DevOps as a Service
Fixed-scope, fixed-price DevOps and security engagements you can start this week: cloud cost investigation, security audit, incident-readiness sprint, compliance gap scan. The quote is agreed before work starts, and every engagement ends with findings your team keeps. Start on demand, scale to fractional if you want it owned monthly.
The Problem
Most DevOps-as-a-service providers sell a subscription before you know what you are buying, and most consultancies sell a paid discovery phase before they will quote. When the trigger is concrete (the cloud bill jumped, a customer sent a security questionnaire, an audit deadline landed, the one engineer who knew the infrastructure resigned) you need a senior engineer on a bounded engagement with the price known up front, this week, not a procurement cycle.
Who This Is For
Startups and small engineering teams, funded or bootstrapped, with a specific trigger rather than an ongoing need: a cloud bill that stopped making sense, a security questionnaire or due-diligence request with a deadline, a compliance gap scan before an audit, or infrastructure knowledge that just walked out the door. If you already know you need continuous ownership, the fractional retainer is the better fit and costs less per hour.
Typical Outcomes
Timeline Options
Week 1
- Scope agreed, fixed price quoted, access provisioned read-only first
- Cost or security review underway with daily findings
Weeks 2-3
- Remediations shipped and verified
- Documentation and runbooks written for handover
Close-out
- Founder-readable report: what was found, what was fixed, what it saves
- Handover session with your team
- Optional continuation plan if you want the work owned monthly (fractional retainer)
This might not be a fit if...
- You need ongoing ownership rather than a bounded engagement; that is the fractional retainer, and per hour it costs less
- You need a certification body or audit firm; we do readiness and remediation, and clients engage a CPA firm or certification body for the attestation itself
- You need staff augmentation to clear a ticket backlog under someone else's direction
- You need a 24/7 staffed SOC or monitoring desk
What You Get
The Transformation
Before
- A concrete infrastructure problem and no senior owner to hand it to
- Vendor quotes that start with a paid discovery phase
- Security questionnaires answered from memory and hope
- The cloud bill treated as weather: observed, not controlled
After
- A bounded engagement with the price known before work starts
- The trigger problem fixed and documented, not just diagnosed
- Evidence-backed answers ready for the next questionnaire
- A clear picture of what continuous ownership would cost and cover
Engagement Models
Project-based
Fixed scope, fixed timeline, fixed price. Ideal for specific security initiatives.
Retainer
Ongoing support with priority response. Perfect for continuous security needs.
What influences pricing?
- Team size and environment complexity
- Timeline and urgency requirements
- Scope of systems and platforms
- Ongoing support and maintenance needs
Frequently Asked Questions
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