Day one, not month three
No job posting, no recruiter fee, no onboarding quarter. The engineering and operations layer is running the week you start.
The answer
Good instinct. Here is what that looks like.
You skip the hiring bet entirely and start with an engineering team that is already running.
It does not quit
No resignation letter, no burnout, no knowledge walking out the door. What it learns about your system stays in your system.
Where to go from here
See exactly how FDE Ops covers provisioning, deployment, monitoring, and incident response under enterprise governance — then tell us what you are running. You brief it in Slack, in plain language — no new tool to learn.