A dedicated DevOps team takes responsibility for the infrastructure and release processes behind a software product. Its work runs from building CI/CD pipelines to monitoring production, managing cloud resources, and preparing recovery procedures. For growing engineering teams, keeping the same specialists involved brings continuity to decisions about automation and reliability. The engagement needs clear boundaries, especially around access to production, operational ownership, and incident response.
1. Itexus
Itexus combines DevOps and cloud engineering with software development for banking, trading, payments, and other financial products. Its engineers build cloud infrastructure, automate delivery pipelines, and manage containerized applications. The work includes infrastructure audits, migration, monitoring, backup and recovery, and security reviews. AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud are among the supported platforms.
The fintech focus gives its DevOps work a clear context: transaction-heavy systems, sensitive customer data, and integrations that need dependable production support. Itexus also handles observability, rollback processes, and Kubernetes environments for financial platforms. For a business developing or modernizing a financial application, this brings application engineering and infrastructure decisions into the same delivery relationship.
Key Facts
- Best for: Financial products needing coordinated software and DevOps engineering
- Core services: Cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, containerization, monitoring, DevSecOps
- Technologies: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible
- Offices: Dover, USA; Warsaw, Poland
- Headquarters: Dover, DE, USA
- Founded: 2013
- Team size: 150+ engineers
Contact Information
- Website: itexus.com
- Email: moc.suxeti@ofni
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/itexus
- Twitter: x.com/ItexusSoft
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/itexus
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/itexus.soft
- Address: 8, The Green, STE road, Dover, DE 19901
2. Gart Solutions
Gart Solutions is a DevOps and cloud company that adds its DevOps engineers to a client's existing staff to cover skill gaps and delivery deadlines. Its work covers CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and AWS and Azure DevOps consulting, with a focus on faster releases and lower infrastructure costs.
Published case studies include an AWS-to-Hetzner migration for FluentU that cut monthly cloud spend by about 78%, a multi-region AWS disaster recovery setup for the ESG platform Datamaran, and Azure Spot VMs that reduced costs by 81% for a jewelry manufacturer in Thailand. It suits teams that want embedded DevOps engineers who also work on cloud cost.
Key Facts
- Best for: Embedded DevOps engineers focused on cloud cost
- Core services: CI/CD, AWS and Azure DevOps, cloud migration, disaster recovery
- Specialization: Team extension with DevOps and cloud infrastructure engineers
Contact Information
- Website: gartsolutions.com
- Email: moc.snoitulostrag@ofni
- Phone: +38 093 210 34 71
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/gart-solutions/
3. Romexsoft
Romexsoft is an AWS partner that offers dedicated teams, 24/7 DevOps support, and managed cloud operations. Its DevOps work starts with reviews of a client's AWS delivery setup, then covers CI/CD pipeline design, containers on Docker, Kubernetes, and Amazon ECS, observability, disaster recovery planning, and FinOps advisory, and the team implements what it recommends.
Published case studies include 24/7 DevOps support for an Israeli AdTech SaaS that reduced business-hour incidents by 40%, DevOps support for a UK EdTech SaaS, and monitoring systems for a US healthcare platform and a US e-commerce company. It suits SaaS companies on AWS that need an ongoing operations team.
Key Facts
- Best for: SaaS companies running on AWS
- Core services: 24/7 DevOps support, CI/CD, containerization, monitoring, FinOps
- Specialization: AWS DevOps and managed cloud operations
- Headquarters: Lviv, Ukraine
- Founded: 2004
Contact Information
- Website: romexsoft.com
- Phone: +1 484 445 8388
- Address: Kulparkivska St, 200a, Lviv, 79071, Ukraine
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/romexsoft/
4. Mad Devs
Mad Devs provides DevOps and cloud engineering through AWS-certified DevOps specialists who work inside a client's existing workflows. Its stack covers Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Istio, and Terraform for infrastructure, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and ArgoCD for delivery, and Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, and Sentry for monitoring, across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
The company also runs technical audits that assess resource use and technical debt before infrastructure work begins. Its team of more than 120 engineers and data scientists also covers product development, with published work for Clutch and the blockchain company Hinkal. It suits teams that want Kubernetes-centred DevOps capacity alongside development.
