Someone has to watch the infrastructure. That's the job.
ChieftainOps keeps servers, cloud environments, and deployment pipelines running — so your team ships instead of firefighting.
What we cover
Four areas, one point of contact — no ticket queue between you and the person doing the work.
Server support
Provisioning, hardening, patching, backups, and the 2am restart nobody wants to own. Linux-first, with access handled the way you'd expect from someone treating your box like production.
Cloud infrastructure
AWS, GCP, or Azure environments set up and kept sane — networking, IAM, cost control, and infrastructure-as-code so your setup is reproducible, not a snowflake someone built by hand once.
DevOps practices
CI/CD pipelines, Terraform and Ansible for repeatable environments, and deployment workflows that shrink the gap between "it works on my machine" and production.
Monitoring & alerting
Prometheus, Grafana, or Zabbix wired up to actually tell you something useful — dashboards you'll look at, and alerts tuned so you're not paged for noise.
Plans
Monthly support, billed simply. One-off setup work is quoted separately, per project.
Basic
One server or a single small project
- 5 hours included per month
- Response within 1 business day
- Monitoring on core services
Pro
An active project with regular changes
- 15 hours included per month
- Response within 4 business hours
- Full monitoring & alerting setup
- Monthly infrastructure review
Enterprise
Multiple environments, uptime is critical
- 30+ hours or dedicated capacity
- Response within 1 hour, 24/7 by agreement
- Scoped to your environment on a call
One-time work — cloud migrations, CI/CD builds, monitoring setup from scratch — is quoted as a fixed price per project, not hourly.
How an engagement starts
Same four steps whether it's one server or a full stack.
Audit
Walk through what's running today and where the actual risk sits — usually not where you'd guess.
Stabilize
Fix what's fragile first: backups, access, anything one bad deploy away from an outage.
Automate
Turn manual steps into pipelines and IaC, so changes are repeatable instead of remembered.
Watch
Monitoring and alerting stay on, with a standing arrangement for ongoing support.
"Direct access to the engineer who did the work — not a support tier reading from a script."
Tell me what's running and what's worrying you about it.
A short email is enough to start — server list, cloud provider, or just what's currently on fire. I'll reply with next steps, not a sales call.
operator@chieftainops.com