Staff augmentation
Senior engineers who join your stand-ups and work in your tools.
Best when
You have a roadmap and need more capacity or a specific skill.
Hire senior DevOps engineers
Engineers who turn hand-built cloud setups into code, make deployments boring, cut the bill, and make sure the backups actually restore.
Short answer
elitics provides senior DevOps engineers from Prishtina who work on AWS, Google Cloud and Cloudflare with Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes: infrastructure as code, CI/CD with short-lived credentials, monitoring, cost reduction and tested recovery. You interview the engineers, they start about 48 hours after you approve their profiles, and team extension costs €45–65 an hour.
- per engineer-hour, scale up or down monthly
- €45–65
- to start once profiles are approved
- ~48 h
- every environment reproducible from code
- Terraform
- Kubernetes set up, hardened and right-sized
- K8s
What our DevOps engineers build
- Infrastructure as code
- Existing cloud resources imported into Terraform, split into modules, with plans reviewed in pull requests before anything changes.
- CI/CD pipelines
- Build, test and deploy pipelines with preview environments, automatic rollbacks and no long-lived cloud keys in the CI system.
- Kubernetes platforms
- Clusters set up or taken over, with resource limits, autoscaling, network policies and a simple path for developers to deploy.
- Cost reduction
- Right-sized instances and databases, storage lifecycle rules, commitments where usage is stable, and idle environments switched off.
What a senior DevOps engineer should own
Tools change. These responsibilities do not.
- Safe changes
- Every infrastructure change is code, reviewed, planned and applied through a pipeline, never by hand in the console.
- Credentials
- Short-lived credentials through OIDC for CI, secrets in a manager rather than in variables, and least-privilege roles.
- Observability and on-call
- Service level objectives, alerts that point to a runbook, and dashboards that answer “is it us or the provider?”.
- Recovery
- Backups with restore tests on a schedule, documented recovery steps, and known recovery times for each system.
Questions to ask a DevOps engineer
Production experience shows in how candidates talk about failure.
- 01
How would you bring our hand-built AWS account under Terraform?
Inventory first, then import resources module by module until a plan shows no changes, before any refactoring.
- 02
Where do our CI pipelines get cloud credentials?
From short-lived tokens through OIDC federation, scoped to one role per pipeline. Static access keys in CI settings are a red flag.
- 03
A pod keeps restarting with OOMKilled. What do you check?
Memory limits against real usage, memory leaks in the application, and whether requests and limits match the workload.
- 04
Our cloud bill went up 30% last quarter. Where do you start?
Cost by service and tag, then the biggest items: oversized compute, unused volumes and snapshots, data transfer, and idle non-production environments.
- 05
When did you last test a restore?
A strong candidate can name the date, the system, how long it took and what they fixed afterwards.
How hiring an engineer works
- 01
Tell us the role
Stack, seniority, start date and the hours you need to share. A call with our engineering lead takes 30 minutes.
- 02
Review profiles
You receive engineer profiles matched to your stack and interview the ones you choose.
- 03
Start in about 48 hours
NDA and IP assignment are signed, and the engineers are set up in your repositories and tools.
- 04
Two-week trial
If you are not satisfied, you do not pay for those two weeks. An engineer who is not the right fit is replaced at no extra cost.
Typical set-ups
- One DevOps engineer
- Joins your team to own infrastructure and pipelines, often where developers have done it part-time so far.
- Platform project
- A scoped project to move to Terraform and CI/CD or to Kubernetes, with handover documentation.
- Cloud cost review
- A short engagement to find and implement the largest savings in your cloud bill.
Ways to work with us
Dedicated squad
A cross-functional team (product, engineering, QA, DevOps) that owns a product or feature.
Best when
You want a product built or rebuilt without growing headcount.
Build-Operate-Transfer
Your own development center in Kosovo, set up and run by us.
Best when
You plan a long-term engineering presence in Europe.
Prefer a delivered project? DevOps & Cloud Engineering
Common questions
Which clouds and tools do your DevOps engineers use?
AWS, Google Cloud, Vercel and Cloudflare, with Docker, Kubernetes and Terraform to keep environments reproducible.
Can they provide on-call cover?
Cover during our working day, which overlaps all of the European day and the North American morning, is part of normal team extension. Agree any out-of-hours cover in the proposal.
Do they work in our cloud accounts?
Yes. They work in your accounts under your access policies, with roles you control and can revoke at any time.
Is there a trial period?
Yes. New engagements start with a two-week trial: if you are not satisfied, you do not pay for those two weeks.
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Let’s build what comes next.
Tell us what you need to build or scale. You will get a proposal and estimate within 24 hours.