You need someone who can walk into your AWS or Azure account, read the Terraform, and fix the pipeline without a two-week ramp. Kiyansh places vetted contract, contract-to-hire, and direct DevOps and cloud engineers — senior, US-based, no offshore hand-off. Every candidate is screened by an engineer before you ever see the resume.
Tell us what you need →Kiyansh places DevOps, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and CI/CD professionals as contract, contract-to-hire, or direct engineers. These are senior people who own infrastructure end to end — not junior operators who file tickets. They work in your time zone, on your standups, with no handoff to an offshore team you never talk to.
We also place through prime vendors and MSPs as a sub-vendor when the engagement calls for it, including on government and private-sector programs. That means we can fit whatever contract structure you already have in place rather than forcing you into ours.
One honest data point on demand: Kiyansh tracks live US contract IT openings, and across 559 open roles at 420 companies right now, DevOps and cloud skills show up in 96 of them — among the most requested categories we see. That is not a pitch; it is why good candidates in this space get multiple offers and move fast. If you find someone, you close them quickly or you lose them.
Resume spam is the default in this industry, and it wastes your time. We do the opposite. Before a candidate reaches you, a senior engineer runs a technical screen tied to the actual work: what a real pipeline failure looked like, how they debugged it, and what they changed so it did not recur. We ask people to reason out loud about IAM, networking, and state, because that is where weak candidates fall apart.
We check the hands-on specifics. Can they read and refactor Terraform or CloudFormation? Have they run production Kubernetes — not just a bootcamp cluster — including rollouts, resource limits, and debugging a CrashLoopBackOff at 2 a.m.? Can they explain a blue/green or canary deploy they personally shipped? We verify claimed cloud certifications and, more importantly, whether the person can back them up in conversation.
You get a short list of people who genuinely fit, with notes on where each is strong and where they are lighter. If someone is a stretch on one requirement, we tell you. You should never be the one to discover a gap in the first week on the job.
For cloud, the baseline is deep hands-on AWS or Azure — VPC and networking, IAM, compute and container services (ECS, EKS, or AKS), and the managed data and messaging services your stack uses. AWS Solutions Architect or SysOps and Azure Administrator (AZ-104) certs are useful signals, but we treat them as a starting point, not proof.
For orchestration and delivery, we look for real Kubernetes operations (Helm, ingress, autoscaling, RBAC — CKA is a strong signal), infrastructure as code with Terraform or Pulumi, and CI/CD built in GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or Argo CD. Observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or the cloud-native equivalents is table stakes for anyone owning production.
Scripting and glue matter too — solid Python or Go, comfort in Bash, and Git fluency beyond the basics. We match the specific tool chain to your environment. A candidate strong in GitLab CI and GCP is not automatically the right fit for a shop running Azure DevOps and AKS, and we do not pretend otherwise.
Contract is for defined scopes — a migration, a pipeline rebuild, or bridging a gap while you hire full-time. Contract-to-hire lets you and the engineer confirm the fit under real conditions before a permanent commitment. Direct placement is for permanent roles where you want the search handled and the technical vetting done for you.
On timing, we are straight with you: for a well-defined DevOps or cloud role, expect a first slate of qualified candidates within about a week to ten business days, often sooner when the requirements are clear and the rate is realistic for senior US-based talent. Vague requirements or below-market rates slow everything down, and we will tell you that up front rather than sit on a role that will not fill.
We would rather send you three people who fit than fifteen who do not. That keeps your interview loop short and gets the right engineer into your environment faster.
US-based, working in your time zone, with no offshore hand-off. The person we place is the person who does the work — you are on the same calls and in the same standups. Where it fits the role, that includes H-1B contractors already in the US.
A senior engineer runs a hands-on technical screen tied to the actual work — Terraform, production Kubernetes, IAM and networking, and real CI/CD pipelines they have shipped. We verify certifications and confirm the person can back them up in conversation. You get a short, honest slate with each candidate's strengths and gaps noted.
For a clearly defined role at a realistic senior rate, expect a first slate of qualified candidates in roughly one to two weeks, often sooner. Demand is high — DevOps and cloud show up in 96 of the 559 open US contract roles we currently track — so strong candidates move fast, and we help you close quickly.
Tell Kiyansh Group what you're building and the environment you run — we'll come back with a short slate of vetted, senior, US-based DevOps and cloud engineers, not a stack of resumes.
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