Proudly South AfricanSuperStack is a senior DevOps and platform contractor based in Johannesburg. We work inside your AWS accounts, repositories and chat tools to keep production healthy: EKS and Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, monitoring and cloud cost. Hire us on a monthly retainer, for a defined project, or start with a second-opinion review of your account.
Many South African companies run their product on AWS without a dedicated platform team. The work still needs doing: clusters need upgrading, pipelines break, alerts fire at 2am and the bill creeps up every month. A senior contractor who has run production AWS before covers that gap without a permanent hire.
You deal with the engineer doing the work, not an account manager. We join your team in your tools, agree the scope and access up front, and leave everything documented and in version control so your team can own it.
If you already have a DevOps engineer, an in-house team or an outsourced provider, an independent review is often the most useful first step. A fresh pair of senior eyes looks at security, cost, reliability, CI/CD and monitoring, and you get a plain-language walkthrough of the findings, ranked by risk and effort.
A review is not a judgement on your team. Findings are shared with your engineers so they can act on them, and you decide who does the fixes.
How the AWS account review works →AWS has a Cape Town region (af-south-1). It is an opt-in region, not every AWS service or instance type is available there, and prices are often higher than in the large US and European regions. Whether your workloads belong there, in a European region, or split across both depends on your latency, compliance and cost needs, and we help you weigh that up.
AWS bills in US dollars, so a weaker rand makes waste more expensive. Cost work is usually part of every engagement, not an afterthought.
We work in South African time (SAST, UTC+2), which overlaps with UK and European business hours as well as local teams.
For a fintech platform on EKS, we moved a browser-automation workload to event-driven autoscaling on queue depth with KEDA, and fixed a CI pipeline tagging bug that was silently shipping stale images to production.
Read the Kubernetes case study →Two clear offerings. No fluff, no oversold dashboards — just engineers and operators you can plug into your team on a retainer or by the project.
Remote DevOps capacity for South African and international teams. CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, observability, on-call triage and platform engineering — done by people who pick up the phone.
We pick engagements where we can actually move the needle — small to mid-sized teams that need senior help, fast.
Hire us the way that fits — no long lock-ins, no minimum seat counts.
A set number of senior hours per month for ongoing DevOps and engineering support. Roll-over hours, predictable cost.
Fixed scope or T&M for a defined piece of work — a migration, a new service, a rebuild — delivered as a small squad.
A senior engineer or DevOps resource working inside your team, in your tooling, with your standups.
Send a quick brief or grab a 30-minute slot. If we're not the right fit, we'll say so.