DevOps Services for UK Software Teams

It is the set of practices that makes changing software safe and routine: automated builds and tests, infrastructure defined in code, monitoring that tells you when something is wrong, and releases small enough to undo. It is less about job titles or tools than about shortening the path from a finished change to customers using it.

A focused piece of work, such as setting up CI/CD or bringing infrastructure into Terraform, is scoped and quoted at a fixed price after a short review. Ongoing platform work can be billed hourly from £20 an hour or run through a dedicated developer, from £2,900 a month. Cloud provider bills are separate and stay in your own accounts.

Often not. Kubernetes is powerful but adds operational overhead that small teams feel. If you run a handful of services, managed container hosting or a platform such as Vercel may be simpler and cheaper. We recommend it when you run many services, need fine-grained scaling, or already have people who operate it well.

We build on AWS and Vercel, with Firebase for some mobile and smaller web products. Terraform, Docker and GitHub Actions work across providers, so much of the approach carries over — but if your estate is on another cloud, we will tell you honestly how much of the work we are the right team for.

Yes, and it is usually the best arrangement. We pair with your engineers on pipelines and infrastructure, review changes through the same pull requests, and document as we go — so the knowledge stays in your team rather than leaving with us.

Some access, scoped to the task. We prefer individual, least-privilege accounts with multi-factor authentication, time-limited admin rights for risky changes, and everything logged. The accounts remain yours throughout, and we never ask you to share a root login.

In a managed secrets store — not in the repository, chat messages or a shared document. Pipelines fetch secrets at deploy time with narrowly scoped permissions. If we find secrets committed to your repository, we tell you straight away and help you rotate them, because deleting the file does not remove them from history.

Blue-green runs two identical production environments and switches traffic from old to new in one step, so rolling back means switching back. Canary sends a small share of traffic to the new version first and widens it while monitoring stays healthy. Feature flags go further, letting you ship code switched off and turn features on for chosen users.

There is often waste to remove — oversized instances, idle environments, old snapshots, storage in the wrong tier. We start by reviewing your billing data and tagging, agree the changes with you, and make them through infrastructure code so the savings do not drift back. We will not promise a figure before we have looked.

Usually with a walkthrough of one real release, from merged code to production. It shows where time goes and where the risk sits. Common first steps are moving secrets out of the codebase, making backups restorable and putting the build and deploy into a pipeline — before anything more ambitious.