Hire DevOps Engineers in India
Hire DevOps and cloud engineers in India without setting up a local entity. You manage infrastructure and reliability; Akross handles employment administration.
Build Your DevOps Team in India
Hiring DevOps and cloud engineers can be challenging when your infrastructure depends on experienced professionals who are already employed elsewhere. Candidate notice periods, competing offers, and the time needed to complete onboarding can delay critical infrastructure projects.
These delays matter when you are preparing a cloud migration, improving deployment automation, strengthening production reliability, or expanding your engineering operations.
Akross helps international businesses establish an employment arrangement for DevOps, SRE, and cloud engineers in India without first setting up their own Indian legal entity.
Your company defines the technical requirements and selects the right candidates. Amulya Infotech India Pvt Ltd serves as the employing entity, while Akross coordinates the agreed employment and HR administration.
This approach allows you to plan your India hiring around your operational requirements without having to establish a separate local employment infrastructure first.
How the EOR arrangement works
Your company
Defines the technical requirements and selects the right candidates
Akross
Coordinates the agreed employment and HR administration
Amulya Infotech India Pvt Ltd
Serves as the employing entity
Your DevOps, SRE, and cloud engineers in India
Maintain pipelines, manage cloud environments, and respond to incidents
Keep Infrastructure Operations on Track
DevOps and cloud engineering roles often involve responsibilities that extend beyond individual development tasks. Engineers may maintain deployment pipelines, manage cloud environments, respond to incidents, and improve the reliability of production systems.
When a critical hire is delayed or an experienced engineer leaves, your team may need to redistribute operational responsibilities while continuing to meet release schedules and service expectations.
An EOR arrangement provides the local employment structure needed to employ engineers in India. It does not eliminate recruitment delays or guarantee retention, but it can reduce the need to establish your own local entity before hiring.
Akross coordinates the agreed employment administration, while your team manages the technical work. You can plan recruitment, onboarding, knowledge transfer, and workforce continuity as part of your infrastructure strategy.
Plan for Notice Periods
A candidate's current employment obligations can affect the joining date. Confirm notice-period requirements early, agree on a realistic start date, and plan project milestones around the candidate's actual availability.
Support Employee Retention
Retention depends on compensation, career development, management, workload, and the employee experience. Your company remains responsible for creating a supportive engineering environment, while Akross coordinates the agreed local employment administration.
Reduce Onboarding Delays
Prepare access permissions, infrastructure documentation, security requirements, and onboarding plans before the employee's start date. Akross coordinates the required employment documentation and payroll setup through the agreed arrangement.
DevOps and Cloud Roles You Can Hire
From CI/CD pipelines to cloud platforms, bring on engineers who keep your infrastructure reliable, automated, and ready to scale.
DevOps Engineers
Hire engineers to support CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, deployment workflows, configuration management, and collaboration between development and operations teams.
Site Reliability Engineers
Build capabilities around service reliability, observability, incident management, performance monitoring, and reducing operational risk.
Cloud Engineers
Hire engineers to work with cloud platforms, infrastructure provisioning, networking, access management, resource optimization, and cloud migrations.
Platform Engineers
Develop internal platforms, reusable deployment tooling, developer self-service capabilities, and standardized infrastructure workflows.
Cloud Infrastructure Engineers
Support infrastructure design, provisioning, scaling, monitoring, and maintenance across your required environments.
Kubernetes and Automation Specialists
Strengthen container orchestration, infrastructure automation, deployment consistency, and platform operations where these skills are required.
You stay in control
Define the cloud platforms, technical certifications, automation tools, programming languages, experience levels, and operational responsibilities needed for each position.
How Our Hiring Process Works
- 1Define
- 2Select
- 3Terms
- 4Onboard
- 5Handover
Define the Role
Identify the required technical skills, cloud platforms, experience level, responsibilities, work location, working hours, and intended joining date.
For critical roles, identify any operational coverage requirements and dependencies on the existing infrastructure team.
Select Your Engineer
Your team evaluates candidates against the technical and operational requirements and makes the selection decision.
Candidate sourcing and recruitment assistance can be discussed separately if required; confirm the agreed scope before assuming these services are included.
Confirm Notice Periods and Employment Terms
Before agreeing on the start date, establish the candidate's availability, current employment obligations, proposed compensation, employment terms, and documentation requirements.
Amulya Infotech India Pvt Ltd serves as the employing entity under the agreed EOR arrangement.
Complete Employment Onboarding
Akross coordinates the agreed employment documentation, payroll setup, employee records, and applicable statutory administration.
The onboarding timeline depends on documentation readiness, required checks, candidate circumstances, and other relevant dependencies.
Start With a Structured Handover
Your team provides access to the necessary systems, infrastructure documentation, runbooks, deployment procedures, escalation paths, and security policies.
For production-critical roles, plan a structured knowledge transfer and define access permissions before the engineer begins operational work.
How quickly can you hire?
The process may progress within days when a suitable candidate is available, employment requirements are clear, and documentation is ready. Candidate notice periods, recruitment needs, and onboarding dependencies may extend the timeline. Akross will discuss a realistic start date based on your requirements.
You Lead Technical Operations
Your organization remains responsible for defining infrastructure priorities and managing the engineer’s day-to-day technical work. Akross coordinates the agreed local employment administration through Amulya Infotech India Pvt Ltd.
