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Scale & sustain

Senior Linux bench. Without a full-time hire.

When your team can run a Linux box but not twelve, or thirty, or three hundred. We embed as the senior Linux capacity you can't justify hiring yet, available for the work that keeps slipping, the incidents that scare people, and the decisions that shouldn't wait on a recruiter.

Sounds like "We can't justify hiring a senior Linux engineer. But we need one."
Limited Linux Expertise
What it looks like

You might recognize one of these.

Limited Linux expertise isn't "nobody knows Linux." It's a team that's already stretched, with one person who became the Linux person by accident.

One person is the entire bench They're good. They're also on vacation, in meetings, or one resignation away from a crisis.
The developers are running production They can ship the app. They shouldn't be the ones patching kernels and chasing disk fullness at midnight.
Hiring didn't work The role is open, the market is thin, and the work isn't waiting for a start date.
You're growing faster than the ops skill More servers, more environments, same two people. The backlog is becoming the risk.
Why it's hard

You don't need a hire. You need capacity.

A full-time senior Linux engineer is expensive, slow to find, and a single point of failure once you have them. Most teams need the skill now, not a headcount next quarter.

01

The work is uneven

Some weeks are quiet. Some weeks are a migration, an audit, and an incident. Headcount doesn't flex like that.

02

Context lives in one head

If that person leaves, the next one spends months reconstructing the estate.

03

Product work crowds out the platform

Internal people will always pick the feature over the patch window. The estate pays for that later.

How we approach it

How we come on board.

Bringing in outside Linux help shouldn't mean a big-bang handover. We ramp up in stages, solve the painful stuff early, then get properly embedded.

  1. 01

    Understand & align

    Fit check, understand the bigger picture, and get clear on your goals before we touch anything.

  2. 02

    Quick wins

    Solve the immediate issues that are hurting right now, so you feel the difference early.

  3. 03

    Research & audit

    Review existing documentation, establish access, reverse-engineer the setup, and run a full technical assessment.

  4. 04

    Strategy & roadmap

    Architect the solution and develop a roadmap and timeline that matches your priorities.

  5. 05

    Onboarding

    Integrate and educate your team on the support flow and tools, with our bench briefed and ready to provide support.

What you walk away with

A bench that's already in place.

✓
Senior Linux coverage For the work your team shouldn't be learning under pressure.
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Less heroics from your people They get back to the product. We take the estate.
✓
Knowledge that isn't trapped Runbooks and a second brain, so one resignation isn't an outage.
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A path that can grow Project help now, TLC later, or both, without starting over.

We've done this work

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