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DevOps & AutomationAccelerate Software Delivery and Improve Reliability

We implement modern DevOps practices that reduce deployment cycles from weeks to minutes, increase release confidence, and enable your teams to deliver value faster with less risk.

100x faster deployments achieved | 75% downtime reduction | 90% automation rates

Challenges We Solve

We understand the obstacles that hold organizations back from achieving their technology potential.

Slow, Painful Deployments

Releases are stressful events that require weekends and war rooms. Manual processes introduce errors, deployments fail frequently, and you're afraid to release more than monthly.

Dev vs. Ops Friction

Development throws code over the wall to operations. Blame flows both directions when things break. There's no shared ownership of delivery and reliability.

Manual Infrastructure Management

Your infrastructure is a collection of hand-configured servers that no one fully understands. Changes are risky, scaling is slow, and disaster recovery is a hope not a plan.

Lack of Visibility

When something goes wrong, you scramble to figure out what's happening. Logs are scattered, metrics are incomplete, and you find out about problems from customers not monitoring.

Inconsistent Environments

'It works on my machine' is a constant refrain. Development, staging, and production environments drift apart, causing bugs that only appear in production.

Security as Afterthought

Security reviews happen at the end (if at all) and block releases. You need to shift security left but don't know how to integrate it without slowing everything down.

Our Methodology

A proven, structured approach that ensures successful outcomes at every stage.

01

Assessment & Strategy

We evaluate your current delivery practices, tooling, and team structure to understand bottlenecks and opportunities. We develop a DevOps transformation roadmap tailored to your context.

Key Activities

  • Delivery pipeline assessment
  • Tool & technology review
  • Team structure analysis
  • Bottleneck identification

Deliverables

  • Current state assessment
  • Opportunity identification
  • Transformation roadmap
  • Quick win recommendations
02

Foundation Building

We establish the foundational elements—source control practices, basic CI/CD, infrastructure as code—that everything else builds upon. We focus on quick wins that demonstrate value.

Key Activities

  • Git workflow implementation
  • Initial CI/CD pipeline setup
  • Infrastructure as Code foundation
  • Container strategy development

Deliverables

  • Working CI/CD pipelines
  • IaC templates
  • Containerized applications
  • Team documentation
03

Advanced Automation

We build sophisticated automation—advanced deployment strategies, environment provisioning, security integration—that enables confident, frequent releases.

Key Activities

  • Advanced CI/CD implementation
  • Blue-green/canary deployments
  • Automated testing integration
  • Security pipeline integration

Deliverables

  • Advanced deployment pipelines
  • Automated test suites
  • Security scanning integration
  • Environment provisioning automation
04

Observability & Operations

We implement comprehensive observability—monitoring, logging, tracing—that provides visibility into system health and enables rapid problem resolution.

Key Activities

  • Monitoring implementation
  • Log aggregation setup
  • Distributed tracing
  • Alerting & on-call procedures

Deliverables

  • Monitoring dashboards
  • Centralized logging
  • Alert configurations
  • Operational runbooks
05

Platform Evolution

We help you build internal developer platforms that multiply team productivity—self-service capabilities, standardized patterns, and guardrails that enable speed with safety.

Key Activities

  • Platform engineering strategy
  • Self-service capability development
  • Golden path definition
  • Platform documentation

Deliverables

  • Internal developer platform
  • Self-service portals
  • Golden path templates
  • Platform documentation

Our Capabilities

Comprehensive expertise across the full spectrum of devops & automation.

CI/CD & Pipeline

  • GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins
  • ArgoCD, Flux (GitOps)
  • Automated testing integration
  • Artifact management
  • Release orchestration

Infrastructure as Code

  • Terraform
  • AWS CloudFormation
  • Pulumi
  • Ansible
  • Configuration management

Containers & Orchestration

  • Docker containerization
  • Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE)
  • Helm charts
  • Service mesh (Istio, Linkerd)
  • Container security

Cloud Platforms

  • AWS services & architecture
  • Azure DevOps & services
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Multi-cloud strategies
  • Serverless architectures

Observability

  • Prometheus & Grafana
  • Datadog, New Relic
  • ELK Stack, Splunk
  • Distributed tracing (Jaeger)
  • APM implementation

Security & Compliance

  • DevSecOps integration
  • SAST/DAST tooling
  • Container security scanning
  • Secrets management
  • Compliance as code

Industry Applications

Tailored solutions for your industry's unique challenges and opportunities.

SaaS & Technology

Enable rapid feature delivery, continuous deployment, and reliable operations that let you compete on speed while maintaining quality and customer trust.

Key Outcomes

  • Multiple daily deployments
  • 99.99% uptime achieved
  • Developer productivity doubled

Financial Services

Achieve deployment agility while maintaining compliance and audit requirements. Enable faster time-to-market without compromising security or regulatory obligations.

Key Outcomes

  • Compliant automation achieved
  • Audit-ready deployments
  • Reduced change risk

E-Commerce & Retail

Deploy confidently during peak seasons, scale automatically with demand, and release features that respond to market opportunities in hours not weeks.

Key Outcomes

  • Zero-downtime during peaks
  • Same-day feature releases
  • Auto-scaling implemented

Healthcare

Enable faster delivery of healthcare applications while maintaining HIPAA compliance, security requirements, and the reliability that patient care demands.

Key Outcomes

  • Compliant CI/CD pipelines
  • Secure deployments
  • Improved system reliability

Client Success Stories

Real results from organizations that transformed their operations with our expertise.

