Fractional DevSecOps

Cloud Security & DevSecOps Services for Startups in India

Your fractional cloud, infrastructure, and security team — on a monthly retainer. Built for pre-seed and seed startups (5–50 engineers) that don't have a DevOps person yet, and are tired of plugging holes one consultant at a time.

We operate across India, Singapore, UAE, UK, and US. ₹40k–₹2.5L/month tiered by hours. No long-term lock-in. Every engagement is fixed scope, fixed price, audit-ready.

Why fractional DevSecOps beats hiring (right now)

Most pre-seed and seed startups face the same problem: you need cloud architecture, CI/CD automation, and security expertise — three separate disciplines — but you can only afford one senior hire. And that one person can't credibly be all three. Hiring three full-time engineers means ₹1.5–3 crore a year in fully-loaded cost before equity, before benefits, before the 6-month ramp where they're still learning your stack.

We solve it differently. MatrixGard becomes your cloud + infrastructure + security team on a monthly retainer for a fraction of the cost of one senior hire. Same faces every sprint. One Slack channel. One invoice. Senior capacity from day one — no ramp, no learning curve, no recruiter fees.

We're not a consultancy that disappears after the audit. We're not a managed service that throws cookie-cutter alerts at you. We're not a body shop that swaps in junior engineers when nobody's looking. We're the team you would have hired if you could.

How we help you

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Cloud Audit

What's included in every retainer

Cloud architecture & hardening

AWS, GCP, Azure security baselines. IAM least-privilege. VPC + network segmentation. KMS encryption at rest. WAF + DDoS. Multi-region DR for compliance-heavy workloads.

CI/CD & DevSecOps pipelines

GitHub Actions / GitLab CI / Argo CD. Trivy + Snyk + OWASP ZAP scanning gates. Secrets management with Vault / AWS Secrets Manager / GCP Secret Manager. Zero-friction deployment flows that catch issues without blocking releases.

FinOps & cost optimization

Powered by Ghost-hunter, our internal AI cloud-bill investigator. Find the orphan GPU instance that's costing you ₹3 lakh/month. Right-size, reserve, and rationalize. Most teams cut 20–40% of cloud spend within the first audit.

Compliance & audit readiness

SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, RBI Master Direction (PA / NBFC / digital lending), DPDP Act 2023, PCI-DSS for payment aggregators. We build the evidence package, brief your auditor, and handle the controls maintenance between annual audits.

Incident readiness & response

Severity classification. On-call rotations. Runbooks for top failure modes. Blameless post-mortems. RBI's 6-hour incident reporting requirement covered end-to-end for fintech clients.

Kubernetes & container security

EKS / GKE / AKS hardening. Network policies. RBAC least-privilege. Audit logging. Admission controllers (OPA / Kyverno) to block non-compliant deployments before they ship.

Real Results

Recent work

Real results for real startups. See how we've helped teams secure infrastructure and eliminate cloud waste.

Who We Work With

Startups

Moving fast but worried about security debt piling up

Scale-ups

Growing complexity, enterprise customers asking tough questions

Platform Teams

Need expertise to level up security without hiring full-time

Not sure which service you need?

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