Services / DevOps & Reliability
Deploy on a Tuesday afternoon and sleep at night
When releases are manual and monitoring is thin, every deploy is a gamble and every outage is a scramble. We build the pipelines, observability and runbooks that make shipping routine and failures short, small and understood.
What devops & reliability covers
Teams that fear their own deploys ship less, batch changes into risky releases and find out about outages from customers. The cost is not just downtime: it is every feature delayed because releasing feels dangerous.
CI/CD pipelines
Automated build, test and deploy pipelines so every change ships the same safe way, with one-click rollback when it does not.
Infrastructure as code
Environments defined in version-controlled code, so staging matches production and rebuilding a server is a command, not a crisis.
Monitoring and observability
Metrics, logs and alerts tuned to what users feel, so your team knows about problems before customers do.
Incident response
On-call structure, runbooks and blameless post-incident reviews that cut repeat failures and shorten every outage.
Security hardening
Dependency scanning, secrets management, access reviews and patching cadence built into the pipeline, not bolted on.
Performance engineering
Load testing, query tuning and caching that keep response times flat while traffic grows.
What you walk away with
Every devops & reliability engagement ends with assets you own outright: code, designs, documentation and the knowledge to run them. No black boxes, no lock-in.
- A reliability audit with risks ranked by business impact
- CI/CD pipelines with automated tests and rollback
- Infrastructure defined and versioned as code
- Dashboards and alerting mapped to user-facing symptoms
- Incident runbooks and an on-call escalation plan
- A load test report with before-and-after numbers
Tools we reach for
Mature, well-documented technology your next hire will already know.
Delivery
GitHub Actions
Docker
Kubernetes
TerraformObservability
Grafana
Prometheus
Sentry
ElasticsearchAAWS CloudWatchRuntime
AWS
Nginx
PostgreSQL
RedisLLinuxHow it runs
Audit the risks
We review your delivery pipeline, infrastructure and past incidents, then rank the gaps by how badly each one can hurt the business.
Results from this practice
Straight answers on devops & reliability
What does a DevOps engagement cost?
The reliability audit runs R60,000 to R120,000 over 2 to 3 weeks. Implementation projects range from R200,000 to R700,000 depending on how much is manual today. Ongoing operations retainers run R30,000 to R80,000 per month.
Our deploys are manual and scary. How fast can that change?
The first automated pipeline for one service typically lands within 2 to 4 weeks. Most teams go from monthly, nerve-wracking releases to weekly or daily deploys inside a quarter.
Do you take over on-call, or train our team?
Either, and usually both in sequence. We can carry on-call while we stabilise the system, then hand over gradually with runbooks and shadowing until your team is confident. Some clients keep us as second-line escalation permanently.
Can you work with systems you did not build?
Yes, most of this work is on systems built by others. The audit tells us what we are dealing with, and improvements ship incrementally without a rewrite. If something is genuinely beyond saving, we say so with the numbers to back it.
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Put devops & reliability to work in your business
A free 45-minute consultation with an engineer. You leave with options and honest numbers.