DevOps and cloud specialists who build platforms, not just pipelines.
DevOps and cloud engineers are among the hardest roles to hire for — the field is broad, certifications say little about practical ability, and the cost of getting it wrong is high. We place senior DevOps engineers, cloud architects, and platform engineers who have built and operated production systems at scale — not just configured tools from a tutorial.
What's included
- Senior DevOps engineers placed within 2–3 weeks
- Cloud architects for AWS, GCP, and Azure
- Platform engineers for Kubernetes, Terraform, and internal developer platforms
- Site reliability engineers (SRE) for observability and incident management
- CI/CD pipeline design and implementation specialists
- Security engineering and DevSecOps specialists
- FinOps specialists for cloud cost optimisation
- Short-term specialists for migrations and infrastructure buildouts
How we deliver
- 1Role brief and seniority calibration session
- 2Technical screening including live infrastructure scenario review
- 3Shortlist with infrastructure philosophy and approach summary
- 4Onboarding plan aligned to your current stack and practices
- 530-60-90 day milestone plan for the placed engineer
- 6Ongoing check-ins during first 90 days
Technologies we use
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Helm
- Docker
- CI/CD
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- ArgoCD
- Pulumi
Why Origin for DevOps & Cloud Engineering Staffing
Production experience, not certification experience
We screen for engineers who have operated systems at scale under real load — not just passed AWS exams. We ask about their on-call experiences, the incidents they've handled, and the infrastructure decisions they'd make differently.
Security is part of the brief, not an afterthought
Every DevOps placement brief includes security posture as a core requirement. We place engineers who think about IAM, secrets management, and network security as fundamental responsibilities — not bolt-on concerns.
Platform thinking, not just tool configuration
The best DevOps engineers make other engineers faster — not just through pipelines, but through internal platforms, developer experience improvements, and infrastructure abstractions. We look for that mindset in everyone we place.
Industries we serve
“We'd been trying to hire a senior platform engineer for six months. In week one, Origin told us our job description was scaring off the right candidates and helped us rewrite it. By week three we had three strong candidates. Hired one in week five. Completely changed our approach to technical hiring.”
Frequently asked questions
- How do you screen DevOps candidates technically?
- We do a 90-minute technical conversation covering: their infrastructure philosophy (not 'what tools do you know' but 'how do you think about systems'), a specific incident they've handled and what they did, a live scenario where we give them an architecture problem, and a review of infrastructure code they've written.
- We need someone for a specific migration (e.g., on-prem to AWS). Is that a good fit?
- Yes — time-boxed infrastructure work is one of the most common briefs we take. We can place a specialist for the duration of the migration (typically 2–6 months) who knows that specific problem area deeply, rather than a generalist who'll be learning alongside you.
- What's the difference between a DevOps engineer, a platform engineer, and an SRE?
- DevOps engineer: primarily focused on CI/CD, automation, and deployment infrastructure. Platform engineer: builds internal developer platforms and tooling that make other engineers faster. SRE: focuses on service reliability, observability, incident response, and error budgets. There's overlap, but the emphasis is different. We'll help you figure out which you actually need.