Falkren gives funded startups and growing SMBs senior DevOps support for AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, monitoring, and reliability — without waiting months to hire.
Senior DevOps support without the hiring delay
AWS · Kubernetes · Terraform · CI/CD · monitoring
Built for US-timezone collaboration
Growth exposes infrastructure gaps fast.
After a raise or a step-change in customer load, most teams find the same things at the same time. None of them are dramatic on their own. Together, they slow the company down.
Deployments are still fragile — releases depend on one engineer being awake.
Cloud costs grow faster than revenue, and nobody can fully explain the bill.
Monitoring exists, but nobody fully trusts the alerts.
Infrastructure ownership sits on one overloaded engineer — and they know it.
Hiring a senior DevOps/SRE takes months. The work doesn't wait.
Enterprise customers start asking about uptime, SOC2, and security reviews.
Product velocity slows because infrastructure work keeps interrupting it.
Take the cloud layer off the engineering team. Clear ownership of AWS or GCP accounts, networking, IAM, and core platform services.
AWS · GCP · IAM · VPC · Terraform
Operate and improve the platform layer the team relies on. Repeatable environments, sane defaults, fewer one-off surprises.
EKS · GKE · Helm · Terraform · ArgoCD
Make deployments predictable, visible, and easier to roll back — so releases don't depend on tribal knowledge.
GitHub Actions · GitLab CI · Buildkite
Metrics, logs, and traces you actually trust. Alerts that mean something. Dashboards the team uses instead of avoiding.
Datadog · Grafana · Prometheus · OpenTelemetry
On-call structure, escalation paths, runbooks for the failures that actually happen — and tabletop exercises to prove they work.
PagerDuty · runbooks · postmortems
Understand where the spend goes. Tag, attribute, and right-size — so the cloud bill stops being a quarterly surprise.
Cost Explorer · tagging · rightsizing
Get the infrastructure posture ready for SOC2 and enterprise security reviews — without freezing product work.
SOC2 · least privilege · audit logs
A senior DevOps function on retainer — embedded with the engineering team, working in US-friendly hours.
Pod · retainer · US-overlap
A practical first step. Five to seven business days. A senior DevOps lead looks at the actual state of the platform and writes down what needs attention — before it becomes a business problem.
Review cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, monitoring, deployments, ownership, and reliability risks.
Identify the top operational bottlenecks slowing the team down.
Deliver a written risk map and a 30 / 60 / 90-day action plan.
Optional follow-up: stabilization sprint or ongoing DevOps support.
Falkren works as a short-term stabilization team, a fractional DevOps function, a longer-term infrastructure partner, or a bridge while the startup hires internally. Coverage is US-friendly hours with strong timezone overlap — not a 24/7 promise we couldn't honestly keep.
20 minutes. We figure out whether we're the right team for the work in front of you. If we're not, we'll tell you.
5–7 business days. A senior lead audits the platform and writes down what needs attention.
A focused engagement to fix the highest-impact issues — CI/CD, alerting, cost, ownership.
If it makes sense, a fractional DevOps function on retainer — or a bridge while the internal hire is in flight.
Examples — not benchmarks. Numbers and scope vary by engagement; specifics are kept private. For named, deeper engagements see our work page.
"Infrastructure was the one thing slowing us down after the raise. Falkren took it off our plate. Deploys stopped being events."
Shared with permission. Company name withheld.
Falkren is operated by senior infrastructure engineers with hands-on production experience across SaaS, fintech, and regulated platforms.
We don't broker work to junior engineers or subcontractors. Every engagement is run by a senior lead who has owned production infrastructure before — not managed it from a spreadsheet.
We take a small number of engagements at a time. That's intentional.
Falkren also works with iGaming and platform operators where uptime, regulated launches, traffic spikes, and infrastructure reliability matter. For conferences and operator-specific conversations, we keep this as a dedicated vertical.
A 20-minute call with a senior DevOps lead. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right team and what we'd change first. No deck, no pitch theatre.