Remote DevOps and infrastructure jobs
DevOps, SRE, cloud and platform roles from live listings, each read for what the employer says about where you can live.
Covers DevOps, site reliability, platform, cloud, infrastructure and build engineering roles.
751
live DevOps roles
Where you can actually work from
Most job boards call all of these simply "remote". These are the live counts for DevOps roles right now.
- Work from home458
- Region Restricted131
- Hybrid110
- Work from anywhere30
- Undisclosed22
What remote DevOps jobs pay
Typically $185k a year, with the middle half between $155k and $225k. Based on 233 live listings that publish a salary in US dollars.
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Where employers say you have to live
The places most often named in live DevOps adverts that restrict residence. Counted from the advert’s own wording.
- United States 85
- India 18
- Remote - United States 16
- Remote 12
- Remote - US 11
- Remote - USA 10
- Brazil 9
- Canada 9
- United Kingdom 8
- Poland 8
Seniority mix
Read from the employer’s own job titles. Titles with no seniority word are not counted, so these will not add up to 751.
- Entry level6
- Junior5
- Mid level2
- Senior256
- Lead / principal102
- Head / director4
Working hours
336 live DevOps adverts say something about hours, and 45 of those describe working asynchronously. The rest say nothing, which usually means normal hours in the employer’s own timezone, worth asking before you accept.
Employers hiring most right now
- Bluelight Consulting102 roles
- Sezzle25 roles
- Canonical18 roles
- Fundraise Up12 roles
- Bright Vision Technologies11 roles
- Cerebras9 roles
- Nebius9 roles
- Sensor Tower8 roles
- ClickHouse7 roles
- MaintainX7 roles
- Truelogic7 roles
- 3Cloud6 roles
How to spot a legit remote DevOps job
Most bad remote-job experiences are not scams, they are honest listings that were vague about location, or filled weeks ago. These are the checks worth running before you apply.
- Does the listing say where you can live?
- A real employer names the countries, regions or timezones they can hire in, because employment law forces them to. A listing that says only "remote" and nothing else is the most common reason people waste an application.
- Is there a named company behind it?
- Legitimate roles name the employer and link to their own careers page. Anonymous listings, or ones that only reveal the company after you pay or sign up, are the clearest warning sign there is.
- Are you ever asked for money?
- No genuine employer charges for training, equipment, a background check or a starter kit. Any request for payment, cryptocurrency or bank details before a signed contract is a scam, without exception.
- Does the pay match the work?
- Very high pay for very little skill is the oldest trick in the book. Compare the figure against what the same role actually pays elsewhere before taking it seriously.
- Was the interview real?
- Being hired purely over a chat app, with no video call and no questions about your experience, is not a hiring process. Reshipping, payment-processing and "buy equipment with this cheque" roles all start this way.
- Is the listing still open?
- Boards are full of roles that closed months ago. Check that the employer's own careers page still shows it before spending an hour on an application.
Nomaders does the first and last of those checks for you: every listing is read for what the employer actually says about location, and re-checked every day so closed roles drop out. Browse the live roles.
Remote DevOps jobs: common questions
Is DevOps a good remote job?
It is one of the most remote-friendly engineering families, since the infrastructure is in the cloud rather than in a building. The common condition is on-call cover, which ties some roles to a timezone.
Do remote DevOps jobs require on-call?
Many do, and that is the usual reason an otherwise worldwide role asks for a particular timezone. Where an advert states hours or overlap, that wording is shown on the role.
Which remote DevOps jobs hire worldwide?
Use the work from anywhere filter. Nomaders only applies that label when the advert says you can be based in any country, not when it simply says remote.
What do remote DevOps jobs pay?
Usually in line with senior software engineering, with a premium for reliability and security experience. Pay shown here comes only from listings that publish a figure.
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How Nomaders checks these roles
Listings are collected from employers' own career pages and remote job boards every day. Each one is read for what the employer actually says about location, and labelled accordingly, a role is only called work from anywhere when the listing says so in plain words. Nothing on this page is estimated.
What "remote" actually means