India, Feb. 14 -- Change often requires adding new skills to the team, but the search for the perfect, ideal engineer can become an exercise in frustration. Consultants and hiring experts say this is a time of significant change ushered in by cloud providers and edge computing. They see a bit of a frenzied response at some organizations to find DevOps talent, and such actions maybe overzealous.

"Things are not in such bad shape," says Brendan Caulfield, chief revenue officer with ServerCentral Turing Group, a provider of Amazon Web Services consulting, cloud-native software development, and data center services. The fundamental shift taking place in technology, he says, is driving a feeling there is such a shortage in DevOps talent that ...