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DevOps & Platform Engineering · Contract-first

DevOps and platform contractors,
shortlisted in 72 hours.

Platform engineers, SREs, Kubernetes specialists and release managers for enterprise programmes across the Middle East, Europe and India. Screened on what they have run in production, not on the pipeline they built once.

72h brief to shortlist
Active contractor bench
Middle East · Europe · India
Contract · EOR · Managed Delivery
72h
Brief to shortlist
Three screened candidates from a complete brief.
2:1
CVs per interview
Candidates sent for every one you interview.
80%
Contracts renewed
Placed contractors extended at least once.
50+
Programmes staffed
Enterprise platform programmes, not placements.

Yallo internal delivery, shortlist and placement records and programme register, as at 30 July 2026.

Why us for DevOps & Platform Engineering

A platform team either removes work from delivery teams or becomes a new queue for them.

Platform engineering is the discipline with the widest gap between title and capability. The market is full of people who have written a pipeline, and much shorter of people who have operated one for two years, carried a pager for it, and made a self-service platform that delivery teams choose to use rather than are made to use. That second group is what an internal developer platform actually needs.

We screen on operational history rather than tool inventory. What their error budget policy was and whether anyone honoured it, how they handled a rollback of a migration that had already run, what their platform's adoption rate was and why teams routed around it, and what a cluster upgrade cost them the last time they did one under change control.

72%
of employers can't find the skilled talent they need, with AI, IT and data roles now the hardest to fill.
ManpowerGroup Talent Shortage Survey, 2026
What we deliver

What every DevOps and platform engineering programme buys from us, speed, screening depth, and coverage.

The Yallo Talent bench is engineered around three commitments. Every programme we support gets all three, from the first brief.

Contract-first bench

Specialists in the seat, not sourced in a week.

Every role we place already sits on an assessed bench. Named consultants with delivery track records, screened by the specialist leading that practice.

  • 72h from brief to shortlist
  • 2:1 CV-to-interview ratio
  • Named consultants, not agency profiles
Specialist-led screening

Screening depth that recruiters can't reproduce.

Every shortlist is depth-tested by specialists who have delivered this platform, in this sector, at this scale. Certifications don't cut it: evidence does.

  • Practice leads screen every candidate
  • Sector-specific context tests
  • Reference-verified track records
Multi-market flexibility

Middle East · Europe · India: contract, EOR, perm or delivery.

Cross-market bench lets us place fast in the region that's constrained. Four commercial models decide who carries the contract, the visa and the notice period.

  • Four entities: London · Dubai · Riyadh · Bengaluru
  • Contract · EOR · Perm · Managed
  • IR35, VAT and compliance built in
How we work

From brief to bench: every DevOps and platform engineering programme, same rhythm.

Yallo Talent is a contract-first bench built on specialist-led screening. Every engagement follows the same disciplined operating rhythm, regardless of sector, platform or model.

01

Send us the brief

Role, platform, timeline, engagement model. No CVs traded on speculation. We start from what your programme actually needs.

02

Specialist-led screening

Specialists who have run your kind of delivery assess every candidate for implementation depth. Not certificates. Not keywords.

03

Shortlist in 72 hours

Three to five specialist-screened candidates in your inbox with rate, notice, engagement model and evidence attached.

04

Deploy the model that fits

Contract, EOR, Permanent or Managed Delivery: matched to who needs to carry the contract and the visa.

Scarce talent · high demand

The platform and reliability roles every enterprise programme fights over.

These are the specialists that appear on every platform brief and disappear from the market fastest. Yallo maintains an active bench in each of these areas across the Middle East, Europe and India.

Brief us on a scarce role

Contract unless noted.

Platform ArchitectPerm / Contract
Site Reliability Engineer
Kubernetes Engineer
Infrastructure as Code Engineer
Observability Engineer
ServiceNow Architect
Release Manager
FinOps AnalystPerm / Contract
Our expertise

Every platform discipline, with a contractor bench behind it.

This desk staffs the delivery system, from the commit to the pager. The cloud estate it runs on is the Cloud & Infrastructure desk, and the two are usually briefed together.

CI/CD Engineering in detail

CI/CD Engineering

GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, Jenkins.

  • DevOps Engineer
  • Build and Release Engineer
  • Automation Engineer

Platform Engineering & Internal Developer Platforms

Backstage, Crossplane, self-service platforms.

  • Platform Engineer
  • Platform Architect
  • Developer Experience Engineer

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, policy as code.

  • Infrastructure as Code Engineer
  • Cloud Platform Engineer
  • Automation Engineer

Container Platforms & Kubernetes

Kubernetes, OpenShift, Helm, Argo CD, Flux.

  • Kubernetes Engineer
  • Platform Engineer
  • Cloud Platform Engineer

Observability & Site Reliability

Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, SLOs.

  • Site Reliability Engineer
  • Observability Engineer
  • Platform Engineer

Release Engineering

Release trains, change control, Copado and Gearset.

  • Release Manager
  • Build and Release Engineer
  • DevOps Engineer

IT Service & Operations Management

ServiceNow development, architecture and operations automation.

  • ServiceNow Developer
  • ServiceNow Architect
  • Automation Engineer

FinOps

Cloud cost engineering, showback, commitment planning.

  • FinOps Analyst
  • Cloud Platform Engineer
  • Platform Architect
Where we deploy

Every sector runs a platform team. We staff them all.

A bank's change control, a retailer's peak trading freeze or a telco's scale changes which platform specialist you need. Same screened bench, calibrated to the operating context.

Retail & Consumer

Peak trading readiness, store estate release management and e-commerce scale for retail programmes.

Roles in demand now
Site Reliability EngineerKubernetes EngineerObservability Engineer
Ready to brief us?

Send the role, the platform, the timeline, get a shortlist in 72 hours.

No CVs until we understand your programme. Specialist-screened shortlist matched to your context.

Screened by

  • Packaged Software
  • Architecture
  • Software Development
  • Data & AI
  • Cloud & Infrastructure
  • Agile & DevOps