We do your DevOps. You ship product.
Hyphen embeds a Lead Engineer and a Senior Engineer in your Slack to run your CI/CD, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure. You get 20 hours of work each month for one price instead of a hire. You keep the keys, and your team gets its weeks back.
Your Best Engineers Are Stuck Doing Ops.
“Deploys used to take minutes. Now they take a sprint.”
Shipping gets slower every quarter as pipelines, Helm charts, and Terraform grow harder to untangle.
“Why are my engineers spending time on this?”
Your most senior people are patching clusters and babysitting deploys instead of building the roadmap.
“The cloud bill keeps climbing, and nobody can say why.”
Spend creeps up every month, and nobody owns bringing it back down.
“The whole stack lives in one person’s head.”
Terraform has become tribal knowledge, on-call falls on the same two people, and every incident is a fire drill.
You don’t need a DevOps org. You need senior operators in your cloud and your Slack starting this month.
First Wins in 30 Days. Stabilized by Week 8. Then We Run It.
A named Lead Engineer and Senior Engineer work alongside your team. Your engineers keep architectural ownership while we handle the operational work. Deliverables you can point to every week.
- 01Week 1–2
Onboarding
- Least-privilege access under your IAM, revocable anytime
- A written audit of your CI/CD, Kubernetes, and cloud spend that you keep
- A prioritized stabilization plan your team signs off on
- 02Week 3–8
Stabilization
- First 30 days: cutting alert noise, hardening deploys, closing top cost leaks
- Runbooks and IaC cleanup committed to your repos
- Production hardening: monitoring, rollbacks, failover
- 03Ongoing
Continuous Operations
- Weekly ops work and summaries in your Slack
- Incident response alongside your engineers
- Cost and architecture reviews on your plan’s cadence
See what the first 30 days would fix in your stack.
Book a Free Ops AssessmentEverything DevOps. Handled.
Senior engineers cover ten operational disciplines so you don't have to hire a specialist for each one.
CI/CD Pipelines
Deploy in minutes with pipelines your team trusts enough to ship on a Friday.
Kubernetes Operations
We handle upgrades, scaling, patching, and cost tuning so your team can make cluster changes with confidence.
Cloud Infrastructure
Day-to-day operations across AWS, GCP, Azure, and Cloudflare, covering networking, compute, storage, and everything between.
Infrastructure as Code
Turn Terraform sprawl into reproducible, auditable infrastructure committed to your repos.
Observability & Monitoring
Alerts page on real symptoms so you find out before your customers do.
Reliability Engineering
Load testing, failover planning, and architecture fixes that keep you up when traffic spikes.
Incident Response
Senior operators work directly alongside your engineers during incidents.
Security Foundations
Secrets management, network policies, and access controls done right the first time.
Runbooks & Documentation
Everything we do is written down in your repos, so knowledge never walks out the door.
Cost Optimization
We continually find and shut down cloud resources you no longer need to pay for.
For Teams That Outgrew Easy but Refuse to Build a DevOps Org
10 to 100+ engineers, Series A and beyond
Big enough that infrastructure is real work. Not interested in burning headcount on a platform team.
Running on AWS, GCP, or Azure
You moved to full cloud infrastructure for control and scale, taking on all the operations work that came with it.
Kubernetes or sprawling Terraform
The stack works, but only one or two people truly know how. They'd rather be building.
No dedicated DevOps team
Senior engineers carry ops on the side, and the product roadmap pays for it.
AI products scaling fast
LLM workloads brought infrastructure complexity earlier than anyone planned for.
Reliability is now revenue
Customers notice downtime, and a recent incident got leadership's attention.
Probably not a fit: teams under ~5 engineers, companies with an established platform org, or anyone looking to outsource product engineering. We’ll tell you straight on the assessment call if that’s you.
Sound like your team? Get a senior engineer's read on your infrastructure.
Book a Free Ops AssessmentYour Cloud. Your Repos. Your Keys.
Embedded doesn’t mean locked in. You stay in control of production from day one.
Your cloud
Everything runs in your AWS, GCP, or Azure accounts. You grant access and can revoke it at any time.
Your repos
All Infrastructure as Code, runbooks, and documentation live in your repositories. Nothing is held hostage.
Your keys
No proprietary platform sits between you and your cloud. If you ever leave, everything keeps working.
If Hyphen disappeared tomorrow, nothing would break because it was always yours.
Managed Ops, powered by Redapt.
Hyphen supplies the platform for CI/CD, Kubernetes, and cloud operations.
Hyphen
The platform
- Hyphen supplies the platform for deployment, Kubernetes, and cloud operations.
- A Lead Engineer and a Senior Engineer work with your team.
- The price, the hours, and the guarantee do not change.
Redapt
The technology partner
- Redapt is an end-to-end technology firm in Woodinville, Washington.
- Redapt designs, builds, and operates production systems.
- Redapt is vendor-agnostic and security-first.
You keep your cloud accounts, repositories, and keys. You can revoke access at any time.
Three Ways to Solve This
You already know the first two. Here’s how they actually compare.
Hire in-house
- $200K+ a year, fully loaded, per engineer
- Months of recruiting before anyone touches a pipeline
- One person: one skill set, one timezone, one resignation away
- You manage, review, and retain them
Outsource to an agency
- A ticket queue, not a teammate in your Slack
- Rebuilds context on your stack with every request
- Their tooling and accounts between you and your cloud
- Incentives tied to billable hours, not calm systems
Hyphen Managed Ops
- A Lead Engineer and a Senior Engineer in your Slack for $5,000/month
- Working in your stack from week one, without months of recruiting
- Ten disciplines covered by a team with shared expertise
- Everything in your cloud and your repos: no lock-in, and if you ever leave, nothing breaks
One senior DevOps hire: $200K+ a year, months to recruit, one person.
