DevOps & Infra Jobs Hiring Report — June 2026

Key facts

• As of June 2026, there are 5,432 open DevOps & infra roles across 2,156 companies tracked from first-party Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby boards.
• Net hiring grew by +818 roles in the last 28 days — 2,308 opened against 1,490 closed.
• 399 companies posted their first DevOps/infra role in the past 28 days, a meaningful chunk of new demand.
• Only 14% of postings disclose pay; among those that do, the median band is $130,250–$170,000/yr (n=188).
• Anduril Industries (+38) and SpaceX (+32) lead net new hiring — defense and aerospace, not the usual SaaS suspects.

The headline this month isn't the raw count — it's who's at the top of the leaderboard. The two fastest-growing employers for DevOps and infrastructure work right now are Anduril Industries and SpaceX, with a defense-tech outfit and a rocket company each adding more net roles in 28 days than most pure-software firms have open in total. If you've spent your career assuming the best infra jobs live at cloud vendors and B2B SaaS, the data is quietly telling you to widen your search.

How many DevOps & infra jobs are open right now?

There are 5,432 open DevOps and infrastructure roles across 2,156 companies in the dataset as of June 2026. That's a healthy spread — roughly two and a half open roles per hiring company on average, which tells you demand is broad rather than concentrated in a handful of mega-employers running huge reqs.

The function breakdown is almost comically lopsided: 5,391 of the roles are tagged engineering, with everything else — product, sales, marketing, operations — adding up to barely 40 postings combined. That's expected for this niche, and it's a useful sanity check that the dataset is actually capturing infra work and not bleeding in adjacent job families. When I say "DevOps & infra hiring," this is genuinely engineers building and running platforms, pipelines and cloud infrastructure.

Is DevOps & infra hiring growing or cooling?

It's growing, and not marginally — net new roles came in at +818 over the trailing 28 days. Companies opened 2,308 roles and closed 1,490. A closed role can mean a hire, a cancelled req, or a posting that simply expired, so I don't read closes as a clean "filled" signal. But the open-to-close ratio of roughly 1.55:1 is the number that matters, and it points to expansion rather than churn.

What I find more telling than the net figure is the 399 companies that posted their very first DevOps or infra role in the last 28 days. New entrants are how a hiring market broadens its base. When the same 50 firms keep reposting the same reqs, that's a stagnant market wearing a busy costume. Four hundred fresh employers stepping in is the opposite — it suggests infra hiring is spreading into companies that previously didn't have (or didn't advertise) a dedicated platform function. You can watch how this shifts month to month on the movers page.

Which companies are hiring DevOps & infra fastest?

Defense and aerospace dominate the top of the board. Here's the 28-day net-new leaderboard:

• Anduril Industries — +38 net, 109 active (profile)
• SpaceX — +32 net, 105 active (profile)
• Nscale — +32 net, 34 active (profile)
• Rivian — +15 net, 15 active (profile)
• Relativity — +11 net, 26 active
• Encora — +10 net, 13 active
• Agentis Capital Advisors — +9 net, 9 active
• Rocket Lab — +9 net, 30 active
• Okta — +9 net, 26 active
• Woven by Toyota — +8 net, 16 active

A few things jump out. Anduril and SpaceX aren't just adding fast — they're carrying large absolute footprints too, at 109 and 105 active roles. That's sustained build-out, not a one-week spike. Rocket Lab and Relativity round out an aerospace cohort, and Woven by Toyota plus Rivian bring automotive into the mix. Add it up and physical-engineering companies — things that fly, drive or get launched — are absorbing a striking share of platform-engineering talent right now.

Nscale is the interesting outlier. It matched SpaceX's +32 net while sitting on only 34 active roles, meaning almost its entire infra org appears to have been posted inside this window. That's the signature of a company standing up a platform team from close to zero. If you want to be employee number-early on an infra team rather than slotting into an existing rotation, that profile is worth a hard look.

Okta is the most conventional name on the list and the only clear pure-software security vendor in the top ten — a reminder that traditional SaaS infra hiring hasn't stopped, it's just no longer where the fastest growth is. Encora and Agentis Capital Advisors fill out the tail; Agentis posting all nine of its active roles net-new in 28 days is another from-scratch signal.