Your team leads
- Cloud architecture, infrastructure strategy, and technical priorities.
- CI/CD pipelines, automation standards, and deployment decisions.
- Monitoring, incident response procedures, and reliability objectives.
- Infrastructure access, security controls, and operational documentation.
- Technical feedback, engineering performance expectations, and knowledge transfer.
Akross coordinates
- Employment contracts and onboarding documentation.
- Payroll processing and applicable statutory administration.
- Employee records and agreed HR support.
- Leave administration and relevant employee processes.
- Offboarding documentation and employment formalities.
The responsibilities of each party should be documented clearly and managed in accordance with the agreed contracts and applicable Indian law.
Employment, Compliance & Security
A Named Indian Employer
Amulya Infotech India Pvt Ltd is the employing entity under the EOR arrangement described on this page. Relevant statutory registrations and accounts are maintained under the registered entity as applicable.
Specific obligations depend on the employment arrangement, work location, employee circumstances, and current Indian requirements.
Quality and Information Security
Amulya Infotech has stated ISO 9001:2015 and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certifications. Verify the current certificates and their scope before relying on them for a specific service or security requirement.
DevOps and cloud engineers may require privileged access to infrastructure, deployment systems, production environments, and credentials. Your organization should implement role-based access controls, secure authentication, credential management, logging, confidentiality obligations, and prompt access removal when employment ends.
Background verification and additional checks can be considered where appropriate, legally permitted, and agreed as part of the hiring process.
Permanent Establishment Risk
An EOR arrangement does not automatically eliminate Permanent Establishment (PE) or other corporate tax risks. Exposure depends on your company’s activities in India, employee responsibilities, contractual authority, applicable domestic law, and relevant tax treaties.
Seek qualified tax advice to assess your circumstances, particularly where employees represent your business, negotiate contracts, or undertake activities that could create a taxable presence.
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Understand Your DevOps EOR Costs in India
Build your DevOps team in India without setting up a local entity. Akross coordinates employment administration while you manage infrastructure, cloud operations, and system reliability.
Scale or Transition Your Team
Your infrastructure needs may change as your cloud environment, customer base, and operational requirements expand.
Add Engineers as Requirements Grow
Discuss additional DevOps, SRE, cloud, or platform engineering hires as your infrastructure strategy develops.
Plan Workforce Continuity
Document infrastructure procedures, maintain runbooks, establish appropriate access controls, and plan knowledge transfer for critical responsibilities. These practices help reduce dependence on individual employees.
Transition to Your Own Indian Entity
If you later establish an Indian company, a transition may be possible after reviewing employment contracts, employee arrangements, legal requirements, and statutory obligations. Address continuity of service, accrued benefits, outstanding payments, and relevant tax considerations before proceeding.
The appropriate transition process depends on your circumstances and the agreements in place.
FAQs
Answers to common questions about hiring DevOps, SRE, and cloud engineers in India with Akross, from the legal employer and notice periods to team expansion and transition.
Can we hire DevOps engineers in India without setting up a local entity?
Yes. An eligible EOR arrangement through Akross and Amulya Infotech India Pvt Ltd can allow your company to employ DevOps engineers in India without first establishing its own Indian entity.
Who employs our DevOps engineers?
Under the arrangement described on this page, Amulya Infotech India Pvt Ltd is the employing entity. Akross coordinates the agreed employment administration and EOR services.
How do notice periods affect hiring timelines?
A candidate's existing employment obligations may affect when they can join. Confirm availability early and agree on a realistic start date after reviewing notice periods, documentation, and onboarding requirements.
Can we hire SRE and cloud engineers as well as DevOps engineers?
Yes. You can define requirements for site reliability engineering, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, automation, and other relevant technical specialties.
Can we manage engineers directly?
Your company can direct technical priorities, assign work, manage infrastructure projects, and establish operational procedures. Formal employment responsibilities must remain consistent with the agreed arrangement and applicable law.
How can we support engineer retention?
Retention depends on factors including compensation, career development, management, workload, and the employee experience. Your organization should plan for these factors and maintain documentation and knowledge-transfer practices for critical infrastructure responsibilities.
Who handles payroll and statutory administration?
Akross coordinates the agreed employment administration through the employing entity. Applicable payroll and statutory obligations are handled according to relevant requirements and contractual responsibilities.
How are infrastructure access and confidentiality managed?
Your company should establish appropriate access controls, secure authentication, credential management, monitoring, confidentiality obligations, and offboarding procedures. Background verification can be considered where appropriate and legally permitted.
Can we expand our DevOps team later?
Yes. Additional hires can be discussed as your requirements grow, subject to candidate availability, onboarding readiness, and the agreed service arrangement.
Can we transfer employees to our own Indian entity later?
A future transition may be possible, subject to contractual terms, employee arrangements, legal review, and applicable employment obligations.
Does an EOR eliminate Permanent Establishment risk?
No. An EOR does not automatically eliminate PE or other corporate tax risks. Your business activities, employee responsibilities, contractual arrangements, and applicable tax rules should be assessed with qualified tax advisers.
Build Your DevOps Team With Akross
Hire DevOps, SRE, and cloud engineers in India through an employment arrangement designed to support local employment administration while your organization retains technical direction.
Akross combines its dedicated focus on India EOR services with the experience of Amulya Infotech India Pvt Ltd, an India-based IT outsourcing and support company founded in 2001.