We run your production like it's ours.

FourNines is an external SRE team for companies that can't afford downtime. We stabilize, monitor, and scale your Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure — cutting incidents, hardening deployments, and taking real operational ownership, so your engineers can ship product instead of fighting production.

99.9%+ uptime engineering 24/7 incident response options Kubernetes · AWS · GCP · Azure Observability-first operations
The problem

If production feels fragile,
it usually is.

Most engineering teams don't have a reliability problem because they're not smart enough. They have one because nobody truly owns production. The symptoms are always the same:

SEV · recurring

Incidents are routine

Production breaks more often than anyone admits in standup — and every fix is a patch on the last patch.

ALERT · fatigue

Alerts nobody trusts

Engineers are paged day and night by monitoring that cries wolf. Real signals drown in noise.

DEPLOY · risk

Every deploy is a gamble

Releases are tense, manual, and timed for "quiet hours." So you ship less — and slower.

K8S · drift

Kubernetes on a knife's edge

Clusters are undocumented, overdue for upgrades, and held together by the one engineer who remembers why.

OBS · theater

Monitoring theater

Dashboards exist. Confidence doesn't. Logs, metrics, and traces live in three tools that never agree.

COST · creep

The cloud bill only grows

Spend climbs every month and nobody can say exactly why — or what's safe to turn off.

ONCALL · burnout

On-call is punishment

Rotations are unstructured and unfair, escalation is improvised, and your best people are quietly burning out.

INFRA · manual

Infrastructure by hand

Changes happen by memory, by SSH, by one person. There's no IaC source of truth — or it drifted long ago.

SLO · undefined

Reliability is a feeling

No SLOs, SLIs, or error budgets. Nobody can answer "how reliable are we?" with a number.

SEC · exposure

Access is too broad

Production credentials are shared, IAM is permissive, and an audit would be an uncomfortable conversation.

CI/CD · fragile

Pipelines fight back

Builds are slow, flaky, and different in every repo. Rollback is a prayer, not a procedure.

SCALE · reactive

Scaling happens after the outage

Capacity planning is reactive. The big launch finds the limits before you do.

None of this gets fixed by another dashboard.
It gets fixed by ownership.

What we do

We become your external SRE team.

Not a body shop. Not a ticket queue. FourNines plugs into your engineering organization as a senior reliability team — with our own standards, runbooks, and accountability for how production behaves.

We take responsibility for the operational layer — infrastructure, Kubernetes, observability, deployments, incidents — while your engineers stay focused on the product. You get an SRE function in weeks, not the year it takes to hire one.

This is not "DevOps support." Support reacts to tickets. We own outcomes: uptime targets, error budgets, MTTR, deploy safety, and a production environment your team is no longer afraid of.
Services

Everything production needs.
Nothing it doesn't.

Eight disciplines, one operating model. Each engagement combines the pieces your environment actually requires — defined during the Reliability Audit.

A · Foundations

Reliability Engineering

Turn "it feels stable" into measurable targets your business can plan around.

  • SLO / SLI design
  • Error budgets
  • Availability targets
  • Reliability reviews
  • Service health scoring
  • Risk detection
  • Production readiness reviews
B · Platform

Kubernetes & Platform Operations

Clusters that upgrade on schedule, scale on demand, and survive node loss without a war room.

  • Cluster management
  • Helm / ArgoCD / GitOps
  • Namespace isolation
  • Workload scheduling
  • Autoscaling
  • Resource optimization
  • Ingress · mesh · certs
  • Upgrade planning
  • Disaster recovery
C · Cloud

Cloud Infrastructure Management

AWS, GCP, and Azure run as code — reviewed, versioned, and reproducible across regions.

  • AWS / GCP / Azure ops
  • Terraform infrastructure
  • IAM & workload identity
  • Networking
  • Load balancing
  • Storage
  • Backup strategy
  • Multi-region architecture
D · Visibility

Observability & Monitoring

One coherent view of metrics, logs, and traces — with alerts that mean something at 3 a.m.