Key Facts
- Best for: Kubernetes and GitOps-based delivery pipelines
- Core services: CI/CD, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, monitoring, technical audits
- Specialization: Multi-cloud DevOps on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
- Founded: 2016
- Team size: 51–200 employees
Contact Information
- Website: maddevs.io
5. Innowise
Innowise offers a dedicated DevOps team alongside individual specialist hiring and outsourced DevOps delivery. Its engineers work on CI/CD automation, cloud infrastructure management, environment configuration, monitoring, and site reliability engineering. Infrastructure is managed as version-controlled code using tools such as Terraform, Bicep, Pulumi, and Ansible. The cloud practice covers AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
The dedicated model puts DevOps engineers into the client's existing development and QA workflows. Technical work includes pipeline testing, secrets management, access controls, and automated rollback strategies. Innowise also tracks operational measures such as infrastructure drift and change failure rate. That combination suits product teams that want ongoing engineering capacity for both delivery automation and production reliability.
Key Facts
- Best for: Product teams building a dedicated DevOps function
- Core services: CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code, cloud operations, SRE
- Technologies: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud
- Engagement model: Individual engineers, dedicated teams, outsourced delivery
- Headquarters: Warsaw, Poland
- Founded: 2007
- Team size: 1,001–5,000 employees
Contact Information
- Website: innowise.com
- Email: moc.esiwonni@tcatnoc
- Twitter: x.com/innowisegroup
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/innowise-group
- Address: 50 Franklin St, Office 203, Boston, MA 02110
- Phone: +1 (917) 267 7727
6. N-iX
N-iX delivers managed DevOps services and dedicated DevOps teams within its wider cloud engineering practice. Its scope includes infrastructure and configuration management, CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code, monitoring, logging, and DevSecOps. Engineers work across application environments to automate testing and deployment while maintaining consistent infrastructure configurations.
A broader cloud modernization program is a natural setting for this work. N-iX combines migration, cloud-native engineering, cost optimization, and ongoing operations, so delivery pipelines can evolve alongside the applications they support. Its project work includes improving scalability for software products and cloud operations for an IoT service provider. Businesses with several connected cloud workstreams get access to DevOps expertise within that larger engineering effort.
Key Facts
- Best for: Cloud modernization programs with ongoing DevOps needs
- Core services: Managed DevOps, infrastructure management, CI/CD, DevSecOps
- Technologies: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud
- Engagement model: Dedicated DevOps teams and managed services
- Headquarters: Valletta, Malta
- Founded: 2002
- Team size: 1,001–5,000 employees
Contact Information
- Website: www.n-ix.com
- Email: moc.xi-n@tcatnoc
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/N.iX.Company
- Twitter: x.com/N_iX_Global
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/n-ix
- Address: 4330 W Broward Boulevard – Space P/Q, Plantation, FL 33317
- Phone: +17273415669
7. OSKI Solutions
OSKI Solutions handles cloud architecture, migration, and ongoing DevOps across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Its engineers containerize workloads, configure Kubernetes environments, build automated delivery pipelines, and define infrastructure with Terraform. Reliability work covers tracing, dashboards, alerting, disaster recovery, and load testing. Serverless and hybrid cloud designs are also part of its delivery scope.
The company connects this infrastructure work with custom software development and dedicated engineering teams. A university web platform migration illustrates its work with existing applications, substantial content estates, and live production traffic. OSKI's process moves from workload assessment to architecture, migration, hardening, and operations. That makes the service relevant to organizations carrying an established platform through a cloud transition and its subsequent releases.
Key Facts
- Best for: Existing platforms moving to cloud infrastructure with ongoing engineering support
- Core services: Cloud migration, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability
- Technologies: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud
- Headquarters: Tallinn, Estonia
- Team size: 51–200 employees
Contact Information
- Website: oski.site
- Email: etis.ikso@tcatnoc
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/oski-solutions
8. IT Svit
IT Svit combines DevOps delivery with staffing services for businesses assembling an infrastructure team. It helps define roles, source and vet candidates, conduct interviews, and onboard specialists. Clients can build a DevOps team from the ground up or extend an existing one. The technical service range includes CI/CD, Kubernetes, container management, Terraform, and cloud automation.
