Senior infrastructure expertise, on a retainer that scales with your needs — not your headcount
Fractional DevOps retainers, cloud cost audits, AI-driven automation and Infrastructure as Code. Documented, version-controlled, no lock-in.
Services
Enterprise-grade infrastructure without an in-house platform team
Growing companies face a common problem: you need enterprise-grade infrastructure, reliable automation and intelligent cloud operations — but you cannot justify the cost or the timeline of building a full in-house team to deliver it.
Everything we build is documented, version-controlled and designed to outlast any single engagement. No lock-in. No black boxes. Just reliable, well-architected systems your team can own and evolve.
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Fractional DevOps
Senior DevOps expertise on a monthly retainer — without the full-time hire.
A full-time senior DevOps engineer costs upwards of $150,000 a year once you factor in salary, taxes, benefits and recruitment — for a workload that typically needs 10–20 hours of high-level attention a week, not 40.
This is not outsourced support or a helpdesk. We join your Slack channel, attend your standups, and work alongside your developers as a senior infrastructure colleague who already knows your stack.
- 24/7 infrastructure monitoring
- CI/CD pipeline management
- Weekly security patching
- Incident response with an SLA
- Infrastructure as Code
- Daily backup verification
- Monthly strategy call
- Kubernetes (EKS/AKS) management
from $1,450 / month · month-to-month · onboarding in 3–5 days · see the plans
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Cloud cost optimization
Stop paying for cloud resources that are not working for you.
Cloud bills grow faster than revenue — driven by oversized instances, idle resources, forgotten staging environments, and patterns that made sense at 10,000 users but not at 100,000.
We audit your entire environment across AWS, GCP or Azure and deliver a prioritized action plan. Clients typically reduce monthly cloud spend by 15 to 30 percent within the first few weeks.
- Full infrastructure scan and kill list
- Rightsizing plan
- Reserved instance analysis
- Architecture review
- Security vulnerability check
- Prioritized savings report
$1,490 one-time audit · or performance-based · report in 5–7 days
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AI-driven automation
Replace manual workflows with intelligent, self-improving systems.
Where conventional automation executes a fixed sequence of steps, AI-augmented systems interpret unstructured inputs, make decisions in context, and handle the edge cases that make traditional automation brittle.
We prioritize ruthlessly — not every process benefits from AI, and we will tell you honestly when a simpler scripted solution is the better choice.
- LLM-powered internal tools
- AI-augmented CI/CD pipelines
- Intelligent monitoring and alerting
- Business process automation
- RAG systems over your own docs
- AI inference cost management
project engagement · starts with a workflow audit · version-controlled delivery
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Infrastructure as Code
Your cloud environment — version-controlled, reproducible, audit-ready.
If your infrastructure exists primarily in the memory of the person who built it, you have a risk problem. When every server, network rule and IAM permission is defined in version-controlled code, spinning up an environment becomes one command and rolling back a bad change becomes a git revert.
Every module we deliver ships with inline documentation and operational runbooks.
- Terraform module development
- Ansible playbook development
- IaC migration of existing infrastructure
- Environment parity across stages
- CI/CD integration
- Remote state and locking
- Documentation and runbooks
Terraform · Ansible · Pulumi · foundation in 2–4 weeks · standalone or on retainer
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Managed hosting — for our development clients only
We do not sell standalone web hosting, and we will say so plainly rather than take the order. Hosting we did not build is hosting we cannot be accountable for.
Where we designed and built the site — ForgeStack (static, Cloudflare Pages) or premium WordPress — we run it as part of the engagement: updates, backups, monitoring, security patching and performance work, with one team responsible end to end.
If you are shopping for hosting alone, you will be better served elsewhere and we will tell you where to look.
included with a development engagement · never sold separately
Frequently asked questions
Is it just monitoring and support?
No — monitoring is the baseline. Depending on your plan you get pipeline management, architecture improvements, infrastructure change reviews, a Slack channel, and strategy calls with your technical lead. Think of it less as a support contract and more as a part-time senior hire who already knows what they are doing from day one.
How is this different from a freelancer or an agency?
Freelancers are project-based and move on. Agencies route your work through account managers before it reaches an engineer. With our retainer you work directly with senior engineers who take ongoing responsibility for your infrastructure, month to month.
We already have developers. Do we need a DevOps partner?
Most likely yes, unless one of your developers has significant infrastructure experience and the bandwidth to own it properly. When developers manage infrastructure alongside their main work, deployments slow down, incidents take longer, and cloud costs drift upward without anyone noticing.
How much can we realistically save from the cost audit?
Clients typically reduce monthly cloud spend by 15 to 30 percent within the first few weeks. The exact figure depends on how long the infrastructure has run without a formal review. Companies that scaled quickly tend to have the most headroom.
What cloud platforms do you work with?
AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Hetzner Cloud and Microsoft Azure. The majority of our clients run on AWS, where we have the deepest day-to-day operational experience.
How quickly can you get started?
Retainer onboarding typically takes three to five business days, with an initial assessment before the first week is out. Cost audit reports are usually ready within five to seven business days of receiving access.