Why is hiring for DevOps so challenging?

DevOps solutions help enterprises automate their software development and testing cycles by automating code migration and deployment. Within DevOps environments, developers implement a continuous feedback loop to reduce response time and deliver the product based on customer feedback and usage behavior.?

Thus, a DevOps environment helps teams to bring new products to market faster while better ensuring a seamless experience for the end-user.

However, adopting a DevOps approach isn’t easy. There are organizational and philosophical considerations that must be addressed before successful transformation, but even after those are in place, hiring poses a considerable challenge in today’s competitive hiring landscape.

Hiring for DevOps

The global DevOps platform market share is projected to reach $26 billion by 2027, from $7 billion in 2021, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 24.6 percent from 2022 to 2027.

Putting together a DevOps team is no small task, and it’s unlikely to get easier, given the practice’s exponential growth predictions. A simple LinkedIn search for DevOps engineering jobs reveals 103,845 U.S. positions in the past month at the time of this writing. With the intense competition for DevOps talent on the market, making your company stand out to potential hires is a real challenge.?

Benefits of DevOps for companies?

Okay, so DevOps roles are difficult to hire for. Are the hiring challenges worth the benefits of DevOps? Obviously, every organization is different, and must assess their product vision, so there’s no cut-and-dry answer. However, we can start by listing some of the benefits of DevOps.

DevOps improves the agility of the development process . It aims to align the software development cycle to business goals and eliminates wasted time. You produce more code quickly, testing it on the go.

The main benefits of adopting DevOps include:

1. Faster time-to-market: You can develop, test, and deploy in a loop, ensuring a faster product launch. The sooner you get your product to market, the faster you start earning.?
2. Improved communication: The DevOps cycle helps IT teams collaborate better. The teams communicate tasks and objectives, which increases their mutual support.?
3. Better quality: DevOps automation helps reduce human error. For example, you can automate some mundane aspects of quality testing so that developers spend less time fixing mistakes. The result is better code with a shorter cycle.
4. Keep up with market demands: The continuous delivery system rapidly helps you meet market needs. DevOps allows you to include changes in the code quickly.

If you’re interested in a deeper dive into DevOps benefits and how to make the shift, check out our “5 DevOps principles for a successful digital transformation ” article.?

Accelerate your DevOps transformation

Forming a DevOps team requires bringing together experts with complementary skill sets. Hiring for DevOps will be a time-consuming exercise that many enterprises will struggle with. Therefore, a company hiring for DevOps will likely require a diverse team of experts who bring their skills to work together to implement the DevOps culture

Building any in-house team takes time, but there are other options for building DevOps teams. Many organizations hire a staffing or recruitment firm, some work with an outsourcing consultant, and others partner with a full-service software delivery provider.??

At Forte Group, we fall into the third and final option. We often work with organizations who have struggled to hire specific technology roles, including roles within DevOps environments.?

So if you’re struggle to hire or build a product team in DevOps, we can help. Forte Group has several ready-to-go DevOps "teams in a box" that can ramp up on your project in weeks, not months. Our specialized team proficiencies include:

• DevOps and Continuous Testing rollouts
• Cloud infrastructure management and cloud migration
• Distributed systems engineering
• Quality assurance and automated testing strategy

Agile teams success story: How Spring launched a next-gen HR management and payroll platform

One of our agile product teams recently launched Spring , an HR and payroll application, from the ground up. You can read the full story here , but here’s what the Spring CEO had to say:

“Our Forte team consistently delivered high-quality software. They were one of the first development teams I’ve worked with where I wasn’t constantly worried about delivery estimates, poor quality, or extreme tech dept. They consistently hit their goals and were a true extension of our team. Forte is always at the top of my list to recommend to others.”

-Brandon Passley, CEO at Spring

At Forte Group, we build software teams that are custom tailored to the organizations we work with. These are highly functional teams that ramp up to projects much faster than the extensive hiring process required to build a team in-house.

Some organizations don't want or need a DevOps team, and that's fine too. Drawing from our team of 700+ world-class technology professionals, we work with organizations to build teams aligned to value through agile software delivery.

If building mission-critical product teams is something you struggle with at your organization, we’re here to help. Get in touch with one of our product strategists at the link below.

https://fortegrp.com/contact-us/

Further reading: Here's one more example of how Forte Group helped launch a payments and lending platform through on-time delivery and a 4x increase in DevOps velocity.