Fractional DevOps
Most startups under 25 engineers have real infrastructure problems — and nowhere near 40 hours a week of them. Fractional DevOps gives you the senior skills without the $200–300K hire: flat monthly price, start next week, cancel anytime.
A senior DevOps engineer on your team — without the hire.
$2,900per month
Ongoing · pause or cancel anytime
Best if: You want senior infrastructure work every month without a $200K hire.
Book a 15-min callWhat it covers
Cluster upgrades, autoscaling, GitOps, and the internal tooling your developers actually use.
Pipelines with tests, previews, and one-command rollback — deploys stop being events.
Infrastructure as reviewed code in your repos — no console archaeology, no bus factor.
A line-by-line spend review every month. Most months, the retainer finds part of its own fee.
Dashboards and error budgets kept honest, alerts tuned so pages mean something.
Compliance checks stay green after the audit — evidence, access reviews, drift caught early.
The mechanics
You add work to a shared board — anything infrastructure. We pull one request at a time; most finish in 2–3 days.
Every Friday, a written update: what shipped, what's next, what we noticed. No status meetings required.
$2,900/month, never hourly. Pause or cancel any month — everything lives in your repos, so leaving is easy by design.
Want the full math against a full-time hire, an agency, and marketplace freelancers? It's on thepricing page, next to a sample retainer month. Orrun your own numbers in the cost calculator.
Honesty first
Past ~25 engineers, you need DevOps in every planning meeting and on every incident — hire in-house at that point, and we'll tell you when you're there. Need a staffed 24/7 on-call team? That's not us either; we're a senior solo practice and say so upfront.
What we promise instead: everything we build is Terraform and docs in your repos, so the day you hire, your new engineer inherits a clean platform instead of a mystery.
Questions
A senior DevOps engineer working for your company a fraction of the time, for a fraction of the cost of hiring one. You get the same skills a $200–300K full-time hire brings — Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, monitoring, cloud cost control — delivered through a flat monthly retainer instead of a salary. It exists because most startups under 25 engineers have real infrastructure needs but not 40 hours a week of them.
Ours is $2,900/month flat, published right here. Across the market, fractional and subscription DevOps runs $3,000–5,600/month from Western providers; agencies quote $5,000–10,000+ and usually hide the number until a sales call. Anything much cheaper is typically an offshore bench at $18–25/hour where you get a rotating junior engineer, not a senior one.
By team size and workload, honestly. Under ~25 engineers, there usually isn't enough DevOps work to keep a $200–300K hire busy, and hiring takes 3–6 months — fractional wins. Past ~25 engineers, you need someone in every meeting and on every incident — hire in-house, and part of our job is leaving you infrastructure a new hire can pick up in a week. We put this in writing on our pricing page.
Usually within a week. You add requests to a shared queue — a pipeline fix, a scaling problem, a new environment, a cost review. We work them one at a time with a 2–3 day typical turnaround, send a written update every Friday, and you can pause or cancel any month. Everything is built in your repos and cloud accounts, so you keep every line of it.
A 15-minute call is enough to tell you exactly what we'd do and what it costs. No pitch deck, no pressure.