DevOps engineers who build and maintain the infrastructure your software runs on, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, cloud environments, and deployment automation that your development team can actually use.
DevOps engineers with AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipeline experience
Flexible models, part-time, full-time, or dedicated team
Infrastructure setup, migration, or ongoing management
Recognition
Deployments taking too long or failing too often because of manual processes?
Development team spending time on infrastructure problems instead of product features?
In short
RaftLabs provides DevOps engineers for hire who build CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, cloud infrastructure on AWS and GCP, and deployment automation for engineering teams. Engineers are available part-time, full-time, or as a dedicated team, and can handle initial setup, migration, and ongoing infrastructure management. Engagements start within days with fixed-cost or monthly retainer options.
We work with engineering teams that need DevOps expertise without hiring a full-time infrastructure team.
Early-stage startups often deploy manually until the first serious incident. We set up CI/CD pipelines, containerised deployments, and cloud infrastructure before bad deployment processes become a production problem.
When a single EC2 instance or Heroku app stops being enough, we build the Kubernetes infrastructure, auto-scaling, and multi-environment deployment pipelines that growing platforms need.
Development teams shouldn't have to manage infrastructure, it slows feature delivery and creates context switching. We provide ongoing DevOps support that keeps infrastructure running and out of developers' way.
Legacy infrastructure migrations to AWS, GCP, or Azure. We plan the migration, minimise downtime, and leave you with modern cloud infrastructure and documented runbooks.
Automated build, test, and deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or CircleCI. Pipeline architecture that gives your development team fast feedback and reliable deployments, without manual intervention per release.
Kubernetes cluster setup and management on AWS EKS, GCP GKE, or self-hosted. Pod deployment configurations, horizontal pod autoscaling, ingress controllers, secrets management, and namespace organisation. Production-ready Kubernetes that your developers can deploy to without understanding the underlying complexity.
AWS, GCP, or Azure environment setup with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or Pulumi). VPC configuration, security group rules, IAM roles, database provisioning, and network architecture, built with security and cost efficiency in mind from the start.
Observability stack implementation, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or CloudWatch, with dashboards for the metrics your team actually needs. Log aggregation with ELK or CloudWatch Logs. Alerting configured to alert on real problems, not noise.
Security group configuration, secrets management (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager), TLS certificate management, vulnerability scanning in CI pipelines, and least-privilege IAM policies. Infrastructure security built in, not applied after an incident.
Cloud cost audits and optimisation, right-sizing instances, reserved instance planning, spot instance usage, idle resource cleanup, and S3/storage cost reduction. We find the cloud spend that isn't delivering value and eliminate it.
Experienced engineers for CI/CD, Kubernetes, cloud setup, and ongoing infrastructure management.
Our DevOps engineers have set up infrastructure for startups (single-server to multi-region), scale-ups (Kubernetes migrations), and enterprises (compliance-driven cloud environments). They've seen what breaks.
We build infrastructure with Terraform or Pulumi, version-controlled, reproducible, and reviewable. No undocumented manual configurations that disappear when the engineer who built it leaves.
Infrastructure should make developers faster, not slower. We design CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows with developer experience in mind, fast feedback, clear error messages, and one-command deploys.
Infrastructure status, recent changes, upcoming work, and cost summaries, at the cadence you choose. You know the state of your infrastructure without having to dig into dashboards.
For ongoing management engagements, we provide incident response support with defined SLAs. Production issues don't wait for business hours, we respond when the infrastructure doesn't.
Every infrastructure project includes runbooks, architecture diagrams, and operational documentation. When we hand over, your team can manage and extend the infrastructure without us.
Tell us your current infrastructure, the deployment problems you're experiencing, and what you need to build or fix.
A 30-minute call to understand your current setup, pain points, and what DevOps improvements would have the most impact.
A clear proposal with scope, timeline, and fixed or retainer cost, before any commitment.
Engineers onboard in days. Infrastructure audit complete in week one. First pipeline running within two weeks.
Pricing
Dedicated senior engineers from $6,000/month (minimum pod $12,000/month).
Experienced DevOps engineers available in days. Fixed project cost or monthly retainer. Full documentation on handover.
We primarily work with AWS (most commonly), Google Cloud Platform, and Azure. On AWS, our engineers are experienced with EKS, ECS, EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, CloudFront, and the wider services suite. For infrastructure-as-code, we use Terraform for cross-cloud provisioning and AWS CDK for AWS-specific environments. We help you choose the right cloud platform based on your application requirements, team experience, and cost profile.
Yes. Kubernetes is central to most of our infrastructure work. We set up managed Kubernetes clusters (EKS, GKE, AKE), configure pod deployments, manage ingress controllers, set up horizontal pod autoscaling, handle secrets management with external-secrets or Vault, and build Helm charts for application deployments. We also build the CI/CD integration so developers can deploy to Kubernetes with a single git push.
Both. Some clients engage us for a specific project, CI/CD setup, cloud migration, or Kubernetes implementation, and then manage it themselves with our documentation. Others retain us for ongoing infrastructure management, with defined response times for incidents and regular maintenance. The right model depends on whether you have internal engineers who can manage infrastructure after the initial build.
Security is built into the infrastructure design, least-privilege IAM roles, security group rules that restrict access to only what's needed, secrets management via AWS Secrets Manager or HashiCorp Vault, TLS everywhere, vulnerability scanning in CI pipelines, and container image scanning. For regulated environments (fintech, healthcare), we design the infrastructure around the specific compliance requirements from the start.