Its staffing work starts with project requirements and the structure of the client's engineering organization. Team extension supports an existing delivery process, while a new team is assembled around the required skills and responsibilities. The wider DevOps and cloud practice brings infrastructure expertise into that hiring process. This is useful when a business wants a continuing group of specialists working within its own technical direction.
Key Facts
- Best for: Building or extending a client-managed DevOps team
- Core services: DevOps staffing, team assembly, onboarding, cloud engineering
- Technical capabilities: CI/CD, Kubernetes, Terraform, container management
- Staffing scope: New teams and extensions to existing teams
- Founded: 2005
- Team size: 11–50 employees
Contact Information
- Website: itsvit.io
- Email: moc.tivsti@aidem
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/itsvit.company
- Twitter: x.com/itsvit
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/itsvit
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/itsvit
- Address: Estonia, Kaupmehe tn 7-120 Kesklinna linnaosa, Harju maakond, Tallinn, 10114 EE
9. A-listware
A-listware brings together dedicated development teams, DevOps consulting and implementation, and cloud infrastructure services. It handles recruitment, onboarding, and team management, with engineers working as an extension of the client's organization. Its infrastructure practice also covers cloud consulting and management, server operations, and network maintenance.
The range of available roles matters when infrastructure work is tied closely to an application roadmap. A-listware supplies software engineers, QA specialists, DevOps engineers, and infrastructure specialists within its broader team offering. Its toolset includes Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Prometheus, and Grafana. Businesses expanding several engineering functions get a route to assemble those capabilities through one team relationship, with local leaders supporting the outsourced staff.
Key Facts
- Best for: Engineering teams adding DevOps alongside development and QA capacity
- Core services: Dedicated teams, DevOps implementation, cloud management, infrastructure support
- Technologies: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, Prometheus
- Offices: UK and USA
- Headquarters: London, UK
Contact Information
- Website: a-listware.com
- Email: moc.erawtsil-a@ofni
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/alistware
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/a-listware
- Address: St. Leonards-On-Sea, TN37 7TA, UK
- Phone: +44 (0)142 439 01 40
10. Alpacked
Alpacked focuses on DevOps and cloud engineering through advisory, managed, and outsourced services. Its dedicated team offering covers cloud architecture, migration, release management, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, and container orchestration. The company also works with serverless and microservices architectures, including infrastructure running on premises.
Engagements can expand through additional engineers or more engineering hours as operational needs change. Alpacked connects that staffing flexibility with defined service levels and project KPIs. Its wider services include log management, monitoring, Kubernetes management, and cloud optimization across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. This gives product teams an infrastructure partner for the build phase and the continuing work of running and refining their environments.
Key Facts
- Best for: Products needing a specialist outsourced DevOps team
- Core services: DevOps outsourcing, cloud migration, CI/CD, infrastructure automation
- Specialization: Cloud operations, container orchestration, serverless and microservices
- Technologies: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud
- Headquarters: Kyiv, Ukraine
- Founded: 2017
- Team size: 11–50 employees
Contact Information
- Website: alpacked.io
- Email: oi.dekcapla@selas
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/alpacked
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/alpacked
- Address: Nyzhnii Val St, 19-21, Kyiv, Ukraine
- Phone: +38(093)542-72-78
11. DICEUS
DICEUS offers DevOps outsourcing with dedicated teams and managed delivery options. Its engineers optimize cloud and on-premises infrastructure, design microservices architectures, automate CI/CD pipelines, and integrate security testing into development. Cloud architecture work covers AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. Infrastructure modernization and data migration are also part of the service.
The company treats a dedicated DevOps engagement as continuing support for software delivery across projects. That fits organizations moving from manual release processes to a more consistent engineering routine. DICEUS combines pipeline implementation with infrastructure and application architecture, making the work relevant when deployment problems have roots in the wider system. Clients can connect DevOps changes with custom development, integration, or legacy modernization under the same provider.
