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DevOps as a service.
An outsourced platform team for organisations without their own DevOps engineers. We set up your pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, observability and security layer, and can manage it with you if you wish. Vendor-neutral, no lock-in.
What DevOps as a service really involves.
DevOps is neither a tool nor a function. It is a set of practices that bring your development and operations work together: code is tested and rolled out automatically, infrastructure is managed as code, problems are spotted before they cause harm, and security is built into every step of the pipeline. For organisations that have not built this layer themselves, we provide it as a service.
In practice, that means: CI/CD pipelines that automate your releases, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible) so your environments are reproducible, container orchestration via Kubernetes or a lighter alternative, an observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry) to monitor production, secrets management via Vault or cloud-native vaults, and automated security scanning of code, dependencies and containers. We work vendor-neutral: your stack determines our tools, not the other way around.
We build DevOps platforms for scale-ups growing beyond their first product phase, for SMEs moving from on-premises to the cloud, for enterprise teams where their own platform team has become the bottleneck, and for organisations running a mix of legacy and cloud-native systems who want the two worlds to work together seamlessly.
Two topics almost always come up here: observability and monitoring, so that when something goes wrong you know exactly where, and security checks in the pipeline, so that known flaws are stopped before anything goes live.
Four ways we deliver.
Depending on where your organisation stands, from a one-off audit to embedded platform engineers in your own team. In the first conversation we advise which form fits; nothing is tied to anything else.
DevOps audit and roadmap
We map out your current stack, deployment workflow, security posture and costs. This gives us a gap analysis: what is missing, what is technical debt, and what can be improved today. You receive a prioritised list that you can tackle yourselves or use to brief external parties.
Stack assessmentGap analysisRoadmapCost review
DevOps implementation
Setting up from scratch or restructuring an existing environment: CI/CD pipelines, IaC modules, container orchestration, observability stack and security scanning. We work in sprints, deliver documentation and transfer knowledge to your own development team so you can carry on independently after handover.
CI/CD setupTerraform / PulumiKubernetesPrometheus & Grafana
Managed DevOps
Ongoing management of your platform: patching, capacity planning, cost optimisation, on-call rotation for production incidents, periodic security reviews and quarterly health checks. Designed for teams running a production platform who do not want to employ platform engineers around the clock.
Monitoring & alertingOn-call rotationPatch managementCost optimisation
Embedded DevOps engineers
One or two platform engineers who become part of your development team: stand-ups, planning, code reviews, and co-ownership of the production environment. Ideal for organisations that want to scale quickly without the recruitment and onboarding time of hiring their own engineers.
Sprint participationCode reviewsMentoringCo-ownership
Our toolchain: vendor-neutral and pragmatic.
We do not work with one fixed stack. The right tool is the one your team can manage, that fits your security and compliance requirements, and that does not lock you in. Below are the families we use most often. They are not a shopping list, but an indication of where our experience lies.
CI/CD
Pipelines and GitOps
GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Jenkins and Buildkite for standard build and deployment pipelines. ArgoCD or Flux for GitOps deployments to Kubernetes clusters. For larger organisations, we often combine both.
Infrastructure as Code
Reproducible environments
Terraform for most cloud stacks, Pulumi where your team prefers working in a programming language, Crossplane for Kubernetes-native infrastructure, AWS CDK for AWS-only environments, and Ansible for configuration management on existing servers.
Containers and orchestration
Kubernetes and alternatives
Kubernetes (managed via EKS, GKE or AKS, or self-hosted) when you have multiple services and serious scale. Nomad or ECS when Kubernetes is overkill. Plain Docker with Compose for smaller setups, as not everything needs k8s.
Cloud providers
AWS, Azure, GCP and alternatives
The three major cloud providers are our day-to-day environment, but we also work with Hetzner and DigitalOcean for cost-conscious setups and hybrid architectures where part of the estate remains on-premises. We are not a reseller of any single cloud.
Observability
Metrics, logs and traces
The open-source stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry) if you prefer to run it yourselves, or SaaS (Datadog, New Relic, Honeycomb, Grafana Cloud) if you prefer operational simplicity. We help you make the choice based on your scale and team skills.
Security and compliance
Shift-left and runtime
Snyk and Trivy for dependency and container scanning, Checkov for IaC policy checks, Falco for runtime detection, and OPA for admission control. For secrets we use HashiCorp Vault or cloud-native vaults (AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, GCP Secret Manager).
What you get at the end.
In an implementation project we deliver not only a working stack, but also everything around it that your team needs to keep building independently. No black box, no vendor lock-in.
Our deliverables are deliberately explicit: you receive repo access, documentation, runbooks and knowledge transfer. If you wish to continue with another party after an engagement, you can do so without us withholding any information. We call this vendor neutrality. It is not a marketing term; it is how we structure our contracts and handovers.
- A working platformProduction and staging environments in your cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP or a combination), or hosted with us if you prefer.
- Infrastructure-as-Code repositoryComplete Terraform or Pulumi modules in your own Git repository. Reproducible, version-controlled, peer-reviewed.
- CI/CD pipelines with gatesAutomated test, build and deploy pipelines with SAST, dependency scanning and manual approval where needed.
- Observability stackMetrics, logs and traces in a dashboard your team understands. Alerting via PagerDuty, Opsgenie or Slack, with clear runbooks for each alert.
