--- title: "DevOps Services For Small Teams: A One-Week Audit @ Varstatt" url: https://varstatt.com/x/teams/devops-audit description: "DevOps services for one product team: one week on how you plan, review, deploy, roll back and monitor, a ranked fix list and the top fix. $997, one payment." section: Services (https://varstatt.com) --- # DevOps Audit for Smooth Shipping A one-week audit of how your team ships, from planning to monitoring: a ranked fix list and the top fix done. $997, one payment. **What's included:** - ✅ Senior developer - ✅ Full code ownership - ✅ Done in one week - ✅ One price, paid once - ❌ Meetings overhead - ❌ Scope creep - ❌ Hourly billing - ❌ Billing surprises **Get started:** - [Start a Project](https://varstatt.com/start?cta=agent) - [Ask Jurij](mailto:jurij@varstatt.com) ## Problems - **Releases Wait for Weeks** From idea to release, most of the time is waiting, not work. - Builds slow down - Flaky tests get ignored - Pull requests wait for review - QA waits for release day - **Only One Person Can Deploy** A release needs the one person who knows the steps. [Read the case](https://varstatt.com/jurij/p/streamlining-software-release-process) - **Before** 16 manual steps across three services - **After** One Slack command, 1-2 releases a day - **Users Report Bugs First** Config, secrets and data drift between staging and production. [Read the post](https://varstatt.com/jurij/p/works-locally-fails-after-deployment) > Staging passed, production broke, and users reported it first. - **Automated, Still Waiting** A pipeline that still waits on manual QA only builds a faster queue. - Testing belongs before the release, not inside it. ## What You Get | Finding | Detail | Fix | Effort | |---|---|---|---| | Release Path | Release steps known to one person | Steps written down, one command planned | Half-day fix | | Silent Failures | No error is thrown, so no alert fires | Alerts on what breaks | Half-day fix | | Staging Drift | Config and secrets differ from production | Staging matched to production | Longer project | | Slow Builds | Every build starts from scratch | Caching, steps run in parallel | Half-day fix | Written so your own team can pick it up. ## DevOps Is a Mindset | | **DevOps** | Cloud Engineering | Server Admin | |---|---|---|---| | Looks After | The path from idea to users | Accounts, networks, access | Machines, patches, uptime | | Asks | How fast and safe is a release? | Is it secure, does it scale? | Is it up? | | Owned By | The whole team | A cloud engineer | An admin | ## What the Audit Covers - **Planning** How an idea becomes a task, and how many run at once. - **Review** Pull request size, wait time, what blocks a merge. - **Pipeline** Build time, caching, flaky tests, quality gates. - **Deploys** Manual or automated, and flags that split deploy from release. - **Rollback** A bad deploy back in minutes, or a call. - **Environments** Staging that matches production; secrets out of bundles and git. - **Hosting** Build settings, limits, regions and the bill. - **Monitoring** What alerts, what stays silent, who sees problems first. ## Who It's For **Right For** - Releases by hand or with fragile scripts - A pipeline only one person understands, or nobody - Products where downtime costs revenue **Better Elsewhere** - Cloud engineering: VPC, IAM, multi-account AWS, Kubernetes *A cloud engineer* - SOC 2 and other compliance *A compliance specialist* - Stacks outside JavaScript and TypeScript *A specialist in that stack* ## How It Works A simple, predictable and transparent process that eliminates development headaches. 1. **Book** — Pay once and you get a dedicated task board. It holds your fix list. 2. **Setup** — Read access to the repo, CI, hosting and monitoring; write access for the top fix. 3. **Plan & Develop** — I map how work ships, then read the pipeline, deploys and alerts. Your team keeps shipping. 4. **Review & Refine** — You review the list. I revise until you're satisfied. 