Key Facts
- Best for: Application modernization with dedicated DevOps delivery
- Core services: DevOps outsourcing, infrastructure optimization, CI/CD, DevSecOps
- Specialization: Microservices architecture, data migration, legacy modernization
- Technologies: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud
- Headquarters: Kyiv, Ukraine
- Founded: 2011
- Team size: 51–200 employees
Contact Information
- Website: diceus.com
- Email: moc.suecid@ofni
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/DICEUS
- Twitter: x.com/diceus_global
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/diceus
- Address: 2810 N Church St, Ste 94987, Wilmington, Delaware 19802-4447, USA
- Phone: +19293091005
12. net-devs
net-devs builds dedicated engineering teams and internal developer platforms for enterprise software. A senior engineer leads each dedicated team and takes responsibility for delivery against the client's roadmap. Its platform engineering work includes CI/CD, observability, self-service infrastructure, and standard deployment paths that incorporate security controls. Cloud architecture spans Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud, with Terraform and Kubernetes among the available technologies. The platform is treated as an internal product, with developer feedback and operational measures guiding improvements. This approach suits organizations that want their DevOps team to build reusable infrastructure for several feature teams, while keeping application engineering and production deployment connected through the same senior technical leadership.
Key Facts
- Best for: Enterprise teams building internal developer platforms
- Core services: Dedicated engineering teams, platform engineering, cloud architecture
- Technologies: Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud
- Headquarters: Warsaw, Poland
Contact Information
- Website: net-devs.com
- Email: moc.sved-ten@tcatnoc
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/net-devs
- Address: Obrzeżna 1D, 02-691 Warszawa, Poland
13. ELEKS
ELEKS delivers DevOps as a Service across infrastructure configuration, software delivery, and continuing support. Its engineers implement CI/CD, infrastructure as code, centralized monitoring, logging, and containerization with Kubernetes. Cloud management and automation cover the environments in which applications are developed, tested, and deployed.
Training is a useful part of its service scope. ELEKS supports internal teams in learning how to monitor, maintain, and scale their infrastructure, while its specialists handle implementation and operational improvements. The work connects with a wider software engineering practice that includes cloud computing, application development, and modernization. Organizations introducing new delivery practices across an existing engineering department get both technical implementation and help transferring the working knowledge to their own staff.
Key Facts
- Best for: Engineering organizations adopting DevOps with internal knowledge transfer
- Core services: DevOps as a Service, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, monitoring
- Specialization: Kubernetes, containerization, cloud management, automation
- Additional support: Infrastructure support and team training
- Headquarters: Tallinn, Estonia
- Founded: 1991
- Team size: 1,001–5,000 employees
Contact Information
- Website: eleks.com
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/ELEKS.Software
- Twitter: x.com/ELEKSSoftware
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/eleks
- Address: Kursi 3, 10415 Tallinn, Estonia
- Phone: +3726743621
14. Sombra
Sombra covers DevOps implementation and managed support from pipeline design to production operations. Its engineers work with GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, and CircleCI. Infrastructure automation uses Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible, while Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm support containerized applications. Cloud engineering spans AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
Deployment automation includes release validation, standardized environments, and rollback procedures. Sombra also sets up observability with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and the ELK Stack. Ongoing services include incident response, pipeline maintenance, and cloud cost optimization. Dedicated teams and staff augmentation sit alongside managed delivery, giving organizations several ways to connect these specialists with the people responsible for their application roadmap.
Key Facts
- Best for: Product teams coordinating releases, observability, and production support
- Core services: CI/CD, cloud operations, Kubernetes, DevSecOps, managed support
- Technologies: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud
- Engagement model: Dedicated teams, staff augmentation, managed delivery
- Headquarters: Lviv, Ukraine
- Founded: 2013
- Team size: 201–500 employees
Contact Information
- Website: sombrainc.com
- Email: moc.cniarbmos@tcennoc
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/sombra.software
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/sombra-inc
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/sombra_software
- Address: 108 Stryiska St, Lviv, 79000, Ukraine
- Phone: +380972750055
15. Andersen
Andersen supplies dedicated DevOps engineers within teams assembled around a client's technology stack and project requirements. Their responsibilities include CI/CD setup and management, infrastructure as code, containerization, monitoring, alerting, and incident response. Cloud specialists design, migrate, and maintain environments across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
The client retains control of the backlog and technical decisions, with dedicated teams following its sprint structure and reporting arrangements. DevOps capacity can be combined with backend, frontend, QA, cloud, and cybersecurity roles when the project needs several disciplines. Andersen also handles ongoing cloud support and resource optimization. This model fits a product organization with an established delivery process that wants additional infrastructure expertise working under the same project direction.
