Walk through a deployment that went wrong
The recovery story tells you far more than the tooling list.
Infrastructure engineers who make delivery repeatable and recoverable — and who have been on call for the systems they set up.
Written as the work, not as a keyword list. If your role needs something outside this, tell us and we will say whether we can staff it.
This is useful whether or not you hire through us. A better-run interview gets you a better engineer either way.
The recovery story tells you far more than the tooling list.
Alerting on everything is the same as alerting on nothing. Look for user-impact reasoning.
Reveals whether they understand the workload or just the pricing page.
A long tool list is not evidence of having operated a release safely. Ask what broke and what they changed as a result.
We assess DevOps engineers on an operational scenario — a failed release, a cost problem, a scaling event — and on what they would change afterward.
Hexalabs is early. We would rather say that than imply a history we do not have — you would find out anyway, and it would cost us the engagement. Instead, here is what we commit to in writing so trying us costs you very little.
Start with a two-week paid pilot on real work from your backlog. At the end you decide whether to continue, with no further obligation and no notice period to serve. You will have seen the code, the communication and the pace before committing to anything longer.
If an engineer is not working out in the first 30 days, we replace them at our cost, including the handover. You do not pay twice for the same seat, and you do not run the hiring process again.
Engagements run on two weeks notice. If it is not working, you are not trapped in it. We would rather you left early than stayed unhappy and told people about it.
You interview every engineer before they join, and nobody is placed without your yes. Our screening notes come with each profile so you can see what we assessed and judge it yourself.
These terms go into your contract, not just onto this page. Ask us for them in writing before you commit to anything.
Two fields to start. The more you tell us about the work, the closer the first set of profiles will be.
Still deciding? A short conversation is usually faster than another round of research.
Ask us directlyWe assess DevOps engineers on an operational scenario — a failed release, a cost problem, a scaling event — and on what they would change afterward.
A long tool list is not evidence of having operated a release safely. Ask what broke and what they changed as a result.
Either. A single engineer joins your existing team under staff augmentation, working your process and your sprint. If you need the surrounding roles too — design, QA, DevOps — a dedicated team is usually the better shape, and we will say so rather than selling you more people than the work needs.
An overlap window with your working day is agreed before anyone starts, and it is written into the engagement rather than left to goodwill. Tell us the hours you need covered and we will tell you honestly whether we can staff them.
IP assignment is set out in the contract before work begins. Confirm the specific terms with us in writing — this is exactly the kind of thing that should never be assumed.
Backend engineers who design services around how they fail, not only how they work on the happy path.
ExploreJava engineers for services that need to be correct, observable and maintainable years after the people who wrote them have moved on.
ExploreQA engineers who can tell you which failures actually matter to your users, and test for those first.
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