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DevOps & Cloud Team Augmentation

Add Senior Cloud Execution Without Slowing Down Hiring.

Mayan.Host embeds experienced DevOps, SRE, Kubernetes, and cloud engineers into your delivery workflow for the work your current team cannot absorb. You gain hands-on execution, defined ownership, and documentation without waiting through a full hiring cycle or handing critical infrastructure to a disconnected staffing vendor.

1 team Your priorities, communication channels, tools, and delivery cadence
3 roles DevOps, cloud, and SRE capability matched to the work
4 models Part-time, full-time, project, or ongoing operational support
0 silos Work, decisions, documentation, and system knowledge stay visible

Best Fit

When Team Augmentation Is the Right Engagement

Augmentation creates the most value when delivery is blocked by a specific capability or capacity gap, but your team still needs direct collaboration, clear ownership, and control of technical decisions.

A critical initiative is waiting for specialist capacity

Cloud migrations, Kubernetes adoption, delivery automation, and reliability work often stall when the required experience is unavailable internally.

  • A roadmap item needs AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, DevOps, or SRE expertise.
  • The current team cannot absorb the implementation workload.
  • Hiring lead time is longer than the delivery window.

Infrastructure knowledge is concentrated in too few people

Delivery and operations become fragile when one engineer owns the pipelines, cloud account, cluster, incidents, and every production change.

  • Planned work pauses when a key engineer is unavailable.
  • Product engineers are repeatedly pulled into infrastructure support.
  • Documentation and operational handoffs remain incomplete.

You need execution without surrendering technical control

Traditional outsourcing can create another management layer. Embedded engineers work within your priorities while your leaders retain architecture and product control.

  • Work needs to happen inside your repositories and delivery process.
  • Progress, risks, and decisions must remain visible to your team.
  • The engagement must support knowledge transfer rather than dependency.

Scope

Where Embedded Engineers Add Capacity

The engagement is shaped around the work your team needs completed, the systems involved, the ownership boundary, and the level of operational responsibility required.

DevOps and delivery engineering

Embedded DevOps engineers remove release friction and build delivery systems your product team can use and maintain.

  • CI/CD pipelines, release workflows, rollback, artifacts, and environment promotion
  • Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, configuration, secrets, and infrastructure automation
  • Developer environments, platform workflows, documentation, and self-service

Cloud and platform engineering

Cloud engineers design and implement infrastructure while working within your architecture, security, cost, and operating constraints.

  • AWS, GCP, private-cloud, hybrid, networking, IAM, compute, and storage
  • Landing zones, account or project structure, guardrails, and shared services
  • Architecture implementation, modernization, migration, and cloud optimization

Kubernetes engineering

Kubernetes specialists help teams build, migrate, stabilize, and operate container platforms without leaving cluster knowledge isolated.

  • Cluster design, upgrades, node pools, networking, ingress, storage, and access
  • Helm, GitOps, workload migration, autoscaling, requests, limits, and policies
  • Troubleshooting, platform standards, observability, backup, and recovery

Site reliability engineering

SRE capacity turns production reliability into measured work with explicit ownership and a repeatable improvement loop.

  • SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, dashboards, alerts, logs, metrics, and traces
  • Incident response, runbooks, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions
  • Capacity, performance, change risk, resilience, and toil reduction

Security and operational readiness

Engineers improve the controls around infrastructure and delivery without separating security from day-to-day implementation.

  • Least privilege, secrets, vulnerability checks, image scanning, and patching
  • Backup, recovery, audit evidence, policy enforcement, and access review
  • Production readiness, change controls, operational documentation, and handoffs

Delivery leadership and knowledge transfer

Senior engineers can own a workstream, unblock decisions, and make the capability repeatable for your internal team.

  • Technical discovery, architecture review, backlog shaping, and delivery planning
  • Pull-request review, pairing, runbooks, design records, and team workshops
  • Ownership transition, capability development, and exit documentation

Engagement Model

A Practical Path From Skills Gap to Delivery

The goal is not to add people without context. It is to add the right capability, establish accountability quickly, deliver visible work, and leave your systems and team stronger.

01

Define the capacity gap

We begin with the work, systems, constraints, and outcomes rather than matching a generic role description.

