Your client's infrastructure should be boring.

Specialist virtualization, firewall and Linux capacity for managed service providers — working under your name, never in front of your client. When the work is done properly, nobody notices anything happened. Hence the name.

Remote-first
US Eastern
Subcontract only
White-label by default

01 — Capability

What I take off your plate.

Project work and overflow in the areas most shops don't keep on the bench full-time. Scoped, delivered, documented, handed back.

Virtualization

Host and cluster builds, vCenter deployment, P2V and V2V migrations, storage presentation, capacity and consolidation work.

vSphere · ESXi · vCenter

Firewall & network

Policy design and cleanup, VLAN segmentation that actually segments, site-to-site and remote-access VPN, switching and wireless.

FortiGate · UniFi · WireGuard

Linux & containers

Server builds and hardening, Docker and Compose workloads, reverse proxy and TLS termination, certificate automation, service migrations.

Debian · Ubuntu · Docker · nginx

Monitoring & alerting

Uptime and service monitoring that reaches a human, log aggregation and search, alert routing that doesn't train people to ignore it.

Uptime Kuma · Elastic · ntfy

Storage & backup

NAS and SMB architecture, per-service credential separation, share and permission design, backup verification and restore testing.

SMB/CIFS · NFS · snapshots

Automation & tooling

Python tooling against vendor APIs, scripted remediation, dynamic DNS and certificate plumbing, glue between systems that don't talk.

Python · REST APIs · systemd

02 — Terms

How working together actually goes.

You keep the client

I work under your brand, in your PSA, through your RMM. Your client never learns my name and I never solicit them. That's contractual, not a courtesy.

Scoped before started

Fixed scope and a written estimate before anything begins. If the job turns out larger than described, you hear about it while there's still time to decide — not on the invoice.

Documented on the way out

Every engagement ends with written handover in your documentation system: what changed, why, and what your team needs to know at 2am. No knowledge left in my head.

Async by default

Tickets, written updates, and scheduled maintenance windows. I'm not a phone-first operation, which is usually a feature when you need deep work done without interruption.

03 — Stack

Kit I work in daily.

Not a certification list — the platforms I run, break, and repair in a production home lab built to enterprise shape. If your stack is on here, there's no ramp-up time.

Hypervisor: VMware ESXi, vCenter Server
Firewall: FortiGate — multi-VLAN policy, NAT, VPN
Network: UniFi, 802.1Q segmentation, WireGuard, RouterOS
Servers: Debian, Ubuntu, systemd, SSH hardening
Containers: Docker, Compose, Portainer, registries
Proxy / TLS: nginx, Let's Encrypt, WebSocket routing
Storage: SMB/CIFS at scale, share and ACL design
Observability: Uptime monitoring, Elastic, fail2ban, alerting
Applications: Nextcloud, Collabora, GitLab, media services
Scripting: Python, Bash, vendor REST APIs

04 — Scope

What I'm not.

Worth stating plainly, because a subcontractor who overpromises costs you more than one who says no early.

Not a 24/7 help desk. No phone queue, no first-line support, no after-hours pager rotation. Scheduled maintenance windows are fine; being on call is not.
Not full-time capacity. This is deliberate side capacity — a defined number of hours a week. Better suited to project work than a permanent seat on your bench.
Not enterprise-scale change control. Hundred-host estates with CAB processes and formal change windows need a different kind of shop. SMB and mid-market is where I'm useful.
Not on-site outside my region. Remote work, remote hands coordination, and documentation — yes. Flying to a data centre — no.

05 — Contact

Send it straight to my phone.

No inbox, no ticket queue, no autoresponder. This form publishes to a private topic on my own notification server and buzzes the device in my pocket. Tell me what you need and roughly when.