DevOps engineers who turn half-day deployments into 15-minute automated pipelines.

Kubernetes solves specific problems: running multiple service instances, automatic failover, rolling deployments without downtime, and auto-scaling based on load. If your application is a single service running on one or two servers with stable traffic, Kubernetes adds operational complexity without meaningful benefit. AWS ECS, Google Cloud Run, or Railway is simpler and cheaper. If you have microservices, variable traffic, or need multi-region resilience, Kubernetes is the right foundation. We assess your architecture, traffic patterns, and team before recommending.

Infrastructure as code means your cloud environments (VPCs, subnets, security groups, databases, load balancers, compute instances) are defined in Terraform files committed to version control. The practical outcomes: you can recreate any environment in minutes, not days. Every infrastructure change is a reviewed pull request with a plan output showing exactly what will change. New environments (staging, a new region, a client-specific deployment) are spun up from the same config. No more 'I think I set that up six months ago and I'm not sure what it is.' We use Terraform with remote state in S3 or GCS and workspace separation between environments.

We set up monitoring at three levels: infrastructure metrics (CPU, memory, disk, network), application metrics (request rate, error rate, latency, the RED method), and business metrics (orders processed, payments succeeded, jobs completed). For alerting: PagerDuty or OpsGenie integration with sensible thresholds, not an alert for every 5xx, but an alert when error rate crosses a threshold for a sustained period. We document runbooks for the five most likely failure scenarios so your team knows how to respond before an incident happens.

A senior DevOps engineer typically runs $4,000 to $7,000 per month depending on the cloud platform, tooling depth (Terraform, Kubernetes, security automation), and engagement scope. Project-based engagements (pipeline setup, Kubernetes migration, IaC build) are scoped at a fixed cost. Ongoing embedded support retainers are priced by the week. We quote after a call to assess your current infrastructure and what the engagement needs to deliver.

Yes. Most engagements start with an audit of what exists, what's defined in code, what was created manually, what's undocumented. We then decide together what to migrate to IaC, what to leave as-is, and what to replace. We don't insist on a full rebuild. If your EC2 setup is working and the only issue is a missing CI/CD pipeline, we fix the CI/CD pipeline.

We build compliance-aligned infrastructure from the start rather than retroactively mapping controls to an existing setup. For SOC 2: encryption at rest and in transit, IAM least-privilege policies, audit logging (CloudTrail, AWS Config), automated evidence collection for change management controls, and network segmentation. For HIPAA: PHI encryption at rest (AES-256), encrypted backups with access controls, audit trails for all PHI access, and a BAA in place with cloud providers. We document the controls we put in place so your compliance team has the evidence they need for audit.