DevSecOps and DevOps that fit the team you actually have
Automated pipelines, infrastructure in version control, security checks that run on every commit, and monitoring that only wakes someone when it should. Sized for your systems, not a Fortune 500 reference architecture.
The problem
Delivery slows down long before anyone calls it a crisis
Deployments start needing a specific person. Staging stops matching production. An outage gets fixed but nobody writes down how, so it happens again in six weeks. Security findings arrive the week before launch, when changing anything is expensive.
None of it is dramatic on its own. Together it quietly doubles how long everything takes.
Signs it's time to call someone
- Deploys happen out of hours because they're risky
- Only one person can release, and they're on holiday
- Servers were configured by hand and nobody documented it
- You find out about outages from customers
- Cloud spend rises every month and nobody can say why
- Security review is a phase, not a habit
Our practice
Eight services, available together or one at a time
DevSecOps implementation
Security checks move into the pipeline instead of waiting for an audit. Dependency scanning, container scanning, secret detection, IaC policy checks and signed builds — so problems surface on the pull request, not in production.
CI/CD pipeline automation
Build, test, approve, deploy and roll back without anyone SSH-ing into a box at midnight. We build pipelines in GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or Azure DevOps, whichever your team already knows.
Infrastructure as code
Your environments become Terraform, Pulumi or CloudFormation in version control. Staging matches production, changes get reviewed like code, and rebuilding a region takes an afternoon instead of a fortnight.
Kubernetes consulting
Cluster design, workload migration, autoscaling, ingress, RBAC and cost control on EKS, AKS, GKE or bare metal. Including the honest conversation about whether you need Kubernetes at all.
Monitoring and observability
Dashboards, logs, metrics, traces and alerts that page a human only when a human is needed. Built on Prometheus and Grafana, the ELK stack, Datadog or CloudWatch.
SRE and reliability engineering
Error budgets, SLOs, runbooks, on-call rotations and blameless post-incident reviews. The goal is fewer repeat incidents, not a thicker incident log.
GitOps implementation
Git becomes the single source of truth for infrastructure and applications. Argo CD or Flux reconciles the cluster to the repo, so every change is reviewed, auditable and revertible with one commit.
Managed DevOps services
An ongoing DevOps team without the hiring. We look after pipelines, cloud infrastructure, monitoring, patching, incidents and cost — on a monthly retainer you can cancel.
Our working toolchain
Engagement
How a DevOps project runs
Assess what's there
We review your delivery process, cloud accounts, pipelines, monitoring and access model, and identify where the delays, risks and manual effort actually come from — which is rarely where people assume.
Current-state assessment · risk register · prioritised gaps
Agree a roadmap
A plan matched to your team size and budget, sequenced so the highest-value fixes land first. We're explicit about what we're deliberately not doing yet, and why.
Roadmap · tooling recommendation · fixed quote · timeline
Automate pipelines and infrastructure
CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, environment parity, security scanning and a rollback path that has been tested rather than assumed.
Working pipelines · Terraform modules · scanning in CI · tested rollback
Add observability and reliability practice
Dashboards, alert rules tuned to reduce noise, runbooks, SLOs and an incident process your team can follow at three in the morning without improvising.
Grafana dashboards · alert policy · runbooks · on-call rota
Run it, or hand it over
Either we stay on as your managed DevOps team, or we train your engineers and leave documentation good enough that they don't need to call us.
Managed retainer, or full handover with training
DevOps FAQ
Common questions about DevOps and DevSecOps
What are DevOps consulting services?
DevOps consulting helps a business improve how software gets built, tested, deployed, monitored and supported. In practice that means auditing what you have now, then implementing CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, monitoring, security checks and incident processes that fit your team's size and skills.
Do we need DevOps if we're not a software company?
If you depend on a website, a customer portal, an internal system or any cloud infrastructure, the same practices apply. The value is fewer outages, faster fixes and less time spent on manual server work — that matters whether you sell software or plumbing supplies.
What is DevSecOps, and how is it different from DevOps?
DevSecOps is DevOps with security checks embedded in the delivery pipeline instead of performed as a separate audit at the end. Dependency scanning, container image scanning, secret detection, infrastructure policy checks and signed builds all run automatically on every change, so issues appear on the pull request while they are still cheap to fix.
Can you work with our existing pipelines and tools?
Usually yes, and that's normally the cheaper path. We work with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket Pipelines and CircleCI. Replacing a working toolchain is a last resort, not an opening move.
Do we actually need Kubernetes?
Often not. Kubernetes is excellent for teams running many services that scale independently, and expensive overhead for a team running three containers. We'll say so during scoping if a managed container service or plain virtual machines would serve you better.
What does managed DevOps include?
A monthly retainer covering pipeline maintenance, cloud infrastructure management, monitoring and alerting, patching, incident response, release support and cost review. It suits teams that need DevOps capability without hiring a full-time engineer.
How long does a DevOps engagement take?
A pipeline audit takes about a week. A first set of automated CI/CD pipelines typically lands in two to four weeks. A full infrastructure-as-code rebuild depends on the estate — we scope it properly before quoting rather than guessing.
Start with a pipeline audit
A week of our time, a written report, and a clear view of what's slowing your delivery down. No obligation to do anything with it.