The idea that we're implying you need 2 full time engineers is a misunderstanding. We just mean to say that you'll want at least 2 developers to spend enough time digging in to Kubernetes etc to have a good enough idea of what you're doing. I don't think more than 2 month of messing about should be required to reach proficiency.
We currently don't spend more than ~4 days per month total working on platform related stuff (often we spend 0 days, eg. I was on parental leave during 3 months and no one touched the platform during that time).
WRT employee cost, Swedish DevOps engineers cost less than half of what you mentioned on average, but I guess YMMV depending on region.
The idea that we're implying you need 2 full time engineers is a misunderstanding. We just mean to say that you'll want at least 2 developers to spend enough time digging in to Kubernetes etc to have a good enough idea of what you're doing. I don't think more than 2 month of messing about should be required to reach proficiency.
We currently don't spend more than ~4 days per month total working on platform related stuff (often we spend 0 days, eg. I was on parental leave during 3 months and no one touched the platform during that time).
WRT employee cost, Swedish DevOps engineers cost less than half of what you mentioned on average, but I guess YMMV depending on region.