Services Overview

I provide implementation, support and training services. Most of these are fixed price services with clearly defined objectives and acceptance criteria. For specialised jobs I will provide custom quotes.

Implementation

Fixed price packages that deliver production-ready CI/CD, infrastructure, monitoring and data platforms.

  • CI/CD
  • IaC Cloud Builds
  • Monitoring & Observability
  • Data Cluster Builds
  • Specialised Builds

Support

Retainers and incident response to keep what you have healthy and responsive.

  • P0/P1 incident assistance
  • Support retainers
  • Team augmentation
  • Cluster recovery

Training

Workshops and mentoring to help your DevOps team work better.

  • Best practice workshops
  • DevOps Mentoring
  • Team diagnostics
  • Hiring assistance

Technologies I use

My technical specialisations include three main areas: cloud platforms, DevOps tooling, and data-processing technologies.

Cloud

Infrastructure, architecture, scalability, performance, networking, security.

Azure AWS GCP Docker Kubernetes OpenStack OpenShift Bare Metal / PXE

DevOps

CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, GitOps, deployment automation.

Terraform Ansible Helm Chef Puppet Azure DevOps ArgoCD GitLab GitHub Jenkins Cloud Formation

Data & Search

Streaming, indexing, analytics and storage for data-driven platforms.

Kafka Confluent Solr Lucene Elasticsearch Mongo RDBMSes Hadoop Storm Zookeeper

Monitoring & Observability

Monitoring, dashboards, observability — for low MTTD/MTTR and high MTTF

ELK DataDog Splunk Prometheus Grafana Fluentd Open Telemetry Kowl Catchpoint Pager Duty OpsGenie Kibana

Programming

Languages, tools, frameworks — backend, frontend, mobile, web, standalone

Java Spring Spring Boot Python Bash etc. C/C++ React Next.js Mobile Groovy JavaScript

Security

Scanning, secrets management, RBAC, audits

Hashicorp Vault Azure Defender SSL RBAC HSM ISO27001 SOC2 Scanners Sonatype

Implementation Packages

Below you'll find a selection of standardized, fixed-price implementation offerings, broken out into t-shirt sizes like this:

  • Bootstrap: Ideal for Seed / Series A startups or PoCs
  • Scale up: Ideal for growth teams with multiple services and environments
  • Enterprise: Ideal for enterprises / regulated companies; complex workloads

Assessments, reviews & audits

Deliverables: written reports, recommendations, high priority issues

DevOps Practice Checkup Bootstrap

  • Goal: Assess quality of delivery and how well business goals are being met
  • Included: Small DevOps team (1-2) • CI/CD / IaC / security / process / delivery / observability review
  • Timeline: 1-2 business days
  • Base Price: $600

Infrastructure Assessment Bootstrap

  • Goal: Assess infrastructure design, implementation, security and failover
  • Included: 1 environment • 1 region • cloud, vps, bare metal
  • Timeline: 1-2 business days
  • Base Price: $600

DevOps Practice Checkup Scale up

  • Goal: Assess DevOps maturity level in terms of supporting scale-up requirements
  • Included: Medium-sized DevOps team (1-5) • CI/CD / IaC / security / process / delivery / observability review
  • Timeline: 2-3 business days
  • Base Price: $1,500

Infrastructure Assessment Scaleup

  • Goal: Assess infrastructure design, implementation, security and failover
  • Included: 3 environments • 1 region • cloud, vps, bare metal
  • Timeline: 2-3 business days
  • Base Price: $1,500

DevOps Practice Checkup Enterprise

  • Goal: Assess DevOps processes and practices for optimization, response and coverage
  • Included: Large DevOps team (5-10) • CI/CD / IaC / security / process / delivery / observability review
  • Timeline: 1-2 weeks
  • Base Price: Contact Me

Infrastructure Assessment Enterprise

  • Goal: Assess infrastructure design, implementation, security and failover
  • Included: 3-5 environments • multiple regions • cloud, vps, bare metal, hybrid
  • Timeline: 1-2 weeks
  • Base Price: Contact Me

IaC

Deliverables: performant infrastructure design and IaC deployment using best practices

IaC Cloud VM Bootstrap

  • Goal: Deploy 1 VM cluster in Azure / AWS / GCP
  • Included: 1-3 VMs + LB • 1 environment • 1 region • IaC with vault secrets • basic logging • one dashboard • network rules • SSH keys • tagging
  • Timeline: 3-5 business days
  • Base Price: €850 / $950

