DevOps services from senior platform teams on US business hours
Senior DevOps and platform engineers who build CI/CD, Kubernetes platforms, Terraform modules and observability in your cloud, so releases get routine and incidents get shorter.
By the Ryz Labs team · Updated October 2026
Ryz DevOps services give you senior DevOps and platform engineers who build and run your delivery pipeline and infrastructure: CI/CD, Kubernetes, Terraform, observability, security in the pipeline and incident response. They come from the top 1% of the engineers we interview, work in your cloud accounts and repos, and keep US business hours so they can join your deploys, incidents and postmortems live. Teams typically bring us in when releases are slow or risky, environments drift, or alert noise and cloud spend keep climbing.
What we build
- CI/CD pipelines: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or Azure Pipelines with caching, parallel tests, build provenance and promotion through environments, so a merge can reach production without a manual checklist.
- Progressive delivery: blue-green and canary releases with Argo Rollouts, Flagger or AWS CodeDeploy, plus feature flags with LaunchDarkly or Unleash, so a bad change hits a few users and rolls back automatically.
- Kubernetes platforms: EKS, AKS or GKE clusters with Helm or Kustomize, GitOps through Argo CD or Flux, autoscaling with Karpenter or the cluster autoscaler, and a documented upgrade path.
- Infrastructure as code: Terraform or OpenTofu modules with remote state, policy checks through OPA or Sentinel, and drift detection, replacing changes made by hand in the console.
- Observability: OpenTelemetry instrumentation, Prometheus and Grafana or Datadog dashboards, and alerts tied to service-level objectives rather than CPU graphs.
- DevSecOps: secret scanning, dependency and container scanning with Trivy, Snyk or Dependabot, signed images, and least-privilege IAM for pipelines.
- Developer platforms: service templates, preview environments per pull request and self-service tooling, often through Backstage, so product teams stop filing tickets for infrastructure.
- Reliability and cost work: runbooks, on-call setup, backup and restore drills, rightsizing and autoscaling tuned to real traffic.
How an engagement works
Talk. We look at how code gets to production today, how often you deploy, how long recovery takes, what pages people at night, and where the cloud bill is going.
Match. We propose engineers with deep experience in your cloud (AWS, Azure or Google Cloud), your orchestration and your CI system. A team running ECS and CloudFormation needs a different profile from one on AKS and Bicep.
Join. Engineers get scoped access to your cloud accounts, repos and incident channels, join your standups and take part in your change and on-call processes during US business hours.
Grow. Add site reliability engineers, security engineers or more platform engineers as scope grows, or hand a documented platform to your internal team.
In week 1, engineers typically map the current pipeline and infrastructure, read recent incident reports and pick the first fix that will remove the most release pain. By month 1, the first pipeline improvements are live and the most-changed infrastructure is in Terraform. By month 3, the usual picture is deploys that are routine, environments reproducible from code, SLO-based alerts and dashboards the team actually uses.
The stack our teams work in
| Layer | Tools we use | Notes |
|---|
| Cloud | AWS, Azure, Google Cloud | Matched to the cloud you run on. |
| Infrastructure as code | Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, AWS CDK, Bicep | Remote state, modules and policy checks. |
| Containers and orchestration | Docker, Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE), ECS, Helm | Kubernetes only when the workload justifies it. |
| CI/CD and GitOps | GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure Pipelines, Argo CD, Flux | Pipelines as code, reviewed like application code. |
| Observability | OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Datadog, New Relic | SLOs and error budgets drive alerting. |
| Security | Trivy, Snyk, Checkov, HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault | Scans in the pipeline, secrets out of repos. |
| Incident response | PagerDuty, Opsgenie, incident.io, Statuspage | Runbooks linked from every alert. |
How we keep releases routine and production stable
DevOps problems tend to look alike across companies: deploys that need a hero, staging that does not match production, alert fatigue, and changes nobody can trace. A senior DevOps engineer fixes the system, not just the symptom:
- Measure delivery first. Deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate and time to restore (the DORA metrics) give a baseline, so improvements are visible rather than claimed.
