Senior infrastructure and release engineering for UK startups, without the full-time hire
Most startups under 25 engineers don’t have full-time DevOps work: they have a burst of intensive platform building followed by a long tail of maintenance that needs a few hours a week. Fractional DevOps brings CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and release process discipline in on a part-time basis, delivered by a named senior engineer under ITNextGen’s oversight and delivery governance.
The problem
- A technical founder ends up owning infrastructure alongside product: deployments start breaking, environments drift, and nobody has time to fix it properly.
- Click-ops and undocumented infrastructure become a liability the moment the team scales or a security/compliance review is needed.
- A full-time senior DevOps hire runs £93,000–130,000 a year loaded, plus months to recruit and ramp, not justified for a workload that’s bursty, not constant.
The offer
| Tier | Scope | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Infrastructure Audit (one-off) | CI/CD and cloud infrastructure review · Security/compliance gap check · Cost review · Written recommendations | 3–5 days |
| Fractional Lite | Ongoing maintenance and deploy support · Monitoring and alerting upkeep · Fixing infrastructure drift | 1 day/week |
| Fractional Core | Everything in Lite · Owns CI/CD pipeline and cloud architecture · Infrastructure-as-code discipline (no click-ops) · Reviews and documentation for compliance readiness | 2 days/week |
| Migration/Build Sprint (add-on) | One defined build or migration (e.g. CI/CD pipeline, single service to IaC) · Handover documentation · Further migrations scoped separately | 2–3 weeks |
Pricing available on request, scoped to your team and stage: get in touch for a quote.
Why ITNextGen
- Delivered by a named senior DevOps associate, with ITNextGen owning delivery governance, quality oversight, and the client relationship: the same model used to scale delivery on larger regulated-sector programmes.
- Backed by ITNextGen’s Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program membership and G-Cloud/DOS6 supplier certifications.
- Completes the fractional suite alongside QA, BA, and PO: infrastructure reliability feeds directly into release confidence.
Next step
Book a free 20-minute infrastructure health check: a short call to spot where deployment risk is highest, no obligation to continue.
See also: Fractional QA & Test Management: infrastructure reliability feeds directly into release confidence.