Cloud DevOps Consulting

Reliability and automation without extra complexity.

We design automation and delivery systems that save time and reduce errors without adding layers of complexity. The result is faster delivery, better reliability, and more focus on customer value.

Services Provided

Cloud Automation

We focus on removing manual processes from your organization. This shift from human work to machines helps in three ways: it increases the performance and efficiency of the task, it allows for optimizing future costs, and it eliminates human error. Automation within the Cloud allows for scaling due to traffic or data load. Some of these automations can come in the form of Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines or in the addition of event-driven Web services.

Core Features and Expectations

  • Review system automation activities.
  • Review event-driven processes.

Ask Yourself This

Are your manual processes becoming too costly or cumbersome to maintain?

Distributed Systems Architecture

Over time, many systems become complex as new features are bolted on without proper architecture. This system becomes brittle to operate and difficult to reason about. Distributed systems architecture looks at building or improving systems to take full advantage of what the Cloud offers.

Core Features and Expectations

  • Comprehensive review of system.
  • Ensure Cloud-first best practices are being used.
  • Ensure architecture is optimized for cost and performance.

Ask Yourself This

Are you struggling to tame a monolithic application but do not want to go down the full-blown microservice route?

Internal Tooling

Many business rely on internal tools to improve the efficiency of daily tasks. These back-office applications serve as critical systems, but some companies do not know that they can be better served by building these internal tools. They rely on manual or error-prone processes to guide their actions, when an internal tool can perform the job faster and with reduced error.

Core Features and Expectations

  • Review and pinpoint manual processes that would benefit from automation.
  • Design and implement tooling.

Ask Yourself This

Do you have processes that still require manual steps, slowing down your employees?

Linux Administration

Due to recent advancement with Cloud providers, setting up a Linux server in the Cloud is fairly easy nowadays. However, setting up a Linux server to be fault-tolerant, easy to manage, and simple to reason about requires a keen eye.

Core Features and Expectations

  • Review and create system configuration standards.
  • Identify cost optimizations for different server workloads.
  • Create upgrade plan for legacy systems.

Ask Yourself This

Are your Linux systems becoming too difficult to manage? Are they taking up too much of your developer's time when they should be writing code?

Network Administration

When operating in the Cloud, an efficient and simple network is crucial to prevent errors and ensure smooth operations. While setting up a Cloud network is simple enough, providers often use insecure defaults and general assumptions that leave companies with a network that is difficult to understand, brittle to scale up with traffic load, and opaque to monitoring and alerting processes.

Core Features and Expectations

  • Review network design to pinpoint for scaling issues.
  • Ensure data transit costs are optimized.
  • Ensure service failover exists.

Ask Yourself This

Will your network scale when your service is bombarded with traffic due to its success, or if an attacker performs a denial of service?

Pricing

We are always up-front and transparent with our fees to save you time and money.

Hourly Rate

$ 160

The services listed on this page operate on a standard hourly rate. As every company has slightly different needs, estimates become increasingly difficult and fixed price contracts are untenable. Pricing is thus allotted in buckets of time. However, a more detailed scope of work may be created upon request.

Rates can vary based on a variety of situations and special requests. These requests can range from urgency, complexity of the system, longevity of the contract, daily or weekly rates, and so on.

Invoices are produced monthly, payment is NET-30. A 15% deposit is due upon contract signing. Applicable taxes may apply as required by law.

All prices are listed in Canadian dollars.