DevOps & Infra Jobs Hiring Report — June 2026

Hiring is growing, and the fastest movers are building physical things

The clearest signal in this month's data isn't a number, it's a category. The companies adding DevOps and infrastructure roles fastest right now build hardware: defense systems, rockets, electric trucks, GPU clouds. Anduril Industries leads the board with a net +38 roles over the last 28 days and 107 active openings. SpaceX sits close behind at +30 net and 103 active. Rocket Lab, Relativity and Rivian all show up in the top ten. If you'd assumed the bulk of infra hiring still came from pure SaaS, the postings say otherwise.

Across the whole dataset I'm tracking 5,370 open DevOps and infra roles at 2,134 companies as of early June. The 28-day flow is comfortably positive: 2,090 roles opened, 1,323 closed, for a net gain of +767. That's not a frothy market, but it's a growing one — roughly three roles opened for every two that closed or got filled. After a couple of years where every infra report felt like it had to caveat the cooling, this is a market that's quietly expanding again.

350 companies just started hiring infra for the first time

The number I keep coming back to: 350 companies opened their first DevOps or infra role in the last 28 days. These are boards in my dataset that had nothing in this category and now have at least one posting. That's the leading edge of demand — companies hitting the point where they can no longer let engineers babysit deploys part-time and need someone whose actual job is the platform.

You can see this pattern in the active-vs-net numbers among the fastest movers. Nscale jumped +34 net with 34 active roles, meaning essentially their entire DevOps presence on the board appeared inside this window. Rivian is the same shape: +15 net, 15 active. Agentis Capital Advisors shows +8 net, 8 active. These aren't established teams backfilling attrition; they're teams being stood up from scratch. Compare that to Anduril and SpaceX, where the net additions are a fraction of a much larger active footprint — those are mature infra orgs that keep growing on top of an existing base.

For a job seeker, that distinction matters more than the raw rank. Joining a from-scratch team like Nscale's (their full board is at /companies/nscaleoperationsukltd) means greenfield tooling decisions and a lot of ownership, with the usual early-stage ambiguity. Joining Anduril (/companies/andurilindustries) or SpaceX (/companies/spacex) means slotting into established platforms with real scale and, presumably, real on-call. Pick the failure mode you'd rather live with.

This is an engineering market, almost to the exclusion of everything else

Of the 5,370 roles, 5,327 are engineering. Everything else is noise by comparison — 13 product, 12 "other," 4 sales, 2 marketing, 1 operations, 1 data/analytics, plus 10 I've flagged as junk and excluded from interpretation. For a category like this that's expected, but it's worth saying plainly: there's no meaningful adjacent hiring here. Companies aren't building out DevOps product managers or infra-focused sales motions in any volume. They're hiring people to do the work.

That has a practical consequence. If your background is platform engineering, SRE, cloud infra or the build-and-deploy world, nearly the entire 5,000+ pool is addressable to you. If you're trying to pivot into infra from an adjacent function, the data offers very few side doors — the roles that exist almost all expect you to already be an engineer. You can browse the full set at /devops.

Seniority skews experienced, and the "unspecified" pile is the real story

By level, the breakdown is: 2,714 unspecified, 1,837 senior, 605 principal, 109 director, 73 junior, 24 executive, 8 VP. Two things jump out.

First, juniors are nearly locked out. Seventy-three explicitly junior roles out of more than five thousand is a rounding error. Even allowing that some of the unspecified bucket is open to less-experienced candidates, the disclosed signal is brutal for anyone trying to break in. Infra teams, it seems, still want people who've already been on the wrong end of a 3am page.

Second, that 2,714 "unspecified" pile — over half the market — is where I'd spend my energy if I were searching. When a company doesn't put a level in the title, the band is often wider than the posting implies, and a strong senior candidate can frequently push into principal-adjacent scope (and pay) during the conversation. Senior plus principal together account for 2,442 of the explicitly-leveled roles, so the center of gravity is genuinely experienced. The director-and-above layer is thin (141 combined), which is normal — those jobs get filled through networks long before they hit a public board, if they hit one at all.

