DevOps Outsourcing: All You Need to Know
Tags: devops, aws
Published: 2020-09-30 15:03:59

DevOps Outsourcing is a service provided by a team of experts who work for the result and control all the processes related to the project, its automation, resistance to falls and dangerous situations for business.
By ordering DevOps Outsourcing services, you gain access to a wide range of talented engineers working on the projects all around the world.

Read more: <a href="https://www.romexsoft.com/blog/how-to-merge-devops-and-cloud-development/">DevOps and Cloud Development</a>, <a href="https://www.romexsoft.com/blog/devops-testing-strategies-tools-practices/">DevOps Testing</a>

The process of recruitment to an internal team can take several months, while most companies almost always need implementation of DevOps tasks “for yesterday”. However, finding outsourced DevOps can take just a few days, all you need to do is to choose an outsourcing agency and make an agreement with it. In particular, our DevOps engineers are focused on achieving business goals and providing solutions that can help you with that.
<h2>Choosing a DevOps Outsourcing Partner</h2>
To choose the right DevOps outsourcing partner you should understand that DevOps teams can provide services on different platforms, public cloud storage and have different tools for performing DevOps tasks. Everything depends on the platform where your infrastructure is on or what your plans are for building it. For example, one of the most robust platforms for data hosting is the public cloud AWS (Amazon Web Services).
<h3>DevOps on AWS</h3>
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has its database of partner companies (including our company), which can be trusted to support and build your cloud infrastructure. AWS provides services that help practice DevOps with tools that you can read about in our previous article - <a href="https://www.romexsoft.com/blog/what-is-aws-devops/">AWS DevOps Services and Tools</a>.
<a href="https://www.romexsoft.com/blog/aws-cloud-monitoring-best-practices-and-tools/">AWS Monitoring Tools</a>.
<a href="https://www.romexsoft.com/blog/simplifying-cloud-storage-costs-how-aws-s3-pricing-work/">AWS S3 Pricing Work</a>.

To choose the right AWS partner company, take a close look at the following three things:
<h3>Is this partner AWS oriented?</h3>
The AWS ecosystem is continuously evolving, producing new tools and constantly improving the existing ones. It’s necessary to keep a close eye on changes and new trends. If the partner company focuses on several major cloud platforms, can it be flexible and respond immediately to changes and innovations from AWS. Of course, it’s better to choose a partner whose only focus is on AWS rather than on several major cloud platforms. After all, a partner that is aware of all the improvements and changes, will be able to manage your presence in the cloud according to all best practices.
<h3>Team and Certification</h3>
Review the competencies and certificates that your potential partner has. Look at the engineering team. What are the professional certifications they possess? Current certificates include: developer, architect, SysOps administrator, solutions architect, and DevOps engineer. Though not all of them are crucial to your initial management needs, this will be one of the benefits in the future.
<h3>Projects of the Selected Service Partner</h3>
It is worth paying attention to the projects of the selected service partner. The projects must be large-scale and work for many years, which is an indicator of quality and reliability of the service partner.

You can find out more about choosing an AWS partner company in our article - <a href="https://www.romexsoft.com/blog/how-to-choose-the-aws-msp-partner/">How to Choose the Right AWS Partner to Manage Your Cloud Infrastructure.</a>

<h2>Pros and Cons of Outsourcing DevOps</h2>
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<h2>Benefits of a Client’s Business</h2>
<h3>Access to expertise</h3>
The client hires a team of professionals that already have experience in lots of projects and can make reliable and fast automation processes.
<h3>Value for money</h3>
Recruiting a team for one project will require large financial injections, and once all the automation processes are set up, the team will have few tasks left which could be financially sound. If the team is outsourced, it performs the tasks for many projects and does it reliably and quickly as it takes the experience from one project to another. The customer pays only for the work performed in a fixed deadline.
<h3>Project management on the vendor’s side</h3>
The client only has to describe the problem or give the task, and the process is controlled by a manager who is responsible for the quality of the tasks performed on the side of the service vendor.
<h3>Complex of provided services</h3>
By using DevOps outsourcing as a service, you can not only meet the needs of a particular <a href="https://www.romexsoft.com/devops-services/">DevOps services</a>, but also gather a full team of performers “under the project”, who will communicate in a coordinated manner. In addition to DevOps, a team can also consist of testers, programmers, analysts, designers, etc. And the outsourcing company will take over all the management and mentoring work on the developers to control the process.
<h2>Problems that may occur</h2>
<h3>Problems in finding a common goal</h3>
To gain a better understanding of the business needs of customers and be on the same wavelength, we conduct regular online meetings of our clients or their proxies with our technical specialists and team leads. We help to understand the technical aspects and make the most profitable decisions.
<h3>Problems in communicating with different contractors</h3>
It’s important to note that we are a company that provides comprehensive services and regularly communicates with programmers and understands all the nuances.

Therefore, it is easier for us to establish communication with the client's team of programmers (if any), because we have experience in it.
<h3>Problems in small projects</h3>
DevOps Outsourcing will not take short-term projects because it’s not financially profitable for both the client and the service provider.
<h3>Security problems</h3>
Security issues are controlled by an agreement with a company that represents the DevOps team. It’s also managed by regulations depending on the specialization of the project. We have successful experience in solving security problems in the areas of finance, medicine, media and ecommerce.

If your business needs quality services with <a href="https://www.romexsoft.com/devops-services/#main">AWS DevOps Outsourcing</a> - we know how to help. Our <a href="https://www.romexsoft.com/devops-support/">DevOps team works 24\7</a> and is able not only to perform its tasks well, but also offer the client’s business effective solutions for cost optimization and reliable monitoring.