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Cloud & DevOps

Cloud & DevOps Production Setup

Establish repeatable deployments, separate environments, monitoring, backups and recovery foundations for your production application.

Defined deliverables2–5 weeksAgreed scope

Your project investment

From £2,500

Starting price · GBP

Target delivery2–5 weeks
Get Production Ready

Final price agreed after we confirm your scope.

Built for your next step

Move from “it runs” to a production-ready engineering environment.

An application running on a server is not necessarily production-ready.

Reliable startup infrastructure requires repeatable deployments, environment separation, monitoring, backups, controlled access, rollback capability, and operational visibility.

We help startups establish the engineering foundation needed to run software reliably in production.

Best suited for

  • Startups launching their first production application
  • AI-built products moving beyond prototypes
  • SaaS businesses running manual deployments
  • Teams without a dedicated DevOps engineer
  • Startups experiencing deployment problems
  • Businesses preparing to scale their engineering operations

What success looks like

Validate the agreed deployment pipeline, environment separation, monitoring and recovery procedures, then hand over operational documentation.

Inside the engagement

What we can implement

Cloud infrastructure

Architecture and configuration across appropriate cloud services.

Potential platforms include:

  • AWS
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Google Cloud
  • other appropriate hosting environments

Environment separation

Structured development, staging, and production environments.

CI/CD pipelines

Automated and controlled build, test, and deployment workflows.

Infrastructure configuration

Repeatable infrastructure configuration where appropriate.

Secrets management

Improved handling of credentials, keys, and environment secrets.

Monitoring

Application and infrastructure monitoring for critical production systems.

Centralised logging

Better visibility into production errors and operational events.

Alerting

Alerts for relevant failures, availability issues, or infrastructure conditions.

Backups

Appropriate backup policies for critical data and services.

Recovery

Documented recovery considerations and restoration procedures.

Deployment rollback

Processes for responding when a release causes problems.

Access controls

Review and configuration of infrastructure permissions.

Containerisation

Docker or related deployment approaches where they provide a meaningful engineering advantage.

Inside the engagement

Typical problems we solve

  • Developers deploy manually from their laptops
  • Production and development share the same environment
  • Nobody knows when the application goes down
  • Logs are difficult to find
  • Failed releases cannot easily be rolled back
  • Production credentials are shared informally
  • Database backups have never been tested
  • Cloud architecture has evolved without a clear structure

A clearly defined scope

What you receive

11 deliverables

Deliverables depend on the agreed engagement scope.

01

Cloud architecture

02

Production environment

03

Staging environment

04

CI/CD pipeline

05

monitoring

06

logging

07

alerting

08

backup setup

09

access-control improvements

10

deployment documentation

11

infrastructure handover

Scope & boundaries

Cloud consumption and third-party infrastructure charges are separate.

From first conversation to handover

A clear path to delivery

  1. 01

    Technical Discovery

    We understand your product, current technology stack, business priorities, known problems, and desired outcome.

  2. 02

    Agree the scope

    Define the systems, repositories, access, review areas or implementation work, deliverables and acceptance criteria for your engagement.

  3. 03

    Review & engineer

    Assess the agreed product areas, document evidence and carry out any engineering improvements included in scope, with regular progress reviews.

  4. 04

    Prioritise & hand over

    Walk through findings and completed work, confirm next priorities and hand over the agreed documentation and recommendations.

The details that matter

Before we get started

A few things to know about scope, timing and working together.

Is this a fixed-price package?

The displayed prices are indicative. We agree a defined scope, acceptance criteria and a project quote before work starts. Requests beyond that scope are estimated separately.

What do you need from our team?

A product or operations contact, access to the agreed systems and documentation, representative test data, and timely feedback. We confirm access and integration dependencies before scheduling delivery.

When does the delivery timeline begin?

The target delivery window is 2–5 weeks, starting once scope, access and dependencies are ready. Third-party approvals or changes to the agreed scope can affect timing.

What happens after delivery?

We hand over the agreed deliverables and documentation with a walkthrough for your team. Further features, monitoring and ongoing maintenance can be scoped as a separate engagement.

Prices are indicative GBP project ranges. Final scope, deliverables, acceptance criteria and price are agreed before work starts. Timelines assume defined scope, available technical access and compatible third-party integrations. Vendor, infrastructure, regulatory and licensing costs are excluded.

Let’s make progress

Start with a conversation.
Leave with a clear next step.

Put the infrastructure, deployment, monitoring, and recovery foundations behind your product.

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