  • Prometheus / Grafana
  • Loki / ELK / OpenTelemetry
  • Alerting strategy
  • Dashboard design
  • Alert noise reduction
  • Golden signals
  • Tenant-level dashboards
  • Synthetic monitoring
E · Response

Incident Response & On-Call

A calm, rehearsed process for the worst day of the quarter — from first page to published postmortem.

  • Incident playbooks
  • Alert routing
  • Escalation policies
  • Root cause analysis
  • Postmortems
  • MTTR reduction
  • 24/7 response options
  • Incident commander process
F · Delivery

CI/CD & Release Engineering

Boring deployments, on purpose. Ship any time of day with automated gates and instant rollback.

  • GitHub Actions / GitLab CI
  • ArgoCD
  • Canary & blue-green
  • Rollback automation
  • Environment promotion
  • Release gates
  • Secrets handling
  • Build optimization
G · Security

Security & Compliance Hardening

Least privilege by default — across IAM, RBAC, networks, images, and the supply chain.

  • Least-privilege IAM
  • Kubernetes RBAC
  • Network policies
  • Secret management
  • Image scanning
  • Kyverno / Gatekeeper
  • Audit logging
  • Secure cloud access
H · Efficiency

Performance & Cost Optimization

The same workloads, faster and cheaper — backed by data, not guesswork.

  • Cloud cost audit
  • K8s resource tuning
  • Right-sizing
  • Autoscaler tuning
  • Storage optimization
  • Spot / preemptible strategy
  • Latency & throughput analysis
How we work

From audit to ownership,
in five deliberate steps.

No big-bang migrations. No six-month discovery phases. We find the highest-risk problems first and fix them in order of how badly they can hurt you.

01

Reliability Audit week 1–2

We review your infrastructure, Kubernetes, monitoring, deployments, incident history, cloud spend, security posture, and operational maturity. You get an honest, prioritized picture of where production actually stands.

02

Stabilization Plan week 2–3

We identify the risks most likely to cause your next outage and turn them into a concrete 30/60/90-day reliability roadmap — scoped, sequenced, and agreed with your engineering leadership.

03

Implementation day 30–90

We fix what the audit found: monitoring and alerting, Kubernetes and Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, security boundaries, and the incident process. Everything as code, everything documented, everything reviewed with your team.

04

Ongoing SRE Operations continuous

Continuous reliability ownership: proactive optimization, capacity and upgrade planning, production support, and incident response according to your plan. Production stops being a source of surprises.

05

Monthly Reliability Report every month

Uptime, incidents, MTTR, alert volume, cost savings, SLO status, infrastructure changes, open risks, and next improvements — in a report your CTO can read in ten minutes and forward to the board.

Pricing

Plans that scale with your production.

Start with an audit, or go straight to ongoing ownership. Every plan includes documentation and a monthly reliability report.

SRE Audit

For companies that want to understand their production risks.

$2,500
one-time · 2 weeks
  • Infrastructure review
  • Kubernetes & cloud review
  • Monitoring & alerting audit
  • CI/CD review
  • Security & access review
  • Cloud cost overview
  • 30/60/90-day reliability roadmap
  • Final report + technical call
Start with an Audit
Essential SRE

For startups that need senior part-time SRE support.

$4,500/mo
up to 20 hours / month
  • Monitoring improvements
  • Alert tuning
  • Kubernetes support
  • Terraform support
  • CI/CD improvements
  • Monthly reliability report
  • Business-hours response
  • Slack / Teams support
Choose Essential
Enterprise Reliability Team

For companies that need full external SRE ownership.

from $18,000/mo
dedicated team capacity · custom SLA
  • Dedicated SRE team capacity
  • 24/7 incident response option
  • Multi-region infrastructure
  • Advanced Kubernetes operations
  • Production readiness reviews
  • Security & compliance hardening
  • Disaster recovery planning
  • Custom SLOs & executive reporting
  • On-call process ownership
  • Dedicated Slack / Teams channel
  • Weekly reliability review
  • Custom SLA
Talk to Us

Final pricing depends on infrastructure size, number of services, response requirements, cloud complexity, and support hours. Every engagement starts with a scoping call — no surprises after signing.

