Hire a DevOps Engineer in the USA
AX3 direct-hires DevOps, platform and site reliability engineers into permanent US roles — the people who own CI/CD, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes and the on-call reality behind it. Candidates are screened by the AX3 platform engineering practice on production judgement rather than tool familiarity, and a calibrated shortlist typically arrives within about 21 days. Every placement carries AX3's 90-day replacement guarantee: it covers voluntary resignation and termination for cause within 90 days of start date, and AX3 provides a replacement search at no additional placement fee — not a refund.
Talk to AX3 about a direct hireWhat a DevOps engineer owns
A DevOps engineer owns the path from commit to production: pipelines, environments, infrastructure as code, observability and the incident process. In mature organisations the role shades into platform engineering — building the internal platform other teams self-serve from — and into SRE, where error budgets and reliability targets drive the work.
This is a role enterprises consistently regret contracting out. The knowledge of why a cluster is configured the way it is lives in the person, and permanent ownership is what keeps deployment frequency and mean time to recovery moving in the right direction.
90-day replacement guarantee: Covers voluntary resignation and termination for cause within 90 days of start date. AX3 provides a replacement search at no additional placement fee — not a refund.
CI/CD and release
Pipelines, environment promotion, artifact management and safe rollback across teams.
Infrastructure as code
Terraform, modules and policy so environments are reproducible instead of hand-built.
Kubernetes and platform
Cluster operations, GitOps delivery and internal developer platform capability.
Reliability and observability
SLOs, alerting that means something, incident response and postmortem discipline.
Onshore coverage, coast to coast.
- California — Bay Area, San Jose, Santa Clara
- Texas — Austin, Dallas, Houston
- New York — New York City and Tri-State
- Illinois — Chicago and the Midwest
- Michigan — Detroit and the automotive corridor
- Massachusetts — Boston and Route 128
- Nationwide / US-remote
Onshore permanent, or offshore contract?
Looking for contract or offshore delivery instead? The India page covers contract, contract-to-hire and follow-the-sun remote platform pods on AX3's payroll.
Hire a DevOps Engineer — IndiaWhere this hire fits at AX3.
Hire a DevOps Engineer in the USA — frequently asked questions
Does AX3 place DevOps, platform and SRE roles separately?
Yes. They overlap but they are not the same hire: DevOps focuses on delivery pipelines, platform engineering on the internal platform other teams consume, and SRE on reliability targets and on-call. AX3 calibrates which one you need during the brief.
Can AX3 hire for US-remote DevOps roles?
Yes. Direct Hire USA covers onsite, hybrid and nationwide US-remote permanent roles, all with US-based, work-authorized candidates.
How fast is a DevOps engineer search?
About 21 days from brief to a calibrated shortlist or offer. Typical timeline; actual search length varies by role complexity and market — senior SRE and platform-lead searches in competitive metros run longer.
What does the 90-day replacement guarantee cover?
Covers voluntary resignation and termination for cause within 90 days of start date. AX3 provides a replacement search at no additional placement fee — not a refund.
Talk to AX3 about a DevOps engineer hire
Tell us the stack, the on-call model and the team you are building around. Shortlists are screened on production judgement.