DevOps as a service means renting a complete DevOps function instead of hiring one. You get an established team that owns your CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure, container platforms, monitoring, incident response and cloud costs, on a monthly subscription with the scope agreed in writing. We are an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner, every delivery engineer is AWS-certified, and the founder attends engagement calls. Everything we build stays in your own AWS accounts.
A function, not a project.
A DevOps hire has to build the practice before they can run it. A subscription starts with the practice already built. This is what the subscription covers, delivered through our DevOps services and CloudOps practices.
Pipelines your team can read, with automated tests, image scanning and one-command rollback, plus the whole environment defined in Terraform so it can be rebuilt rather than remembered. This is the part that turns deploys from an event into a routine.
Production container platforms with autoscaling on real signals, health checks that mean something, and blue-green or rolling deployments. We run both ECS and EKS and recommend based on your team rather than on what is fashionable.
Metrics, alarms and logs tuned to your workload, with alerts that reach a person who can act. Incident response runs under SLA with a documented escalation path, so a 3am failure is picked up rather than discovered at 9am by a customer.
Right-sizing, commitment coverage and waste removal reviewed on a cadence rather than once a year in a panic. An environment nobody is watching drifts upward every quarter, and the subscription is what stops that being your problem.
These are the engagement shapes we already run, described here in subscription terms. Pick the one that fits how your team works, and change it later if the work changes.
One or more AWS-certified engineers working inside your existing team, in your standups and your tooling, with the wider practice behind them. Suited to teams that have engineering leadership and need capacity rather than direction.
How the embedded model worksA dedicated squad that owns the platform end to end, useful during a migration, a launch, or when there is no in-house DevOps function to build on. The founder attends engagement calls, so the person accountable is in the room.
Our DevOps practiceAn agreed block of capacity each month for ongoing operations and improvement, with 24/7 cover available where the workload justifies it. This is the shape most subscriptions settle into once the initial build is done.
CloudOps retainerThree ways to solve the same problem, each genuinely better in different circumstances. If you want this in plain English without the jargon, our no DevOps team page walks through the same decision for founders.
| Dimension | DevOps as a service | In-house hire | Freelancer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | Monthly subscription, a fraction of a senior salary | 65k to 95k pounds UK, 70k to 100k euros EU, 120k to 180k dollars and up US, salary alone | Day rate, cheapest short term, unpredictable over a year |
| Time to start | Weeks | Months of recruiting, then onboarding | Days |
| Coverage | A team, so holidays and illness are absorbed | One person, and a single point of failure | Whatever they have sold you this month |
| Out-of-hours | 24/7 available under SLA where the workload justifies it | Only if you build a rota, which one person cannot | Rarely, and rarely contractual |
| Breadth of skill | A practice: pipelines, containers, security, cost | One person's strengths and gaps | Usually specialised in one area |
| Context | Has to be told, and documented as it is learned | Deepest: sits in your standups every day | Shallow, and leaves with them |
| If they leave | Runbooks and IaC stay, team continues | Knowledge walks out of the door | Engagement simply ends |
| Best when | You need the whole function without building it | You are large enough to keep a specialist busy | You have one bounded task and know exactly what it is |
If your question is not here, ask it on the call. We would rather scope honestly than sell you more cover than your workload justifies.
Bring your environment and what you need covered. We will tell you which shape fits, what it would include, and what it would cost, before you commit to anything. If you need less than you think, we will say so.
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