DevOps Consulting for UK Teams
Ship faster, break less, sleep better. We design and implement the CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and monitoring your team needs to deploy with confidence.
What DevOps Consulting Actually Means
DevOps isn't a tool you buy or a job title you hire — it's a set of engineering practices that closes the gap between writing code and running it reliably in production. For most UK development teams, the bottleneck isn't the quality of their developers. It's the processes around deployment, testing, and infrastructure that slow everything down.
A typical team without mature DevOps practices deploys manually a few times per month, relies on a single person who “knows how the servers work,” has no automated testing gate before production, and discovers problems when customers report them. That's normal — but it's also the primary reason software projects run late and engineering teams burn out.
What We Do Differently
Cloud Tunnel embeds DevOps engineering directly into your delivery workflow. We don't produce slide decks with recommendations — we implement pipelines, write infrastructure code, configure monitoring, and hand over systems your team can own and maintain.
Every engagement starts with a free audit of your current deployment process. We identify the highest-risk gaps — whether that's no CI pipeline, manual infrastructure, absent monitoring, or secrets stored in plain text — and produce a prioritised roadmap. From there, we implement in order of impact, typically starting with CI/CD so your team sees the benefit within the first week.
Who This Is For
Our DevOps consulting engagements work best for UK engineering teams that are shipping product but haven't yet invested in the tooling to do it safely at scale. That might be a startup that's grown from 2 to 10 developers and deployment is becoming a problem, or an established company whose infrastructure was set up years ago and hasn't kept up with the team's needs.
We also work with companies preparing for ISO 27001, SOC 2, or Cyber Essentials certification who need technical controls implemented — automated access management, audit logging, change tracking, and vulnerability scanning — as part of their compliance programme.
What We Implement
CI/CD Pipeline Design
GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or CircleCI pipelines with automated testing, staging promotion, and production gating. Ship daily without fear.
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform, Pulumi, or AWS CDK to define every resource in version-controlled code. Repeatable, auditable, and disaster-recoverable.
Container Orchestration
Docker containerisation and Kubernetes cluster setup (EKS, AKS, or GKE) with auto-scaling, health checks, and rolling deployments.
Monitoring & Alerting
Datadog, Grafana, or CloudWatch dashboards with meaningful SLO-based alerting. Know about problems before your customers do.
Security & Secrets Management
AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault, SAST/DAST integration, and least-privilege IAM policies baked into your pipeline from day one.
Incident Response
Runbooks, on-call rotation setup, PagerDuty/OpsGenie integration, and post-incident review processes that prevent repeat outages.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about DevOps consulting engagements.
Free DevOps Pipeline Audit
We'll review your current deployment process, identify bottlenecks and risks, and give you a concrete prioritised action list — no strings attached.
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