Dedicated DevOps engineer for a US-based SaaS
A US SaaS company on AWS had no dedicated DevOps engineer and was bleeding feature time. We placed a senior DevOps engineer who took over CI/CD, observability and cost — AWS bill optimised 22% in the first quarter.
Outcome
AWS bill optimised 22% in first quarter without losing capacity
Context
The client is a US-based B2B SaaS company running on AWS. They had no dedicated DevOps engineer — infrastructure work was being absorbed by their lead engineers in rotation. Two things were getting worse at the same time: the lead engineers were losing feature time to infra firefighting, and the AWS bill was creeping past forecast with nobody owning the cost line.
Challenge
The economics did not justify a US DevOps hire at the local market rate, and the ad-hoc contractors they had tried were leaving before they had built enough context to be effective. They needed someone who would actually stay.
Approach
We placed a senior DevOps engineer with prior SaaS experience — sourced from our vetted pool and matched specifically to the client's AWS-on-Kubernetes stack.
The engineer embedded into the client's sprint cadence from week one and took over:
- CI/CD — GitHub Actions pipeline rationalisation and reliability
- Infrastructure as code — Terraform refactor of accumulated click-ops state
- Observability — Datadog dashboards and alerting tied to actual SLO definitions, not noise
- Cost reviews — monthly walk through the AWS bill with the engineering lead, with specific actions logged
Outcome
The engineer has been with the client since January 2025. The AWS bill was optimised by 22% in the first quarter without losing capacity — the savings came from right-sizing, reserved capacity, and a handful of unloved-but-running test environments.
The lead engineers got their feature time back. Infrastructure stopped being the thing that the next person on rotation had to firefight.
Every candidate is background-checked before they reach you
Vetting is a standard part of every staff-augmentation placement — not an add-on. The same five checks run on every candidate before the client sees their profile.
- 01
Reference checks
Direct conversations with at least two prior managers or team leads at the candidate's most recent employers — covering scope of work, performance and reason for departure.
- 02
Employment history verification
Dates of employment, role and reporting line cross-checked with each prior employer named on the resume. Gaps reconciled with the candidate.
- 03
Identity & right-to-work verification
Government-issued photo identity and right-to-work documentation reviewed and recorded before any client-facing interview.
- 04
Background check
National criminal record check (Indian police verification or jurisdictional equivalent) plus public-record review for adverse findings.
- 05
Education & credential verification
Degrees and any cited professional certifications verified directly with the issuing institutions or certification authorities.
Topics covered
- hire offshore DevOps engineer
- AWS DevOps engineer staff augmentation
- dedicated DevOps engineer India for SaaS
- AWS cost optimisation engineer offshore
- Terraform GitHub Actions DevOps engineer India
- embedded DevOps engineer for US SaaS
- Kubernetes DevOps offshore engineer
- Datadog observability engineer offshore
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