A senior cloud and DevOps engineer, a few days every month.
For small US and UK teams without a platform engineer. I take the cloud, pipeline and database work off your developers' plates and handle it independently. Fixed days per month, cancel any month.
Is this you?
Usually a team of 5 to 50 engineers, building product on Azure, with infrastructure work that never makes it to the top of the sprint.
Infra is everyone's side job.
So: pipelines, alerts and upgrades get done in a rush, or not at all.
We need senior help, not a full-time hire.
So: a few focused days a month cost far less than a salary.
Nobody owns the cloud bill or the database.
So: cost creeps up and the database gets slower every month.
what I handle
Your infrastructure backlog, owned end to end.
You tell me the priorities. I do the work in your repos and cloud, through your normal review process, and write down everything I change.
Cloud and cost
- Azure setup, networking, identity and access
- Monthly cost review and cleanup
- Right-sizing, reservations and budgets
Delivery
- CI/CD pipelines with tests and staging
- Infrastructure as code, Bicep or Terraform
- Monitoring, logs and alerts
Databases
- Slow queries, indexes and schema reviews
- Backups, replicas and restore tests
- Migrations and upgrades
How it works
A first week to get set up, then the same monthly rhythm.
- 1
Intro call
15 minutes on your stack, your backlog and what "done" looks like.
- 2
First week
Access with least privilege, a read-only review, and a 90-day plan you approve.
- 3
Every week
Work from your board, changes through pull requests, and a short written update every Friday.
- 4
Every month
A 30-minute review: what shipped, what's next, and whether to change the plan.
Plans
Billed monthly in advance by local bank transfer in USD, GBP or EUR. Change plan or cancel before the next month starts.
to start
Starter
$2,200 / month
- 4 days of work a month
- Best for keeping things healthy
- Cost review and small fixes
- Weekly written update
- Monthly review call
most teams
Core
$4,000 / month
- 8 days of work a month
- One meaningful project a month
- Plus ongoing upkeep
- Weekly written update
- Monthly review call
more hands
Plus
$5,600 / month
- 12 days of work a month
- A migration or platform build
- Alongside ongoing upkeep
- Weekly written update
- Monthly review call
hours
Async firstTwo to three hours of overlap with UK afternoons and US East mornings for calls.
not included
24/7 on-callI fix incidents in working hours. Round-the-clock paging needs a dedicated team.
start with
An auditNot sure what needs doing? The Azure Cost Audit is a good first month.
Questions people ask first
How is this different from a contractor?
You pay for a fixed number of days a month, not hours, and I own the outcome: priorities agreed monthly, work delivered through your process, progress written up every week.
Do unused days roll over?
No. If a month is quiet, we bring forward the next item on the plan. If you need fewer days, change plan for the next month.
What access do you need?
The least that does the job, through your own SSO or identity provider where possible. You can remove it at any time.
Do you sign NDAs and contracts?
Yes. A short services agreement and NDA before any access.
Can we cancel?
Yes, any month. Tell me before the next month starts and I'll hand over documentation for everything I've touched.
Need an engineer, not a hire?
Tell me about your stack and your backlog. I'll tell you honestly which plan fits, or whether you need one at all.