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Engineering Operations Uplift (CI/CD, DevOps, SRE, Observability)

Looking to mature delivery practices, increase reliability, and create fast feedback loops? I uplift delivery pipelines, platform operations, incident management, and observability holistically.

Who it’s for

This offering is for organizations that want to improve reliability and speed by maturing delivery practices and platform operations. If you’re working toward standardized CI/CD, pragmatic SRE, and meaningful observability—without boiling the ocean—this engagement aligns the team on a clear, achievable path.

Good fit indicators

This is a strong fit if firefighting is the norm, releases are slow or risky, ownership boundaries are fuzzy, or environments are inconsistent. If you want reliable delivery and clear, actionable visibility, we can chart a path that your teams can adopt incrementally.

What you get

You get a modernization plan and hands‑on implementation across CI/CD, platform baselines, and incident response, paired with an observability framework that makes your systems understandable. We shore up governance and supply‑chain security, standardize your telemetry, and lay the groundwork for a service catalog. Teams are enabled through workshops, documentation, and pragmatic golden paths that make the right way the easy way.

Typical activities

We establish fast, safe delivery with trunk‑based or short‑lived branches, pipelines as code, and modern deployment patterns like blue/green and canary, supported by ephemeral environments where useful. On the platform side, we set Kubernetes/IaC baselines with policy‑as‑code and solid secrets management and create golden paths for new services. SRE practices bring SLOs and error budgets to life with healthy on‑call and a full incident lifecycle, while observability standardizes telemetry, maps dependencies, and links alerts to runbooks. Security rounds it out with SBOMs, container/runtime policies, and least‑privilege IAM.

Deliverables

Deliverables typically include a target operating model, a DORA baseline with an improvement plan, and standardized CI/CD templates that teams can adopt immediately. You also get platform reference stacks, an SLO catalog, incident playbooks, and a set of dashboards and alerting standards that create consistent, actionable visibility across services.

Timeline

6–12 weeks for meaningful uplift; phased by product line or platform area.

Pricing models

We can structure this as a fixed‑scope phased engagement or run it time‑and‑materials; many teams choose to add a lightweight, ongoing fractional Platform/SRE leadership option to sustain momentum and coach internal staff as practice bed in.

Outcomes/KPIs

Teams typically see lead time for changes drop 2–5× and deployment frequency increases 2–10× as pipelines standardize and friction is removed. Change failure rates fall by 30–70% with faster MTTR (down 30–60%), and alert fatigue reduces as telemetry is standardized and tied to SLOs and runbooks.

How engagements run

We begin by aligning on business outcomes and constraints and getting the right access in place. Next comes a structured assessment with a prioritized roadmap, ROI, and risk context, followed by short, high‑visibility implementation sprints with weekly demos and updates. We close with handover and enablement—docs, training, and a stabilization period—with the option for a light support retainer if you want continued guidance.