Why outsourcing your DevOps beats hiring in-house
Hiring a great DevOps engineer is one of the hardest, slowest, and most expensive hires a growing software company makes. By the time you've found one, onboarded them, and discovered they can't be on call 24/7 alone, you've burned a quarter and a six-figure salary line.
Here's how the numbers actually shake out - and when outsourcing wins.
The real cost of an in-house hire
A senior DevOps engineer costs $130,000+ per year once you add benefits, recruiting fees, equipment, and ramp time. That's the easy number. The hidden costs are worse:
- Time to hire. Months of sourcing and interviewing before anyone writes a line of Terraform.
- Coverage gaps. One engineer cannot cover real 24/7 on-call. You need three to do it humanely.
- Tribal knowledge. When they leave, your infrastructure knowledge walks out the door with them.
What outsourcing changes
With ReOps you get expert DevOps starting at $500/month, which is where the "save 40% or more" claim comes from. But the savings aren't only financial:
- Senior from day one - no training juniors on your production.
- You own everything - infra-as-code and runbooks live in your repos.
- Scales with you - dial coverage up before a launch, down in a quiet quarter.
We deleted three job postings the week we signed with ReOps. Our engineers actually build product now.
When hiring in-house still wins
Outsourcing isn't always the answer. If DevOps is your product - you're a platform or infra company - bring it in-house. For everyone else shipping a product on top of cloud infrastructure, a remote team is almost always faster and cheaper.
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