I'd recommend hiring an agency for dev ops work instead. That level of responsibility (and probably having to be on call) could be too much for one person, and

I'd recommend hiring an agency for dev ops work instead. That level of responsibility (and probably having to be on call) could be too much for one person, and also a sign of missing infrastructure around E2E testing, CI/CD, backups and monitoring. It seems like senior professionals reach a career crossroads where the opportunity cost becomes too high at any price. I've been thinking about getting out of software engineering for several years now for that reason. And because I'm tired of reinventing the wheel in proprietary ways, only to see the code get thrown away because most internet businesses fail early on. In other words, this might be a problem with the industry, not your hiring process. Perhaps a #nocode or managed solution could be an alternative?