From $2,999/month
AWS · Kubernetes · CI/CD · Terraform · Pause or cancel anytime
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Most DevOps consulting companies bill for time. That makes your invoice unpredictable and quietly discourages your team from asking questions.
$150-400/hour
3-12 month contracts
Discovery phase, statement of work, change orders. The meter runs during every call.
$15K-80K per project
Fixed scope, fixed end date
Scope creep and change orders. When the project ends, the knowledge leaves with them.
From $2,999/month
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One flat fee. Unlimited requests. Senior engineers who keep your context month to month.
One subscription covers the whole stack. You do not need a separate contract for cloud, pipelines and monitoring.
VPC design, EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, ECS and EKS. Account structure, IAM and Well-Architected reviews.
Azure DevOps pipelines, AKS, GKE and Cloud Run. Multi-cloud DevOps consulting and migration planning.
Cluster architecture, autoscaling, ingress, service mesh, cost tuning and production hardening.
GitHub Actions, GitLab CI and Jenkins. Build times, deployment frequency and release safety.
Terraform and OpenTofu module design, state strategy, monorepo layout and drift control.
Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog and CloudWatch. Metrics, logs, traces and alert hygiene.
IAM least privilege, secrets management, container scanning, SOC 2 and PCI-DSS readiness.
Maturity assessment, DORA metrics baseline, tooling consolidation and team process design.
Published rates, not a quote after a discovery call.
For startups and small engineering teams
$2,999
per month
Less than 20 hours at consulting rates
Get StartedFor growing teams shipping continuously
$4,999
per month
Less than 33 hours at consulting rates
Get StartedFor larger organizations and regulated industries
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Get StartedWe talk through your stack, your team and what is actually slowing you down. No discovery invoice, no sales deck.
We audit what you have running: cloud accounts, pipelines, IaC, monitoring and cost. You get the findings whether or not you hire us.
You get a private board. Add requests as they come up. We work them one or two at a time with an average 48-hour turnaround.
The same engineers stay on your account. Month three is faster than month one because nobody has to relearn your setup.
Most DevOps consulting firms fall into one of three groups. Large systems integrators bring process and headcount, but a senior engineer rarely touches your infrastructure and the rates reflect the overhead. Offshore agencies compete on hourly price, which works until you need someone who can make an architectural judgement call at 2am. Boutique consultancies give you real seniority, but usually sell fixed-scope projects, so when the statement of work ends the context leaves with them.
The questions worth asking are narrower than most buying guides suggest. Who specifically will do the work, and what have they run in production? What happens when the scope changes halfway through? Does the infrastructure end up in our accounts and our version control, or theirs? And what does month four look like once the initial project is delivered?
That last question is where hourly and project pricing breaks down. DevOps is not a one-time build. Pipelines drift, cloud bills creep, dependencies age and someone has to be on the other end when a deployment fails. Our comparison of DevOps consulting versus DevOps as a Service covers where each model genuinely fits, and our breakdown of retainer versus project-based pricing works through the numbers.
Independent DevOps consultants in North America and Western Europe typically charge $150 to $250 per hour. Established consulting firms charge $250 to $400. At those rates a genuinely part-time engagement of ten hours a week costs $6,000 to $16,000 a month, and you are still paying for status meetings and context switching.
A flat monthly fee removes the meter. At $2,999 to $4,999 you get senior coverage across the entire stack, and the incentive flips: we want to solve the underlying problem rather than bill for recurring firefighting. For a fuller comparison against employing someone, see how much a DevOps engineer really costs and our page on the alternative to hiring DevOps.
It is worth being direct about this. If you have constant, full-time DevOps demand, a platform team of your own will beat any external arrangement on cost and responsiveness. If your product is infrastructure, that capability belongs in-house. And if you need someone physically in a secure facility, we are not the right fit.
Outsourced consulting wins when demand is bursty, when you need breadth across AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform and CI/CD rather than depth in one area, and when hiring would take four months you do not have. Our guide to DevOps outsourcing pros and cons is honest about both sides, and if you would rather start with a lighter engagement, a fractional DevOps engineer or a monthly retainer may be the better entry point.
Book a free 15-minute call. We will review your infrastructure and tell you honestly whether we are the right fit.
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