Hey, GitLab, want to hire me? For six figures I can save you from losing seven figures or going out of business completely.

I’ve never had a production data loss past RPO in any company I’ve ever managed the IT for.

Recently saved a small company I consult for from vital data loss due to encryption ransomware because I had good backups. This data loss would’ve set them back months. Was also on a team at a much-larger company — where I still work — that revamped backups for a 3500+ server 2PB environment (yes, that is petabytes. I bet you don’t even have that much).

Also, a backup strategy that is never tested is worth precisely nothing. You have no backups, as you are discovering.

I’m experienced with cloud operations, too – Azure mostly, but AWS isn’t exactly rocket science.

One thing I can guarantee is that if you hire me, you’ll have working, foolproof backups within three months. Within six months, you can destroy all your disks in your main data center and I’ll have you back running in less than an hour.

Will it cost money? Yes. But you’re finding out it’s worth it.