Services

Fixed-price help for teams on AWS and Kubernetes.

Reviews and hands-on fixes for EKS reliability, cloud cost and CI/CD, from an engineer who runs a 250-microservice EKS platform day to day.

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What I can help with

Platform reliability

Amazon EKS reliability & production-readiness review

For teams running EKS who aren't sure their cluster would survive a bad day.

What I check

  • Node and autoscaling setup (Karpenter, Cluster Autoscaler, capacity)
  • Workload resilience: probes, disruption budgets, requests and limits
  • Security: IAM for pods, RBAC, network policies, image sources
  • Observability, alerting and SLOs
  • Upgrade path, backups and disaster-recovery readiness

From £950 typically 3–5 days

Includes: one EKS cluster in one AWS account, with a sample of up to three representative workloads.

You get

  • A findings report with risks ranked by impact
  • A prioritised fix list
  • A one-hour walkthrough call

I run a four-cluster EKS platform at 99.5% availability, with an HA/DR design proven by DR exercises and chaos testing.

Cloud cost

AWS cost & architecture review

For teams whose AWS bill is growing faster than the business.

What I check

  • Compute right-sizing and autoscaling
  • Savings Plans and Reserved Instance coverage
  • Data transfer and networking (NAT, VPC endpoints)
  • Databases, storage, logs and image retention
  • Idle and forgotten resources

From £750 typically 3–5 days

Includes: one AWS account and the last three months of billing, with an architecture review focused on your largest cost drivers. I can also review several accounts or a consolidated bill, and I'll confirm the scope and price after the intro call.

You get

  • Where the money goes, broken down by service
  • A savings plan ranked by £ saved and effort
  • Quick wins you can apply the same week

I've cut AWS costs by 70% through right-sizing, Karpenter tuning, RDS optimisation, ECR lifecycle policies and VPC endpoints.

Release engineering

Reliable CI/CD for AWS & Kubernetes

For teams whose releases are slow, manual or risky.

What I work on

  • Pipelines in GitHub Actions, TeamCity or Jenkins
  • Docker builds, Helm charts and GitOps with Argo CD
  • Deployment checks and rollback
  • Temporary environments for every pull request

From £650 audit 2 days · builds quoted

Includes: one application, one repository and its existing pipeline through one target environment. New pipelines and implementation are quoted separately.

You get

  • An audit with a prioritised improvement plan, or
  • A working pipeline built on your existing stack
  • Handover documentation for your team

I took deployments from hours to seconds with Argo CD, and built pull-request environments that are ready in 7 minutes.

Prices are starting points for a typical scope. After a short call I'll confirm a fixed price in writing, before any work starts.

Every service comes in three levels

Review

I assess the agreed scope and deliver the findings and prioritised recommendations listed for your service.

Review + implementation roadmap

Everything in the review, plus a roadmap your team can put straight into its backlog. I break the recommendations into tasks, estimate the effort, and flag dependencies, testing and rollout steps.

Implementation

I scope and quote the agreed changes separately, carry them out through your team's normal release process, and hand over documentation.

For example, a review might find a workload that could lose too many replicas during node maintenance and recommend a PodDisruptionBudget. The roadmap lists which workloads to change, in what order, and how to test the change before it reaches production.

How it works

  1. Free intro call

    Book 20 minutes online, weekdays 10am to 4pm. We talk through your setup, and if there's a fit, I follow up with a scope and a fixed quote.

  2. Least-privilege access

    Read-only access for reviews. Happy to sign an NDA first.

  3. Report and walkthrough

    Clear findings, ranked by impact, explained on a call.

  4. Optional implementation

    I make the changes through your normal process, then hand over.

Ongoing support

Need someone on hand every month?

A fixed number of hours each month for reviews, upgrades and advice when something goes wrong. From £1,200 a month.

Questions

Can you work with my existing tools?

Yes. I adapt to your stack rather than replacing it. I regularly work with AWS, Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions, TeamCity, Jenkins, Argo CD, Helm, Docker and Datadog.

Will you need access to production?

Reviews only need read-only access, scoped to what I'm reviewing. For implementation, changes go through your normal process, such as pull requests, and access is removed when we finish.

Do reviews include implementation?

No. A review gives you findings and a plan your team can act on. If you'd like me to make the changes, that's the Implementation level, scoped and quoted separately.

Where are you based?

London, UK. I work remotely, on UK time.

How does payment work?

We agree the scope and a fixed price in writing before any work starts. I then invoice you directly, and you pay by bank transfer. The only exception is an evening or weekend call, which is £50, paid by card when you book.

Book a free 20-minute call

Pick a time that suits you, Monday to Friday between 10am and 4pm UK time. When you book, tell me a little about your AWS or Kubernetes setup and what you'd like help with. You'll get a confirmation email with the Zoom link straight away.

On the call, we'll talk through your setup and what you need. If there's a fit, I'll follow up with a proposed scope and a fixed quote.

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