Service 2 / Fractional DevOps
Senior DevOps. Without the senior DevOps salary.
Embedded fractional support for Series A–C startups. CI/CD, cloud cost optimization, observability, security audits, on-call coverage gaps, hiring assistance.
What I work on
- CI/CD pipelines — GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Jenkins
- Cloud infrastructure — AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform
- Observability — Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, Sentry, OpenTelemetry
- Cost optimization — rightsizing, reserved capacity, idle resource cleanup
- Security audits — IAM hardening, secret rotation, supply chain
- On-call coverage gaps — async-first, scheduled incident response
- Hiring assistance — JD review, technical interviews, offer calibration
Retainer tiers
Light
$5,000/mo
~10 hrs/week
- Async-first; office hours twice a week
- One focus area at a time
- Slack/email/Linear access
- Best for: small teams adding senior coverage
Most popular
Embedded
$7,500/mo
~15 hrs/week
- Treated as a member of your team
- Standups, planning, retros
- Multiple focus areas concurrent
- Best for: teams between hires
Heavy
$10,000/mo
~20 hrs/week
- Effectively half-time SRE
- Owns a domain end-to-end
- On-call rotation participation possible
- Best for: pre-hire bridge or sustained surge
Stacks I work with
AWS · GCP · Azure · Kubernetes · Terraform · Pulumi · GitHub Actions · GitLab CI · Datadog · Grafana · Prometheus · Sentry · OpenTelemetry · Postgres · Redis · Kafka · ArgoCD · FluxCD · Cloudflare · Vault · 1Password