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Hiring on your own
Monthsuntil day one
- Sourcing candidates
- Screens & interviews
- Offer & negotiation
- Notice period
The seat stays empty the whole time.
Senior DevOps you can relax around.
Meet the senior DevOps engineer who will work in your Slack, backed by a lead architect and specialists. Choose the hours you need and keep the work visible from first decision to handover.
No obligation. You meet your engineer before anything begins.
- 4.9/5 on Clutch · across 13 verified reviews
- Named engineer, introduced before starting
- Architect-backed delivery
Trusted by startups that ship to production every day.
The hard part
Hiring a great DevOps engineer takes months. Production won't wait.
Posting the role is easy. Filling it with someone genuinely senior is not, and production does not pause while you search.
With MeteorOps
Daysuntil day one
- Intro call this week
- Meet your named engineer
- Senior work, shipping
The same stretch of time, spent shipping.
How MeteorOps works
One senior engineer, on your team, billed by the hour
No agency layers, no fixed retainer. A vetted, senior DevOps engineer joins your team and does the real work, from a one-off fix to a full platform build. You choose how you engage them, and pay only for the hours they put in.
- A named senior engineer, not an agency queue
- Working in your Slack, tools, and delivery rhythm
- A detailed hours log at the end of every month
- No retainer, no lock-in, and you meet them before anything starts
Three ways to work with us
Pick the shape that fits the moment. What never changes: you are billed only for the hours actually worked, with no retainer and no lock-in.
Every model is hourly.You meet the engineer who would join before anything begins, and a detailed log at month's end shows exactly where each hour went.
- Hourly
Hours Bank
Senior DevOps help on tap, for teams who want expertise without a hire.
- Start from 40 hours, top up whenever you like
- The right expert for the task, from one network
- A detailed hours log at the end of every month
- Hourly
Project
A defined outcome, planned and delivered: a migration, a platform build.
- Free deep-dive and written work plan before any work starts
- We plan and implement the whole outcome end to end
- No obligation: meet your engineer, then decide
- Hourly
Staff Augmentation
Steady embedded capacity, part-time or full-time, like a team member.
- Free deep-dive and written work plan before any work starts
- Part-time or full-time, embedded with your team
- Kickoff, weekly syncs, and a shared Slack channel
Talk to an engineer
No obligation. We will help you find the right shape on the call.
How it goes
From first call to steady delivery
Three light steps to meet your engineer, all free. Then the work settles into rhythm.
Book a call
A conversation about where your team is and what's slowing it down. No commitment, nothing to prepare.
With you from start to finish: a lead architect on the hard calls, a detailed monthly hours log, and an account manager who resizes the engagement as needs shift.
Talk to an engineer
A conversation first. You decide whether to go further.
The top 0.7%
We vet a thousand to trust you with seven.
The hard part of DevOps is not the work, it is finding someone genuinely great. Every engineer who reaches your team has cleared the same gauntlet: they reason well, communicate clearly, and initiate.
Roughly seven of every thousand we assess are good enough to join. That is the bar your engineer already cleared.
0.7%accepted
A tighter gate than the most selective universities. We carry the cost of saying no so you never inherit a hire who cannot.
More than one engineer
You are never relying on one person
One engineer lives in your day-to-day. Behind them stands a quiet support structure, so a hard call, a stuck migration, or a runaway bill is never one person's problem alone.
group lead
A senior mind on every decision
A senior DevOps engineer leading behind the scenes, a second brain on architecture for your engineer, and a check on progress and quality for you.
- Architecturea second brain on the hard design calls
- Progressa steady check on pace and quality, for you
- Always onpresent across the whole engagement, behind the scenes
On some engagements
Someone steering toward your goals
On larger engagements, a dedicated manager runs regular checkups and adapts the work as your needs shift, so momentum always points at success.
expert network
A specialist for every wall you hit
Kubernetes, networking, security, a runaway AWS bill, tap our whole bench of experts. Connecting with the right one is as quick as sending a message.
Reaching the right one is as quick as sending a message.
Billed by the hour
You see exactly what you pay for.
Every model is billed by the hour, so you are charged for the hours actually worked, not a retainer and not a flat fee against vague output. At the end of every month a detailed log lands in your inbox: each task, the day it happened, and the hours it took.
- A line for every task, with the hours beside it
- Charged on hours actually worked, never a flat retainer
- Clear enough to hand straight to your finance team
- Infrastructure14.5h
- CI/CD4.0h
- Reliability5.5h
- Cost3.0h
- Support2.5h
Acme Robotics, Staff Augmentation
29.5hlogged
- Apr 04Hardened EKS node IAM rolesScoped instance profiles to least privilege, removed wildcard policies6.5h
- Apr 10Set up staging CI pipelineParallelized test stages, added layer caching, cut runs by 38%4.0h
- Apr 16Migrated RDS to Multi-AZZero-downtime failover test, automated nightly snapshots8.0h
- Apr 23Rolled out SLO alertingGrafana dashboards and paging tied to error-budget burn5.5h
- Apr 28Right-sized idle computeTrimmed over-provisioned node groups across two clusters3.0h
- Apr 30On-call handover and notesRunbooks updated, week's incidents reviewed in the sync2.5h
Illustrative example. Your real log details every task we touch.
In their words
The teams we work with keep us close.
Founders and engineering leaders at VC-backed startups, on what it is like to have a senior MeteorOps engineer on the team.
They've been super professional and flexible, moving fast exactly like we needed them to. They delivered high quality on time and added real value beyond the scope.
Or GorodisskyVP R&D, D-ID They made helpful suggestions from the start about the tools and mechanisms that would be most flexible and maintainable over time, and they delivered on time and on budget.
Paul MattalCTO, Jaide Health We've gone from zero to 20 engineers who can self-serve on AWS, and MeteorOps stays very flexible to our changing needs.
David ShawSenior Software Engineer, LeanData We were impressed with their commitment to the project.
Nir RonenProject Manager, Surpass The knowledge and work ethics of the individuals engaged with the team was the most impressive aspect.
Department DirectorSmart Home Ventures
We now run 10 to 20 infrastructure changes a week through CI/CD with minimal to no errors. We're impressed with their extensive experience in Kubernetes and AWS.
Mike OssarehVP of Software, Erisyon I was impressed at how quickly they were able to handle new tasks at a high quality and value. All three people I worked with were very intelligent and experienced.
Joseph ChenCPO, FairwayHealth We've experienced a very low error and incident rate in our cloud services, with high availability and on-time deliveries. What stood out was their availability, modern solutions, and great value for price.
Ari ZellnerVP, Embie They kept proper transparency on progress and delivered on time.
CTOSoftware company They were very client-centric.
Chief ArchitectAgriculture company
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Where does your team land?
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- Repeatable
- Defined
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Scored across six dimensions
- CI/CD
- Infrastructure
- Observability
- Reliability
- Security
- Culture & DevEx
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