5. **Progress** — I do the top fix; you approve it. The rest go to your team, or to me by the week. 6. **Maintain** — You report issues anytime; I handle them first. ## Pricing — One-Time The audit and the top fix, live in your pipeline. - **Price:** $997 - **Note:** 1-week delivery - **Plan:** DevOps for one team, by the week, without a managed-service contract. - **Includes:** - 🧑‍💻 10+ years shipping software - 🗣️ Direct access to developer - 🪪 Full code & assets ownership - **CTA:** [Get Started](https://varstatt.com/start?cta=agent) - **Questions:** jurij@varstatt.com ## FAQ ### What is a DevOps audit? One week on how your team ships, also called a DevOps assessment, ending in a ranked fix list and the top fix. ### What is an SDLC audit? A review of how software goes from idea to production, also called a software development process audit. Most end in a compliance checklist; this one ends in fixes. ### DevOps vs CI/CD? CI/CD is the pipeline. DevOps is the way of working around it: a [continuous flow](/principles/delivery/continuous-flow) of small changes, fast rollback, shared ownership. ### Where does manual QA fit? On staging, before the release. The release then only publishes what QA passed. ### Which release tools do you use? The ones you have: GitHub Actions, Vercel, Firebase Hosting, Cloud Run. No new tool where a script does the job. ### Do we need Kubernetes? Rarely, under ten people. The bottleneck is seldom the cloud, and an audit can [recommend less](/jurij/p/fidder-overengineering-made-me-pay) infrastructure. ### How much does it cost? $997, one payment, fix list and top fix included. A DevOps consultant is often open-ended; this is one week. ### What happens after the audit? Your call: hand the list to your team, or keep me on by the week and I work down it one task at a time. ### How do I get started? Fill in the [project form](/start?cta=devops-audit-faq), about a minute. I reply the next working day with questions or a first plan. ## Testimonials > "Jurij understand the core problem, insists on building the right experiences for the customers." > — [Kunal Modi, Founder @ SOAPNoteAI](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jurijtokarski/details/recommendations/) > "Working with Jurij is an absolute joy, consistently exceeds expectations." > — [Janis Ozolins, Content Creator](https://x.com/OzolinsJanis/status/1875168034249146609) > "Consistently delivered quality code in great time, very hard working & precise." > — [Bartosz Poźniak, CEO @ MyCointainer](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jurijtokarski/details/recommendations/) > "The kind of engineer that every company on the planet would be lucky to have." > — [Hosam Mazawi, COO @ LemonUnit](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jurijtokarski/details/recommendations/) ## [Teams × Varstatt](https://varstatt.com/x/teams) DevOps Audit fits product teams best: CTOs and tech leads who need a senior on one part of the product. - **[React & Next.js Development](https://varstatt.com/x/teams/react-development)** "The upgrade keeps losing to features." Small pull requests, no big-bang rewrite. - **[Node.js Development](https://varstatt.com/x/teams/nodejs-development)** "Backend work waits on a hire." Endpoints, integrations, an API being retired. - **[AI Development](https://varstatt.com/x/teams/ai-development)** "Nobody here has shipped an LLM feature." A prototype on your data first. - **[n8n Development](https://varstatt.com/x/teams/n8n-development)** "Our workflows have no owner." New flows, code where nodes stop, monitoring. - **[App Maintenance](https://varstatt.com/x/teams/app-maintenance)** "An old app still has users and no owner." Kept current and safe. - **[Firebase Audit](https://varstatt.com/x/teams/firebase-audit)** "The bill keeps rising, or nobody trusts the rules." The bill tied to its code, every rule reviewed. - **DevOps Audit (this page)** "Releases are slow and scary." Planning to monitoring, fixes ranked. - **[Architecture Audit](https://varstatt.com/x/teams/architecture-audit)** "Every feature takes longer than the last." Why, what to fix first, whether a rewrite pays. Not on a product team? [See what Varstatt offers you](https://varstatt.com/x). ## About Varstatt is run by [Jurij Tokarski](https://varstatt.com/jurij), product engineer since 2011. Contact: [jurij@varstatt.com](mailto:jurij@varstatt.com) / [X](https://x.com/jurijtokarski) / [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jurijtokarski/) Sole proprietorship headquartered in Rzeszów, Poland. VAT ID: PL8133854722.