Key Facts
- Best for: Client-directed product teams adding dedicated DevOps engineers
- Core services: Dedicated staffing, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, incident response
- Technologies: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud
- Team structure: DevOps alongside development, QA, cloud, and security specialists
- Headquarters: Warsaw, Poland
- Founded: 2007
- Team size: 1,001–5,000 employees
Contact Information
- Website: andersenlab.com
- Email: moc.balnesredna@tcatnoc
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/AndersenSoftwareDev
- Twitter: x.com/AndersenLabs
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/andersen-europe
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/andersen.global
- Address: 1 Rondo Daszyńskiego, 23rd floor, Warsaw, 00-843, Poland
- Phone: +48 22 390 64 08
16. SoftPro
SoftPro handles cloud application development, migration, and infrastructure management for custom software projects. The Warsaw team works with AWS and Microsoft Azure, with a particular emphasis on .NET, ASP.NET Core, and the wider Microsoft stack. Its cloud services include containerization, cloud-native re-architecture, and hybrid environments. Security work covers encryption, firewall management, and identity and access management. SoftPro also maintains the software it develops after launch. For a company moving an established business application into the cloud, this keeps development, deployment, infrastructure decisions, and subsequent support within one project relationship. Its experience with portals, CRM systems, and SaaS applications gives that work a practical enterprise software context.
Key Facts
- Best for: Microsoft-stack applications requiring cloud deployment and ongoing support
- Core services: Cloud development, migration, infrastructure management, software maintenance
- Technologies: Microsoft Azure and AWS
- Headquarters: Warsaw, Poland
Contact Information
- Website: soft-pro.pl
- Address: 13 Erasmus Ciołka St. 401, Warsaw, Mazowieckie Voivodeship, Poland
17. Dedicatted
Dedicatted delivers DevOps as a Service through engineers supported by solutions architects. The team works with the client's developers on infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, security, backups, monitoring, and cost optimization. Its AWS stack includes Control Tower, EKS, Fargate, RDS, and other managed services. Access management, incident response, and platform migrations are also within the service scope.
The engagement includes an initial discovery of the architecture and operational requirements, followed by continuing engineering work aligned with the client's roadmap. Documentation and training form part of that relationship. Around-the-clock platform support is available as an additional package. This gives AWS-based product teams a defined route to ongoing DevOps delivery, with support coverage configured separately from the regular engineering engagement.
Key Facts
- Best for: AWS platforms needing continuing DevOps engineering and operations
- Core services: CI/CD, infrastructure management, monitoring, security, incident response
- AWS technologies: Control Tower, EKS, Fargate, RDS
- Support option: Additional 24/7 platform support package
Contact Information
- Website: dedicatted.com
- Email: moc.dettacided@tcatnoc
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/people/Dedicatted/100086267664411
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/ddcttd
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/dedicatted.inc
- Address: 401-207 Queens Quay W, Toronto, Canada, M5J 1A7
- Phone: +1 437 427-1824
18. Relevant Software
Relevant Software offers a dedicated team of DevOps engineers focused on a client's project, alongside staff augmentation, managed services, and project outsourcing. Its in-house specialists handle CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, Kubernetes, monitoring, cloud migration, and ongoing maintenance. The service also extends to FinOps and planning a move from one cloud environment to another.
Clients take part in reviewing and selecting engineers, with onboarding organized around their existing workflows. Relevant's dedicated model emphasizes continuing collaboration, while its managed option covers infrastructure maintenance and optimization. A remote DevOps hub is another available arrangement. For a product business expecting its operational workload to evolve, these options provide several ways to organize the engineering capacity and responsibility for its infrastructure.
