Shimira ITCloud solutions & DevOps
Cloud infrastructure that's fast, secure, and doesn't quietly eat your budget.
Cloud bills have a personality: they only grow. Most companies we audit are running infrastructure that's simultaneously over-provisioned where it doesn't matter and fragile where it does, paying for idle capacity while a single misconfigured instance stands between their product and an outage.
We design, migrate, and operate cloud infrastructure on AWS and GCP, the same practice that runs our own production platforms. Our bias is unfashionable and it will save you money: boring infrastructure, sized to reality, with the Kubernetes conversation deferred until your scale actually demands it.
What you get
What we do
Cloud architecture for new products
Environments, networking, databases, CI/CD, and monitoring set up correctly from day one for every product we build, and available standalone for products we don't. Getting this right at the start costs days; retrofitting it costs months.
Cloud migration
From on-premise servers, dying VPS providers, or one cloud to another, planned around your uptime requirements, executed in stages, with rollback paths at every step. No big-bang cutovers.
Cloud cost optimization
The engagement that usually pays for itself: right-sizing instances, storage lifecycle policies, reserved capacity planning, and killing zombie resources. Typical result on unoptimized accounts: 20–40% off the monthly bill. Cloud spend of $2,000–$20,000+/month is one of the hidden costs we flag in our software cost guide, this is where it gets managed.
DevOps & CI/CD
Automated pipelines (GitHub Actions), infrastructure as code (Terraform), containerization where it earns its complexity, and deployments boring enough to run on a Friday.
Reliability & monitoring
Structured logging, metrics, alerting, and incident runbooks, observability in place before the outage, which is the only time it's cheap.
Cloud security & compliance groundwork
IAM hygiene, network isolation, encryption, backup/restore that's actually been tested, and the infrastructure side of GDPR/SOC 2 readiness.
- AWS
- GCP
- Docker
- Terraform
- GitHub Actions
- PostgreSQL
Proof
We've shipped this.
Real-time infrastructure pushing content to kiosks across many locations, and staying up when the mall Wi-Fi doesn't.
How it runs
Our process
- 01
Infrastructure review
Free · 1 weekRead-only access, and you get back a findings document: cost waste, security gaps, single points of failure, and a prioritized fix list, useful whether or not you hire us for the fixes.
- 02
Architecture & plan
varies by scopeTarget design, migration stages if applicable, and an itemized estimate, including your projected monthly running cost, which most proposals conveniently omit.
- 03
Implementation
varies by scopeInfrastructure as code from the first resource, so your environment is reproducible, reviewable, and never dependent on what one engineer remembers clicking.
- 04
Operate or hand over
ongoingManaged operations under a support retainer, or full handover with documentation and training for your team. Everything is in your cloud accounts, owned by you, either way.
Timelines & pricing
Honest ranges, not a lump sum.
| Engagement | Timeline | Typical investment |
|---|---|---|
| Infrastructure review & audit | 1 week | Free (fix-list included) |
| Cloud setup for a new product | 1–3 weeks | $4K – $15K |
| Cost optimization engagement | 2–4 weeks | $5K – $15K |
| Cloud migration | 4–12 weeks | $10K – $60K |
| Managed cloud / DevOps retainer | ongoing | $2K – $8K/mo |
Senior cloud and DevOps skills carry a 25–60% premium over general development in every region, our senior engineers bill $40–$75/hour against $150–$250+ for US equivalents. Regional context in the cost guide. Cost optimization work is typically recovered in 2–6 months of savings.
How you work with us
Three ways to engage.
Fixed price
MVPs from $7,500
Full products $18,000–$55,000+
You know what you need built. We scope it, quote one price, and deliver against it, no meter running.
- One agreed price, agreed before we start
- Milestone-based payments tied to what you can see
- Change requests priced openly, never assumed
Time & materials
from $28 / hour
Blended ~$32; senior specialists to ~$45
For work that changes as you learn. You pay for the hours spent, see exactly where they go, and can steer week to week.
- Billed on real, logged hours, reviewed with you
- Reprioritise or change direction any sprint
- Start small, scale the team as it proves out
Dedicated team
from $2,800 / month
Per developer, full-time, see the rate card
Developers who work only on your product, full-time, as an extension of your team, the offshore model most of our long-term clients settle into.
- The same people, month after month
- Your tools, your standups, your roadmap
- Roughly half the loaded cost of a local hire
Full rate card and what's included on the pricing page.
Why Shimira IT
We run what we build.
We run what we build
This isn't consulting theory, it's the practice operating our own production systems and every platform we've shipped for clients.
Cost honesty
Proposals include projected monthly running costs. If a cheaper architecture serves your scale, that's the one we propose.
Anti-overengineering
You get Kubernetes when your problems require it, not when it looks good on our portfolio.
Your accounts, your ownership
Infrastructure lives in your AWS/GCP accounts as reviewable code. Leaving us is easy, which is exactly why clients stay.
Questions
Before you get in touch.
Setup for a new product: $4,000–$15,000. Migrations: $10,000–$60,000. Ongoing managed DevOps: $2,000–$8,000/month. Separately, budget your cloud usage bill, anywhere from a few hundred to $20,000+/month at scale, which our cost-optimization work typically cuts 20–40% on unaudited accounts.
For most business workloads they're equivalent; the honest answer is usually "whichever your team knows" or "whichever your credits are on." We work in both and will give you a one-paragraph recommendation, not a 40-slide deck.
Usually, yes, most savings come from right-sizing, storage policies, and eliminating zombie resources inside your current setup. The free review tells you exactly how much is on the table before you spend anything.
Staged migrations keep downtime to minutes (often zero) for most architectures. Your uptime requirement is an input to the plan, not a casualty of it.
Probably not yet. Most products run better and cheaper on managed services until real scale arrives, and when it does, we'll be the first to tell you.
Yes: IAM hygiene, network isolation, encryption, and, critically, backups that have been restore-tested. An untested backup is a hope, not a strategy.
Not sure what you need yet? That's the usual starting point.
Tell us the problem in your own words. We'll scope it with you and put the plan in writing, free, and yours to keep either way.