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Fifteen things I do.
Everything is scoped and priced before we start, and all the work lands in your repos where it belongs. Start small with an audit, or bring me in for the long haul.
01 · Spend
Get the bill down. Keep it down.
AWS Cost Audit & Optimisation
I go through your account line by line and put a dollar figure on every piece of waste. Most audits pay for themselves inside a month or two.
FinOps Practice
Tagging, budgets, alerts and a monthly review. Cost as a habit rather than an annual panic.
SaaS Spend Governance
I once found $72k a year in software nobody was using. Inventory, usage audit, renewal calendar, offboarding. Someone finally reads the invoices.
AI Cost & Readiness
Token bills are doing to 2026 what EC2 did to 2016. A spend audit, unit economics and guardrails for the AI features you're shipping.
02 · Build
Infrastructure done properly.
Platform Foundations
Infrastructure as Code in Terraform, golden-path CI/CD with safe rollbacks, and monitoring with runbooks your team can actually run.
Cloud Migration & Modernisation
Legacy servers, expensive licences, infrastructure nobody wants to touch. I've moved CI, file transfer, analytics and whole toolchains to AWS without customers noticing.
Backup & Disaster Recovery
Everyone has backups. Almost nobody has tested a restore. I audit what's actually recoverable and prove it with a live test.
AWS Well-Architected Review
AWS's own six-pillar framework, applied honestly. Where the architecture is sound, where it's creaking, and what to fix first.
03 · Secure
Security and compliance, right-sized.
SecOps
IAM least-privilege, account hardening, secrets management, security monitoring, and incident-response runbooks.
ISO 27001 & ISMS
ISMS scoping, risk assessment, Annex A controls, evidence, external-audit coordination. Sized for a startup, not a bank.
Essential Eight Uplift
The ACSC's Essential Eight, assessed and lifted. The framework your government customers and cyber insurer keep asking about.
ISMS Maintenance
Certification is a treadmill, not a trophy. I keep the ISMS alive so the surveillance audit is a formality, not a fire drill.
04 · Advise
Senior judgment, on tap.
Fractional Platform Engineer
Async support, a weekly call, and cost, infrastructure and security looked after by one person. If we stop, you keep everything.
Platform Advisory
A senior second opinion, by the hour. Architecture reviews, vendor decisions, commitment sanity checks, help hiring your first infrastructure engineer.
Technical Due Diligence
I look under a company's hood before you write the cheque. Architecture, spend, security, key-person risk — reported in plain english.
Pricing
No surprise invoices.
These are starting prices. The exact quote depends on the size of your account, and you'll have it in writing before anything starts.
| Engagement | Format | Best for | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| AWS Cost Audit | 1–2 week fixed project | Anyone whose AWS bill is climbing | $2,500 |
| FinOps Practice | Monthly, ongoing | Keeping cloud spend predictable | $1,500/mo |
| Platform Foundations | 4–8 week fixed project | Scaling past manual deploys | $8,000 |
| SecOps | Project or ongoing | Hardening cloud security | $4,000 |
| ISO 27001 & ISMS | Project + ongoing | Chasing enterprise/security deals | $6,000 |
| Fractional Retainer | Monthly, ongoing | A steady senior hand across all of the above | $3,500/mo |
| Cloud Migration | 4–10 week fixed project | Getting off legacy servers and licences | $10,000 |
| SaaS Spend Governance | 2–3 week fixed project | 30+ subscriptions and nobody reading the invoices | $3,000 |
| Backup & DR | Fixed project | Finding out if your backups actually restore | $3,500 |
| Platform Advisory | Hourly, ad hoc | Decisions, reviews and second opinions | $300/hr |
| Well-Architected Review | 1–2 week fixed review | An AWS health check across all six pillars | $4,000 |
| Essential Eight Uplift | Assessment + uplift | Government supply chains & cyber insurance | $4,500 |
| ISMS Maintenance | Monthly, ongoing | Staying certified after the champagne | $1,200/mo |
| Technical Due Diligence | 1–2 week fixed | Investors checking under the hood | $5,000 |
| AI Cost & Readiness | 1–2 week fixed | Token bills growing faster than revenue | $3,000 |
The honest comparison
Your options, side by side.
There are four ways to get platform engineering done. Each one makes sense for somebody. Here's how they actually differ.
| Full-time hire | Offshore DevOps shop | Consulting agency | InaSha | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost per year | $180k+ loaded | $36–60k | $100k+ typical minimums | $18–42k, scale up or down |
| Who does the work | Whoever you can hire | A rotating queue | Whoever's on the bench | Me, every time |
| Timezone | Yours | Usually not yours | Yours, 9–5 | Yours (AEST) |
| Context retention | Good, until they leave | Starts fresh per ticket | Ends with the engagement | Compounds month over month |
| Lock-in | None | Their tooling, their process | Their frameworks | None. Everything in your repos |
| Makes sense when | You need 40 hrs/week, forever | Budget is the only constraint | It's a huge one-off programme | You need the right 10 hours, senior |