DevOps & DevSecOps assessment
A short, fixed-scope review of your pipelines, environments and security practices, baselined with delivery metrics and ending in a prioritised roadmap.
The usual place to start
DevOps & DevSecOps
Ship faster. Ship securely.
We help engineering teams build delivery pipelines that release small changes often, with security checks built in from the first commit.
Why Teams Call Us
Most organisations we speak to recognise at least one of these.
01
Releases are slow and risky
Manual steps, long-lived branches and out-of-hours deployments turn every release into an event.
02
Security arrives too late
Reviews and penetration tests at the end of a project find issues when they are most expensive to fix.
03
Every team does it differently
Inconsistent pipelines and environments make delivery hard to scale and harder to govern.
04
Supply chain and compliance pressure
Customers, regulators and insurers increasingly expect evidence of secure development practices.
Pipeline, Security and Platform
DevOps makes releasing fast and routine. DevSecOps makes every one of those releases secure. Our cloud engineering gives them a reliable platform to run on.
DevOps: what we deliver
- DevOps assessment & roadmap. Benchmark your delivery performance and agree the improvements that will make the biggest difference.
- CI/CD pipelines. Automated build, test and deployment pipelines that make releasing routine.
- Infrastructure automation. Environments defined as code so they are consistent, reviewable and quick to recreate.
- Containers & Kubernetes. Container platforms designed for security, scalability and straightforward operation.
- Observability & reliability. Monitoring, logging, tracing and alerting that help teams spot and fix problems before customers notice.
- Platform engineering. Internal developer platforms and paved paths that let product teams move quickly within guardrails.
DevSecOps: what we deliver
- DevSecOps maturity assessment. A review of your pipelines, tooling and practices against recognised frameworks, with a prioritised plan to close the most important gaps.
- Secure CI/CD pipelines. Static analysis, dependency scanning and dynamic testing built into pipelines, with quality gates that stop real risks without drowning teams in noise.
- Software supply chain security. Software bills of materials (SBOMs), signed builds, artefact provenance and controlled sources for third-party dependencies.
- Secrets management. Credentials moved out of code and pipelines into a managed vault, with rotation and least-privilege access.
- Cloud, IaC & container security. Scanning of infrastructure as code, container images and cloud configuration before anything is deployed.
- Policy as code & compliance evidence. Security and compliance rules written as code and enforced automatically, with an audit trail produced as a by-product of delivery.
Progress You Can Measure
We baseline the four DORA delivery metrics at the start of every engagement and track them throughout, so you can see the improvement rather than take it on trust.
Deployment frequency
How often you release to production.
Lead time for changes
How long a commit takes to reach production.
Change failure rate
How often a release causes a problem.
Time to restore
How quickly service recovers after a failure.
How We Can Start
Pick the starting point that fits. Many clients begin with an assessment and move into delivery once the plan is clear.
Pipeline build & modernisation
We design and build secure CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code and container platforms alongside your engineers, one service at a time.
When you need it delivered
Embedded DevOps engineers
Experienced DevOps and DevSecOps engineers join your teams to add capacity and raise practices from within, on flexible terms.
When you need to scale
Toolchains We Work With
We are tool-agnostic and work with the platforms you already use. These are among the most common.
- GitHub Actions
- Azure DevOps
- GitLab CI
- Jenkins
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Argo CD
- GitHub Advanced Security
- Snyk
- SonarQube
- Trivy
- Checkov
- OWASP ZAP
- HashiCorp Vault
- Sigstore
- AWS
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud
- Datadog
Frequently Asked Questions
Is DevOps a tool or a way of working?
Both. Tools make it possible, but lasting improvement comes from changing how teams collaborate and take ownership of what they release. We help with both sides.
How do you measure improvement?
With delivery metrics such as deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate and time to restore service, baselined at the start and tracked throughout.
How is DevSecOps different from DevOps?
DevSecOps is DevOps with security treated as a shared, automated part of delivery rather than a separate gate at the end. The pipelines and practices are the same; security checks, controls and evidence are built into them.
Will security scanning slow our teams down?
Not if it is set up well. We tune tools to focus on exploitable, high-impact issues, run fast checks on every change and deeper scans in parallel, so feedback arrives quickly without blocking work on low-value findings.
Can you help us prepare for audits and security questionnaires?
Yes. We help you produce the evidence auditors and customers ask for, such as scan results, change history and access controls, directly from your pipelines. We are not a certification body, so formal certification remains with your chosen assessor.
Ready to modernise your delivery pipeline?
Tell us how you build and release today. We will suggest a practical first step, whether that is an assessment, a pipeline build or extra engineers.