[e12e]

I'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/skilful colleagues).

I've seen a lot of people that hire devops in-house (technically, it's a little hard to see how "devops" might work with the "ops"-person just doing drive-by installation and maintenance once every month -- but I suppose if the "dev" part isn't "special" (web application server + database + static resources + database) one could argue there's not much need for "devops", just "ops"?).

Although 30k for full-time ops works sounds really low, anywhere? (As a customer, I'd probably prefer one tenth of a 100k/year engineer than one tenth of a 30k/year engineer... even if the price might be 3-4 times as high).

[nickpsecurity]

I used to do it myself and know people who do. None of us are or were in DevOps. Plenty of independents out there that might make same arrangement. We did it just to save us time and make extra money. :)