Infrastructure & Ops
DevOps & Platform Engineering
Ship weekly without hiring a platform team
- Deploys measured in minutes, not evenings
- Every environment reproducible from code
- Rollback that has actually been tested
- 10x
- Deploy frequency increase
- < 15 min
- Commit to production
- < 5 min
- Rollback time
Typical for teams moving off manual releases
Automated pipeline including tests and checks
Rehearsed, not theoretical
The symptom you probably recognise
Deploys happen on Thursday evenings because that is when someone senior is available to watch. Staging drifted from production eighteen months ago. The person who set up the build server has left. Nobody is quite sure which of the running instances matter.
None of that is unusual and none of it requires a transformation programme. It requires someone to own it.
What we actually change
Before
- Releases are events that require a person watching
- Environments differ in ways nobody has documented
- Infrastructure changes happen in a cloud console
- Rollback is a plan that has never been executed
- Cloud spend grows and nobody owns the increase
After
- Deploys are routine, automated and reversible
- Every environment reproducible from the same code
- Infrastructure changes go through pull request review
- Rollback rehearsed monthly and measured in minutes
- Spend attributed per team with alerts on anomalies
Boring on purpose
We do not introduce a new tool for its own sake. The stack is deliberately conventional — Terraform, containers, a managed control plane, GitHub Actions or whatever CI you already pay for — because the goal is infrastructure your team can still operate in two years when the people who built it have moved on.
The interesting engineering goes into making the pipeline fast and the failure modes obvious. A pipeline that takes forty minutes gets bypassed. A pipeline that fails with an unreadable error gets ignored. Both are worse than no pipeline, because they create the appearance of control.
Where this leads
Most clients start here and move to NoOps once the platform is stable and they want the on-call handled too. Some take it in-house, which is a perfectly good outcome — the whole thing is in your repository.
How it runs
What the engagement looks like
Phases, not a proposal. Each one has an output you can see.
- 1
Audit what you have
Week 1Current pipelines, environments, cloud spend and the manual steps everyone has stopped noticing. We measure deploy frequency and lead time first so improvement is provable.
- 2
Codify the infrastructure
Weeks 2-4Terraform for everything, imported from existing resources where they are already running. No big-bang rebuild; we bring the estate under version control incrementally.
- 3
Build the pipeline
Weeks 3-5Test, lint, dependency and container scanning, build, deploy, smoke test. Fast enough that developers do not learn to route around it.
- 4
Make rollback boring
Week 5Progressive rollout with automated health checks and an actual rehearsed rollback. An untested rollback plan is a story, not a control.
- 5
Run it or hand it over
OngoingManaged retainer, or transfer with documentation and pairing. Either way your team can read and change everything we built.
FAQ
Questions we get asked
Talk to someone who does devops & platform
Thirty minutes with an engineer who has delivered this, not an account manager. You will get a straight answer on feasibility, rough cost and where it would fail.
Or email [email protected] · we reply within 1 business day