Infrastructure & architecture
How your environments are built, provisioned, and kept in sync — and where drift, single points of failure, and manual snowflakes hide.
Cloud & DevOps Consultancy
Orbucx is a full-service cloud engineering practice for startups and SMBs. Senior engineers cover every layer of your cloud — deployments, pipelines, security, reliability, and cost — starting with a comprehensive audit that shows you exactly where you stand.
The Cloud Audit
Every engagement starts with a comprehensive, free audit of your cloud. Senior engineers review the full stack and hand you a findings report with prioritized fixes — yours to keep, whoever executes it.
How your environments are built, provisioned, and kept in sync — and where drift, single points of failure, and manual snowflakes hide.
How code gets to production: build times, flaky steps, missing tests, manual gates, and rollback readiness.
IAM sprawl, over-permissive roles, exposed endpoints, unencrypted data, secrets in the wrong places — the issues you don't see until someone else finds them.
Line-by-line spend analysis: idle resources, over-provisioning, missing savings plans, and quantified estimates for each fix.
Backup coverage, failover readiness, alerting gaps, and what actually happens to your data and uptime when a region has a bad day.
A written findings report with every issue ranked by impact and effort, quantified savings and risks, and a prioritized 90-day plan. First findings within 24 hours; full report within 5 business days.
Services
From the first Terraform module to the 3 a.m. page that never fires — we design, build, secure, and run cloud infrastructure end to end.
Terraform and Pulumi codebases that make environments repeatable: spin up a full staging stack in minutes, reviewed and versioned like the rest of your code. No more console-clicking archaeology.
New pipeline setups, migrations off legacy CI, and release automation that takes deploys from hours to minutes — with automated tests, preview environments, and one-click rollbacks built in.
Docker in production done right — ECS, Fargate, or Kubernetes on EKS/GKE/AKS: ECR registries, autoscaling, GitOps deploys, and an honest call on which one you actually need.
Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog stacks with SLOs that reflect what users feel — and alerts that wake the right person for the right reason. On-call becomes calm instead of chaos.
We surface the security issues hiding in your cloud — IAM sprawl, leaked secrets, unscanned images — then fix them at the source: hardened access, secrets management, automated scanning, and audit-ready posture for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR.
Right-sizing, savings plans, spot strategies, and spend accountability per team. Typical result: 25–45% off the monthly bill within 60 days — often paying for the engagement in month one.
Backups that are actually tested, defined RTO/RPO targets, rehearsed failover, and resilient data pipelines — so a bad deploy or a lost region is an incident, not an extinction event.
Internal platforms and golden paths that let developers ship without filing tickets: self-service environments, standardized templates, and guardrails instead of gatekeepers.
Greenfield deployments designed right the first time, and migrations from on-prem or legacy accounts to well-architected AWS, GCP, or Azure — with zero-downtime cutover plans and rollback paths for every step.
Your fractional DevOps team on a flat monthly rate: proactive maintenance, monitoring, upgrades, cost reviews, and a senior engineer on Slack when something needs a decision.
GPU cost control, model serving, vector databases, and RAG pipelines — with guardrails that keep customer data out of third-party models. Ship AI without shipping your secrets.
A senior engineer answers at 3 a.m. — not a ticket queue. Defined SLAs, rehearsed runbooks, and postmortems that cut incidents month over month.
Why Orbucx
Agencies sell you a partner and staff you with juniors. We do the opposite.
The person who scopes your work is the person who builds it — a senior DevOps engineer, backed by a vetted network of specialists. No hand-offs, no juniors learning on your infrastructure.
We work with clients around the world and adapt to your working hours, your tools, and your rhythm. Same-day responses as the norm, not the exception.
Fixed quotes for projects, flat rates for retainers. No account managers, no hidden hours, no surprise invoices. You pay for engineering, not overhead.
Slack, email, or a call — you talk to the person with root access, not a project coordinator relaying messages. Decisions in minutes, not meetings.
