Bench · Cloud & DevOps engineers
Infrastructure engineers who reduce the number of things that can page you, and who treat your cloud bill as an engineering artefact.
$29 – $46 / hr · from $4,600 / month
If more than one is true, the problem is usually capacity rather than skill — and that is a different conversation.
Written as work, not as keywords. If your problem is not on this list, say so on the call — we will tell you honestly whether it is ours.
Terraform or Pulumi across environments, with state you can trust, modules your team can read, and an import path out of whatever was clicked into the console.
Pipelines that build, test, scan and deploy in minutes, with preview environments per pull request and a rollback that has been rehearsed.
Cluster setup and operation, autoscaling, resource tuning, service mesh where it earns its place, and Helm charts nobody dreads.
Metrics, logs and traces wired into dashboards and alerts that map to user impact rather than CPU graphs.
Attribution by team and service, rightsizing, savings plans, storage lifecycle and the three line items that are usually most of the surprise.
IAM least privilege, secret management, network boundaries, and the evidence trail SOC 2 auditors ask for.
We work inside what you already have. Nothing on this list is a recommendation to migrate.
Clouds
Infrastructure
CI/CD
Observability
Full-time, one engineer. Cost work usually recovers part of the fee.
| Role | Seniority | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| DevOps Engineer | Mid-senior · 3–5 yrs | $29 – $37 / hr |
| Senior Cloud Engineer | Senior · 5–8 yrs | $37 – $46 / hr |
| Site Reliability Engineer | Senior · 5+ yrs | $39 – $50 / hr |
| Platform Lead | Lead · 8+ yrs | $51 – $65 / hr |
Rates are per hour for full-time engagement and include our management, review and replacement guarantee. Part-time and pod pricing differ — see services.
Working to a fixed budget, or need part-time, long-term or several engineers? Those price below the card.
Contact for pricingEvery role, every rate, our standard MSA and NDA, and the two-week trial terms. No call required to read it.
No two-week onboarding. The first week produces something you can read.
Deploy time after a CI/CD rebuild for a Series A client
Cut from a client's monthly AWS spend in the first quarter
Availability maintained across managed client platforms in 2025
The same five steps regardless of discipline.
You describe the gap. We tell you which discipline it actually is — that answer changes about a third of the time — and whether we have the person.
Real engineers with availability, not a database dump. Each one comes with a written note on why they fit and where they would struggle.
Your process, your bar, your rejection. We do not present anyone we would not hire ourselves, and the engineer who interviews is the engineer who ships.
They join your standups and open real pull requests. Stop inside the trial for any reason and the engagement ends there.
Monthly rolling from there. A senior lead reviews their work independently of you, and we tell you before you have to ask.
AI compliance platform
A self-hosted platform that audits contracts against GDPR, HIPAA and SOC 2 and returns cited, severity-ranked risk reports — with inference running on the customer's own GPUs, so no document leaves their network.
No. Engineers get scoped IAM roles you create, with the access their work needs and an audit trail. Access is reviewed monthly and revoked the day an engagement ends.
Yes. Infrastructure is one of the few disciplines where a half-time senior often beats a full-time mid. We staff from 20 hours a week under the Platform Retainer.
On bills above roughly $25k a month, usually within a quarter. Below that, treat any saving as a bonus and hire for reliability and deploy speed instead.
Most teams start with one engineer and add a second from a neighbouring bench within two quarters.
Engineers who have taken an LLM feature past the demo — through evaluation, latency, cost and the failure modes that only appear with real users.
Service and API engineers who have carried a pager, and who write the boring, well-tested code that keeps you off one.
Pipeline and warehouse engineers who care whether the number in the dashboard is correct, and can prove it.
Thirty minutes, an engineer on the call, and two or three real profiles within five working days.