DevOps · SRE · Platform engineering
Site reliability engineers, platform engineers, and DevOps practitioners screened on the specific cloud, IaC, orchestration, and observability stacks your team operates — not generic "DevOps" résumé claims.
Why ApTask for devops engineers
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Every DevOps candidate clears a hands-on screen with a recruiter who has shipped IaC, written a runbook, and rolled back a bad deploy. We catch the difference between "I’ve used Kubernetes" and "I’ve owned a 300-node cluster through a major version upgrade."
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AWS, GCP, Azure. EKS, GKE, AKS, vanilla Kubernetes. Terraform, Pulumi, OpenTofu. ArgoCD, Flux, Spinnaker. Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic. Each engineer in our bench is tagged against the specific tools they have shipped against — not the ones they have read about.
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Senior DevOps and SRE placements include a reference triangulation specifically on on-call ownership: incident commander experience, post-mortem authorship, error-budget governance. We screen for engineers who carry the pager, not just architect from the side.
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For organisations moving from DevOps-as-a-team to platform-engineering-as-a-product, we source for the specific competencies that bridge the two: internal developer platform design, Backstage implementation, service-catalog ownership, and the soft skills to evangelise internal tooling.
What we screen for
Our DevOps recruiters hold operations, infrastructure engineering, or SRE backgrounds themselves. Screening closes before submission and includes the following — calibrated per role:
Engagement-model fit
Most DevOps and SRE placements engage through Strategic Workforce Staffing — direct hire, contract, or contract-to-hire under one MSA. For platform-engineering build-outs with a defined deliverable (an internal developer platform, a cloud migration, a Kubernetes consolidation), Managed Solutions (SOW) is the right model — fixed scope, milestone-based acceptance.
Read about Strategic Workforce StaffingQuantified outcomes
IDP go-live · Fortune 500 financial services
Six-engineer platform team designed and shipped an internal developer platform on Backstage, consolidated three CI/CD pipelines, and reduced lead-time-to-change by 67%.
Quarterly SLA on managed platform engagements
Across SOW engagements where ApTask retains operational ownership through a defined ramp-down period.
Median first-submission for DevOps roles
For most engagements we hold a calibrated bench within a single submission cycle.
Common questions
Send us the role, the timeline, and the constraint you’re most stuck on. A vertical recruiter will respond inside 24 hours with a calibration slate and a written staffing thesis.