Engagement Models
Clear scopes, clear pricing. Most clients start with the free audit, prove the fit with a starter engagement, and stay on retainer.
from $999 fixed price
A focused, tightly scoped engagement: fix a broken pipeline, harden IAM, containerize an app, or set up monitoring. A low-risk way to work together before committing to more.
Most popular
from $3,900/month
Your fractional DevOps team, covering the full stack: infrastructure, pipelines, monitoring, security, and cost — for less than a third of a full-time hire.
from $6,000 fixed scope
Cloud migrations, greenfield deployments, pipeline builds, Kubernetes setups, DR programs, or observability rollouts — scoped, quoted, and delivered on a fixed price with defined milestones.
Process
Read-only access, 5 days. We map your infrastructure, pipelines, security posture, costs, and reliability risks — and put numbers on each.
A prioritized roadmap with effort, cost, and expected impact per item. You approve the scope.
Infrastructure as code, peer-reviewed changes, zero-downtime rollouts. Weekly demos, no black boxes.
We hand over with full docs — or stay on retainer to run, monitor, secure, and keep improving it.
Results
Representative engagements across the full breadth of the practice. Client names available on request under NDA.
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Right-sizing, Graviton migration, and savings plans took the monthly AWS bill from $31k to $18.5k in 7 weeks — with zero performance regression.
11 min
Moved a fintech from hand-managed VMs to GKE with GitOps pipelines and a fully rehearsed cutover window of 11 minutes. Deploy frequency went from weekly to 14×/day.
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An audit surfaced 23 IAM and exposure issues at an e-commerce company. We hardened access, moved secrets to a vault, added automated scanning — and passed their SOC 2 readiness review.
FAQ
A full review of your cloud across five dimensions: infrastructure and architecture, CI/CD pipelines, security posture, costs, and reliability. You grant read-only access (we'll send exact IAM policies), first findings arrive within 24 hours, and within 5 business days you get a written report with every issue prioritized by impact and effort. No obligation to continue — the report is yours either way.
We start with least-privilege, read-only roles and only escalate per approved scope. All access goes through your IAM with full audit trails — no shared credentials, ever. We're happy to sign your NDA and security agreements before seeing anything.
Yes. Greenfield is some of our favorite work: new AWS, GCP, or Azure environments designed right from day one — infrastructure as code, CI/CD, monitoring, and security baked in from the first commit instead of retrofitted later. We also handle migrations from on-prem or legacy accounts.
A retainer gives you a dedicated senior engineer with guaranteed monthly hours covering whatever your cloud needs: maintenance, monitoring, incident response, security reviews, cost control, and new build work. You get documented runbooks, a monthly review, and a direct Slack line. Cancel with 30 days' notice — no annual lock-in.
AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure as first-class citizens, plus on-prem-to-cloud migrations. Standard toolkit: Terraform, Pulumi, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub Actions/GitLab CI, Prometheus/Grafana, Datadog. If you run something else, ask — the network is broad.
The free audit is the smallest way to start — no commitment at all. Paid engagements begin with a fixed-price starter engagement (from $999) for a single focused outcome; projects start around $6,000; retainers from $3,900/month with a 30-day notice period.
Every retainer includes documented runbooks and a vetted backup engineer briefed on your stack. Because everything we build is code-managed and documented, any competent engineer — ours or yours — can operate it.
Blog
Practical notes on cloud, cost, and reliability — written by the engineers doing the work.
FinOps
Idle NAT gateways, orphaned snapshots, cross-AZ traffic — where your bill quietly grows.
Kubernetes
The rehearsal steps that make an 11-minute cutover boring — in the best way.
Security
Over-permissive roles and forgotten keys — the findings we see in almost every audit.
Thirty minutes to kick off. Worst case, you get a senior second opinion on your entire cloud. Best case, you find the risks and waste before they find you.
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