  • Review the backlog, architecture, delivery window, and current team structure.
  • Identify the missing capability, available internal ownership, and operational risk.
  • Agree on responsibilities, access boundaries, communication, and success measures.
02

Shape the engagement

We match the scope to an engineer or delivery model that fits the depth, duration, and ownership the work requires.

  • Choose part-time, full-time, project-based, or ongoing support.
  • Define priorities, working hours, meetings, escalation, and reporting.
  • Create an initial backlog with visible milestones and dependencies.
03

Embed and deliver

The engineer joins your working process, gains system context, and starts with high-value work that establishes a reliable delivery rhythm.

  • Work through your repositories, issue tracking, reviews, and communication channels.
  • Document architecture, decisions, changes, risks, and operational procedures.
  • Review progress and adapt priorities with your technical owner.
04

Expand, transfer, or conclude

The engagement changes with the need instead of becoming an open-ended dependency.

  • Expand coverage when the backlog or operational responsibility grows.
  • Transfer ownership through pairing, runbooks, review, and structured handoff.
  • Conclude with completed work, known risks, documentation, and next steps.

Engagement

What You Get

  • A scoped engagement plan with role, ownership, priorities, milestones, and success measures
  • Experienced DevOps, SRE, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, or private-cloud engineering capacity
  • Hands-on implementation inside your repositories, infrastructure, and delivery workflow
  • Architecture decisions, pull requests, infrastructure code, pipelines, and operational changes
  • Visible delivery reporting with blockers, risks, dependencies, and completed outcomes
  • Runbooks, diagrams, design records, system documentation, and knowledge transfer
  • Flexible continuation, expansion, transition, or structured engagement closeout

Outcomes

What Changes

  • Critical cloud and DevOps work moves without waiting for a permanent hire
  • Internal engineers recover time for product and platform priorities
  • Specialist decisions are paired with hands-on implementation and accountability
  • Infrastructure knowledge becomes documented and shared across the team
  • Delivery capacity can increase or reduce as the roadmap changes
  • Technical control and system access remain within your organization

Add the Capability You Need. Keep Ownership of Your Platform.

Your team retains technical direction, repositories, accounts, access controls, and decision authority. Mayan.Host engineers work within that model, or take on a clearly defined operational boundary when you need managed ownership instead of augmentation.

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Start the Review

Share the capability gap and work that needs to move.

Use the form to request a team augmentation review. A Mayan.Host engineer will assess the workstream, required skills, current stack, delivery window, ownership model, and the level of embedded support your team needs.

  • Tell us whether you need DevOps, SRE, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, or private-cloud expertise.
  • Describe the backlog, delivery deadline, operating responsibility, and current blockers.
  • Include your preferred working model, time-zone overlap, tools, and expected engagement duration.

Request Team Augmentation Review

FAQ

DevOps & Cloud Team Augmentation FAQ

How is team augmentation different from managed services?

With augmentation, engineers work within your priorities, tools, delivery process, and technical leadership. Managed services place an agreed operational outcome or system boundary under Mayan.Host ownership. We can also combine both models when embedded project work needs ongoing production support.

Can we engage an engineer part-time or for a specific project?

Yes. Engagements can be part-time, full-time, project-based, or ongoing. The appropriate model depends on backlog depth, delivery deadlines, meeting overhead, production responsibility, and how much internal ownership is available for review and decision-making.

Which skills and platforms can you provide?

We support DevOps, SRE, Kubernetes, Linux, AWS, GCP, private cloud, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, incident response, cloud migration, cost optimization, security automation, databases, storage, networking, backup, and production operations.

How do embedded engineers work with our existing team?

We agree on a technical owner, communication channels, working-hour overlap, backlog, review process, access boundaries, and reporting cadence. Engineers then work through your repositories and delivery tools so progress, decisions, risks, and documentation remain visible.

How do you handle access and security?

Access should use your identity, least-privilege roles, approval process, and audit controls wherever possible. We define required systems before onboarding, avoid shared credentials, document elevated access, and align production changes with your review and change-management requirements.

Will our team retain the knowledge after the engagement?

Yes. Documentation and transfer are part of delivery, not an end-of-project afterthought. Depending on scope, this includes infrastructure code, runbooks, architecture diagrams, design records, pull-request review, pairing, workshops, and a structured ownership handoff.