- Everything through code review. Infrastructure, pipeline and alert changes go through pull requests with a Terraform plan or diff attached. Console changes are detected as drift and either imported or reverted.
- Small, reversible releases. Canary or blue-green rollouts with automated rollback on error-rate or latency regressions, and database migrations written in expand-and-contract steps so the app can roll back without the schema breaking.
- Alerts that mean something. Pages fire on user-facing SLO burn, not on a single host's CPU. Every alert has an owner and a runbook, and noisy alerts are deleted or fixed.
- Tested recovery. Backups are restored on a schedule, not just taken. Failover is exercised before it is needed.
- Blameless postmortems. After an incident the team writes a timeline, contributing factors and tracked follow-ups, and checks they get done.
- Pipeline security. Short-lived OIDC credentials instead of long-lived cloud keys in CI, pinned actions, signed artifacts and least-privilege roles per environment.
- Cost as a metric. Tagging, per-team cost reports and rightsizing reviews, so spend is visible to the people who drive it.
Team shapes and cost
Typical Ryz cost is $7,000 to $15,000 per engineer per month. Mid-level engineers are $7,000 to $10,000, senior engineers are $10,000 to $15,000, and leads are $15,000 or more, quoted per team.
- One senior DevOps engineer: 1 × $10,000 to $15,000 = $10,000 to $15,000 per month. Fits a product team that needs its pipeline and infrastructure owned.
- Platform pair: 2 senior DevOps or platform engineers × $10,000 to $15,000 = $20,000 to $30,000 per month. Fits a Kubernetes or Terraform rollout plus ongoing operations.
- Platform team: a lead ($15,000+) plus 3 senior engineers across DevOps, SRE and security ($30,000 to $45,000) = from $45,000 per month. Fits an internal developer platform serving several product teams.
Every quote is scoped per team. You get a plan, a price and the names of the people before you start. See DevOps engineer rates for detail by seniority.
Dedicated team or staff augmentation?
Staff augmentation fits when you have a platform or infrastructure lead and need senior hands on your team. Engineers join your on-call rotation during business hours and report to your leads. See our hire DevOps engineers and hire site reliability engineers pages.
A dedicated development team fits a defined outcome, such as moving to Kubernetes, building a developer platform or getting all infrastructure into Terraform, with a team that owns the work and hands it over. For AI workloads, the same practices apply to model serving and pipelines; see our MLOps services.
When Ryz isn't the right fit
If you need 24/7 follow-the-sun operations staffed from Europe and Asia, a global network or a managed services provider fits better; our engineers keep US business hours. If you want a fully managed hosting product rather than engineers, talk to a platform vendor. If you need an hourly freelancer to fix one pipeline, a freelance marketplace is faster.
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FAQ
What do DevOps services include?
CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, container platforms, observability, pipeline security, incident response and cost controls. The mix depends on where your delivery and operations hurt most today.
How much do DevOps services cost?
Typical cost is $7,000 to $15,000 per engineer per month. One senior DevOps engineer is $10,000 to $15,000 per month, and a lead plus three seniors starts at $45,000 per month. Total cost is team size × duration × monthly rate.
How fast can DevOps engineers start?
After the scoping call we propose engineers with names. Most of the timeline depends on scope and on your onboarding, especially scoped access to cloud accounts, CI and incident tooling.
Can your engineers join our on-call rotation?
Yes, during US business hours, and they join incidents live. After-hours coverage is agreed during scoping so expectations are clear on both sides.
Do we need Kubernetes?
Not always. Many workloads run well on ECS, Azure Container Apps, Cloud Run or plain managed services with less operating overhead. We recommend Kubernetes when you have many services, need its scheduling and extensibility, and have people to run it.
Questions we didn't answer? Email info@ryzlabs.com.