Senior DevOps you can relax around.

We place a vetted, senior DevOps engineer in your Slack within a week, backed by a lead architect, and bill only for the hours actually worked. No retainer, no lock-in.

No obligation. You meet your engineer before anything begins.

  • 4.9/5 on Clutch
  • 13 verified reviews
  • 1,000 vetted, 7 hired
  • Trusted by VC-backed startups

Trusted by startups that ship to production every day.

The hard part

A great DevOps hire is rare. Staying stuck while you search is the real cost.

Posting the role is easy. Finding a senior engineer who can actually steady your infrastructure is not. Months pass in interviews while the pager keeps going off, and the work that was supposed to move forward sits still.

We hand those months back. A vetted, senior engineer is in your Slack within a week, already focused on the firefighting you have been carrying alone, so the time you would have spent hiring goes back into the build.

Time to a senior engineer at work
  1. MonthsHiring one yourselfSourcing, interviews, an offer, a notice period. The pager keeps ringing.
  2. About a weekStarting with MeteorOpsYou meet your engineer, then they are in your Slack and on the work.

How MeteorOps works

One senior engineer, on your team, billed by the hour

No agency layers, no fixed retainer. A vetted, senior DevOps engineer joins your team and does the real work, from a one-off fix to a full platform build. You choose how you engage them, and pay only for the hours they put in.

What that means for you

  • A named engineer from the top 0.7% we vet, not an agency queue
  • In your Slack within a week, doing the actual work
  • A detailed hours log at the end of every month
  • No retainer, no lock-in, and you meet them before anything starts

And never just one person: a lead architect and a full expert bench stand behind your engineer.

Three ways to work with us

Pick the shape that fits the moment. What never changes: you are billed only for the hours actually worked, with no retainer and no lock-in.

Every model is hourly. You meet the engineer who would join before anything begins, and a detailed log at month's end shows exactly where each hour went.

  • Hourly

    Hours Bank

    Senior DevOps help on tap, for teams who want expertise without a hire.

    • Start from 40 hours, top up whenever you like
    • The right expert for the task, from one network
    • A detailed hours log at the end of every month
  • Hourly

    Project

    A defined outcome, planned and delivered: a migration, a platform build.

    • Free deep-dive and written work plan before any work starts
    • We plan and implement the whole outcome end to end
    • No obligation: meet your engineer, then decide
  • Hourly

    Staff Augmentation

    Steady embedded capacity, part-time or full-time, like a team member.

    • Free deep-dive and written work plan before any work starts
    • Part-time or full-time, embedded with your team
    • Kickoff, weekly syncs, and a shared Slack channel
Book a free consultation

No obligation. We will help you find the right shape on the call.

How it goes

Two short arcs, from hello to humming along

Starting is light and reversible. Once you are in, the work settles into a calm, visible rhythm. A senior lead and a detailed hours log carry through both.

  1. Getting started

    No obligation, and nothing to sign. You meet your engineer before a single hour is billed.

    1. Book a call

      Leave your details and book a free consultation, just a conversation about where your team is and what's slowing it down. No commitment.

      • Leave your details
      • Free consultation
      • No obligation
    2. Deep-dive and work plan

      We dig into what you actually need. From there we run a project estimation (a deep-dive and work-plan review), then hand-pick an engineer or expert to introduce, or both.

      • Project estimation
      • Engineer introduction
      • Either or both
    3. Meet your engineer

      We book a kickoff, align on goals, and confirm scope and capacity. You meet exactly who you'll work with, and choose whether to proceed.

      • Align on goals
      • Confirm scope
      • Meet your engineer
  2. Once engaged

    We stand up a steady rhythm and keep the work visible, sized to the capacity we agreed.

    1. Kickoff and shared Slack

      We stand up the rails: a shared Slack channel, a weekly sync (or whatever rhythm fits), and ad-hoc calls whenever you need them.

      • Shared Slack channel
      • Sync rhythm
      • Ad-hoc calls
    2. Weekly syncs

      We stand up the rails: a shared Slack channel, a weekly sync (or whatever rhythm fits), and ad-hoc calls whenever you need them.

      • Shared Slack channel
      • Sync rhythm
      • Ad-hoc calls
    3. Ongoing communication

      The work runs continuously, sized to the capacity we coordinated and driven by your requirements as they evolve. Steady progress, always visible.

