Fractional platform team
Senior capacity without the hire. Embedded engineers who own your infrastructure like it's theirs.
The platform work is piling up. The hire isn't happening.
Product engineers are doing infra on Fridays, and the senior platform hire is six months of searching away. The work can't wait that long.
What you get
Embedded, not external
We join your standups, your Slack, and your on-call conversations. Infrastructure gets an owner.
Shipping, not advising
PRs reviewed, pipelines fixed, clusters upgraded. Output you can see in the repo.
Sized to your stage
Two days a week or near-full-time. The commitment flexes as your needs do.
Knowledge that stays
Everything documented and taught as we go. When you do hire, they inherit order.
How it runs
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Onboard
Week one: access, context, and a written map of your platform's current state.
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Stabilise
The pile of deferred platform work gets triaged and burned down, riskiest first.
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Cadence
A monthly rhythm: planned platform work, reviews, and room for the unexpected.
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Evolve
Scale the engagement up, down, or into a handover to your own hire. No lock-in.
Against the full-time hire
Common questions
Typical engagements run from two days a week to near-full-time. We agree a monthly capacity and review it quarterly; it can flex with your roadmap.
We can take part in business-hours escalation and incident review. Full pager rotation is agreed case by case, depending on the engagement size.
It is a bridge, not a substitute. When the time is right we will help you write the job spec, interview, and hand over a documented platform to your hire.
The same senior engineers you meet in the first conversation. We do not staff engagements with people you have never spoken to.
Ready when you are
Thirty minutes with the architect who would build it. No deck, no account manager, no follow-up sequence.