Hire DevOps Engineer · London
Hire a DevOps Engineer
in London
CI/CD, observability, and on-call that doesn't page you at 2am.
Hiring a DevOps or platform engineer in London? Senior platform engineers command $260K+ base and most early-stage teams don't have enough infra surface area yet to justify a full-time hire. We build the foundation instead — CI/CD, observability, secrets management, on-call — on a flat-price engagement, then hand you a runbook.
London · DevOps Engineer
Hire local, year 1
~$291K
Base + benefits + payroll tax. 60–90 day search.
Engage us
$2,000+
7–10 days to first deploy.
7d
Start vs 60d hire
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Equity, signing, severance risk
The local read
Why hiring a DevOps Engineer in London is hard
London founders have access to deep fintech and gov-tech talent but the hiring cycle is brutal. Senior offers in the City clear £100K base plus equity that competes with Revolut and Wise. Local dev shops mostly serve enterprise — slow procurement, multi-quarter contracts, agency-of-record billing.
Different model: one senior engineer ships your build in two weeks, four-to-five-hour overlap with our working hours, billed in USD. Open Banking via TrueLayer or GoCardless for fintech. Next.js + NestJS + Postgres for SaaS. Flat-price quote in 24 hours. Code in your GitHub from commit one.
A senior devops engineer here is a ~$291K year-one outlay after benefits, payroll tax, and the 60–90 day search. We're a $2,000+ flat engagement that starts inside seven days.
Did you know · London
London is the third-largest tech hub on earth — after the Bay Area and Beijing.
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GMT/BST. We overlap with your morning, you ship by your evening. Async workflow built for the gap.
Sectors in London
Why this beats a hire
One AI-native engineer.
The output of a team.
One senior devops engineer plus AI agents now ships what four engineers used to. Same code quality, half the cost, three-week timelines instead of three months. Built for pre-seed to Series A founders in London who need to ship before the next round closes.
Two paths in London
Hire a devops engineer,
or engage us
Same outcome, different routes. The local hire path takes 60–90 days and locks $250K+ for year one. We're a flat-price engagement that starts inside seven days.
Path A · Hire local
~$291Kyear one
One senior devops engineer in London, fully loaded
- ·60–90 day search through recruiters and inbound
- ·Equity, signing bonus, potential relocation
- ·Full-time only — no flexibility on capacity
- ·90-day probation of unknown output
- ·Bad fit means severance and a fresh recruiting cycle
Path B · Engage Start Matter
$2,000+flat
Quoted after a 30-minute call · 7–10 days
- Senior engineer starts inside seven days
- No equity, no signing bonus, no recruiting fee
- Flexible capacity — scope up or down between phases
- First deploy in two weeks — shippable output, not a slide deck
- Hand off cleanly when you hire your team — your code, your repo
The work, concretely
What we'd own day to day
The same scope you'd hand to a salaried devops engineer, owned end to end on a flat-price engagement. No coordination overhead, no junior-on-the-bench, no estimation theatre.
- CI/CD pipelines that catch regressions before they ship, not after
- Observability — structured logging, tracing, alerting tuned to actually page a human when it matters
- Secrets management and access control that doesn't rely on a shared .env file
- Infrastructure as code — Terraform or equivalent, so 'how is prod configured' has one answer
- On-call runbook your engineers can follow without you in the room
Stack we use
Defaults — we deviate when the project demands it, not because something is fashionable.
DevOps Engineer work we've shipped
Real founders, real shipped product
Instead of hiring one devops engineer who needs to ramp, you get senior work like this — from founders in London we've actually shipped with.
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