Great DevOps engineers are rare
The best ones are already employed, already busy, and not reading your job ad. The hiring pool you can actually reach is thin.
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Ship faster.
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ClusterOps is a senior DevOps consultancy. We design, build and run cloud platforms — Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability — so your engineers ship product instead of fighting infrastructure.
See how we work- senior engineers only
- hourly · no lock-in
- EU-based · remote-first
we work in your stack
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- GCP
- AWS
- GitHub Actions
- ArgoCD
- Helm
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Cloudflare
- PostgreSQL
- Kafka
01 / the hard part
Hiring DevOps is the problem
DevOps was meant to solve
One hire can't cover it all
Networking, CI/CD, Kubernetes, security, observability, cost control — that's five specialties wearing one job title.
Hiring takes months
A six-stage interview loop, notice periods, onboarding. Your roadmap doesn't pause while the pipeline drips.
A bad hire is expensive twice
Infrastructure mistakes compound quietly — you pay the salary now and the 3 a.m. incident later.
Freelancer roulette
Unvetted contractors ship undocumented snowflakes, then disappear. The next person starts by reverse-engineering the last one.
02 / how it works
From first call to first deploy,
without the hiring loop
- 01
Intro call
Tell us where it hurts. An engineer joins the first call — not a salesperson — so you get useful answers from minute one.
- 02
Audit & plan
We map your infrastructure, CI/CD and observability, then hand you a prioritized, costed plan. You keep it either way.
- 03
Hands-on execution
We build in your repos, your cloud, your CI — as pull requests your team can review. Everything lands as code.
- 04
Handover & support
Documentation, runbooks and training for your team. Keep us on retainer or take the keys — no lock-in, ever.
- shared Slack channel
- weekly syncs
- pay-as-you-go hours
- architect oversight
03 / where we plug in
Every stage between
git push and 3 a.m. quiet
Code
Git · GitHub · Bitbucket
Branch protection, review flow, monorepo or poly — sane defaults your team keeps.
Build & Test
GitHub Actions · CI runners
Fast, cached pipelines that fail loudly and cheaply — before production does.
Provision
Terraform · Helm
Every VPC, cluster and bucket as reviewed, versioned code. No console-clicked mysteries.
Deploy
Kubernetes · ArgoCD
GitOps rollouts with canaries and instant rollback. Deploys become boring — that's the point.
Observe
Prometheus · Grafana
SLOs, dashboards and alerts that page a human only when a human is needed.
04 / what you get
What working with
ClusterOps feels like
Senior engineers, day one
Every engagement is staffed by engineers who have run production at scale. No juniors learning on your dime.
Production-grade by default
High availability, backups, disaster recovery and security are baked in from the first commit — not bolted on after the first incident.
Documentation that survives us
Every system we touch leaves with runbooks, diagrams and an on-call guide. Your team can operate it without us.
Cost you can see
Right-sized clusters, storage lifecycle rules, committed-use planning. Most engagements pay for themselves in cloud savings.
No lock-in
Everything as code, in your accounts, under your keys. Leaving us is a git remote away — which is why clients stay.
Fast start
Days to first commit, not months to first hire. We slot into your Slack and your sprint, not the other way around.
05 / engagement models
Pick the shape,
keep the same engineers
DevOps Consulting
Senior engineers embedded with your team, billed hourly. Architecture, build-out and mentoring — scale hours up or down as the roadmap moves.
Platform Audit
A fixed-scope review of your infrastructure, CI/CD, security posture and cloud spend — delivered as a written, prioritized plan.
Migration Projects
To Kubernetes, between clouds, or off a PaaS that got expensive. Fixed milestones, rehearsed cutover, rollback plan included.
Staff Augmentation
A vetted ClusterOps engineer inside your team, full- or part-time — your standups, your board, our bench depth behind them.
On-Call & Support
We carry the pager against an agreed SLO — monitoring, incident response and postmortems handled.
Team Training
Hands-on workshops that level your engineers up on Kubernetes, Terraform and GitOps — on your infrastructure, not toy examples.
06 / what good looks like
The bar we hold
every engagement to
daily
deploys per team — up from “when we dare”
<30min
time to recover when something does break
−35%
typical cloud spend after right-sizing
07 / faq
Fair questions,
straight answers
How do you charge?
Hourly, invoiced weekly with a line-item breakdown of what was done. No minimum commitment, no long contracts — you can stop any week.
Who actually does the work?
The senior engineers you meet on the intro call. We don't do bait-and-switch staffing — the person who scopes your platform is the person who builds it.
Do you work in our accounts?
Always. Your cloud, your repos, your CI, your secrets manager. We request the minimum access needed and leave nothing proprietary behind.
How fast can you start?
Typically within days of the intro call. The first week usually ends with the audit underway and the first pull requests open.
Can you work alongside our existing team?
That's the default. We join your Slack and your sprint, open PRs your team reviews, and treat knowledge transfer as a deliverable, not a favor.
What if priorities change mid-engagement?
The hourly model exists for exactly this. We re-prioritize at the weekly sync — no change orders, no renegotiation, just a re-ordered backlog.
Tell us where it hurts.
The first call is free — and it's with an engineer.