What do DevOps & infra jobs pay?

Among the postings that disclose pay, the median band is $130,250–$170,000/yr — but that's based on just 188 roles, because only 14% of postings publish a number at all. Treat the figure as directional, not gospel. Six out of seven employers in this dataset tell you nothing about compensation until you're in process.

For the one role I have enough disclosed samples to break out cleanly, DevOps Engineer, the median band is $130,000–$170,000 (n=30). That tracks almost exactly with the overall disclosed median, which gives me some confidence the headline band is representative of mainstream individual-contributor infra work rather than skewed by a few outliers. You can see the fuller breakdown on the DevOps salaries page.

The honest caveat: with 14% disclosure, the companies that publish pay are self-selecting. Firms in pay-transparency states, or those competing hardest on comp, are overrepresented. A roughly $130k–$170k band is a reasonable anchor for a US-based mid-to-senior DevOps engineer, but I wouldn't bet your negotiation on it being the ceiling. Several of the fastest-growing employers here are defense and aerospace firms that often don't disclose and may carry their own comp logic.

What seniority levels are companies hiring for?

Senior is the dominant specified level, but the real story is how much sits above it. Here's the distribution:

• Unspecified — 2,742
• Senior — 1,867
• Principal — 599
• Director — 112
• Junior — 80
• Executive — 24
• VP — 8

Set aside the 2,742 unspecified roles — that's mostly a tagging artifact, since plenty of postings don't put a level in the title. Of the roles that do declare seniority, senior and principal together make up roughly 92%. Principal alone (599) outnumbers junior (80) by more than seven to one.

That ratio is the single most important thing in this report for anyone early in their career. This is not a market hiring people to learn on the job. Eighty junior reqs across 2,156 companies works out to fewer than one entry-level opening for every 25 companies hiring. Infra and platform work has always skewed senior because it's load-bearing — you don't hand production cloud spend and incident response to someone in their first six months — but an 80-to-1,867 junior-to-senior gap is steeper than I'd want anyone breaking into the field to discover by accident.

The leadership layer is thin and specialized: 112 director, 24 executive, 8 VP. If you're an infra leader, there are real seats open, but they turn over slowly and you're competing in a small pool.

How much of this is remote?

Remote share sits at 22%, so roughly one in five of these roles is advertised as remote. For a discipline that runs on SSH and dashboards, that's lower than outsiders might guess — and the company mix explains a lot of it. Aerospace and defense firms building hardware tend to want people on-site near the labs and launch facilities, and several of this month's fastest growers fall squarely into that bucket. If location flexibility is non-negotiable for you, the trade-off is that some of the highest-velocity hiring is happening at exactly the companies least likely to offer it.

Is this a good time to look for a DevOps or infra job?

For experienced engineers, yes — this is one of the stronger snapshots I've measured. Positive net hiring of +818, 399 brand-new employers entering the market, and a broad base of 2,156 companies all point the same direction. Demand is real and it's distributed, which means leverage in negotiation and genuine choice in where you land.

The qualifier is seniority. If you're a senior or principal engineer, you're the exact profile this market is built around, and you should be fielding options. If you're trying to break in at junior level, the 80 open reqs tell you to be strategic: target the from-scratch teams (a Nscale or an Agentis, where roles are being defined now and headcount plans may have more give), lean on internal transfers from adjacent SWE or ops roles, and treat a "senior" title gap as something to close through demonstrated platform work rather than waiting for a junior posting that statistically may not come.

The takeaway for job seekers

Point your search where the velocity actually is. The fastest-hiring employers this month are defense, aerospace and automotive firms — Anduril, SpaceX, Rivian, Rocket Lab, Relativity, Woven by Toyota — not the cloud-vendor and SaaS names most infra engineers default to. If you can work on-site and you're comfortable on hardware-adjacent platforms, that's where the open doors are most numerous right now. Use a disclosed band of roughly $130k–$170k as your anchor for a senior IC role, but go in knowing most of these companies won't show their number until you've made them want you. And if you want a team where you'll define the platform rather than inherit it, watch the firms posting their entire infra org in a single 28-day window — Nscale is this month's clearest example, and there were 399 first-time employers behind it. Browse the full set on the DevO