DevOps as a Service
A senior DevOps team without the hiring overhead.
Works With Your Entire Stack
The Problem
Why Teams Struggle
Hiring a senior DevOps engineer takes 4-6 months and costs $180k+/year. Meanwhile, your CI/CD pipeline is fragile, deployments are scary, and nobody wants to touch the Terraform state file.
Our Approach
How CloudLink Solves This
Get a dedicated senior engineer on a flat monthly retainer. They manage your CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring, security hardening, and incident response — as if they were a full-time hire, but without the overhead.
What's Included
Features & Deliverables
Dedicated Engineer
Same person every day. They learn your stack, attend standups, and become part of your velocity.
CI/CD Pipeline Management
GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI — we build, optimize, and maintain your deployment pipeline.
Terraform IaC
Your entire infrastructure codified, versioned, and reproducible. State management included.
Monitoring & Alerting
Prometheus + Grafana + PagerDuty configured with intelligent thresholds — no alert fatigue.
Security Hardening
IAM least-privilege, secret management, dependency scanning, automated patching.
Monthly FinOps Review
Every month we audit your cloud spend and action savings. Average client saves 25%.
Comparison
CloudLink vs. Doing It Yourself
See how CloudLink stacks up against building in-house or managing it yourself.
| Feature | With CloudLink | DIY / In-House |
|---|---|---|
| Time to hire | 48 hours to onboard | 4–6 months typical hiring cycle |
| Annual cost | From $4,800/mo flat | $180k–$240k salary + benefits + equity |
| Knowledge risk | Team of engineers backs every client | Single point of failure — one person knows everything |
| Scope | CI/CD, IaC, monitoring, security, FinOps | Whatever you hired them for |
| Scalability | Add capacity instantly as you grow | Another 4–6 month search |
| Termination risk | Cancel month-to-month | PIP process, severance, and knowledge transfer |
"We had 3 failed DevOps hires before finding CloudLink. They onboarded in 2 days and saved us $140k in our first 6 months — both in reduced cloud spend and the salary we didn't have to pay."Sarah K., VP Engineering — B2B SaaS, Series A
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Ready to Get Started?
Talk to our team and see how devops as a service can transform your operations.