Scope Details

What's Included

Detailed breakdown of deliverables for each engagement type

Stabilization Sprint

$2,500 - $7,500 one-time

A focused 1-2 week engagement to audit your infrastructure, fix critical issues, and establish a reliability baseline. Ideal for teams who want to "make it safe" before committing to an ongoing retainer.

Deliverables

  • Complete infrastructure audit document
  • Risk assessment with prioritized issues
  • Top 10 reliability issues fixed
  • Verified backup & recovery testing
  • Deploy pipeline sanity check & recommendations
  • Quick wins documentation for your team

Timeline & Process

  • 1 Day 1-2: Access gathering, initial audit
  • 2 Day 3-5: Risk assessment, priority fixes begin
  • 3 Day 6-8: Backup verification, pipeline review
  • 4 Day 9-10: Documentation, handoff meeting

Pricing varies by complexity:
Simple stack (single app, basic DB): $2,500
Standard (K8s, multiple services): $5,000
Complex (multi-region, compliance): $7,500

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Core Retainer

$5,000/month • 3-month minimum

Essential platform reliability partnership. Weekly planning cycles, CI/CD improvements, Kubernetes hygiene, database reliability, and security baseline—everything a growing SaaS team needs without hiring full-time DevOps.

Weekly Reliability Planning

  • • 30-minute weekly sync call
  • • Prioritized reliability backlog
  • • Progress tracking & reporting
  • • Slack/Teams async support

CI/CD Improvements

  • • Pipeline optimization & speed
  • • Release safety guardrails
  • • Automated testing integration
  • • Deployment monitoring

Kubernetes Hygiene

  • • Resource limits & requests tuning
  • • HPA configuration & optimization
  • • Basic observability setup
  • • Cluster maintenance & upgrades

Database Reliability

  • • Backup verification & testing
  • • Point-in-time recovery setup
  • • Performance triage & tuning
  • • Connection pooling optimization

Security Baseline

  • • Secret management review
  • • Network policy basics
  • • Dependency vulnerability scanning
  • • Access control audit

SMB Automation

  • • QuickBooks integration support
  • • CRM automation workflows
  • • Custom webhook integrations
  • • Business process automation

Plus Retainer

$8,500/month • 3-month minimum

Full platform engineering with on-call support. Everything in Core, plus dedicated response windows, deeper observability, disaster recovery planning, and infrastructure cost optimization for teams who need more coverage.

✓ Everything in Core, PLUS:

On-Call Window

  • • Defined response time SLA
  • • Priority incident handling
  • • Escalation procedures
  • • After-hours coverage options

Custom OS Images

  • • Hardened base images
  • • AWS/Azure/GCP optimized
  • • Compliance-ready configurations
  • • Automated image pipelines

Deeper Observability

  • • Full metrics stack (Prometheus/Grafana)
  • • Distributed tracing setup
  • • Custom dashboards & alerts
  • • SLO/SLI implementation

DR Runbooks & Game Days

  • • Disaster recovery documentation
  • • Quarterly DR drills
  • • Failover testing & validation
  • • RTO/RPO optimization

Cost Optimization & Executive Reviews

  • • Monthly cloud spend analysis
  • • Reserved instance planning
  • • Resource right-sizing
  • • Quarterly executive briefings
  • • Waste identification & elimination
  • • Budget forecasting support

Not sure which plan fits?

Book a free 15-minute discovery call. We'll assess your infrastructure needs and recommend the right engagement level.