DevOps Retainer

Reliable delivery, automation & infra support.

Continuous DevOps assistance for automation, deployments, infrastructure and developer productivity. 50% faster deployments. 40% fewer incidents.

Industry insight
50%
faster deployments within 90 days
The challenges

What's holding your team back

78%

Can't scale DevOps without hiring

Senior DevOps hires cost £80k–£120k/year and take months to find.

40%

Incidents from manual deploys

Hand-rolled releases cause most production incidents — and burn weekends.

30+ hrs

Lost to infra firefighting

Engineering teams spend a third of every week on infra instead of product.

£15k+

Wasted monthly on toil

Without automation, every client environment compounds operational drag.

Solutions

Built for measurable impact

Solution 01

CI/CD & Deployment Automation

We build, harden and run your release pipelines so deploys go from hours to minutes — safely.

  • Automated CI/CD across GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps
  • Blue/green and canary rollout patterns
  • Automated rollback and approval gates
  • Release dashboards your team can trust
Case study: TechSys Integration cut deploys from 8 hours to 30 minutes and hit 0 production incidents in 6 months.
50%
Faster deployments
Solution 02

Infrastructure as Code & Cloud Ops

Terraform / Pulumi / OpenTofu standards, modular environments and drift-free infra across every client.

  • Standardized Terraform modules per environment
  • Multi-cloud (AWS / Azure / GCP) parity
  • Drift detection and policy guardrails
  • Cost-aware architecture reviews
Case study: A FinTech startup auto-scaled 10×, freed 2 engineers for product, and saved £200k/year.
40%
Fewer production incidents
Solution 03

On-Call, SRE & Incident Response

Dedicated SRE coverage with documented runbooks, paging discipline and post-incident reviews.

  • 24/7 on-call rotation backed by our engineers
  • Runbook library and PagerDuty / Opsgenie integration
  • Blameless post-incident reviews and remediation
  • SLO-driven monitoring and error budgets
Case study: A Fortune-500 IT dept reduced DevOps headcount from 5 to 2 with our retainer — £400k/year saved.
24/7
On-call coverage included
Proof

Results from real clients

TechSys Integration — System Integrator

Challenge

Manual deployments taking 8 hours and causing 2–3 production incidents per month across client environments.

Solution

Implemented CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code and standardized release workflow across every client.

Results
  • Deployments now run in 30 minutes
  • Zero production incidents in 6 months
  • 40 engineering hours/week freed
ROI
£15,000/month engineering time saved

FinTech Startup — Software Company

Challenge

Four-hour deploys, infra scaling issues, two engineers permanently stuck on infrastructure.

Solution

Automated CI/CD, IaC roll-out and autoscaling architecture with on-call coverage.

Results
  • Deployments cut to 15 minutes
  • Auto-scaling eliminated downtime under load
  • 2 engineers returned to product work
ROI
£200,000+ annual engineering savings
ROI Calculator

Estimate your return

Estimate the monthly value of automating deploys, eliminating incidents and freeing engineers. Benchmarked at the Professional plan.

4 hrs

Engineering time spent on each release.

20

How often you ship across all environments.

4

Incidents caused by manual or fragile deploys.

£90

Loaded cost per engineer-hour.

Your projected ROI
Monthly cost savings
£5,040
Monthly revenue uplift
£6,000
First-month ROI
245%
Annual benefit
£132,480
Pricing

Simple, transparent plans

Starter
£2,000/month
  • 20 hours / month of DevOps support
  • CI/CD setup & maintenance
  • Monthly architecture review
  • Business-hours response
Start with Starter
Most popular
Professional
£4,500/month
  • 50 hours / month of DevOps support
  • IaC + multi-environment standardization
  • 24/7 on-call & incident response
  • Dedicated DevOps lead
Choose Professional
Enterprise
Custom
  • Dedicated DevOps engineer(s)
  • Full SRE function on retainer
  • Custom SLAs and reporting
  • Quarterly executive reviews
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