DevOps Consulting
You can learn a lot about an engineering organization from a single deploy. If it takes a Slack thread, a senior engineer watching dashboards, and a quiet Friday, the problem is not which CI server you picked.
Installing Jenkins is not DevOps. Neither is Kubernetes, or Docker, or an internal platform with a logo. DevOps is the whole path a change takes from an editor to production and everything that shapes it: how the team works together, how code is reviewed and tested, how infrastructure is defined, how deploys happen, what gets monitored, and who takes responsibility when something breaks at 2 a.m.
That is why we don't sell a universal DevOps transformation; there isn't one. Your team, your applications, your constraints, and your security requirements are not the same as the last company's, so the process that fits them won't be either. Every engagement starts with understanding how your software actually ships today, including the parts that live in one engineer's head, and improves that in place, in your environment.
The loop we work on
Every engagement starts by following one real change through this loop and writing down where it slows, waits, or depends on a particular person. Most delivery problems live between two of these boxes, not inside one.
DevOps work we take on
DevOps assessment
We follow a real change from commit to production and write down what happens along the way, including the steps that exist only in one engineer's muscle memory. The output is a short, prioritized list of what is costing you the most: usually a handful of specific fixes, not a maturity model. Sometimes the honest finding is that your process is fine and the pain is somewhere else.
DevOps implementation
Improvements land in your repos, your pipelines, and your cloud accounts, sequenced so delivery never stops while we work. We don't build a parallel greenfield platform and hope teams migrate to it; they rarely do. Small changes that ship weekly beat a grand redesign that ships never.
CI/CD pipelines
A pipeline that takes forty minutes to run ten minutes of tests trains people to bypass it. We build pipelines fast enough to trust: cached, parallelized, and loud when they fail. Sometimes the biggest speedup is deleting stages nobody can explain.
Deployment automation
If a deploy needs a senior engineer watching dashboards, it isn't automated; it's supervised. We make deploys boring: one action, tested rollback, no tribal knowledge required. Not every service needs canary releases and progressive delivery, and often a plain redeploy is enough.
Infrastructure as Code
Hand-built infrastructure works fine right up until someone has to change it. We move existing resources into Terraform by importing what's there rather than rebuilding, so the code ends up matching the account. Not everything is worth codifying on day one; we start with what changes most often.
Developer experience
Friction compounds quietly: a local setup that takes two days, flaky tests everyone reruns, a permissions request that waits on one person. We measure the path from git clone to a running app, and from opened PR to production, then shorten both. Fast feedback is most of what developer productivity means.
Release process
A release coordinated in a Slack thread works until the one person tracking the thread goes on vacation. We replace it with a written, mostly automated process: what ships, when, who decides, how it rolls back. Continuous deployment suits some teams; scheduled releases suit others, and forcing the wrong one causes more incidents than it prevents.
Monitoring and operations
Most monitoring setups have too many alerts and too little information. We define alerts around what users experience, write runbooks for the pages that remain, and delete the alarm that fires nightly to tell you nothing. If the same issue gets fixed by hand after every release, that's not an operations task; it's a missing automation, and we treat it as one.
Who this is for
- Deploys work, but only when one particular engineer is around to run them and watch what happens.
- The team has grown from five engineers to twenty, and the informal process that worked at five is now the bottleneck.
- CI exists, but it's slower than running the tests locally, so people merge without waiting for it.
- The same production issue gets fixed by hand after every release, and everyone has stopped finding that strange.
- An audit, a large customer, or a compliance framework now requires a release process you can describe.
The course of an engagement
The full engagement modelWatch a change ship
We start by following one real change from commit to production, because the documented process rarely survives contact with an actual release. This takes days, not weeks.
Agree on what hurts
Together we pick a small number of concrete outcomes: deploys any engineer can run, CI fast enough to wait for, an on-call rotation that doesn't burn people out. Scope stays narrow on purpose.
Change things in place
We work in your repos and pair with your engineers, shipping improvements incrementally while normal delivery continues. Nothing lands as a surprise.
Hand it over
The engagement ends with your team running the result: documentation written during the work, runbooks they have already used under real conditions, and nothing left that only we know how to operate.
Questions we get
- Our stack is unusual. Does your process still apply?
- Usually, yes. The method doesn't depend on your stack: read-only access first, map what exists, find where deploys, incidents, or costs hurt. Those problems look similar everywhere. What matters is whether we know your platforms well enough to be useful; we'll tell you on the first call if we don't, rather than learn on your invoice.
- How long does a DevOps assessment take?
- It depends on the size of the estate, but plan in weeks, not months. Once read-only access is in place, a single-cloud setup usually takes two to three weeks to reach written findings and a prioritized plan. Larger multi-account estates take longer, and we agree the exact scope and duration before anything starts, at a fixed price.
- Will you work alongside our engineers or separately?
- Alongside, deliberately. Work lands as pull requests in your repositories, so your engineers review every change and nothing arrives as a mystery. We keep a shared channel open and pair where it helps. Time zones cooperate: IST overlaps most of the European workday, and US East mornings meet IST evenings. When the engagement ends, your team runs it; documentation and runbooks are part of the deliverable.
- What does DevOps consulting cost?
- Assessments are fixed-scope with the price agreed up front. Implementation runs at a weekly rate. The full model, including the minimum engagement, is on the How we work page.
Pricing shapes and numbers are on Pricing; NDAs, timezones, and offboarding are on How we work.
What we typically work with
When the engagement ends
- There is no proprietary layer: what we build sits in your repos and your accounts, readable, changeable, deletable.
- Handover is part of the scope: documentation written during the work, and pairing sessions so your engineers have operated everything themselves before we leave.
- If you want ongoing help, we offer a light retainer for reviews and questions. Most teams don't need it, and we'll tell you if you don't.
Problems this maps to
Deployments that depend on one person
Releases happen every other week, at night, run by the one engineer who knows the order of operations. The checklist lives in a doc that's almost current. Rollback is untested. Every release carries two weeks of changes, so every release is a big deal.
On-call that pages all night
Twenty-five pages per engineer per week, most acknowledged and ignored. Real incidents hide inside the noise. Postmortems produce action items nobody has time for, and the people carrying pagers have started interviewing elsewhere.
Field notes on this
Talk to us about how you ship.
A short email about your setup and what's not working is the best start. We'll say plainly whether we can help, and what it would take.
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