    IaC Cloud VM Scale up

  • Goal: Deploy 1-3 VM clusters in Azure / AWS / GCP
  • Included: 3-9 VMs + LB • 2 environments • 1 region • IaC with drift control • alerts, log shippers • enhanced dashboard • SSL everywhere • secrets management • basic governance
  • Timeline: 2-3 weeks
  • Base Price: €2,200 / $2,500

IaC Cloud VM Enterprise

  • Goal: Deploy multiple VM clusters in Azure / AWS / GCP
  • Included: Clusters + LB • 3 environments • 3 regions • IaC with Ansible • custom monitoring / observability platform • dashboards • audit-ready • compliance • cost control
  • Timeline: 3-6 weeks
  • Base Price: €6,000 / $7,000

IaC Bare Metal Bootstrap

  • Goal: Deploy 1 PXE-booted VM cluster
  • Included: Bare-metal via IaC • 1-3 VMs • optional packer builds of custom images • basic logging & monitoring
  • Timeline: 2-3 weeks
  • Price starting at: €1,900 / $2,200

IaC Kubernetes Bootstrap

  • Goal: Deploy AKS/EKS/GKE cluster
  • Included: 1-5 nodes • 1 region • 1 environment • container registry • deployment ready
  • Timeline: 3-6 weeks
  • Price starting at: €800 / $900

CI/CD

Deliverables: best practice-based pipelines adapted to your delivery needs

CI/CD Bootstrap

  • Goal: Pipelines for 1-5 git repos, deploy to Azure / AWS / GCP
  • Included: 1 environment • 1 region • basic functionality • basic security
  • Timeline: 3-5 business days
  • Base Price: €850 / $950

CI/CD Scale up

  • Goal: Pipelines for 5-10 git repos, deploy to Azure / AWS / GCP
  • Included: 2 environments • 1 region • code scans • monitoring / dashboard • process / security guardrails
  • Timeline: 2-3 weeks
  • Base Price: €2,200 / $2,500

CI/CD Enterprise

  • Goal: Pipelines for >10 git repos, deploy to Azure / AWS / GCP
  • Included: multiple environments, regions • container scans • approvals, gates
  • Timeline: 3-6 weeks
  • Base Price: Contact me

Monitoring

Deliverables: monitoring, logging, alerting, observability strategies for faster MTTR & MTTD

Logging & Monitoring Bootstrap

  • Goal: Startup cloud logging & monitoring
  • Included: ~10 resources • 1 environment • 1 region • one dashboard
  • Timeline: 3-8 business days
  • Base Price: €750 / $870

Logging & Monitoring Scale up

  • Goal: Telemetry cluster setup and collection
  • Included: Telemetry cluster on cloud vms • ELK / Prometheus & Grafana / OpenTelemetry • collection from ~10 sources • dashboards
  • Timeline: 2-3 weeks
  • Base Price: €1,950 / $2,200

Logging & Monitoring Enterprise

  • Goal: Custom observability / monitoring
  • Included: Specialised use cases • Kafka, Big Data products • Custom log shippers • filters, rules
  • Timeline: 3-6 weeks
  • Base Price: Contact me

Support

I provide ad-hoc support, retainer-based / part-time team augmentation as well as emergency response. Contact me for further details.

  • Slack-first support
  • P0/P1 Incident assistance
  • DevOps team augmentation

Training

I offer several ¼- to ½-day hands-on workshops on topics such as:

  • DevOps best practices
  • CI/CD best practices
  • IaC best practices
  • Security standards
  • Understanding cloud resources
  • Incident response for L1/L2 teams
  • Effective use of monitoring data
  • Understanding Kafka
  • Managing Kafka

These workshops are priced by the number of people and hours, starting from €250 / $300 for 2 hours, 1 person. Contact me for further details

How I work

1. Discovery

I start all engagements with a 15-minute call to find out if my services are right for you. Once we agree in principle, I'll follow up with a longer call to agree on scope and acceptance criteria. We'll also discuss any non-standard scenarios or customizations you'll require, as well as what I'll need: access to your team members, git repositories, cloud subscriptions, wiki, etc.

2. Agreement

Next you'll receive a contract with everything that we discussed and a payment link. As soon as you sign and pay, I can get started — usually within one business day. Unless you prefer otherwise, I will set up a Slack workspace for the engagement.

3. Plan

The first thing I'll do is a short design document and implementation plan. If I'm also doing architecture, then that will be included as well.

4. Delivery

During this phase I'll proved regular progress reports and, if applicable demos. Everything will be provided via Git/PRs.

5. Handoff

For handoff I will provide documentation and a walk-through of all deliverables. I provide a 14-day QA window.

Book a 15-minute call with me using the scheduler below.

Prefer email? Drop me a message at welcome@ondemanddevops.com