Key Facts
- Best for: Product companies arranging long-term dedicated DevOps capacity
- Core services: CI/CD, Kubernetes, infrastructure automation, monitoring, FinOps
- Technologies: Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Terraform, Azure DevOps
- Engagement model: Dedicated teams, staff augmentation, managed services, remote DevOps hubs
- Headquarters: Lviv, Ukraine
- Founded: 2013
- Team size: 51–200 employees
Contact Information
- Website: relevant.software
- Email: erawtfos.tnaveler@emoclew
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/relevant.software
- Twitter: x.com/RelevantSoft
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/relevant-software
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/relevant.software
- Address: Jana Dantyszka, 18, Warsaw, 02-054, Poland
- Phone: +442045770054
19. 21century.tech
21century.tech integrates CI/CD, testing, documentation, and deployment into its software engineering projects. The Miami-based studio works remotely, with senior engineers responsible for architecture, code review, security decisions, and final delivery. AI assists with implementation and refactoring, while engineers review the output before it is tested and merged.
Projects start with an agreement on scope, budget, and timeline. Daily demos on Loom keep clients involved as the team develops MVPs, full-stack features, legacy refactors, or third-party integrations. Software is deployed to the client’s infrastructure or the studio’s environment. This suits product teams that want development and release preparation handled within the same engineering engagement.
Key Facts
- Best for: Product teams needing CI/CD and deployment alongside application development.
- Core services: Software development, CI/CD, production deployment, testing, documentation, legacy refactoring.
- Specialization: AI-assisted development with human code review.
- Engagement model: Remote work with senior engineering oversight.
- Headquarters: Miami, USA.
Contact Information
- Website: 21century.tech
- Email: hcet.yrutnec12@tcatnoc
Comparison Table
| Company | Best for | Headquarters | Founded | Team size |
| Itexus | Financial products needing coordinated software and DevOps engineering | Dover, DE, USA | 2013 | 150+ engineers |
| Gart Solutions | Embedded DevOps engineers focused on cloud cost | — | — | — |
| Romexsoft | SaaS companies running on AWS | Lviv, Ukraine | 2004 | — |
| Mad Devs | Kubernetes and GitOps-based delivery pipelines | — | 2016 | 51–200 employees |
| Innowise | Product teams building a dedicated DevOps function | Warsaw, Poland | 2007 | 1,001–5,000 employees |
| N-iX | Cloud modernization programs with ongoing DevOps needs | Valletta, Malta | 2002 | 1,001–5,000 employees |
| OSKI Solutions | Existing platforms moving to cloud infrastructure with ongoing engineering support | Tallinn, Estonia | — | 51–200 employees |
| IT Svit | Building or extending a client-managed DevOps team | — | 2005 | 11–50 employees |
| A-listware | Engineering teams adding DevOps alongside development and QA capacity | London, UK | — | — |
| Alpacked | Products needing a specialist outsourced DevOps team | Kyiv, Ukraine | 2017 | 11–50 employees |
| DICEUS | Application modernization with dedicated DevOps delivery | Kyiv, Ukraine | 2011 | 51–200 employees |
| net-devs | Enterprise teams building internal developer platforms | Warsaw, Poland | — | — |
| ELEKS | Engineering organizations adopting DevOps with internal knowledge transfer | Tallinn, Estonia | 1991 | 1,001–5,000 employees |
| Sombra | Product teams coordinating releases, observability, and production support | Lviv, Ukraine | 2013 | 201–500 employees |
| Andersen | Client-directed product teams adding dedicated DevOps engineers | Warsaw, Poland | 2007 | 1,001–5,000 employees |
| SoftPro | Microsoft-stack applications requiring cloud deployment and ongoing support | Warsaw, Poland | — | — |
| Dedicatted | AWS platforms needing continuing DevOps engineering and operations | — | — | — |
| Relevant Software | Product companies arranging long-term dedicated DevOps capacity | Lviv, Ukraine | 2013 | 51–200 employees |
| 21century.tech | Product teams needing CI/CD and deployment alongside application development. | Miami, USA. | — | — |
How to Choose a Dedicated DevOps Team Provider
A dedicated DevOps team will have access to your production systems and influence how fast and safely your product ships. When you compare providers, look at the engineers you will actually get, how they handle access and incidents, how they measure results, and whether the knowledge they build stays with you if the engagement ends.
