Azure Kubernetes CI/CD GitOps Monitoring

Production Kubernetes
for Teams That Ship

Senior DevOps consultant. 12+ years running multi-tenant platforms. I build your cloud infrastructure, automate your deployments, and stay accountable for uptime.

12+
Years Experience
100s
Production Deployments
Bucharest
Romania

You Should Be Building Your Product

Infrastructure eats dev time

Your engineers are debugging deploys instead of shipping features. Every hour spent on infrastructure is an hour not spent on your product.

Costs grow faster than revenue

No visibility into what's actually costing you money. Cloud bills keep climbing and nobody knows why.

One outage changes everything

No monitoring, no runbooks, no on-call — until it's too late. When things break at 2 AM, who's answering?

What I Do

Managed Azure Kubernetes

I host and operate production Azure Kubernetes (AKS) clusters — so you can focus on your product.

  • Production-grade AKS cluster setup and operations
  • Monitoring, alerting, and incident response
  • Patching, upgrades, and version management
  • Proactive scaling & resource optimization
  • Monthly cost optimization reviews

CI/CD & DevOps Automation

From code commit to production — automated, auditable, rollbackable.

  • Pipeline design (GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines)
  • GitOps workflows with ArgoCD
  • Container build optimization
  • Environment lifecycle management (dev/staging/prod)

From First Call to Running Platform

01

Discovery

1 – 2 weeks

Assess your stack, define the target architecture, deliver a concrete plan you keep no matter what.

Fixed price: EUR 2,000 – 5,000
02

Build

4 – 8 weeks

Implement infrastructure, pipelines, monitoring. Everything as Infrastructure-as-Code — you own the repo.

Scoped after discovery
03

Operate

Ongoing

I keep it running. Monthly patching, incident response, cost governance. You ship features.

Monthly retainer — see pricing

Transparent Pricing. No Surprises.

Every engagement is scoped after a discovery call. One plan, tailored to your complexity.

€1,500 – 5,000 /month

Determined after discovery, based on project complexity

€80/hr — included hours negotiable per engagement

What’s Included

  • Managed Kubernetes hosting (AKS)
  • Proactive monitoring & alerting
  • Incident response with SLA
  • Cloud cost optimization
  • Auto-scaling & resource management
  • K8s upgrades & security patching
  • Backup & disaster recovery
  • CI/CD pipeline support
  • Infrastructure as Code — you own the repo
  • Monthly reporting & architecture advisory

Azure infrastructure costs pass through at cost — no markup.

Project Work

Engineering €80 / hour
Discovery & Assessment €2,000 – 5,000 (fixed scope)
Migration Projects Scoped after discovery

Frequently Asked Questions

You pay the exact Azure invoice amount — no markup, no hidden fees. I provision resources under your subscription or a dedicated one I manage on your behalf. You get full visibility into every line item.
Reach out and we'll figure it out. Custom work is billed at the hourly engineering rate, or we scope a fixed-price project depending on complexity.
We start with a discovery call to understand your stack and goals. From there, I deliver a concrete assessment and architecture plan. If we're a fit, I begin implementation. The discovery output is yours to keep regardless.
Any engineering work I do for you: debugging, config changes, new service onboarding, pipeline fixes, scaling adjustments, IaC reviews, and more. Included hours are negotiated during discovery based on your needs. Monitoring and automated alerting run continuously and don’t count toward your hours.
Managed Kubernetes hosting means I handle your entire K8s cluster lifecycle — from initial AKS setup to ongoing operations, patching, scaling, monitoring, and incident response. You get a production-ready Kubernetes environment without needing to hire a dedicated platform team. Think of it as Kubernetes hosting with an engineer attached.
I work with teams of all sizes. Many of my clients are product-focused startups and SaaS companies that need production Kubernetes infrastructure but don’t want to build a full platform team. If you’re looking for DevOps help to ship faster without the overhead of a full-time hire, we’re likely a good fit.
Yes — but I operate as an outcome-driven DevOps consultant, not a staff augmentation resource. You can hire me on a monthly retainer for ongoing Kubernetes hosting and infrastructure operations, or for a scoped project like a cloud migration or CI/CD setup. Either way, you get a senior engineer who owns the result.
Azure and AKS are my primary focus — it’s where I have the deepest expertise and can deliver the most value as a cloud infrastructure consultant. That said, the core patterns I use (Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, observability, CI/CD automation) apply across cloud providers. If you’re on Azure or considering it, I’m your person.
Instead of hiring a full-time DevOps engineer, you outsource your infrastructure operations to an experienced consultant on a monthly retainer. I handle your Kubernetes hosting, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, incident response, and cloud cost optimization — so your developers can focus on building your product instead of debugging deployments.

The Person You Talk To Is the Person Doing the Work

I started in IT support, grew through DevOps and infrastructure engineering, and spent the last 12+ years building and operating multi-tenant platforms. No hand-offs to junior engineers, no account managers — when you hire Salusa Systems, you work directly with me.

I specialize in Azure and Kubernetes hosting because focus beats breadth. Every engagement follows the same principle: build it right, automate everything, and stay accountable for the result.

Owner mentality

I build it, run it, stay accountable. Your success is my reputation.

Everything is IaC

You own the repo, full transparency. No vendor lock-in, no black boxes.

Long-term partnerships

My longest client relationship: 12+ years. I invest in outcomes, not projects.

Battle-tested

Hundreds of production deployments. I've seen what breaks and I build to prevent it.

Tools & Tech Stack

These are my go-to tools — not my limits. New stack, new challenge, same result.

Cloud
Azure Kubernetes Docker Azure Bicep ARM Templates Azure Storage
Automation
Python FastAPI PowerShell Azure Automation Azure Logic Apps Azure Functions
Deployment
Azure DevOps GitHub Actions GitOps ArgoCD
Observability
Azure Monitor Azure Log Analytics Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry Azure Dashboards
Data
PostgreSQL Redis Azure SQL

Ready to Focus on
Your Product?

Stop wrestling with infrastructure. Whether you need Kubernetes hosting, DevOps help, or CI/CD automation — let's talk.