DevOps Engineer
Full-time DevOps engineers from India and the Philippines who give you 100% overlap with your US workday, from $3,000/mo all-in.
Exordiom places full-time DevOps engineers from India and the Philippines who keep your cloud, CI/CD pipelines and releases fast and reliable. They write Terraform, run Kubernetes, tune alerts and automate deploys, and work your full US workday. Pricing starts at $3,000 per month, and you see vetted profiles within 48 hours.
Get DevOps engineer profilesQuick facts
| Role | DevOps engineer (cloud infrastructure, CI/CD and reliability) |
|---|---|
| SOC code | 15-1244 Network and Computer Systems Administrators (closest BLS category) |
| US median pay | $99,130 a year (BLS OEWS, May 2025) |
| Exordiom starting price | From $3,000 a month for one full-time seat |
| Time to profiles | 48 hours |
| Time to first hire | As little as 10 days (full team in 2 to 3 weeks) |
| Talent markets | India and the Philippines |
| Working hours | Your full US workday, US hours only |
Role highlights
What does a DevOps engineer own day to day?
Cloud accounts, pipelines, clusters, alerts and releases.
Which tools should a DevOps engineer know?
Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub Actions or GitLab CI, and AWS, GCP or Azure.
What seniority should I hire?
Look for 4 to 6 years, including production on-call and at least one migration they led.
Who else hires DevOps engineers in India and the Philippines?
On Oct 31, 2026, MongoDB, Okta and Pure Storage are hiring in India, with Netskope and Manulife hiring in the Philippines.
Will my DevOps engineer work my full US workday?
Yes. US hours only, a full workday on your US schedule, in your Slack and standups.
How much does it cost to hire a DevOps engineer offshore?
BLS has no DevOps category, so our closest benchmark is SOC 15-1244, Network and Computer Systems Administrators.
| Option | Cost |
|---|---|
| US median wage, BLS OEWS SOC 15-1244 (May 2025) | $99,130 a year, about $8,261 a month before benefits |
| US DevOps engineer, average base salary (Built In, Oct 2026) | $133,817 a year, $150,355 with additional cash pay |
| Exordiom DevOps engineer | From $3,000 a month, about $18.75 an hour across 160 hours |
The monthly fee is all-in: salary, benefits, payroll and compliance, starting on day one. A 10-day no-cost replacement covers each seat.
Who is hiring DevOps engineers in India and the Philippines?
Companies with open DevOps and SRE roles in India and the Philippines, October 2026:
Teams like Netlify and Snyk hire infrastructure, security and IT systems engineers through Exordiom.
How does hiring a DevOps engineer with Exordiom work?
- 1
Map your stack and the pain.
Tell us your cloud and what breaks most.
- 2
Review DevOps profiles in 48 hours.
Each cleared an AI infrastructure interview and live incident rounds.
- 3
Pick after a hands-on exercise.
Check a small Terraform or pipeline task, then run one last interview.
- 4
Start on your full US workday.
We handle the offer letter, payroll, compliance and laptop.
DevOps engineer guide: what they run, infrastructure skills to test, interview questions and India vs Philippines
What a DevOps engineer works on
- Define cloud infrastructure as code in Terraform or Pulumi, with reviewed plans and remote state
- Build and speed up CI/CD pipelines so every merge is tested, scanned and deployable
- Run Kubernetes clusters: upgrades, autoscaling, Helm charts and resource limits
- Set up monitoring, logging and alerting in tools like Datadog, Prometheus or Grafana, and cut noisy pages
- Join the on-call rotation, lead incident response and write the postmortem
- Manage secrets, IAM roles and network rules with security engineers
- Track cloud spend and right-size instances, storage and data transfer
Infrastructure skills to test
| Skill | What good looks like |
|---|---|
| Infrastructure as code | Writes reusable Terraform modules, reads a plan line by line and never edits production by hand |
| Containers and Kubernetes | Debugs a crash-looping pod from events and logs, and sets sane requests and limits |
| CI/CD design | Builds pipelines that cache well, fail fast and support canary or blue-green releases |
| Observability | Alerts on user-facing symptoms with clear runbooks and keeps CPU spikes off the pager |
| Cloud security basics | Grants least-privilege IAM, rotates secrets and keeps storage buckets private by default |
| Cost awareness | Reads the cloud bill, tags resources and explains which change saved money |
Interview questions and how Exordiom vets
- A deploy doubled error rates. Walk us through the first ten minutes.
- How do you structure Terraform state for several environments and teams?
- Our pipeline takes 40 minutes. Where do you look first?
- How would you roll out a risky database change with no downtime?
- Describe an alert you deleted and why the team was better for it.
- When would you not choose Kubernetes for a new service?
Red flags: manual console changes, no postmortem habit, alert fatigue treated as normal, secrets in repos, and blaming developers for every outage.
We hire infrastructure engineers away from good jobs they hold today, so nobody comes off an idle bench. An AI interview built around your cloud and tooling comes first, then human rounds assess character, acumen, grit and experience. After day one, Hypercare check-ins happen in weeks 1 and 2, then every four weeks starting in week 6.
India vs Philippines for DevOps engineers
As of Oct 31, 2026, India has the deeper DevOps and SRE pool: MongoDB is hiring in Gurugram, GitLab, Okta, Pure Storage and HackerRank in Bengaluru, and HighRadius in Hyderabad. In the Philippines, the pool is smaller but has strong AWS and Azure experience: Netskope is hiring platform engineers in Taguig and Manulife a senior DevOps engineer in Quezon City. In both markets your DevOps engineer works your full US workday.
FAQ
What does a DevOps engineer do?
A DevOps engineer builds and runs the systems that ship and host your software: cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, containers, monitoring and incident response.
How much does it cost to hire a DevOps engineer through Exordiom?
Pricing for a full-time DevOps engineer starts at $3,000 a month, near $18.75 an hour, invoiced monthly from the first working day.
How quickly can Exordiom place a DevOps engineer?
You get screened DevOps profiles in 48 hours, and a first hire can begin in as little as 10 days.
Will my DevOps engineer work my hours?
Yes. Exordiom gives you 100% overlap with your US workday: your DevOps engineer works US hours only, not the 3 to 5 hours of overlap typical offshore teams share (Full Scale, Trango Tech, checked Oct 31, 2026).
Should I hire a DevOps engineer or a software developer?
Hire a DevOps engineer when releases, cloud cost or uptime are the bottleneck. If the gap is product features and APIs, a software developer fits better.
Hire a DevOps engineer who works your full US workday
Share your stack and see DevOps engineer profiles in 48 hours.
Talk to an Exordiom expertSources: BLS OEWS via the Occupational Outlook Handbook, Network and Computer Systems Administrators (SOC 15-1244), May 2025 median wage, checked Oct 31, 2026 · Built In, DevOps engineer salary in the US, checked Oct 31, 2026 · Full Scale, offshore time zone overlap, checked Oct 31, 2026 · Trango Tech, offshore overlap hours, checked Oct 31, 2026 · Per-month BLS number = annual median / 12. Exordiom price and timing: exordiom.com, October 2026.
