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Apply for Office HoursFractional DevOps Lead — £300/month
Not every team needs a full-time DevOps engineer. But every team shipping software needs someone who can answer the hard questions, review the risky decisions, and keep delivery moving. That is what DevOps Office Hours gives you.
For a flat monthly fee you get direct access to an experienced DevOps lead — without the overhead of a permanent hire.
What's Included
- ✅ Unlimited Slack guidance — Target 1 business day response
- ✅ Monthly Strategy Call — 60-minute recurring touchpoint
- ✅ Monthly Deployment Review — Process, risk and monitoring report
- ✅ Monthly Cloud Cost Review — Savings and optimisation report
- ✅ Quarterly Architecture Review — Strategic multi-region/scaling guidance
- ✅ Quarterly CI/CD Health Check — Security and reliability audit
- ✅ Emergency Advisory Call — 30-minute monthly session
What's Not Included
- ❌ Hands-on keyboard work (Writing Terraform, fixing systems)
- ❌ Out-of-hours support (Evenings, weekends, 3am calls)
- ❌ Unlimited meetings (Synchronous time is capped)
This keeps the service scalable and focused on what matters most: expert guidance that helps your team make better decisions faster.
Add-on Services
When you need deeper technical work or rapid improvement, we offer:
- 🚀 DevOps Accelerator (£1,500 one-off) — Well-Architected reviews, CI/CD redesigns, or infrastructure migrations.
- 🛠️ Implementation Day (£750/day) — Hands-on execution of improvements by Neil.
About Neil
Neil Millard is a successful entrepreneur, speaker and trainer. A recognised expert on cloud and automated server infrastructures, he assists businesses to embrace new technology to move faster, become more automated and respond more quickly to their customers' wants and needs.
Having spent many years in the financial sector with clients such as Barclays, HMRC, Marks & Spencer and AXA, he is now on a mission to help grow companies through DevOps and Platforms. With over 20 years of IT experience, Neil brings deep practical knowledge to every engagement.