You are on call presumably and called on demand so work is patchy? I would charge 10x normal rates but fix the price (the quicker you fix their issue the more y

You are on call presumably and called on demand so work is patchy? I would charge 10x normal rates but fix the price (the quicker you fix their issue the more you are worth). Maybe $20k per incident? Then that frees you up to keep up to date on techniques, tools and so on to make your next hero feat even better. Remember: they called you because their guys couldn’t fix it, so all these will be perceived as hard problems. I remember someone on HN charged a monthly fee, spent all the time making the prod environment solid then collected a big salary for being on call but never being called :-)