Fractional Google Cloud Expertise
Without the Full-Time Hire.
Buy a block of senior GCP practitioner hours that never expire. Use them for any Google Cloud task — IAM, architecture, Google AI Studio deployments, cost optimization — on your schedule, at your pace. No retainer. No ramp time. No recruitment headache.
Hiring a Full-Time GCP Cloud Engineer Isn't
Always the Right Move
A senior GCP engineer commands $120K–$150K in base salary alone — before benefits, equity, recruiting fees, and the 3–6 months it takes them to become productive. For most teams, that's the wrong answer.
$120K–$150K Base + 30% Benefits
That's $156K–$195K fully-loaded before you factor in recruiting fees (typically 20% of salary), onboarding time, and equity dilution.
3–6 Month Ramp Time
A new hire needs time to learn your systems, your architecture decisions, and your team's way of working. You're paying senior rates for junior output for months.
Scope Mismatch
Most teams need 10–20 hours of senior GCP work per month — not 160. You'd be paying for 140 hours of idle time every single month.
Retention Risk
Cloud engineers are among the most in-demand technical roles in the market. They leave for better offers, stock packages, and new challenges — and your institutional knowledge walks out the door with them.
Hiring Steals Focus
Every FTE search is weeks of interviews, job posts, recruiter calls, and offer negotiations. Time your founders and engineering managers should be spending on product.
Fractional Google Cloud Expertise, On Demand
A simpler, more flexible way to access senior cloud engineering.
Buy Your Hours
Purchase a block of practitioner hours. No minimum commitment, no monthly lock-in. Hours never expire — use them this week or in six months.
Tell Us What You Need
Submit a task, schedule a session, or message us async. We staff every engagement with a senior GCP practitioner who already knows the stack.
We Do the Work
Architecture designs, Terraform configs, security remediations, cost analysis, incident response — we execute, document, and hand everything off cleanly.
You Own Everything
All Terraform code, runbooks, architecture diagrams, and documentation are yours. No vendor lock-in. No proprietary tooling. Just clean, transferable work.
Use Hours for Any Google Cloud Task
There's no approved list. If it touches Google Cloud, it's in scope.
Architecture & Design
- Cloud architecture reviews & trade-off analysis
- Multi-cloud to GCP migration planning
- Capacity planning and right-sizing
- Reference architecture for new services
- Technology selection advisory
Infrastructure & Deployment
- Terraform module development & review
- Cloud Run, GKE, and App Engine deployments
- Cloud Build / GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines
- IaC migration (console → Terraform)
- Dev/staging/prod environment provisioning
Security & Compliance
- IAM audit and least-privilege redesign
- VPC firewall hardening
- CIS Benchmark remediation
- Secret Manager & KMS configuration
- SOC 2 / HIPAA / PCI-DSS evidence gathering
Cost Optimization
- Billing analysis & anomaly investigation
- CUD / Sustained Use discount analysis
- Idle resource identification & cleanup
- Budget alerts and FinOps governance
- Rightsizing recommendations
Incident Response
- Production incident triage & resolution
- Post-incident root cause analysis
- Cloud Run / GKE / Cloud SQL troubleshooting
- Monitoring & alerting gap analysis
- On-call escalation support
Data & AI/ML
- BigQuery schema design & query optimization
- Dataflow and Pub/Sub pipeline debugging
- Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (Vertex AI) & Cloud AI APIs setup
- Cloud SQL / AlloyDB optimization
- Cloud Storage lifecycle configuration
GCP Full-Time Hire vs. Fractional GCP Engineer: Run the Numbers.
Full-Time Cloud Engineer
- Base salary: $120K–$150K/year
- Benefits & overhead: +25–30%
- Recruiting fee: +$24K–$30K (one-time)
- Ramp time: 3–6 months at full cost
- Idle hours: 140+ hrs/month unused
- Retention risk: High — market demand is fierce
GCP Admin as a Service
- Pay only for hours used
- Senior practitioners — immediately productive
- No recruiting fees or onboarding delay
- No idle time billing
- Hours never expire — use at your pace
- Scale up or down any time
You're Building a Product.
Not a Google Cloud Operations Team.
"Imagine you're a 15-person SaaS startup. Your CTO designed the system architecture, but day-to-day GCP operations aren't anyone's job. You need someone to build your CI/CD pipeline, audit your IAM posture, debug that Cloud Run latency spike, write the Terraform for your new data pipeline, and answer the occasional 'is this the right way to do X?' You don't need a full-time hire billed at $250K a year. You need senior GCP expertise — on tap, on your schedule, only when you actually need it."
GCP Admin as a Service Is Right for You If…
Your engineering team builds product, not infrastructure
Your developers ship features. GCP operations is a support function, not a core competency.
Your GCP needs are real but don't justify a full-time hire
You have consistent cloud work — but not 40 hours of it per week. You need capacity that scales with your actual workload.
You want senior expertise with zero ramp time
No onboarding. No trial period. We already know GCP deeply — your hours go toward work, not learning.
You're scaling fast and need elastic capacity
Growth means new infrastructure challenges appear fast. You need expertise that keeps pace without a new hire every time.
You want to focus your hiring budget on your core product
Every hire is a strategic choice. Use your headcount for engineers building what makes you money.
You want everything documented and transferable
No black boxes. Everything we produce is yours — code, docs, configs. Your team can read, own, and extend it.
GCP Consulting Hours — Simple, Transparent Pricing.
Contact us to discuss your needs and we'll scope the right block of hours for your team.
Hour Blocks
Buy practitioner hours. Use them for any Google Cloud task.
- Hours never expire
- Senior GCP practitioners only — no juniors, no offshore
- Any GCP task — architecture, security, cost, ops, data, AI/ML
- Async or scheduled sessions — works with your rhythm
- All deliverables are yours (Terraform, docs, runbooks)
- No retainer, no monthly minimum, no lock-in
Starting conversations are free. No commitment required.
Common questions
- How do GCP Admin as a Service hours work?
- You buy a block of senior practitioner hours starting at $3,500 and draw them down as needed. There is no retainer and no monthly minimum, and the hours do not expire.
- What can the hours be used for?
- Anything that touches Google Cloud: architecture reviews, IAM fixes, incident support, cost optimisation, security posture work, CI/CD, Terraform, or Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and Google AI Studio setup. There is no approved list.
- How does this compare with hiring a full-time cloud engineer?
- A senior GCP engineer runs $120,000 to $150,000 in base salary, which is $156,000 to $195,000 fully loaded once benefits are counted, before recruiting fees of roughly 20 percent and three to six months of ramp-up. You also pay for idle hours. Hour blocks bill only for work actually done, by someone productive from day one.
- Do unused hours expire?
- No. Hours never expire, so there is no pressure to manufacture work to use them up before a deadline.
Stop Hiring for Google Cloud Problems
You Can Buy Solved.
Invest your headcount in the team that ships your product. Rent the GCP expertise that keeps your infrastructure running. Your next cloud problem is already solved — we just need the ticket.
Talk to a GCP Practitioner