When a startup closes its first major funding round, the instinct is often: “We need a DevOps team — now!”
Hiring 2–3 full-time engineers can burn $500K+ annually before revenue even scales. And here’s the kicker: most of those hires will spend months fighting fires instead of building scalable, secure systems.
The Hidden Costs of In-House DevOps Early On
Recruitment drag: It takes 3–6 months to hire senior DevOps engineers. That’s 6 months of delayed improvements while competitors might move faster.
Limited expertise: No single hire covers everything — cloud architecture, Kubernetes, security, observability, performance tuning.
Firefighting trap: Most hires spend their days patching problems, not building a future-proof foundation.
The Alternative — Building Smart Instead of Big
With DevOps94’s Accelerator, startups replace months of hiring with 4 weeks of setup that includes:
Pre-built SOC2- aligned security guardrails
CI/CD pipelines devs can trust every time
Auto-scaling infra tested at unicorn scale
Predictable subscription pricing (instead of runaway salaries)
Hiring for “DevOps” too early often backfires. Instead of managing infra debt, founders should partner with a proven playbook that scales with them.
👉 Ready to skip the $500K mistake?
