What are some of the advantages of outsourcing your DevOps to stack.io? Here are our top 5 reasons.

1. FOCUS ON YOUR CORE

As a business, time is your most valuable asset. It’s the only asset which cannot be controlled. In an ideal world, 100% of your time would be spent on your core competency - your product. Competition is tough with respect to the market and finding good people. Gone are the days where you needed to be competent in all aspects of a business to get off the ground. We live in an age where a plethora of services are readily available to outsource many non-core functions of a business such as accounting, legal services, HR administration, and even server hosting. We believe DevOps is one of them.

Internet technologies and automation have seen a boom over the last decade. As an industry, we went through a period of rapid expansion where new projects, techniques, and practices for running applications were being announced weekly. This led to companies forging their own path, trying what they thought was best from a technological standpoint, thus requiring some niche knowledge in-house. Over time, the collective mindset on best practices has matured however, and technology is now converging to a subset of the best - something we’re well-versed in at stack.io. This is why we believe DevOps is a prime candidate for outsourcing, as it no longer factors directly into the uniqueness and differentiator of your product.

Focus on your core, outsource everything else.

2. INTEGRATED INTO YOUR TEAM

Emails, support tickets, endlessly waiting for a response? That's just not how we roll. From our many years of experience, we have found that great progress is made when there is a dedicated team working towards the same goal. At stack.io, our engineers are just that - dedicated. The team working on your account:

• Will provide you with real-time responses through Slack

• Are available to you during our core business hours (Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm ET*)

• Can join your team meetings and jump on calls at short-notice

At no additional cost, you'll also have access to a Technical Account Manager (TAM). The TAM is your go to for account and project management duties to help drive successful outcomes.

In short, you're not only outsourcing - you're integrating a specialist DevOps team.

3. ELIMINATE THE HIRING PROCESS

Hiring good people, in general, is hard; hiring good developers is harder; hiring good DevOps experts is the hardest. Why? For one, hiring for DevOps is more than filling one narrow role – to take on such a complex task for an organization requires great people. At stack.io, we’re proud to have put together an elite team. Imagine not having to spend the time or effort on the steps of a typical hiring process. We take care of:

• Job description

• Resume screening

• Screening call

• Assessment test

• Full interview(s)

• Background checks

• Reference checks

• Decision and job offer

4. TRUSTED QUALITY

We live and breathe DevOps - we’ve been doing this since 2009. As such we’re able to identify the right candidates to fill our engineering positions as we have a tried, tested, and proven method of reviewing applications. Consider this versus an internal hiring manager that may only search for candidates as and when a position becomes available.

5. FLEXIBLE AND SCALABLE

Quickly adapt to your needs. Scale your team up or down to suit your projects as required without the pressures of searching for, or releasing, a full-time hire.

In a similar vein, we can switch gears as needed - after all, we are your team! If there's a need to shift focus to a new project for whatever reason, we can do that. As an integrated team, we roll with punches and adapt to an ever-changing product landscape just as you would expect of any of your internal team.

• Immediate Need

  • Augmenting your existing team to help achieve a crucial, short-term deadline

  • A stop-gap measure for a key internal position

• Project-Focussed

  • Taking specialized projects through to completion quickly

  • Executing on key business strategies to accelerate growth

• Long-Term & Partnership Focussed

  • Continuous stability, best practices, and modernization efforts

  • Augmenting or fully outsourcing your team with long-term success in mind