SDMRFrom $45/hr · Avg start: 2 weeks · 30-40% avg cloud savings

Hire senior DevOps & SRE
engineers in 2 weeks.

5+ year DevOps & SRE engineers, AI-fluent by default. Embed in your team this month — hourly or fixed monthly. No agency markup.

Book a 30-min hiring callSee engagement modelsFree 2-week replacement · NDA + IP signed before kickoff
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11+
DevOps & SRE engineers on bench
2wk
Avg time to start
94%
Client retention at 6 months
8h+
US/UK time-zone overlap
Stack expertise

What our DevOps
engineers actually fix.

Most agencies promise 'cloud expertise'. Our bench engineers each carry one or more cloud-architect certs and have run on-call for production systems serving 10M+ daily users. They know which alerts to chase and which to silence.
  • Kubernetes in production.EKS, GKE, AKS. HPA, VPA, network policies, RBAC done right.
  • Terraform + Pulumi.Modules, workspaces, state isolation, drift detection.
  • CI/CD pipelines.GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Spinnaker. <12 min build-deploy.
  • Observability.Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry. SLOs, burn-rate alerts.
  • Cloud cost optimisation.Spot instances, reserved capacity, right-sizing, FinOps reviews.
  • Security + compliance.SOC 2, ISO 27001, IAM least-privilege, secret rotation.
  • Database operations.Postgres, MySQL, Redis. HA, replication, backups, point-in-time restore.
  • Incident response.Runbooks, post-mortems, on-call rotations that don't burn out humans.
On the bench this month

Three engineers,
ready this week.

Anonymised samples of who's available right now. Real CVs and portfolios go out within 48 hours of your hiring call. All 11 bench engineers are vetted on a real-world take-home (paid, 4 hr) before being eligible to embed.
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OPS-E06 · Senior
Lead SRE · 10 yrs
Ran on-call for a 30M-user platform. AWS Pro + Kubernetes CKA. Strong on SLO-driven alerting + spot fleets.
EKSTerraformDatadogSpotPostgresArgoCD
Rate: $68 / hrAvailable: Now
S
OPS-E03 · Senior
Cloud Architect · 13 yrs
Designed multi-region GCP architecture for fintech with $5M annual cloud bill. Cut it 32% in 6 months.
GCPGKEPulumiFinOpsBigQueryCloud Run
Rate: $75 / hrAvailable: Mar 1
F
OPS-E10 · Senior
Platform Engineer · 7 yrs
Built internal developer platforms for 2 unicorns. GitHub Actions + Backstage. AI-fluent — uses Claude for runbooks.
BackstageGitHub ActionsK8sHelmVaultAI tooling
Rate: $58 / hrAvailable: Now
Get 3 short-listed CVs in 48 hrs
Engagement models

Three ways to hire us.

Most teams start hourly to test fit on a small slice of work, then switch to monthly retainer once the engineer earns trust. No multi-year contracts. Free replacement in the first 2 weeks if there's a mismatch.
Most flexible
Hourly
$35-65/hr

Pay only for hours worked. Best for spikes, prototypes, audits, and trial periods before deeper commitment.

  • Senior engineers only (5+ yrs)
  • 8-hr minimum engagement
  • Weekly invoicing in USD or INR
  • Cancel anytime, no notice
  • Slack + standups included
Start hourly
Best value · 70% pick this
Monthly retainer
from $4,800/mo

One dedicated engineer, 160 hrs/month. Daily standups, your repos, your sprint. Behaves like an FTE.

  • Fully dedicated, no context switching
  • Slack + standups + sprint participation
  • Unused hours roll over (max 20%)
  • 30-day notice to end
  • Quarterly 1:1 review with iTechNotion lead
  • Free swap in first 2 weeks
Book a retainer
Build-Operate-Transfer
Custom

We staff and run a full team (3-8 engineers). After 18-24 months you optionally absorb them onto your books.

  • Hand-picked team of 3-8
  • Embedded into your culture + tools
  • Quarterly knowledge transfer plan
  • Optional buy-out clause at month 18+
  • Local presence in India or Dubai
  • Pre-negotiated transfer cost
Talk about BOT
Hiring process

From call to onboarded
in 7-10 working days.