Interview the actual engineers. Ask to meet the specific people who will join your team, not only a sales architect. Check hands-on experience with your cloud provider, your container platform, and your infrastructure-as-code tools. Ask each engineer to walk through a pipeline or incident they handled. Also confirm how the provider replaces someone who leaves and how much notice you get.
Access and security practices. Ask how the team will access production: individual named accounts, least-privilege roles, short-lived credentials, and logged sessions. Check how secrets are stored and rotated, and whether they follow your compliance requirements such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001 controls. Shared root credentials or keys stored in chat tools are clear red flags.
Incident response and on-call. Agree on support hours, response times, and escalation paths before signing. Ask whether on-call coverage is included, how incidents are communicated, and whether they write post-incident reviews with follow-up actions. If your product needs round-the-clock coverage, check that the team has enough people across time zones to provide it without burning out one engineer.
Measurable delivery outcomes. Ask which metrics they will report, such as deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, and time to restore service. Request a baseline in the first weeks and targets after that. Providers who report only hours worked or tickets closed make it hard to tell whether releases are actually getting faster and more reliable.
Infrastructure as code and documentation. Everything the team builds should live in your repositories as code, including cloud resources, pipelines, and monitoring configuration. Ask to see examples of their runbooks and architecture documentation. This protects you from dependence on individuals and makes handover possible. Manual console changes that never reach version control are a common warning sign.
Cloud cost management. Ask how the team tracks and reduces cloud spending: tagging, budgets and alerts, rightsizing, autoscaling, and reserved capacity. Request examples of savings they achieved and how they balanced cost against reliability. A DevOps team that ignores the bill can raise costs quickly through oversized clusters, idle environments, and unmanaged logging.
Conclusion
A dedicated DevOps team works best when its responsibilities are clear from the start. Release automation, production access, incident response, and cloud spending need named owners and agreed working procedures. The useful measures are practical: how reliably changes reach production, how quickly service recovers after a failure, and how much manual work remains. Documentation and shared knowledge help those improvements survive changes in personnel. As infrastructure grows, the team arrangement should keep pace with the workload and the support hours the product actually needs.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does a dedicated DevOps team cost?
Cost depends on team size, seniority, location, and the support hours you need. A single DevOps engineer embedded in your team is the smallest arrangement, while a multi-person team providing round-the-clock on-call coverage costs considerably more. Rates vary widely between regions, and you should also budget for tooling, monitoring services, and the cloud resources the team manages.
What is the difference between a dedicated DevOps team and managed DevOps services?
A dedicated team works as an extension of your engineering organization, following your priorities and processes, usually billed per engineer per month. Managed DevOps services deliver defined outcomes, such as monitoring or pipeline maintenance, under a service agreement with fixed scope. Dedicated teams suit products with changing needs, while managed services suit stable infrastructure with predictable work.
How long does it take to onboard a dedicated DevOps team?
Engineers can usually start within a few weeks of signing, depending on availability. Becoming productive takes longer: the first month is typically spent gaining access, reviewing the current infrastructure, documenting gaps, and agreeing priorities. Preparing architecture diagrams, access processes, and a list of known problems in advance shortens this period considerably.
What should we prepare before hiring a dedicated DevOps team?
Prepare a description of your current infrastructure, cloud accounts, release process, and the main pain points you want solved. Decide who on your side owns priorities and approves production changes. Set up a process for granting individual, least-privilege access, and agree on support hours and incident expectations. Clear goals for the first three months make progress easier to judge.
Will we depend on the provider if the engagement ends?
Not if you set the terms correctly from the start. Require that all infrastructure, pipelines, and configuration live as code in repositories you own, that cloud accounts are in your name, and that runbooks are kept current. Include a handover period in the contract so knowledge transfers to your staff or a new provider in an orderly way.