DevOps Consultant in Nepal — Working with Teams Worldwide

I'm Manip Poudel, a DevOps Team Lead based in Chitwan, Nepal. For the last four-plus years I've built and operated cloud infrastructure at a Tokyo-based software company, where I currently run 10+ production environments on AWS and GCP. I hold the AWS Certified Solutions Architect and HashiCorp Terraform Associate certifications, and I take on consulting work alongside that role.

Search for a DevOps consultant or DevOps engineer in Nepal and the results are mostly agencies, Upwork listings, and job boards. Individual consultants with public track records are hard to find here, so this page covers the two situations people usually arrive with: an international company wondering whether a Nepal-based engineer can work for them, and a Nepali company that needs hands-on infrastructure help.

For International Teams

The time zone question first. Nepal runs on UTC+5:45. My working day fully overlaps Japan, Australia, Singapore, and the rest of Asia-Pacific. European teams get my afternoon during their morning, which is enough for standups, pairing, and reviews. With US teams the workable windows are your morning against my evening, or your late evening against my early morning. I've run handovers and incident calls in both.

I've worked remote-first with a Japanese company since 2022, so the habits distributed teams rely on are already how I operate: written async updates, decisions recorded where people can find them later, handover notes when work crosses time zones, and pull requests that explain themselves. English is the working language of my current team and of all my client work.

On cost: rates from Nepal are competitive relative to US and EU markets, and I'll leave it at that. I scope and price each engagement individually, and the first discovery call is free.

For Companies in Nepal

I also take local engagements. Most Nepali product teams I've talked to are somewhere between a hand-managed VPS and their first serious AWS setup, and the useful work at that stage is concrete: migrating to AWS without an outage, CI/CD so deployments stop depending on one person, monitoring, backups that have actually been restored at least once.

I can also help with DevOps hiring, from writing the job description to sitting in on technical interviews. Many companies hiring their first DevOps engineer don't yet have anyone on staff who can evaluate the answers.

For individual engineers in Nepal working toward a DevOps role, I run 1-on-1 DevOps mentorship with personalised learning paths and walkthroughs of real production setups.

What I Do

Full descriptions are on the services page. The short version:

• AWS and GCP architecture and cost reviews — a structured look at security posture and spend, ending in a prioritized fix list.
• Terraform infrastructure as code — module design, remote state, and a CI-driven plan/apply workflow.
• CI/CD pipeline setup and repair — GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins.
• Kubernetes and EKS operations — GitOps with ArgoCD, autoscaling, observability, and runbooks your team can own.
• DevSecOps audits — security gates embedded into the pipelines you already have.
• Fractional DevOps engineer — ongoing part-time infrastructure ownership, typically 10–20 hours a week.

Work I Can Point To

• Built reusable Terraform modules for multi-environment AWS infrastructure, cutting manual provisioning effort by roughly 70%. Read the Terraform case study
• Led a DevSecOps rollout that put secret scanning, IaC compliance checks, and IAM least-privilege review in place across 10+ production environments. Read the DevSecOps case study
• Cost reviews on that same infrastructure have cut AWS bills by 20–40%, depending on where the account started. More in the case studies

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