No 6-week recruiter loops. No theatrical whiteboard rounds. You meet the engineer, you decide.
1
Day 1

Share the role

30-min call: stack, scope, deadline, soft skills. We map it to bench in real time.

30 min
2
Day 2-3

Get 3 CVs

Three short-listed engineers, with portfolios, past project metrics, and Loom intros. You pick 1-2 to interview.

48 hrs
3
Day 4-7

Trial sprint

Optional 1-week paid trial. Real work on a sandboxed branch. You see code, comms, and velocity before committing.

1 week
4
Day 8-10

Embed

Slack, GitHub, Linear, your standup. NDA + DPA signed. Engineer is shipping by end of week.

2 days
Why us

What you get
that recruiters miss.

We're an engineering studio, not a body shop. Every engineer on the bench has shipped real production code on a real iTechNotion client project. They eat our own cooking.
  • Senior-only roster.5+ yrs minimum. No bait-and-switch with juniors mid-project.
  • AI-fluent by default.Cursor, Copilot, Claude Code daily. They ship faster + cleaner.
  • Embedded into your team.Slack, Linear, your repos, your standup. FTE-grade integration.
  • 8-hour US/UK overlap.Real-time pairing, code review, decisions in the same window.
  • Free 2-week replacement.Wrong fit? We swap. No friction. No charge.
  • No agency markup.Direct rates. You pay for the engineer, not the layer above.
  • Background-checked.NDA, IP assignment, GDPR DPA, SOC 2 (in progress) signed before kickoff.
  • Quarterly delivery review.We grade ourselves. You get the report. Anything red, we fix.
From a customer who hired through iTechNotion
★★★★★
“Our AWS bill was $42K a month and climbing. iTechNotion's SRE found three hot paths burning money — right-sized instances, moved batch jobs to spot, and tuned RDS. Cut us to $28K a month, same traffic. His salary paid back in three weeks.
ML
Marcus Lin
Head of Platform · Helio SaaS · Singapore
33%
AWS bill reduction
$14K
Monthly savings, recurring
3wk
ROI on engineer cost
0
Reliability regressions
Common questions

Hiring a DevOps & SRE
engineer, real questions.

Most-asked questions from founders, CTOs and engineering managers. If yours isn't here, ask [email protected] — we reply within one business day.
Can you run our on-call rotation?+

Yes. Bench engineers can take a slice of your on-call (Asia + EU coverage commonly). We rotate so no one engineer burns out. PagerDuty / Opsgenie integration on day one. Hand-off ritual + runbooks documented.

Do you do FinOps audits as a one-off?+

Yes — a 2-week FinOps audit is one of our most popular hourly engagements. Output: a prioritised list of cuts (typically 20-40% of bill), terraform diffs ready to apply, and a forecast model. $4-6K depending on cloud spend.

Can your engineers work in my time zone?+

Yes. All bench engineers commit to at least 4 hours overlap with your team. Most pick US East / UK / EU schedules. For West Coast US, we have engineers on a late shift earning a 15% overlap bonus. Dubai-based engineers cover Europe + EMEA naturally.

What if the engineer is not a fit?+

Free replacement inside the first 2 weeks. No reason needed. We re-shortlist from the bench within 48 hours and start the next engineer within a week. We track fit-failure rate publicly — it's 6% over the last 4 quarters.

Will the engineer own my code?+

No. We sign IP assignment before any code is written. You own every line. Engineers carry skills and learnings forward, not your code or your designs. Standard MSA + DPA available on request.

Can I hire the engineer directly after a few months?+

Yes — that's our Build-Operate-Transfer model. Pre-negotiated transfer fee, paid once after 18+ months. No surprise ‘you stole our person’ lawyer letters.

What if my project needs more than one engineer?+

We routinely staff teams of 3-8 engineers + lead + QA. Same hiring process, three CVs per role. Average time to fully-staffed team: 3 weeks.

Available · This quarter · 11 DevOps & SRE engineers open

Hire a senior
DevOps & SRE engineer
in 2 weeks.

30-min call. Tell us the role and stack. We'll send 3 short-listed CVs within 48 hours. You interview, we close. First engineer onboarded inside 10 working days.

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