Specialty
DevSecOps & Platform Engineering
The 10-20% premium nobody warned you about.
Market reality
DevSecOps specialists and platform engineers tend to command a 10-20% premium over standard DevOps roles, and platform engineer median salaries in North America run around $178,000 based on current market data. Dedicated platform teams have become common at large software organizations.
The sourcing insight we bring
Platform engineering is new enough that searching for the literal title "platform engineer" will fail. The talent is sitting in adjacent roles: DevOps engineers who've built self-service tooling, SREs who automate reflexively, cloud architects with a product mindset. We source for the skill pattern, not the title. That's not a technique most firms use, and it's why these searches stall elsewhere.
What we vet for
Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, internal developer platforms and golden paths. For DevSecOps specifically: container scanning, secrets management (Vault), policy-as-code (OPA), supply chain security. Plus a genuine product mindset: platform engineers build for developers, and the ones who don't think that way build platforms nobody uses.
Delivery
Where this role can sit
US
All three engagement models. Security-sensitive and compliance-heavy environments should stay US.
LATAM
Contract.
Pakistan
Contract, with security posture designed in from day one.
Next steps