Build vs. extend

You'll build an internal SRE team eventually.
You need reliability now.

In-house SRE is the right long-term investment for many companies. The problem is the eighteen months between deciding to hire and having a functioning team.

Hiring in-house

The traditional path — thorough, but slow and expensive to bootstrap.

  • $180k–$280k+ per senior SRE, plus equity, tooling, and management overhead
  • 4–9 months to hire in a market where good SREs are scarce
  • Hard to retain — and a single resignation can erase the on-call rotation
  • One or two engineers can't cover 24/7 — real coverage needs a team of four+
  • Experience limited to the environments they've personally worked in

Extending with FourNines

A senior team from day one — working alongside your engineers, not instead of them.

  • Operational in weeks — audit first, ownership within the first month
  • Senior expertise immediately — no ramp-up on Kubernetes, Terraform, or observability
  • Flexible monthly cost that scales with your infrastructure, not your headcount plan
  • Patterns proven across many production environments — not just one company's history
  • Everything documented — if you build in-house later, we hand over a working system, happily

Many of our clients eventually hire internal SREs. We onboard them, hand over clean runbooks, and stay on for escalation. That's what no-lock-in actually looks like.

Who we work with

Built for teams where downtime has a price tag.

SaaS platforms FinTech AdTech E-commerce Marketplaces AI / ML platforms Logistics platforms Healthcare platforms Media platforms Enterprise internal platforms Multi-tenant B2B systems
Technical stack

The tools your production already speaks.

We work inside your stack and your cloud accounts — no proprietary platform, no migration to "our" tooling.

Cloud
AWSGCPAzure
Kubernetes
GKEEKSAKSHelmKustomizeArgoCDIstioEnvoyNGINX Ingress
Infrastructure
TerraformTerragruntAnsiblePacker
Observability
PrometheusGrafanaLokiELKOpenTelemetryJaegerDatadogNew Relic
CI/CD
GitHub ActionsGitLab CIJenkinsArgoCDFlux
Security
VaultExternal SecretsSealed SecretsKyvernoGatekeeperTrivySnykIAMRBACNetworkPolicy
Data & Messaging
PostgreSQLMongoDBRedisKafkaRabbitMQClickHouse
Outcomes

What changes when someone owns reliability.

Typical results from past engagements. Your numbers will depend on where you start — the audit tells you what's realistic.

40–80%
reduction in alert noise — pages your engineers actually need to act on
30–60%
faster MTTR through playbooks, routing, and a rehearsed incident process
15–35%
cloud cost optimization opportunities identified in the first audit
Month 1
SLO dashboards live — reliability becomes a number, not a feeling

These are example outcomes from typical engagements, not guarantees. Reliability work compounds: the biggest wins usually come from fixing the risks you don't know about yet — which is exactly what the audit is for.

How we operate

Trust is earned in production.
Here's how we earn it.

Production-first mindset

Every decision is weighed against one question: what does this do to production? Stability beats novelty, every time.

Senior engineers only

No juniors learning on your infrastructure. Everyone who touches your systems has carried a production pager for years.

No black-box outsourcing

We work inside your Slack, your repos, your ticketing. You see every change, every decision, every priority — as it happens.

Documentation included

Runbooks, architecture diagrams, and decision records ship with the work. Your team can operate everything we build.

Security-conscious access

Least-privilege roles, SSO, audited sessions, no shared credentials. Our access model would pass your compliance review.

Monthly reporting

Uptime, incidents, MTTR, costs, SLO status, and open risks — a transparent roadmap your leadership can hold us to.

Get started

Your production systems
should not depend on luck.

Get a senior SRE team to stabilize, monitor, scale, and improve your infrastructure — without waiting months to hire.

Response within 1 business day NDA-friendly No long-term lock-in