The model
You don't need a $180k+ full-time hire. You need the right 10 hours a week, done by someone who's owned production platforms alone — and who's still there next month when the context matters.
What's covered
- Cost: monthly review, forecasting, and continuous optimisation
- Infrastructure: Terraform upkeep, pipeline health, environment changes
- Security: patching cadence, access reviews, monitoring
- Advice: architecture decisions, vendor choices, hiring input — I'm in the room
- A weekly working call + async support in your Slack
How it stays honest
- Everything in your repos — infrastructure as code, documented, no lock-in
- Monthly report — what changed, what it saved, what's next
- Month-to-month — no annual contracts; I keep the work worth keeping