Hire senior DevOps engineers for French teams

Senior DevOps engineers own how code reaches production and what happens when it breaks. Each one is tested on infrastructure review, pipeline permissions and incident diagnosis, first with AI tools off and then with their own agents on. A senior local hire in France takes 4 months on average.

How AI changed this role

01

The pipeline became the last reviewer

Teams now ship more code than anyone can read manually, so automated checks carry weight they never used to. A DevOps engineer decides which of those checks actually run and what gets blocked.

02

Permissions are broader than they look

Generated Terraform and pipeline changes can introduce access that's wider than the diff suggests, and it's easy to miss. Engineers now need to audit AI-produced infrastructure changes the same way they'd audit production access requests.

03

Logs don't always point the right way

Incidents increasingly come with observability data that misleads before it helps, and an agent can follow that misdirection at speed. The engineer who spots the wrong signal early is the one who limits the blast radius.

What we test for

How we assess DevOps engineers

Every engineer works through a fundamentals assessment with AI tools switched off and a second assessment with their own agents running. For DevOps engineers, these criteria carry the most weight.

AI output verification

Engineers review a generated Terraform or pipeline change that carries a permission broader than it looks, and the scorecard shows whether they catch what the tool got wrong.

Debugging

The incident scenario presents logs that point the wrong way, testing whether an engineer can separate a real signal from a misleading one under pressure.

Judgement by risk and ownership

In both assessments, the scorecards record whether engineers prioritise the right checks, own the call on what gets blocked and understand the downstream impact of what they let through.

See both scorecards
Contracting and pricing in France

Cost against a local hire

Engineers are Miyagami employees who work full-time in your team under a service agreement, so there's no individual contractor risk for you. Invoices are monthly, in EUR if you prefer.

Hiring locally in France

– a month
  • 4 months on average to hire
  • Recruitment, payroll and compliance on you
– higher cost a yearBased on benchmarks

Hiring with Miyagami

– a month
  • Three weeks to first commit, contracts and payroll handled
  • Wrong fit: we replace at our cost
Save up to – a yearAll costs included, nothing hidden

Questions about hiring DevOps engineers

How much does it cost to hire a senior DevOps engineer in France?

A senior local hire in France costs about €12,200 a month all-in, based on a senior software engineer median salary, statutory employer contributions and an amortised recruitment fee. Through us you pay a fixed monthly fee with employment and compliance included, and the pricing calculator shows the two side by side.

How long does it take to hire a DevOps engineer?

You get a shortlist in five working days and a first commit three weeks later. A local senior hire in France typically takes 4 months.

What do you test a DevOps engineer on?

Every DevOps engineer does two sixty-minute assessments in a real codebase, the first with AI tools off and the second with their own agents on. The infrastructure review includes a generated Terraform or pipeline change with a permission that's broader than it looks, and an incident with logs that point the wrong way. You get both scorecards.

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You share the roles and the stack in a short form or a thirty-minute call. Within five working days you get named senior engineers to review, each with both scorecards.

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