Just hire an SRE. If you want to piss off your team and incur more costs than the annual salary of one decent SRE... ask your team to do on-call rotations. In

Just hire an SRE. If you want to piss off your team and incur more costs than the annual salary of one decent SRE... ask your team to do on-call rotations. In this day and age if you're a properly capitalized startup you should have the budget for one decent SRE hire. They often times double as a technical writer and are great at preventing knowledge silos in teams / members of a small team since they have to sort of know everything to be an effective SRE. Best process improvement I ever made for my teams.