Your fractional DevOps team.
On demand.
Senior infrastructure engineering, embedded with your team a few days a month — or running your platform end to end. One partner that scales from first deploy to fully managed operations, without the full-time hire.
One hire rarely fits the job
A senior DevOps engineer costs $150K–$250K a year fully loaded, takes months to recruit, and needs more months to learn your stack. That is a large bet on a single person.
And the work itself is uneven: intense platform building at the start, a quieter stretch while the product grows, then a spike when it scales. A full-time seat is either overloaded or idle — rarely right-sized.
Fractional DevOps matches the curve instead: senior work, sized in days per month, scaled up or down as the platform demands.
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 days 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.
From fractional to fully managed
Most clients start fractional and grow into managed — same partner, same context, no re-onboarding.
Fractional
A fixed number of days each month. We embed with your engineers — building pipelines, hardening infrastructure, and reviewing what ships — on a platform you own and control.
Fully managed
We run the platform: infrastructure, deployments, monitoring, and response, delivered as a service — while your team stays entirely on product.
What we run
The standing work of a DevOps team — delivered on demand.
Cloud & AWS
Environments designed, built, and operated on AWS — with GCP and Azure where you already run.
CI/CD pipelines
From commit to production reliably — automated tests, environments, and rollbacks you can trust.
Kubernetes — when it fits
Clusters provisioned, hardened, and operated. And when you don’t need Kubernetes yet, we say so.
Infrastructure as code
Terraform across the stack, so every environment is reviewable, repeatable, and recoverable.
Monitoring & alerting
Dashboards, alerts, and runbooks tuned so the signal reaches you before it reaches your customers.
Security & hardening
Least-privilege IAM, network boundaries, patching, and reviews — reinforced before incidents, not after.
Cost control
Spend mapped to real utilization and right-sized continuously, not once a year.
Incident readiness
Escalation paths, runbooks, and post-incident reviews — so problems get smaller each time they happen.
From audit to steady state
The same structured path, whether you start fractional or fully managed.
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 at the level you choose — fractional days or fully managed operations — as you grow.
What that looks like in production
“We expected a cost report. We got half our AWS bill back — and a platform we finally understand.”
Frequently asked questions
How many days a month do engagements run?
Most fractional engagements run two to six days a month, set after the audit and adjusted as your roadmap changes. Managed engagements are scoped by platform surface instead of days.
Who owns the infrastructure and the code?
You do — always. Everything is built in your cloud accounts and committed to your repositories as code, with documentation your team can follow.
What if we later hire in-house?
That is a good outcome, and we plan for it from day one. Because the platform is code, documented, and reviewed, handover is a structured step — we will even help you interview.
Do we need Kubernetes?
Not always. We size the platform to your stage: sometimes that is Kubernetes, sometimes something far simpler. You get a recommendation grounded in operations, not fashion.
What happens outside working hours?
Monitoring and alerting run around the clock. Response is defined per engagement — clear escalation paths, runbooks your team can execute, and explicit response scope where you need it. We set honest expectations rather than promise a marketing SLA.
How fast can we start?
The audit takes about a week from access. Most engagements start within two weeks of the findings review.
Where teams usually start
Scale without chaos.
Tell us about your infrastructure - we'll reply within one business day.
Book a 30-minute intro call- 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.