestJS and PostgreSQL, deployed to Google Cloud Run. Production-ready in 12 weeks, built to support 2,000+ providers.
Read the HELM case study →FAQ
Usually not. Most products need a setup project and then a few hours a month. Start with a Cloud Migration sprint or prepaid hours, and move to a retainer if the work grows.
