Fractional DevOps
A Senior DevOps Engineer,
Without the Full-Time Hire
Your developers are shipping features and doing DevOps on the side. We take the pipelines, infrastructure and reliability work off their plate a few days a month, for a fraction of a senior hire's salary.
10+ years running production on AWSAWS Certified Solutions ArchitectWe run our own SaaS on AWS
The Problem
Your Developers Shouldn't Be Your DevOps Team
Small software teams end up with deploys that only one person can run, infrastructure clicked together in the console, and no staging environment that matches production. Each fix costs developer time you'd rather spend on the product.
A full-time senior DevOps engineer is a big salary for work that's often a few days a month. Fractional DevOps gets you the same seniority for the days you need.
We take over:
Deployments
Automated, repeatable, zero-downtime deploys from your repo.
Infrastructure as code
Your AWS defined in Terraform, reviewable and rebuildable.
Reliability
Monitoring, alerting and runbooks so incidents are short and rare.
What We Do
Typical Fractional DevOps Work
CI/CD pipelines
GitHub Actions or similar: tests, builds, container images and deploys on every merge.
Terraform
Existing infrastructure imported into code, then managed through pull requests.
Containers on ECS
Moving apps onto ECS and Fargate with health checks, autoscaling and sane logging.
Environments
Staging and preview environments that actually match production.
Observability
Metrics, logs, traces and alerts that point at the cause, not just the symptom.
Security basics
Least-privilege IAM, secrets out of code, dependency and image scanning.
Pricing
Plans
Fractional DevOps starts at $2,500/mo, a monthly block of senior engineering time with a regular check-in.
Teams with more going on run about $5,000/mo, with more hours and faster turnaround.
Extra hours are $175/hr. Month to month. Projects with a defined scope, like a Terraform import or a move to ECS, can also be quoted at a fixed price.
What is fractional DevOps?
A senior DevOps engineer who works for you part-time on a monthly plan. You get the experience of a senior hire for the days you actually need, without recruiting, salary and benefits.
How much does a fractional DevOps engineer cost?
From $2,500/mo, and around $5,000/mo for teams that need more hours and faster turnaround. Extra hours are $175/hr.
How do you work with our developers?
Through your normal tools: pull requests, your issue tracker and your team chat. We document what we build so your developers can work with it.
Do you only work on AWS?
Our depth is AWS, especially ECS, Fargate, RDS and Terraform. CI/CD and container work apply wherever you deploy, but we're the best fit for AWS teams.
Can you help us pass a security questionnaire?
We can fix the technical gaps customer security questionnaires usually ask about: access control, logging, backups, encryption. For formal audits like SOC 2 you'll also want a compliance firm, and we can work alongside them.
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