Engagement · Infrastructure & scaling
Specialist help on the parts that get expensive when they go wrong.
Cloud architecture, cost, reliability, edge delivery, data pipelines. Two to six weeks, scoped against outcomes you can measure.
Booking 3 weeks outDiagnostic calls weekly
- 2–6 wk
- typical engagement
- Outcomes
- scoped against measurable targets
- 1B+
- requests / month shipped on
Who this is for
A good fit when the system has to keep up…
Platform team at growth-stage SaaS
Your bill is climbing faster than your traffic and you need someone senior to find the leaks.
Engineering lead facing a migration
You're moving regions, clouds, or runtimes and the cost of getting it wrong is downtime users feel.
Founder pre-scale
You're about to onboard a customer 10x your current load and want to know what'll break first.
Not a good fit
- Greenfield product engineering (that's the enterprise track)
- Generic 'DevOps consultant' staffing where the scope isn't named
- Audits we'd produce a report and never look at again
The engagement
Outcome-priced. Specialist team. Real changes shipped.
- Engagement length
- 2to 6 weeks
- Team size
- 1to 3 specialists
- Pricing model
- Outcomes
- Working mode
- Embedded with platform team · production access
- Tooling
- AWS · GCP · Cloudflare · Kubernetes · Terraform
- Output
- Working systems · runbooks · cost reports · dashboards
What you get
Working systems, runbooks your team owns, no shelfware.
Cost & utilisation report
Where your spend is going and which lines on the bill are worth attacking first.
Working architecture
Real changes deployed to staging or prod, not just diagrams in a deck.
Runbooks for your team
On-call docs they can actually use at 3am, written in your tone.
Observability baseline
SLOs, dashboards, alerts that page on the things that matter.
Load & failure tests
Synthetic load and chaos tests so you know what breaks before users do.
Handover session
Working session with your team so the changes don't decay after we leave.
How we work
From diagnostic call to working changes in four steps.
60 min
Diagnostic call
We learn the system, the symptoms, and the deadline. We say yes or no by the end of the call.
Within a week
Read-only audit
Short fixed-fee read of your infra. We come back with a numbered list of the highest-leverage problems and a recommended scope.
2 to 6 weeks
Engagement
Embedded with your platform team. Real changes shipped to staging or prod with your approval.
Optional
Quarterly check-in
If you want a senior pair of eyes for the long term, we offer a small quarterly retainer.
FAQ
What platform teams usually ask.
Do you do on-call?
Not as a primary on-call rotation. We help you build the runbooks, dashboards, and SLOs your in-house team uses for on-call. For pure incident response we partner with specialists rather than pretend.
Which clouds and tools do you work with?
AWS, GCP, Cloudflare, Kubernetes, Terraform, Pulumi, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog. We've shipped on serverless, containers, and bare-metal. We don't do Azure-only stacks well; if your platform is Azure-heavy we'll say so on the diagnostic call.
How do you price outcome-based engagements?
We quote a fixed price against the outcomes named in the proposal: cost-down targets, latency targets, deployment-frequency targets. If the targets are met early, we hand back the time. If they're not, we keep working until they are.
Do you sign NDAs and DPAs?
Yes. Contracting party is Besharat Enterprises B.V. (KvK 96294078, Leeuwarden). NDAs and GDPR DPAs are part of every engagement that touches production data.
Can you work with our existing platform team?
Yes, and that's the default. We work inside your repos, your CI, your cloud accounts, your standup cadence. The point is to leave your platform team owning a better system, not to keep ourselves around.
What if we just want a one-off audit?
We don't take engagements that end with a report no one will action. The read-only audit (step 02) is short and cheap and is meant to lead into a real engagement. If you only want a written deliverable, the consultancy track is the better fit.
Ready when you are
Tell us about the system.
A diagnostic call is free, takes about an hour, and ends with a yes or no on whether we’re the right team for the job.
~60 minNo chargeYes or no on the call