> Uhhh, excuse me but how much are you paying this DevOps guy? This seems like a very American perspective, even valley area. In Europe, hiring a guy would be cheaper.

Fully loaded employment costs are significantly higher than what you take home in your paycheck. It's actually worse in Europe. Take a look at these charts: https://accace.com/the-true-cost-of-an-employee-in-europe/

If you pay someone 1000 EUR in the UK, it costs the company a total of 1245 EUR.

If you pay someone 1000 EUR in Romania, it costs the company 1747 EUR total.

So a $120,000 fully loaded cost might only buy you at $68,000 USD salary for an EU devops person.

But you can't have just one devops person. You need at least 2 if you want to allow one of them to ever take a break, get sick, or go on vacation.