Why Redian, and why this shape of team
You've landed here because you need DevOps engineers for a team based in or serving Austin, USA, and you're weighing whether to hire locally, use a marketplace, or engage a delivery partner. This page explains how Redian Software delivers exactly that engagement — onsite, DevOps engineers, aligned to Austin business hours (CST / CDT), on a commercial model that scales from a single engineer to a full offshore cell.
DevOps / Cloud Engineers — what our engineers actually do
Redian's DevOps and cloud practice owns everything from CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Jenkins), through infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation), container orchestration (Kubernetes on EKS / AKS / GKE, plus ECS Fargate for smaller teams), observability stacks (Prometheus + Grafana, Datadog, ELK, OpenTelemetry), and the security and cost hygiene that stops your cloud bill from becoming the CFO's problem. We work across AWS, Azure and GCP — plus on-prem VMware and OpenShift for regulated clients.
Seniority mix: mid-level engineers (3–5 yrs, own pipelines, IaC modules, incident triage), senior engineers / SREs (5–8 yrs, own platform architecture, capacity planning, blameless post-mortems), and cloud architects (8+ yrs, own the multi-account / multi-region / DR story, security posture, cost optimisation). Engagement is often a small pod — 2–3 engineers — running as a platform team for your product engineers.
The Austin context
Austin has become the second-biggest US tech hub over the last five years — Tesla, Oracle, Meta, Google, Apple and a growing base of Series A–C startups all now have material engineering presence here, and the local salary floor has moved up to match. What used to be a cost-arbitrage market vs. the Bay Area is now roughly on-par for senior ICs. If you're a fast-scaling company in South Congress or a downtown enterprise with a modernisation programme, filling engineering roles from local supply alone is now the hard part.
Redian ships CST-aligned coverage from India: our engineers open the working day at your morning standup and stay live through your entire morning window. Standups, PR review, incident response and design conversations happen inside that overlap; anything after your lunch is asynchronous with a written handover.
Onsite engagement — the mechanics
Onsite engagement — engineers work from your office. For clients whose delivery model needs on-the-ground presence — regulator-mandated controls, hardware access, in-room collaboration with an internal team, or leadership preference — Redian deploys engineers to your location on a per-diem or medium-term contract. We handle visa, work-permit, accommodation and travel logistics from our side; you provide the desk, badging, and access to the systems the engineer will touch.
How the commercials work. Onsite carries a different rate card than remote — day-rate is higher to cover the engineer's living cost and per-diem, and minimum engagement is usually 3 months to make the mobilisation worthwhile. We can also blend the models: a small onsite core (2–3 engineers) plus a larger remote build team, so you get the trust of physical presence without the cost of an all-onsite ramp.
Commercials and how to start
Rates depend on the exact seniority mix and length of engagement, but as a rule: a onsite DevOps engineer from Redian lands well below the loaded cost of the equivalent local hire in Austin, without dropping seniority. Minimum engagement is one month for remote, three months for onsite. Rate card, sample CVs of currently-available engineers, and reference clients in your industry — happy to send those on the first call, subject to NDA.
How the first two weeks look: we scope the roles, seniority mix and start date on a 30-minute discovery call. We share 3–5 CVs matched to the brief within 3 business days. You interview shortlist candidates directly. The chosen engineer(s) start inside 1–2 weeks (4–10 weeks if onsite mobilisation is needed), on your tools, in your workflow, with named Redian consultant oversight.
No lock-in, no minimum quarter. If an engineer isn't a fit inside the first two weeks, we swap them, no charge. If you need to scale up or down mid-engagement, we do it — that flexibility is the whole point of engaging a partner instead of hiring FTEs.