What DevOps and infra roles actually pay

Here's where I have to be honest about the data's limits. Only 13% of postings disclose pay at all — 191 of them with a usable band. So treat everything in this section as directional, drawn from a self-selecting minority of employers (disproportionately those in pay-transparency jurisdictions or with a policy of posting ranges).

With that caveat, the median disclosed band across all DevOps and infra roles is $130,000–$170,000 USD/yr. Narrowing to the specific DevOps Engineer title, where I have 32 disclosed bands, the median runs slightly higher at $137,500–$172,167. That's a healthy mid-six-figure-band for a non-managerial engineering role, and it lines up with what you'd expect given how senior the overall market skews.

A couple of practitioner notes on reading those numbers. The bands are wide — a $35–40k spread is typical — which usually means the posted range is covering more than one level, so where you land inside it depends heavily on how you interview, not just the title. And because only the transparent 13% are in this sample, the true market median for the whole population is genuinely unknown; companies that don't post pay aren't a random subset. I'd lean toward these figures being a reasonable floor for the senior-heavy roles rather than an average across all comers. If you want to dig into bands by title and level, I keep that broken out at /devops/salaries.

Remote is the minority option now

Just 22% of these roles are remote. Given how much of the fastest hiring comes from hardware companies, that's no surprise — you can't manage the infra behind a rocket assembly line or a vehicle plant from your kitchen table, and those employers want people near the metal. Anduril, SpaceX, Rocket Lab, Relativity, Rivian, Woven by Toyota: not a remote-first name among them.

So if remote is non-negotiable for you, understand you're competing for roughly a fifth of the market, and that fifth is weighted toward the software-native employers rather than the ones scaling fastest. The flip side: if you're willing to be on-site, the most aggressive hiring right now is wide open to you, and a lot of it sits at companies most people don't immediately associate with DevOps careers. Woven by Toyota (+8 net, 16 active) and Relativity (+10 net, 25 active) are both quietly building real platform teams.

Who else is moving

Beyond the hardware names, the top-ten movers include a couple of worth-watching cases. Okta added +11 net across 27 active roles — a reminder that established security and identity software still hires infra in volume. Encora (+10 net, 13 active) is a services/engineering shop, which tells you the consultancy side is staffing up for client infra work, not just product companies. Nscale's burst of GPU-cloud hiring fits the broader pattern of compute capacity being built out hard right now; their 34 roles appearing essentially all at once is one of the sharpest single-company signals in the dataset.

I'd watch the gap between net and active over the next few editions. A company like Rivian sitting at +15 net / 15 active is in pure build mode; if that active count keeps climbing month over month, it's a sustained ramp worth tracking rather than a one-off batch. I keep the running movers list at /movers/devops if you want to follow it between reports.

What this means if you're job-hunting right now

A few concrete moves, straight from what the data supports:

• Don't filter out hardware and defense. The fastest-growing infra teams this month build physical products — Anduril, SpaceX, Rocket Lab, Relativity, Rivian. If you've been searching only "SaaS DevOps," you're skipping where the net new roles actually are.
• Target the "unspecified" level postings. They're over half the market, the bands tend to be wide, and a strong senior candidate can negotiate into the upper end. Don't self-select out because there's no level in the title.
• If you're junior, lead with proof, not titles. Explicit junior roles are nearly nonexistent (73 total). Your realistic path is a homelab, real on-call exposure, or open-source infra work that lets a hiring manager justify an unspecified-level req for you.
• Decide on remote early. At 22% remote, and with the fastest hirers being on-site, remote-only narrows your field sharply and steers you away from the highest-velocity teams.
• Anchor your pay expectations around $130k–$172k for senior DevOps roles — but remember that's from the 13% who disclose, so use it as a negotiating reference, not gospel, and check live bands per title at /devops/salaries.

The headline I'd leave you with: this is a growing, senior-heavy, engineering-only market where the energy has shifted toward companies building things you can touch. +767 net roles in 28 days and 350 brand-new hiring teams say there's room to move. The catch is that the door is widest for people who've already done the job and are willing to show up where the hardware is.