SaaS Platform Transformation

B2B SaaS company, 200 engineers, 500K users, 50+ microservices

The Challenge

A growing SaaS company was deploying monthly with frequent failures. Releases required weekend change windows, rollbacks took hours, and developers waited days for environment provisioning.

"We went from dreading releases to deploying multiple times per day with confidence. Our developers are happier and we're shipping features faster than ever."

VP of Engineering, SaaS Company

Key Results

0x increase
Deployment Frequency
0 weeks → hours
Lead Time for Changes
0% reduction
Change Failure Rate
0Hours → Minutes
Recovery Time

Financial Services Compliant Automation

Regional bank, 50 applications, strict regulatory requirements

The Challenge

A bank needed to accelerate software delivery but couldn't compromise on compliance. Manual change control processes took 2-3 weeks, and audit evidence collection was a nightmare.

"We proved that compliance and speed aren't mutually exclusive. Our regulators are actually impressed with our automated controls."

CIO, Regional Bank

Key Results

0 weeks → days
Change Lead Time
0% reduction
Audit Prep Time
0Zero
Compliance Findings
0Significantly improved
Deployment Confidence

What You'll Receive

Concrete deliverables and measurable outcomes from our engagement.

Deliverables

Pipeline & Automation

  • CI/CD pipeline configurations
  • Infrastructure as Code templates
  • Deployment automation scripts
  • Environment provisioning automation
  • GitOps configurations

Platform Components

  • Kubernetes cluster configurations
  • Helm charts & templates
  • Service mesh configuration
  • Container images & registries
  • Secrets management setup

Observability Stack

  • Monitoring dashboards
  • Log aggregation configuration
  • Alert rules & escalation
  • Tracing implementation
  • Operational runbooks

Expected Outcomes

Delivery Speed

  • Deployment frequency increased 10-100x
  • Lead time reduced from weeks to hours
  • Environment provisioning in minutes
  • Feature delivery accelerated

Quality & Reliability

  • Change failure rate significantly reduced
  • Recovery time from hours to minutes
  • Automated testing coverage
  • Consistent environments

Team & Business Impact

  • Developer productivity increased
  • Reduced operational toil
  • Infrastructure costs optimized
  • Security integrated into delivery

Why Choose Us

What sets our approach apart from other providers.

Practitioner Experience

Our team has built and operated production systems at scale. We've been on-call, dealt with incidents, and understand what works in the real world—not just in theory.

Team experience operating systems with millions of users

Pragmatic Approach

We implement what you need, not every tool on the CNCF landscape. We start with quick wins that demonstrate value and build incrementally toward your target state.

80% of clients see measurable improvement in first 30 days

Team Enablement Focus

We don't just build pipelines—we enable your team to own and evolve them. Knowledge transfer and capability building are integral to every engagement.

Teams self-sufficient within 3-6 months of engagement

Security by Design

Security is integrated from the start—DevSecOps, not security bolted on at the end. Our pipelines include security scanning, secrets management, and compliance automation.

All implementations include security pipeline integration

Cloud-Native Expertise

Deep expertise across cloud platforms and Kubernetes. We help you leverage cloud-native patterns that provide scalability, resilience, and cost optimization.

Certified practitioners across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes

DORA Metrics Driven

We measure success using industry-standard DORA metrics—deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, recovery time. You'll see measurable improvement.

All engagements include DORA metrics baseline and tracking

Engagement Models

Flexible options to match your needs and budget.

DevOps Assessment

Comprehensive evaluation of your delivery practices with prioritized recommendations and transformation roadmap.

Ideal For

Understanding current state, planning transformation, identifying quick wins

Pricing

$40K - $80K depending on scope

DevOps Implementation

End-to-end implementation of DevOps practices—pipelines, IaC, observability, and team enablement. Transform your delivery capability.

Ideal For

Organizations ready to implement modern DevOps practices

Pricing

$150K - $400K depending on scope and complexity

Platform Engineering

Build internal developer platforms that multiply team productivity through self-service, golden paths, and automated guardrails.

Ideal For

Organizations with multiple teams needing standardized, scalable practices

Pricing

$200K - $500K+ for comprehensive platform

DevOps Coaching

Embedded expertise to coach and mentor your team while implementing improvements. Build internal capability alongside delivery.

Ideal For

Teams wanting to build internal DevOps capability with expert guidance

Pricing

$25K - $50K/month for embedded coach

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about our devops & automation services.

Most organizations see measurable improvement within 30-60 days as we implement initial automation and CI/CD. Full transformation to multiple daily deployments typically takes 3-6 months depending on starting point and complexity.

Not necessarily. Kubernetes is powerful but adds complexity. We assess whether containers and orchestration are right for your situation. Many organizations benefit from simpler approaches—serverless, managed services, or improved VM-based deployment.

We design automation that incorporates compliance—approval workflows, audit trails, separation of duties, and evidence generation. Properly implemented, automation improves compliance posture rather than compromising it.

DevOps practices can benefit legacy applications too. We often start with improved CI/CD and monitoring for legacy systems before tackling modernization. Even without containers, automation improves reliability and speed.

Knowledge transfer is integral to every engagement. We pair with your engineers, document everything, conduct training sessions, and ensure your team can operate and evolve systems independently. We're not here to create dependency.

It depends on your context. We're tool-agnostic and select based on your needs, existing investments, and team skills. We have deep expertise across the ecosystem—GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Terraform, Kubernetes, and observability tools.

We use DORA metrics: deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, and mean time to recovery. We establish baselines and track improvement throughout the engagement so value is demonstrated clearly.

Absolutely. We prefer to enhance and optimize existing investments rather than rip-and-replace. We can work with virtually any toolchain and help you get more value from tools you already have.

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