Your Fractional DevOps Engineer

A fractional DevOps engineer gives you access to senior-level DevOps expertise on a subscription basis instead of a full-time hire. You get the same quality of work - infrastructure setup, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, security - at a fraction of the cost. Think of it like having a senior DevOps team on retainer.

Freelancers come and go. With InstaDevOps, you get a consistent team that learns your infrastructure and builds on previous work. We maintain context across requests, follow your conventions, and provide ongoing support - not one-off fixes.

Our Business plan handles two requests simultaneously. For larger needs, our Enterprise plan offers custom capacity. You can upgrade or downgrade your plan at any time.

Absolutely. Pause your subscription anytime and your remaining days are saved. Resume when you need us again - you won't be charged until you unpause.

We specialize in AWS cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins), monitoring (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana), security hardening, and more. If it's DevOps on AWS, we handle it.

Most requests are completed within 48 hours. Complex tasks may take longer or be broken into multiple requests. You'll always have visibility into progress.

Yes. We work European hours as standard and hold availability into the US afternoon, so teams in both regions get same-day responses. In practice that means a request raised by a US West Coast team in the morning is usually picked up the same working day, and a European team gets an answer within business hours. Intro calls can be booked from roughly 2:00am to 2:00pm Pacific, which covers the US morning and the European afternoon and evening.

Our plans start at $2,999/month for the Startup tier and $4,999/month for Business, billed monthly with no contract. Compare that with a full-time senior DevOps hire in the US, where total cost including salary, payroll taxes, benefits, equipment and recruiter fees typically lands between $180,000 and $250,000 a year. Fractional gets you senior capability for roughly the cost of a junior salary, and you can pause it.

Usually within a few days of the intro call. There is no notice period, no recruitment cycle and no onboarding budget to approve. We start with a short review of your current infrastructure, agree the first two or three priorities, and begin work from there. Compare that with a full-time hire, where three to six months from job posting to productive output is normal.

It usually is, for one specific reason: most early startups have real DevOps work but not a full-time role's worth of it. You might need a proper CI/CD pipeline, a hardened AWS account and monitoring that actually pages someone, and then very little until you scale. A fractional engineer matches that shape. If your infrastructure work is genuinely constant and full-time, hiring becomes the better economic choice, and we will tell you so on the call.

A fractional DevOps engineer works as part of your team on whatever you prioritise, including one-off projects, migrations and architecture decisions. A managed service takes ongoing operational ownership of defined systems, such as running and patching your clusters. Many clients use both: fractional for the build and decisions, managed for the day-to-day running. Our monthly retainer covers the fractional model, and managed DevOps services cover the operational side.