Hire
DevOps Engineers
in Latin America

Senior, AI-fluent DevOps Engineers in your timezone. Vetted by humans. Built to stay.

Lifetime replacement · 97% retention · 325+ companies

Lifetime replacement
97% Retention
14 Days Time to Onboard

Our engineers have deployed at Our engineers have deployed at

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Google
Nike
Meta
Nubank
PwC
Kavak
Accenture
JLL
Runway
Scale AI

97%

Reported one-year retention

Company-reported figure; cohort and reporting period are not published.

14 days

Reported onboarding average

Company-reported brief-to-hired average; confirm the start date during your search.

100%

Replacement guarantee

100% of Opus placements include a lifetime replacement guarantee with no cap or time limit.

How does Opus hire DevOps engineers in Latin America?

Opus recruits full-time DevOps engineers from Latin America for US teams. The search starts with the work the person will own, the experience it requires and the US working hours your team needs. We use that brief to build a role scorecard and evaluate candidates. Vetting covers skills, English, communication, accent clarity, references, role fit, culture fit and drive. You receive profiles, scorecards and references, interview the finalists and make the hiring decision. Selected hires complete Opus's internal AI certification before joining. Your manager directs the DevOps engineer's work while Opus handles contracts, payroll, benefits and compliance. The placement includes a lifetime replacement guarantee with no cap or time limit.

Engineers who keep infra healthy, deploys boring, and on-call quiet, on your hours, in fluent English. We source, vet, and place them full-time. Opus reports about 14 days on average from brief to hired. Confirm your start date. Payroll, compliance, and the rest of the operational layer sit on our side.

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Pick any engineer role you need

The list below is a slice of who’s on our roster.

  • DevOps Engineer

    AWS · Terraform · Docker

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  • Site Reliability Engineer

    Kubernetes · Observability · Incident Response

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  • Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

    GCP · Networking · IAM

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  • Platform Engineer

    Internal Tooling · Backstage · K8s

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  • CI/CD Engineer

    GitLab CI · ArgoCD · Pipelines

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  • DevSecOps Engineer

    SAST/DAST · Vault · Secrets Mgmt

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Why hire engineers through Opus

Compare the hiring model, screening and terms for your role.

Opus 5 days | Shortlist in five
Hiring Locally Agree a timeline | Depends on the role and sourcing process
Hiring Offshore Agree a timeline | Confirm search scope and candidate availability
Opus A full-time teammate | Salaried, on your team
Hiring Locally A full-time teammate | Local salary band
Hiring Offshore Employment or contract | Confirm the engagement for your role
Opus Certified before day one | 6-module AI certification
Hiring Locally Verify AI skills | Request relevant work or training evidence
Hiring Offshore Verify AI skills | Ask how candidates use your tools
Opus 8 layers, every hire | Skills, English, communication, references and role fit
Hiring Locally Your hiring process | Agree the skills and team-fit assessments
Hiring Offshore Provider screening | Ask for the assessment criteria and evidence
Opus One flat monthly rate | Talent, payroll and compliance in one rate
Hiring Locally Salary and hiring costs | Budget for benefits and recruiting support
Hiring Offshore Request a full quote | Confirm talent costs and service fees
Opus Lifetime replacement | Fresh search at no cost
Hiring Locally Review recruiter terms | Confirm any replacement or refund remedy
Hiring Offshore Review replacement terms | Confirm the remedy and covered period
Opus 97% | One-year retention reported by Opus
Hiring Locally Track comparable hires | Use the same period and retention definition
Hiring Offshore Ask for cohort data | Use the same period and retention definition
Opus
AI sourcing with a human vetting layer
Hiring Locally
In-house recruiting or local firms
Hiring Offshore
International recruiting and staffing firms
Shortlist timing
5 days
Shortlist in five
Agree a timeline
Depends on the role and sourcing process
Agree a timeline
Confirm search scope and candidate availability
Who you’re hiring
A full-time teammate
Salaried, on your team
A full-time teammate
Local salary band
Employment or contract
Confirm the engagement for your role
AI-ready talent
Certified before day one
6-module AI certification
Verify AI skills
Request relevant work or training evidence
Verify AI skills
Ask how candidates use your tools
Vetting
8 layers, every hire
Skills, English, communication, references and role fit
Your hiring process
Agree the skills and team-fit assessments
Provider screening
Ask for the assessment criteria and evidence
What you pay
One flat monthly rate
Talent, payroll and compliance in one rate
Salary and hiring costs
Budget for benefits and recruiting support
Request a full quote
Confirm talent costs and service fees
If the fit goes wrong
Lifetime replacement
Fresh search at no cost
Review recruiter terms
Confirm any replacement or refund remedy
Review replacement terms
Confirm the remedy and covered period
Retention at one year
97%
One-year retention reported by Opus
Track comparable hires
Use the same period and retention definition
Ask for cohort data
Use the same period and retention definition

