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Build the reliability practice your team will own.

SLOs, error budgets, runbooks, on-call discipline, and blameless post-mortems — taught and shipped alongside your engineers. We don't keep the pager; we make sure your team can carry it well. For round-the-clock managed coverage, see 24×7 Managed SRE.

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How we deliver this: AI handles the routine analysis (audits, IaC drafts, runbook scaffolds, alert triage). A senior engineer reviews every change before it touches your production. Consultancy speed at consultancy quality.

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Alerts that don't tell you what to do are noise. We build alert hygiene around symptoms, not causes — and runbooks that match.

SLOs as theatre

A 99.9% target nobody measures isn't a target. We instrument the right signals, set realistic SLOs, and use error budgets to inform release decisions.

Incident reviews that change nothing

Most post-mortems become read-once documents. We facilitate blameless reviews with action items that get owned, tracked, and closed.

How it works

  1. Phase 01

    Reliability assessment

    Inventory of services, current SLOs (or the lack of them), alerting hygiene, on-call data, and recent incident pattern analysis.

  2. Phase 02

    SLO design

    Service-by-service SLO and error-budget design with the product engineering team. We aim for SLOs that drive decisions, not vanity dashboards.

  3. Phase 03

    Observability uplift

    Tracing, metrics, and logs aligned to the SLOs. Golden-signal dashboards per service. Alert routing that pages a human only for things humans can fix.

  4. Phase 04

    On-call practice

    Rotation design, escalation policies, runbook templates, incident commander training, and post-mortem facilitation for the first cycle.

What you get

  • SLO and error-budget definition for top services
  • Observability stack tuned to the SLOs (Datadog, Grafana, or open-source)
  • Runbook templates and a runbook library for current top alerts
  • On-call rotation design and incident-response playbook
  • Quarterly reliability review template

What changes for you

Quieter pagers

Alert tuning typically cuts page volume 50–80% in the first month — without missing real incidents.

Better decisions about velocity

Error budgets give product and engineering a shared language for trading off velocity vs. reliability.

Faster incident resolution

Runbooks linked from alerts, clear roles in incident response, and rehearsed cutovers shorten MTTR meaningfully.

Post-mortems that change behavior

Blameless review with tracked actions turns incidents into permanent improvements, not stories.

On-call sustainability

Sane rotation design, fair compensation models, and pager hygiene make on-call a reasonable expectation, not a reason engineers leave.

Visible reliability ROI

SLO breach minutes mapped to revenue impact give finance and product a reason to fund reliability work.

What clients say

"CloudWizz rebuilt our delivery pipeline in eight weeks. Deploys went from a Friday-night ritual to a non-event we ship four times a day."

Director of Engineering

Fintech, Series C · 2025-11

"They turned a CFO emergency into a board-ready story in 12 weeks. The dashboards alone changed how engineering thinks about cost."

VP Engineering

Series B SaaS · 2026-01

Frequently asked questions

Do you take the pager? +

Sometimes — typically as L2 backup for a transition period, not as primary. The goal is your team owns reliability long-term, not us.

Datadog, New Relic, Grafana — does it matter which? +

Less than vendors say. The discipline matters more than the toolset. We work with what you have unless there's a clear gap.

How do we set our first SLO? +

Start with availability and latency for one user-facing critical path. 30 minutes of historical data analysis usually gives you a defensible target.

How long does an SRE engagement run? +

12–16 weeks for the assessment + first wave of changes. Many clients retain ongoing advisory at one or two days a week after that.

Can you help us with chaos engineering? +

Yes — once SLOs and observability are in place. Chaos before SLOs is just breaking things.

What about disaster recovery testing? +

A quarterly DR drill is part of the operating model we recommend. We help design the first one and document the runbook.

Do you do capacity planning? +

Yes — capacity forecasts based on traffic growth, with reserved-instance and savings-plan recommendations for FinOps alignment.

How do you handle multi-region? +

Active-passive is the common pattern; we help design failover, run the drill, and document the runbook. Active-active is a discrete project.

What if we don't have any SLOs today? +

Most clients don't when we start. Expect 4–6 weeks to land your first set, with refinement over the next quarter.

Do you train our engineers in incident command? +

Yes — incident commander training is a standard part of the engagement, including tabletop exercises with your team.

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