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DevOps and SRE engineers are among the harder engineering roles to fill in India: the title covers everything from build-and-release work to running production with on-call ownership, and the people who've done the second are in demand everywhere.
What DevOps engineers cost in India
Typical fixed CTC by experience, from our DevOps engineer salary guide, which also breaks it down by city and company type.
| Experience | CTC | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| Fresher (0–1 yrs) | ₹6 – 10 LPA | ₹50k – 83k/mo |
| Junior (1–3 yrs) | ₹9 – 17 LPA | ₹75k – 142k/mo |
| Mid (3–6 yrs) | ₹17 – 30 LPA | ₹142k – 250k/mo |
| Senior (6–10 yrs) | ₹30 – 50 LPA | ₹250k – 417k/mo |
| Staff / Lead SRE (10+ yrs) | ₹50 – 80 LPA | ₹417k – 667k/mo |
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What to look for in a DevOps engineer
The signals that separate strong candidates from resumes that only list the right keywords.
Production incidents
Ask them to walk through an outage they handled: detection, response, root cause and what changed after.
Infrastructure as code
Real Terraform or similar experience, with a view on state, modules and safe changes.
Kubernetes in practice
Running and debugging workloads in production, not just a certification or a tutorial cluster.
Cost awareness
Have they cut a cloud bill? Teams that care about cost hire people who notice it.
A simple interview loop
Four steps, done within a week or two, is enough for most DevOps engineer hires and keeps good candidates from accepting another offer first.
- A 30-minute intro with the hiring manager about the infrastructure they've owned.
- A practical round: debug a broken deployment or write a small piece of infrastructure as code.
- An incident-response or reliability design conversation.
- A final conversation about on-call expectations and working with developers.
How hiring on Switchly works
- Post the role free. Paste your JD, or start from our DevOps engineer JD template. Up to 10 active jobs on the free plan.
- Get a ranked shortlist. Every applicant is scored 0–100 against your JD with matched skills, missing skills and the reasoning shown.
- Shortlist and talk. Message candidates directly, and your Calendly link goes out automatically when you shortlist someone.
Switchly isn't an agency: it doesn't source or vet candidates for you, or handle payroll or contracts. Hiring from outside India? See EOR vs direct hiring in India.
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Post Your First Job FreeFrequently asked questions
How much does it cost to hire a DevOps engineer in India?
From our DevOps salary guide, mid-level DevOps engineers (3–6 years) typically earn ₹17–30 LPA and senior engineers (6–10 years) ₹30–50 LPA. On-call-heavy SRE roles often pay toward the top of the range. Posting on Switchly is free.
Should I hire a DevOps engineer or an SRE?
Hire DevOps if the main need is CI/CD, infrastructure as code and developer tooling. Hire SRE if it's reliability: uptime targets, incident response and on-call. Many early teams need a mix; say which matters more in the JD.
How do I hire DevOps engineers on Switchly?
Post the role free (up to 10 active jobs). Engineers apply, and each applicant gets a 0–100 AI fit score against your JD with matched skills, missing skills and the reasoning shown, sorted best-first. Shortlist the ones you like and, if you've added a Calendly link, it's sent to them automatically.
Is Switchly a recruitment agency?
No. Switchly doesn't source, vet or place candidates for you, and it doesn't handle payroll, contracts or visas. It's a job board and applicant-ranking tool: you post the role, engineers apply, and you decide who to hire. That's why there's no placement fee.