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Infrastructure automation

Fewer people and hours needed to keep systems running

Manual operations are expensive, slow, and easy to get wrong at three in the morning. We replace runbooks and hand-cranked deployments with automation, so releases stop needing a maintenance window and recovery takes seconds rather than an all-hands call.

You may recognise

  • Releases need a maintenance window
  • You are hiring several DevOps or SRE roles
  • Recovery depends on one person who remembers how it was built
  • Staging and production have quietly diverged

How the work runs

  1. 01

    Find what your team does by hand

    We map the manual work: deployments, environment builds, scaling decisions, incident response, routine maintenance. Then we cost it in engineer-hours, because that is the number that makes the case.

  2. 02

    Define the infrastructure as code

    Environments become reproducible from a repository rather than from institutional memory. That removes the drift between staging and production that causes so many incidents.

  3. 03

    Automate deployment and rollback

    Releases become routine rather than events. Rollback is a button, not an investigation, which is what makes teams comfortable shipping during the working day.

  4. 04

    Make monitoring tell you something useful

    Alerting that fires constantly gets ignored. We tune it so that a page means something is genuinely wrong, and so the first response is informed rather than exploratory.

  5. 05

    Test the disaster recovery you already have

    Most organisations have a recovery plan. Far fewer have run it. We rehearse it, measure how long it actually takes, and fix what the rehearsal exposes.

What you get

Infrastructure defined as code, in your repository
Automated deployment and rollback pipelines
Monitoring and alerting that is worth reading
Documented, rehearsed recovery procedure
Runbooks replaced with automation
Sub-minute recovery cycles
Handover and training for your team

Common questions

Should we hire a DevOps engineer or automate?

Often both, but in that order it is expensive. A good deal of the work a first platform hire ends up doing is automatable, and automating it first means the person you hire spends their time on the parts that genuinely need judgement. We can tell you which parts are which before you commit to the headcount.

How long does an automation engagement take?

Typically one to three months for the core work, delivered incrementally so improvements land throughout rather than at the end. The two-week assessment comes first and defines the scope.

Do you work alongside our engineers or replace them?

Alongside. Our engineers implement with your team, and knowledge transfer is part of every engagement. The measure of success is your team running it confidently without us.

What tools do you use?

Whatever fits your estate — Terraform, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI and the major cloud-native tooling are all common. We favour what your team can maintain over what is fashionable.

Start with the free two-week assessment.

You get a written report on where your budget goes and what it would take to reduce it. Yours to keep either way.

Book a free cost review

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