Hyphen: a Lead Engineer and a Senior Engineer for $5,000/month, in your stack from week one.
A 12-month partnership with a 90-day guarantee. If you’re not satisfied in the first 90 days, we refund your fees.
Managed Ops
One plan. Hourly billing after the included hours.$5,000/monthA Lead Engineer and a Senior Engineer · 20 hours of work / monthThen $250 / hour- Hyphen Platform Credit$1,000 / month
- Included Engineering Hours20 / month
- Additional Hours$250 / hour
- Cost Optimization ReviewsQuarterly
- Architecture ReviewsQuarterly
Also in the plan
- Dedicated Slack channel
- CI/CD pipeline management
- Kubernetes cluster operations
- Cloud infrastructure management
- Infrastructure as Code
- Monitoring & observability
- Incident response support
- Reliability engineering
- Security foundations
- Runbooks & documentation
Need on-call coverage or a bigger team? Talk to an engineer.
Try the whole team for 90 days. The risk is ours.
Work with us for 90 days. If you’re not satisfied with the value delivered, tell us and we refund your fees with no questions asked. The 12-month partnership only carries weight after we’ve earned it.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does Managed Ops cost compared to hiring a DevOps engineer?
Managed Ops is one plan at $5,000/month. The plan includes 20 hours of engineering work and $1,000 in Hyphen platform credit each month. We bill work past 20 hours at $250/hour. A senior DevOps hire typically costs $200,000+ per year fully loaded, takes months to recruit, and gives you a single person. The plan costs $60,000 a year before additional hours. You also get two people: a Lead Engineer and a Senior Engineer who both know your stack, so one can cover for the other.
Do we keep ownership and control of our infrastructure?
Yes. Everything runs in your cloud accounts under your access controls. All Infrastructure as Code, runbooks, and operational documentation live in your repositories, so you keep full ownership of your systems. There is no proprietary platform between you and your cloud. If you ever leave, everything keeps working and remains yours.
How do you access our systems, and can we revoke it?
We work under IAM roles and access controls that you grant, scoped to least privilege, in your own accounts. You can revoke access at any time. Nothing we build depends on our credentials, so pulling our access doesn't break your infrastructure.
What does the 12-month commitment actually mean?
Managed Ops is a 12-month partnership, because stabilizing and then running infrastructure well is ongoing work, not a one-off project. The commitment is de-risked by the 90-day money-back guarantee: you evaluate the team on your real infrastructure, with real deliverables, before the term carries any financial risk.
How does the 90-day money-back guarantee work?
If you're not satisfied with the value delivered in the first 90 days, we refund your fees with no questions asked. It's designed so you can judge the team on real work, on your real infrastructure, well before the 12-month term carries any risk.
How do the monthly hours work?
Each month includes 20 hours of work from your Lead Engineer and Senior Engineer together, not per engineer. We bill work past 20 hours at $250/hour. You see where every hour goes in your weekly summaries. If a month will need more than 20 hours, we tell you early and agree on the extra work with you before we do it.
Do you replace our senior engineers?
No. Your engineers keep architectural ownership and decision-making; we handle pipelines, upgrades, patches, monitoring, and incident support. The arrangement is designed so your senior engineers get their product time back without giving up control.
What if we build our own DevOps team later?
That's success, not a problem. Because your Infrastructure as Code, runbooks, and documentation already live in your repositories, your future hires inherit a documented, working system on day one. We hand off cleanly, or stay on for escalations and reviews. There is nothing to migrate away from.
How long does it take to stabilize our infrastructure?
Managed Ops follows a structured three-phase approach: onboarding in weeks 1–2 (least-privilege access setup, a written audit of your CI/CD, Kubernetes, and cloud spend, and a prioritized plan), stabilization in weeks 3–8, and continuous operations from there. You'll see measurable wins inside your first 30 days, typically quieter alerting, more reliable deploys, or closed cost leaks. Full stabilization follows by week 8.
Is this built for teams running Kubernetes on AWS or GCP?
That's the bullseye. Managed Ops is built for engineering teams from 10 to 100+ running Kubernetes or complex cloud infrastructure on AWS, GCP, or Azure. The team handles cluster scaling, upgrades, security patches, and cost tuning, plus your CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, observability, and incident response. We work with your team through a dedicated Slack channel. Not on Kubernetes? We manage plain cloud infrastructure just as well.
How do we reduce cloud infrastructure costs without dedicated operations staff?
The Managed Ops team continuously analyzes your infrastructure usage to identify cost optimization opportunities while maintaining performance. Cost optimization reviews happen each quarter. Combined with architecture reviews and infrastructure-as-code best practices, the team ensures you're not overspending on cloud resources while keeping your systems reliable and scalable.
Who powers Managed Ops with Hyphen?
Powered by Redapt. Hyphen supplies the platform. The commercial terms do not change. The plan costs $5,000/month and includes 20 hours of work. Each extra hour costs $250. Each month also includes $1,000 in Hyphen platform credit. A Lead Engineer and a Senior Engineer do the work. The plan has a 12-month term and a 90-day money-back guarantee. You keep your cloud accounts, repositories, and keys. You can revoke access at any time.
Get Your Free Ops Assessment
Tell us what needs attention, from urgent incidents to recurring problems. You keep the written findings whether or not we work together.
A senior engineer replies within one business day.
An assessment call on your CI/CD, Kubernetes, and cloud spend.
Written findings you keep whether or not we work together.