This doesn&#x27;t take into account the following transactions:<p>- The time and money it takes to find said $30-50k engineer<p>- The risk (and therefore potential cost) if the engineer doesn&#x27;t do the job correctly<p>- The unknown cost of &quot;occasionally fixing&quot; could be $50 or $50,000. Given how nebolus the DevOps position is, you also can&#x27;t be sure the stuff this individual is doing is considered best practice.<p>- There is overhead time spent on managing such a resource (teleconferencing, IM&#x27;s, etc)<p>- There is potential that the resource is unavailable and therefore a potential downtime that could cause your business loss<p>There&#x27;s a reason Heroku exists and has been successful, and these are just a few of them.