      • Capacity-based
      • Continuous delivery
      • Requirements-driven

Runs throughout, start to finish

  • Group lead (architect)A senior lead sits in as an architect, enriching technical discussions and keeping the direction sound across the whole engagement.
  • Every hour, loggedAll along, your engineers log their hours in detail, so you always see exactly what was done and what you're billed for.
Book a free consultation

A conversation first. You decide whether to go further.

The top 0.7%

We vet a thousand to trust you with seven.

The hard part of DevOps is not the work, it is finding someone genuinely great. Every engineer who reaches your team has cleared the same gauntlet, so the person in your Slack is one you can lean on.

Of every thousand vetted1,000

Roughly seven of every thousand we assess are good enough to join. That is the bar your engineer already cleared.

0.7%accepted

A tighter gate than the most selective universities. We carry the cost of saying no so you never inherit a hire who cannot.

More than one engineer

You are never relying on one person

One engineer lives in your day-to-day. Behind them stands a quiet support structure, so a hard call, a stuck migration, or a runaway bill is never one person's problem alone.

group lead

A senior mind on every decision

A senior DevOps engineer leading behind the scenes, a second brain on architecture for your engineer, and a check on progress and quality for you.

  • Architecturea second brain on the hard design calls
  • Progressa steady check on pace and quality, for you
  • Always onpresent across the whole engagement, behind the scenes

On some engagements

Someone steering toward your goals

On larger engagements, a dedicated manager runs regular checkups and adapts the work as your needs shift, so momentum always points at success.

expert network

A specialist for every wall you hit

Kubernetes, networking, security, a runaway AWS bill, tap our whole bench of experts. Connecting with the right one is as quick as sending a message.

  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • Networking
  • Security
  • Cost optimization
  • Observability

Reaching the right one is as quick as sending a message.

Billed by the hour

You see exactly what you pay for.

Every model is billed by the hour, so you are charged for the hours actually worked, not a retainer and not a flat fee against vague output. At the end of every month a detailed log lands in your inbox: each task, the day it happened, and the hours it took.

  • A line for every task, with the hours beside it
  • Charged on hours actually worked, never a flat retainer
  • Clear enough to hand straight to your finance team
Where one month's 29.5 hours went
  • Infrastructure14.5h
  • CI/CD4.0h
  • Reliability5.5h
  • Cost3.0h
  • Support2.5h
Hours log, April

Acme Robotics, Staff Augmentation

29.5hlogged
  1. Apr 04Hardened EKS node IAM rolesScoped instance profiles to least privilege, removed wildcard policies6.5h
  2. Apr 10Set up staging CI pipelineParallelized test stages, added layer caching, cut runs by 38%4.0h
  3. Apr 16Migrated RDS to Multi-AZZero-downtime failover test, automated nightly snapshots8.0h
  4. Apr 23Rolled out SLO alertingGrafana dashboards and paging tied to error-budget burn5.5h
  5. Apr 28Right-sized idle computeTrimmed over-provisioned node groups across two clusters3.0h
  6. Apr 30On-call handover and notesRunbooks updated, week's incidents reviewed in the sync2.5h

Illustrative example. Your real log details every task we touch.

In their words

The teams we work with keep us close.

Founders and engineering leaders at VC-backed startups, on what it is like to have a senior MeteorOps engineer on the team.

4.9/ 5on Clutch, across 13 verified reviews
  • They've been super professional and flexible, moving fast exactly when we needed them to. They feel like part of our team.
    Or GorodisskyVP R&D, D-ID
  • Their ethos about DevOps is very compelling. The founders brought insights that genuinely shaped how we think about our infrastructure.
    Paul MattalCTO, Jaide Health
  • They took us from zero to 20 engineers self-serving on AWS. MeteorOps stays remarkably flexible to our changing needs.
    David ShawSr. Software Engineer, LeanData
  • We push 10 to 20 infrastructure changes a week now, with minimal errors. Their depth in Kubernetes and AWS is the real deal.
    Mike OssarehVP Software, Erisyon
  • I was impressed at how quickly they handled new tasks, at a quality and value that's genuinely hard to find.
    Joseph ChenChief Product Officer
  • Timely, accessible, and deeply experienced. Whenever we need them, the right person is one message away.
    Ari ZellnerVP Engineering, Embie

Questions worth asking first

The honest answers to what most teams want to know before booking a call. If yours is not here, ask us in the consultation.

Ready to relax around your infrastructure?

A vetted senior DevOps engineer in your Slack within a week, billed only for the hours actually worked. You meet your engineer first, and decide from there.

No obligation. Free deep-dive and work plan for Project and Staff Augmentation.