Fractional DevSecOps for Indian Startups
One senior owner for cloud, infrastructure and security across your Indian startup, on a monthly retainer in rupees. Built around what Indian teams actually get asked for: DPDP obligations, RBI overlays for fintech, and SOC 2 or ISO 27001 readiness priced for Indian engineering economics rather than Western defaults.
The Problem
Ask for DevSecOps help in India and the market splits into two unhelpful halves: large IT services firms priced and scoped for enterprises, and individual freelancers who cover one of the three disciplines you need. A startup between those poles needs cloud, infrastructure and security owned together by one senior practitioner, billed in rupees, on IST hours. Hiring that as three full-time roles runs into crores a year and months of searching per role, while the cloud bill compounds, deploys stay fragile, and the first enterprise customer questionnaire or DPDP obligation arrives before anyone owns the answer.
Who This Is For
Startups and small engineering teams anywhere in India, funded or bootstrapped, running on AWS, GCP or Azure with no dedicated infrastructure or security hire. Typical spend is thirty thousand to five lakh rupees a month on cloud. Common trigger points: the cloud bill stopped making sense, a customer or investor asked security questions nobody owns, DPDP or an RBI direction became real, or the one engineer who understood the infrastructure resigned.
Typical Outcomes
Timeline Options
First 2 weeks
- Cloud cost review with the first fixes shipped
- Security baseline scan and the top-priority remediations
- Written findings a founder can act on immediately
First 90 days
- Cost, IAM and network hardening complete
- CI/CD security wired into the existing pipeline
- Incident response runbook written and rehearsed once
- Gap map against whichever framework you are actually being asked for
Ongoing retainer
- Continuous cost and security ownership on IST hours
- Monthly founder-ready report
- Compliance evidence accumulating as the infrastructure runs
- Direct access to the engineer doing the work, never an account manager
This might not be a fit if...
- You want a DevSecOps course or certification for yourself; this is a service for companies, and India has many training institutes for individual upskilling
- You need the audit itself; we do readiness and remediation, and you engage a licensed CPA firm or certification body for the attestation
- You need a 24/7 staffed SOC; we build detection and response readiness, not a round-the-clock monitoring desk
- You are an enterprise with existing platform and security teams and want additional hands for ticket volume
What You Get
The Transformation
Before
- Three open reqs you cannot fill, for roles you cannot yet justify full time
- A cloud bill in rupees that grows every month with no owner
- DPDP and customer security questionnaires treated as someday problems
- Quotes from IT services firms scoped and priced for companies ten times your size
After
- One senior owner across cloud, infrastructure and security from week one
- Cloud spend understood, owned, and trending in the right direction
- Compliance readiness accumulating as a byproduct of how the infrastructure runs
- A retainer in rupees, month to month, that scales with the team rather than ahead of it
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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Your pipeline is deploying secrets to production and you probably don't know it. We audit and harden your CI/CD, catching vulnerabilities before they ship, not after.
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RBI Fintech Compliance
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AWS Baseline (India)
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SOC 2 (India)
SOC 2 Type I + Type II readiness for Indian seed startups, priced in rupees. We build you to audit-ready and shortlist India-based licensed CPA firms so the all-in lands at ₹15-30L instead of the ₹35L+ Western default. Vanta / Drata / Sprinto / Scrut integration, and a build cadence calibrated to Indian engineering economics. The attestation itself is always issued by the licensed CPA firm you engage.
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UAE
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Bangalore
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DaaS
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.
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Migration
Startup-sized cloud migrations that arrive secure and cost-controlled: PaaS to cloud (Heroku class exits), cloud to cloud, region moves for data-localization, and account consolidation. Fixed scope, fixed price, senior engineer end to end. The migration is the cheapest moment you will ever have to fix cost and security; we use it.
AI Search Visibility
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