We run your infrastructure.
You build what's next.
Lodemark is a managed infrastructure partner for startups and mid-size companies - the team that designs, secures, and runs the cloud platforms your products depend on. Ship without fear. Scale without chaos.
One partner for the entire stack
One trusted infrastructure partner. One structured platform approach. One clear path toward stable scale.
Cloud Infrastructure & AWS
Environments designed, built, and run on AWS — stable, secure foundations for everything you ship.
Learn morePlatform Engineering
Golden paths and internal tooling that make the right way the easy way for your developers.
Learn moreCloud Migrations
From on-premises or between clouds — data, applications, and workloads moved with minimal disruption.
Learn moreKubernetes
Clusters provisioned, hardened, and operated — so orchestration is a strength, not a liability.
Learn moreCI/CD & Automation
Pipelines that take code from commit to production reliably, with rollbacks you can trust.
Learn moreSecurity & Hardening
Layered safeguards across your stack, reviewed and reinforced before issues become incidents.
Learn moreMonitoring & Rapid Response
Real-time dashboards, alerting, and defined escalation paths — issues surface early and are handled fast.
Learn moreCost Optimization & Audits
Spend mapped against real utilization, then right-sized — without sacrificing headroom.
Learn moreAI-Ready Infrastructure
The data pipelines and platform groundwork that make AI workloads production-ready.
Learn morearen't linear.
Lodemark was founded by an experienced software engineer after years of building and running infrastructure on both sides of the divide - on-premises and in the cloud.
The same pattern kept appearing at mid-size companies: intense platform work up front, a quiet stretch while the product grows, then a spike as it scales. Hiring a full team for that curve is costly - and leaving it unmanaged is worse.
So we built the alternative: one partner that runs your infrastructure continuously - through the setup, the quiet, and the scale.
What a full-time hire actually costs
The market rate for one senior DevOps engineer - against the same work, delivered on demand.
One senior DevOps hire
- Cost
- $150K–$250K a year fully loaded - salary, taxes, benefits, equipment.
- Time to productive
- Three to six months of recruiting, then more months learning your stack.
- Fit to workload
- Full-time cost through the quiet stretches between platform pushes.
- Knowledge risk
- The platform lives in one person’s head - and leaves with them.
- Commitment
- Permanent headcount, whatever next year looks like.
Lodemark, on demand
- Cost
- Sized in hours per month - a fraction of one salary.
- Time to productive
- Productive in the first week - the audit has already mapped your platform.
- Fit to workload
- Scales up for launches and migrations, back down for steady state.
- Knowledge risk
- Everything as code and documentation, in your accounts and repositories.
- Commitment
- Adjust month to month. No long-term lock-in.
How we cut AWS spend by 50% - $200K back every year
Revenue had fallen, but the AWS bill kept climbing. A full audit, cleanup, and right-sizing cut the bill in half in one month - with zero downtime.
"We expected up to 20% cost reduction, we got half our AWS bill back - and a platform we finally understand."
A clear path to stable scale
One trusted partner, one structured approach — from first audit to systems that run themselves.
Audit
We map your cloud environment, costs, and risks — a clear picture of where complexity is hiding.
Plan
A structured platform roadmap: what to fix first, what to automate, and how to scale safely.
Implement
Hands-on platform engineering — infrastructure-as-code, hardened security, full observability.
Run
We stay on as your managed partner — monitoring, supporting, and tuning systems as you grow.
Frequently asked questions
How does an engagement start?
With a free infrastructure audit — a read-only review of your cloud environment, costs, and risks. You get a written summary of what we found and what we would fix first, whether or not we work together.
What does “fractional” mean in practice?
A fixed number of senior engineering hours each month, scoped to outcomes. Enough to keep the platform moving without paying for a full-time seat your workload does not fill yet.
Who owns the infrastructure you build?
You do. Everything lives in your cloud accounts and your repositories, written as code and documented. If we ever part ways, you keep a platform your next engineer can pick up.
What does it cost?
Engagements are sized in hours per month after the audit, so you pay for the work your platform actually needs — a fraction of the $150K–$250K a senior full-time hire costs fully loaded.
Which stack do you work in?
AWS first, with Terraform, Kubernetes, and GitHub Actions as the core toolkit. We also run workloads on GCP and Azure — and migrate between all three.
Scale without chaos.
Tell us about your infrastructure - we'll reply within one business day.
- 01A 30-minute intro call — your stack, your goals, no pitch deck.
- 02Read-only access (NDA first if you prefer) and about a week of analysis.
- 03A written report of findings and what we would fix first — yours to keep, either way.