I&#x27;m curious - do you have first hand experience with companies that does this (and does it well)? I might want to work (at first part time, remote) for such an outfit, if I they provide a good service (and good&#x2F;skilful colleagues).<p>I&#x27;ve seen a lot of people that hire devops in-house (technically, it&#x27;s a little hard to see how &quot;devops&quot; might work with the &quot;ops&quot;-person just doing drive-by installation and maintenance once every month -- but I suppose if the &quot;dev&quot; part isn&#x27;t &quot;special&quot; (web application server + database + static resources + database) one could argue there&#x27;s not much need for &quot;devops&quot;, just &quot;ops&quot;?).<p>Although 30k for full-time ops works sounds <i>really</i> low, anywhere? (As a customer, I&#x27;d probably prefer one tenth of a 100k&#x2F;year engineer than one tenth of a 30k&#x2F;year engineer... even if the price might be 3-4 times as high).