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Senior infrastructure help, on demand

I'm a Sr. Systems Software Engineer who runs production infrastructure for a living — OpenStack, Kubernetes, Terraform, and the observability stack behind them. Hire me for a fixed-price audit or ongoing consulting, and get a senior engineer's judgment without a full-time hire.

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  • OpenStack
  • Kolla-Ansible
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • GitLab CI/CD
  • Apache Guacamole
  • VictoriaMetrics
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Ubuntu Linux
  • Python
Fixed-price audits

Know exactly what you'll pay — and what you'll get

Each audit is a flat fee, a clear scope, and a written report you can act on. No open-ended hours, no surprises.

Kubernetes Health Check

$300

Teams running production K8s who want a senior set of eyes before (or after) something breaks.

  • Review of workloads, resource requests/limits, and autoscaling
  • RBAC, network policy, and Pod Security gaps
  • Probe, rollout, and reliability anti-patterns
  • Prioritized findings + concrete remediation steps
Turnaround: 3–5 business days Request this audit

OpenStack / Kolla-Ansible Review

$450
Rare specialty

Private-cloud and Kolla-Ansible operators — a rare skillset most consultants simply do not have.

  • Nova / Neutron / Cinder / Keystone configuration review
  • Kolla-Ansible inventory, globals, and upgrade-path assessment
  • HA, quotas, and capacity-planning sanity check
  • Risk-ranked report with upgrade and hardening guidance
Turnaround: 5–7 business days Request this audit

Terraform / IaC Audit

$250

Teams whose Terraform has grown organically and now feels risky to change.

  • State, backend, and module-structure review
  • Drift, secrets-handling, and blast-radius analysis
  • CI/CD pipeline and plan-review workflow check
  • Refactor plan (moved/import) + policy-as-code recommendations
Turnaround: 3–5 business days Request this audit

Observability Review

$300

Teams drowning in noisy alerts or flying blind — Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, and Grafana.

  • Metrics pipeline + cardinality and retention review
  • Alert-rule quality and pager-fatigue reduction
  • SLO / error-budget and dashboard design feedback
  • Action plan for signal you can actually trust at 3am
Turnaround: 3–5 business days Request this audit

Hourly consulting

from $150/hour

Stuck on a gnarly OpenStack, Kubernetes, or Terraform problem? Pair with me to debug it, design it, or unblock your team. Billed in focused blocks.

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Fractional / retainer

Custom / month

Ongoing senior infrastructure support for a fixed monthly fee — CI/CD, platform, observability, and on-call-grade guidance without carrying a full-time hire.

Discuss a retainer
How it works

Simple, low-risk, senior

1

Intro call

A free 20-minute call to understand your stack, your pain, and whether I can actually help. No pitch.

2

Scope & quote

A fixed scope, a fixed price, and a clear deliverable — in writing — before any work starts.

3

Deliver

You get a prioritized, actionable report (and a walkthrough), usually within a week.

Why me

A rare combination of production scars

Plenty of consultants know Kubernetes. Very few have also run OpenStack with Kolla-Ansible, wired up VictoriaMetrics and Grafana at scale, and shipped Apache Guacamole and Terraform-managed infrastructure in production. That breadth means I see how the pieces fail together — not just in isolation.

I write about this work in depth, too. Browse the DevOps guides and the prompt library to see how I think before you ever book a call.

Have a problem worth a senior pair of eyes?

Start with a free intro call. If I'm not the right person, I'll tell you — and point you somewhere better.

Book a free intro call consulting@devopsaitoolkit.com