Who this is for

Built for $60-180K roles.
Not a VA shop.

Senior operators, engineers, finance and customer leads who run the work, not task-takers you have to script. If your next hire is a $6-an-hour assistant, we’ll save you the call: that’s not what we do.

How a hire happens,
end-to-end

From your first call with us to your new hire’s first day, here’s the full flow.

Discovery call

A 20-minute call with your hiring manager. We leave with a role profile and scorecard built around what a strong hire looks like six months in.

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Why hire from Latin America (and not somewhere else)

Local, offshore, or freelance? Most buyers weigh
LatAm against all three. Here’s where it wins.

Local, offshore, or freelance? Mostbuyers weigh LatAm against allthree. Here’s where it wins.

  • Latin America runs on Eastern to Pacific hours, the same hours your
    team works. Your hire is in standups, Slack, and review meetings in
    real time, not waiting overnight to respond from twelve hours away.

    Latin America runs on Eastern to Pacifichours, the same hours your team works.Your hire is in standups, Slack, andreview meetings in real time, notwaiting overnight to respond fromtwelve hours away.

  • The talent we source from has spent years at US and multinational
    companies like Mercado Libre, Nubank, Globant, Rappi, Uber, Stripe,
    and AWS. English isn’t a second skill layered on top of the work,
    but the language the work happens in.

    The talent we source from has spent years at US and multinational companies like Mercado Libre, Nubank, Globant, Rappi, Uber, Stripe, and AWS. English isn’t a second skill layered on top of the work, but the language the work happens in.

  • Major hubs like Mexico City, São Paulo, Buenos Aires, Bogotá, and
    Medellín have produced two decades of highly skilled and qualified
    professionals who’ve built at global companies. The senior layer is real and deep.

    Major hubs like Mexico City, São Paulo, Buenos Aires, Bogotá, and Medellín have produced two decades of highly skilled and qualified professionals who’ve built at global companies. The senior layer is real and deep.

  • Latin American professionals have grown up working with US and global
    companies through the rise of remote-first work. Written communication
    and async collaboration are second nature.

    Latin American professionals have grown up working with US and global companies through the rise of remote-first work. Written communication and async collaboration are second nature.

Proof of work

What our customers say

ROI

“In her first three weeks she recovered $35,000 to $40,000 that had been sitting there uncollected. Almost a 10x return in month one.”

TRUST

“I’ll be honest. I was against the idea at first. We started with one person from Opus. We’re up to six across our operations now, and I wouldn’t build my team any other way.”

Read the full story

It all starts with just 1 quick
discovery call

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The kind of engineers you’ll
meet

A preview of the talent we send to clients. Filtered for senior bench,
AI-certified and ready to start.

  • Santiago D. portrait Santiago, CL

    Santiago D.

    DevOps Engineer

    • AWS
    • Terraform
    • GitHub Actions
    • 5+
  • Javier N. portrait Buenos Aires, AR

    Javier N.

    Site Reliability Engineer

    • Kubernetes
    • Observability
    • SLOs
    • 5+
  • Alejandro N. portrait Medellín, CO

    Alejandro N.

    Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

    • GCP
    • Networking
    • IAM
    • 5+
  • Marco T. portrait CDMX, MX

    Marco T.

    Platform Engineer

    • Backstage
    • K8s
    • Service Mesh
    • 5+
  • Diego A. portrait Santiago, CL

    Diego A.

    CI/CD Engineer

    • GitLab CI
    • ArgoCD
    • Release Mgmt
    • 5+
  • Mariano F. portrait Buenos Aires, AR

    Mariano F.

    DevSecOps Engineer

    • Vault
    • Secrets Mgmt
    • Hardening
    • 5+
  • Fausto L. portrait Lima, PE

    Fausto L.

    Kubernetes Engineer

    • EKS
    • Helm
    • Operators
    • 5+
  • Sofía P. portrait CDMX, MX

    Sofía P.

    Database Reliability Engineer

    • Postgres
    • Replication
    • Query Tuning
    • 5+

Talent identities and images have been anonymized for privacy.

Questions we hear
all the time
Frequently
Asked Questions

  • Will their English be strong enough for our team?

    Yes. Every candidate clears a live English call with our team before they reach your inbox. We screen for fluency, accent clarity, and how they handle real conversation under pressure.

  • How fast can we start hiring engineers?

    The discovery call takes 20 minutes and produces a role profile and scorecard. Opus delivers three vetted candidates in five days; across its service, Opus reports about 14 days on average from brief received to hired. This does not establish the first day worked. The shortlist includes candidate profiles, scorecards and references so your hiring manager can compare the same evidence before interviewing. You decide which finalists to meet and whom to hire. To prepare, identify the manager, the work the hire will own and the hours needed for meetings or customer coverage. Have the people making the decision available for interviews. Confirm the proposed start date during the search; an individual candidate's availability and your interview schedule can affect it.

  • What if an engineer isn’t a great fit?

    Opus provides lifetime replacement with no cap and no time limit. If a placement does not work out, we restart the search at no replacement charge and send a new shortlist of three vetted candidates in five days. If the placement fails, revisit the role profile, schedule and responsibilities before restarting the search. Compare a replacement guarantee with a trial or refund on its own terms. Ask what remedy is offered, how long the coverage lasts and what your agreement requires when requesting it.

  • What’s the best way to hire senior engineers remotely?

    Start with the work you need done and the problems with your last arrangement. Opus builds a role profile and scorecard with your hiring manager, screens candidates against that brief, and sends three finalists with profiles, scorecards and references. You choose whom to interview and make the hiring decision. Before day one, we build an onboarding playbook covering systems, workflows, people and the first 90 days. The hire works full-time with your team while Opus handles employment administration. Compare providers on those deliverables, the agreed working hours and the replacement terms. A country or a resume alone will not tell you whether the next person fits the job.

  • What should I look for when hiring an engineer for my team?

    Start with the outcome you need in the first 90 days, not a list of tools. Write down what a strong hire looks like six months in, then screen for what actually predicts it: how they communicate under pressure, English fluency, timezone overlap, and whether they’ve owned similar work before. That scorecard is exactly what we build with you on the discovery call.

  • Can we hire more than one engineer at a time?

    Yes. Each role gets its own search and its own shortlist of three vetted candidates, and the searches run in parallel, so hiring three people doesn’t take three times as long. Most clients stagger start dates by a week or two to keep onboarding smooth. Pricing stays simple: one monthly rate per hire.

  • What does this cost?

    Opus quotes one all-in monthly rate per hire, covering talent, payroll, international compliance and placement support. The rate depends on the role and seniority and is shared on the first 20-minute call. Compare the same scope across quotes: working hours, responsibilities, benefits, equipment, onboarding and replacement terms. For a local hire, include the employer costs beyond salary. For a recruiting service, separate any one-time placement fee from ongoing employment costs. The cost calculator is a starting estimate; review its assumptions against the role you need. Your written quote should make clear which costs are included and which remain with your company.