You don't need another generalist sysadmin who picked up Kubernetes last quarter. You need a DevOps / Platform / SRE engineer who can design an IDP your developers actually use, wire GitOps cleanly, instrument observability that pages the right person, cut your cloud bill in half without breaking production, and pass SOC 2 without asking the auditor for extensions. That's the bench we staff.
$20/hr
Starting rate
5 days
Free audit
99.95%
SLO target shipped
Pipelines flaky? Infra chaos? Runbooks missing? SOC 2 coming? Brief us in 60 seconds. We'll match a senior DevOps engineer in 24 hours and run a free 5-day audit of your stack.
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Six engagements we've closed across platform, SRE, security and FinOps work in the last twelve months.
Replaced 40-minute flaky builds with 6-minute reproducible pipelines. GitHub Actions / GitLab CI / Azure DevOps / CircleCI — reusable workflow libraries, remote caching, matrix-driven test fan-out, signed container images via Cosign, SBOM attestation, and policy gates via Conftest / OPA.
Backstage-based or custom IDPs with golden paths for service scaffolding, CI/CD, infra provisioning via Terraform / Crossplane, self-service observability wiring, and RBAC. Dev experience that moves a new service from idea to staging in under an hour — without a ticket to the platform team.
ArgoCD for apps, Flux for platform. Progressive delivery via Argo Rollouts (canary + blue-green + experiment), External Secrets Operator with Vault / AWS Secrets Manager / Azure Key Vault backends, cert-manager, Kyverno / Gatekeeper for policy, and Karpenter / cluster-autoscaler for spot-heavy node pools.
Full OTel pipelines — Collector as the ingestion gateway, traces to Tempo / Honeycomb, metrics to Mimir / Grafana Cloud, logs to Loki / OpenSearch. SLI / SLO dashboards, PagerDuty routing, golden-signal pages, and FinOps cost views alongside operational ones.
Security-as-code — OPA policies, Falco runtime, Trivy / Grype scanning, Cosign signing, SBOMs, Vault-backed short-lived credentials, Drata / Vanta / Secureframe for evidence. We've taken three startups through SOC 2 Type II and one through HIPAA audit, all without platform findings.
14-day FinOps sprints cutting 25–40% off cloud bills. RI / SP optimization, rightsizing, spot fleets, idle resource cleanup, storage tier migration, egress reduction through Private Link / Cloud Interconnect, and team-level cost dashboards that make ownership visible.
Depth across CI/CD, IaC, Kubernetes, observability, security and FinOps — not just one cloud or one tool.
Every project starts with a free 5-day audit — pipeline health, infra maturity, observability coverage, security posture, cost hygiene.
30-minute scoping call. We map your current cloud, CI/CD estate, Kubernetes maturity, observability stack, compliance needs, and pain points. Pull 1–2 senior engineers whose prior projects match.
Structured walkthrough with DORA metrics (deploy frequency, lead time, MTTR, change fail rate), SLO coverage review, threat-model quick-pass, and FinOps dashboard. Deliverable is a 30-page scored report + prioritized roadmap.
Fixed-scope or dedicated-engineer model. Daily standups in your Slack / Teams, code in your repo, GitOps in the same repo, policy in CI. Weekly DORA scoreboard shared with your team.
Either a clean handover with runbooks, SLO dashboards and evidence packs — or an ongoing SRE retainer with follow-the-sun on-call coverage and quarterly game days.
Three engagement models. No tool reseller margin, no SaaS kickback, no minimum term beyond the current sprint.
5 days
Free
DORA metrics, SLO coverage, security posture, FinOps scorecard. Zero commitment.
6–20 weeks
$40K – $500K
Platform build, CI/CD rescue, observability stack, SOC 2 program, FinOps rescue. Fixed price, fixed timeline.
Monthly
$20 – $95/hr
Embedded engineer or managed SRE with follow-the-sun on-call coverage. Best when scope evolves or uptime matters.
We're not a body-shop staffing agency. Every engineer on the bench has shipped production platforms at scale and been on-call for them.
Every engineer writes Terraform + Helm + GitHub Actions during interview — and explains a post-mortem from production.
We'd rather hand you a scored DORA report than a capability deck. If the audit doesn't earn the work, we walk.
Every engagement includes team-level cost dashboards — not as an upsell. You see spend where it's caused.
We'll tell you when Kubernetes is overkill and ECS is fine, or when managed Postgres beats self-hosting. Fit tool to job.
DevOps is the practice of bridging development and operations — CI/CD, IaC, release automation, monitoring. Platform Engineering wraps that in a product mindset: a self-service internal platform (IDP) that developers use, backed by golden paths. SRE is the discipline of engineering reliability at scale — error budgets, SLOs, toil reduction, incident response. In practice the job titles blur — we staff engineers who can do all three and tell you which discipline your problem needs. The right label matters less than the engineer's ability to ship.
All three, plus on-prem and hybrid. Our engineers are cloud-fluent — Terraform + Pulumi + CloudFormation + Bicep, and GitHub Actions / GitLab CI / Azure DevOps / CircleCI pipelines. We match the engineer to your stack. For multi-cloud estates we ship engineers with cross-cloud patterns — Crossplane for provisioning abstraction, OIDC federation for identity, and cloud-agnostic observability via OpenTelemetry.
Yes. GitOps is our default delivery pattern. ArgoCD for application delivery, Flux for multi-tenant platform delivery, with progressive delivery via Argo Rollouts or Flagger for canary and blue-green deployments. We codify cluster config, ingress, secrets (via External Secrets Operator + a secret backend), and observability stack in a repo that's the single source of truth. No kubectl apply tickets.
Yes. Full OpenTelemetry-based observability — OTel Collector as the ingestion gateway, traces to Tempo / Jaeger / Honeycomb, metrics to Prometheus + Mimir / Grafana Cloud, logs to Loki / OpenSearch / Datadog. SLI / SLO dashboards in Grafana, PagerDuty or Opsgenie routing, incident response runbooks, and golden-signal dashboards so the on-call engineer isn't guessing at 2 a.m. We also instrument FinOps views — cost per service, per team, per request.
Security-as-code by default. Open Policy Agent / Conftest policies in CI, Falco for runtime security, Trivy / Grype for vulnerability scanning, Cosign for image signing, SBOMs generated and attested, Vault or cloud-native secret managers with short-lived credentials. For compliance we implement control evidence collection via tools like Drata / Vanta / Secureframe, build SOC 2 / HIPAA / PCI evidence packs, and support your audit team during external reviews. We've taken three startups through SOC 2 Type II.
Dedicated engineer from $20/hr (offshore senior) to $95/hr (US principal). Platform build-outs — IDP, observability, FinOps — are fixed-price $40K–$250K over 6–14 weeks. Cloud migrations run $60K–$500K. Incident-response / SRE retainers typically run $8K–$25K per month. Every engagement starts with a free 5-day audit of your current pipelines, infrastructure and observability stack.
Yes. We offer managed SRE retainers — follow-the-sun on-call coverage from US + EU + APAC engineers, with pre-agreed SLAs on detection, triage and restoration. We wire PagerDuty / Opsgenie into your alerting, co-author incident runbooks, run quarterly game days, and deliver blameless post-incident reviews. Retainer pricing scales with ticket volume and service surface — we don't charge a fixed flat fee for a shared pool.
Brief us on your stack, pain points and timeline. We'll match a senior DevOps engineer in 24 hours and deliver a scored DORA report by Friday — free.