Hiring a DevOps professional can be a game-changer for your development and operations teams. It is essential to understand why and when it makes sense for your business.

First and foremost: who is DevOps?

Would you like to ensure that your software or product development lifecycle is efficient, fully automated, and streamlined right from start to finish? If the answer is “Yes,” these are the grounds for proceeding with DevOps because they integrate the best practices and tools to ensure continuous integration, delivery, and deployment.

As leaders in the field, DevOps professionals are responsible for

• the whole IT infrastructure and its optimization
• network & security audit cloud migration (from private on-premise data centers to various cloud computing providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform)
• configuring cloud-based monitoring solutions
• the configuration of CI/CD workflows

A fun fact: the term “DevOps” was first invented in 2009 by Belgian consultant Patrick Debois. He and a colleague came up with the name over a beer while discussing the need for better collaboration between development and operations teams.

Industry use cases

Retail, e-commerce, finance, healthcare, telecommunications, media, and many other types of businesses could not survive without a quality DevOps service.

Handling substantial traffic, processing numerous transactions, dynamic pricing, providing individual recommendations, network management, compliance reporting, enhancing system safety, security, and scalability – this is merely a drop in the ocean of what can be implemented and improved with the help of skilled DevOps.

One of the most famous examples of success stories in DevOps is Netflix. The company adopted DevOps early on to automate everything from code deployments to testing and set up over 1,000 microservices to deliver its content to over 200 million subscribers. Netflix even created a tool called “Chaos Monkey” to deliberately cause failures in their systems to ensure system resilience and reliability.

Key benefits of hiring a DevOps Professional

DevOps professionals automate repetitive tasks, reduce manual errors, and speed up the development process, improving collaboration between developers, operations, and other stakeholders. They make teamwork more enjoyable, reduce stress, and increase job satisfaction among your team members.

As a result, appropriate implementation of DevOps practices leads to faster go-to-market time (it takes less time to bring new features and updates for your user), reduced costs, and better systems reliability and stability.

According to Puppet’s 2019 State of DevOps Report, organizations that fully embraced DevOps practices experienced a 50% reduction in deployment failures. When failures do happen, they recover from them 24 times faster!

DevOps professionals help design systems that can grow with your business, making handling increased traffic or new sensitive feature requirements easier.

It would be best to get a DevOps professional if you experience these: systems and processes become too complex to manage manually, growing infrastructure complexity (multiple servers, microservices, cloud environments), frequent deployments, scalability issues, security or performance issues. These are clear indications for using DevOps services.

At FCA Systems, we specialize in AWS cloud consulting and development, helping businesses harness the full cloud potential. Whether you want to migrate your existing systems to the cloud, optimize your infrastructure, or implement advanced solutions, our team of experts is here to assist you. From initial consultation to implementation and ongoing support, we provide comprehensive services to ensure your success.