The engineer you hire
is the one who shows up.
I've spent over a decade as a cloud SRE engineer — building, breaking, and fixing production systems on AWS and GCP at companies ranging from early-stage startups to mid-market platforms. I've seen AWS bills go from $3K to $47K a month without anyone noticing why. I've been on-call during outages that cost companies $80K in an afternoon. I've also fixed those problems — and helped engineering teams build the practices to prevent them.
SignalOps exists because most cloud consultancies either charge enterprise rates, staff junior engineers on senior problems, or give advice without doing the implementation. We do one thing: embed with your engineering team, deliver a clear outcome, and leave you better than we found you — with the documentation and practices to prove it.
Work With UsWhy founders skip the big agency
Most cloud agencies sell you a senior engineer on the pitch call, then staff a junior on the actual work. Here's what changes when there's no one to hand it off to.
Typical cloud agency
- Junior consultant runs the engagement, senior only shows up for the kickoff
- Vague proposals — pricing only after a long sales process
- Generalist advice across every cloud and stack
- Success measured in billable hours
SignalOps
- Senior engineer leads and executes every engagement, start to finish
- Fixed-scope engagements — you know exactly what you get before we start
- Deep specialization in AWS and GCP only — no spreading thin
- Success measured in cost saved, uptime achieved, incidents prevented
How an engagement works
From first contact to final handoff — no mystery, no surprises.
Submit the form
Tell us about your cloud environment, your current pain, and what success looks like. Takes 3 minutes.
Discovery call
Free 30-minute call to confirm scope, ask the questions that matter, and make sure we're the right fit. No sales deck.
Clear proposal
You receive a written scope, fixed price, and timeline before any work starts. No ambiguity, no surprises.
Engagement begins
We get to work. Weekly async updates via Loom or Slack. You always know what's happening and why.
Documented handoff
Every engagement ends with runbooks, architecture diagrams, and plain-English documentation your team can use without us.
Our principles
Radical transparency
We scope before we price. We tell you if we're not the right fit. We show you exactly what we found, even when it's uncomfortable.
Engineering over consulting
We're engineers who consult, not consultants who talk about engineering. Every recommendation we make, we can implement.
Outcomes over engagement
We measure success by your results — cost savings, uptime, deployment speed — not by how long we stay on the project.
Small team advantage
You work directly with the senior engineer, not a project manager. Every call, every review, every deliverable — that's us.
Technologies we work with daily
Let's work together
Whether you're spending too much on cloud, dealing with reliability issues, or planning a migration — we'd love to hear what you're building.
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