- Documentation and runbooksArchitecture overview, deployment guide, on-call runbooks for each incident type, and an onboarding document for new engineers.
- Knowledge transferHands-on sessions with your development team on IaC, the deployment flow, monitoring and incident response. We do not build dependency on us.
- Optional: ongoing managementManaged DevOps contract with monitoring, patching and on-call cover. Cancellable monthly, with no exit fee and no lock-in.
When DevOps as a service is the logical choice.
Five situations in which we support organisations. Do you recognise one? Then we would be happy to discuss what an outsourced platform team could mean for your organisation.
Scale-up without a platform team
Your product is growing, your infrastructure is not
You have a strong product and a growing development team, but no in-house platform engineers yet. Deployments are manual, production incidents are handled on gut feeling, and you know this is not sustainable.
Migration to the cloud
From on-premises or legacy to cloud-native
You are moving from an on-premises data centre, a rented VPS or a legacy host to AWS, Azure or GCP. We set up the target architecture and migrate step by step, without disrupting production. Often combined with a platform migration.
Enterprise with a bottleneck
Your own platform team is at capacity
You have a platform team, but it is stretched. New product teams wait weeks for a new environment. Temporary embedded capacity from outside relieves your team without the need to recruit permanently.
Compliance pressure
ISO 27001, NIS2 or DORA on the horizon
Your certification process requires demonstrable deployment controls, audit logs, vulnerability management and incident response processes. We build those controls into your pipelines and help you through ISO 27001-compliant development.
High-availability requirements
Downtime is no longer an option
Your product has become critical to your customers: a few hours of outage can cost contracts or trust. You need observability, blue-green deployments, automatic failover and a carefully designed high-availability architecture.
Hybrid landscape
Legacy and cloud-native side by side
You still run an ERP or an older system on classic virtual machines, but new services are cloud-native. We bring both worlds under one deployment and monitoring layer, so your team does not have to manage two disciplines at once.
How a DevOps engagement with us works.
1
Introduction and quick scan
A conversation in which we go through your current stack, deployment practices and pain points. This is followed by a brief technical scan of repositories, cloud accounts and monitoring tools. No obligation, but an honest assessment of what we can improve.
2
Audit and roadmap
We go deeper: security scan, cost analysis, observability completeness, IaC coverage. You receive a report with a gap analysis and a prioritised roadmap. Even if you wish to continue with another party after this phase, the report is worth having.
3
Implementation in sprints
We work in two-week sprints, with a dedicated platform engineer as your point of contact. Every sprint delivers something working: a new pipeline, a Terraform module, a dashboard. You test along the way, and your team sees everything as it happens.
4
Knowledge transfer and handover
At the end, a series of hands-on sessions with your development team. Documentation and runbooks are stored in your repository. You decide whether you take over from there, or whether we continue to manage the platform for you.
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Ongoing management (optional)
A managed DevOps contract covering monitoring, patch management, on-call rotation and quarterly health checks. Cancellable monthly. We stay involved without you being tied to a multi-year contract.
DevOps and compliance: security built in.
For a growing number of Dutch organisations, compliance is no longer optional. Large procurement bodies increasingly require ISO 27001 as a minimum, NIS2 brings cybersecurity requirements to a broad group of companies from 2024, DORA sets strict rules for financial institutions and their ICT suppliers, and SOC 2 is standard in supplier assessments for international clients.
DevOps plays a bigger role in this than many organisations realise: it is your deployment pipelines, secrets management, vulnerability scanning and audit logs that auditors examine most closely. We make sure these controls do not exist as loose documents but are built into your stack: a SAST scan in every pull request, an audit log that automatically records every production change, secrets that never end up in code, and role-based access with demonstrable reviews.
For organisations actively working through a certification process, we link the roadmap for ISO 27001-compliant software development to the DevOps implementation. You then build both the platform and the controls your auditor wants to see in one go, which is more efficient than running the two tracks separately.
Frequently asked questions about DevOps services.
What clients usually want to know before we start, answered plainly and without marketing gloss.
What is the difference between an in-house DevOps team and DevOps as a service?
An in-house team knows your product from the inside and is available full-time, but recruiting, training and retaining senior platform engineers is expensive and slow. DevOps as a service gives you the same capabilities without the recruitment: you get an experienced engineer or pair who has built similar platforms before. Many organisations combine both: we build the foundation and handle the knowledge transfer, and your own team takes over step by step.
Which tools do you choose? Are you tied to a particular stack?
No, we are deliberately vendor-neutral. CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Jenkins or Buildkite. IaC: Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane, AWS CDK or Ansible. Containers: Kubernetes (managed or self-hosted), Nomad, ECS or plain Docker. Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP, Hetzner, DigitalOcean or a hybrid setup. Observability: open source (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo) or SaaS (Datadog, New Relic, Honeycomb). We choose based on what your team can manage and what your business needs, not on the basis of a fixed partner deal.
What does GitOps involve, and do you use it?
With GitOps, your Git repository is the single source of truth for both application and infrastructure state. Tools such as ArgoCD and Flux continuously synchronise the actual cluster state with what is stored in Git. We use GitOps as the standard for Kubernetes deployments: it makes rollbacks straightforward, audit trails automatic and deployment permissions declarative. For smaller stacks, we use simpler pipelines where GitOps would be overkill.
What determines the cost of DevOps as a service?
Four factors matter: the scope of the stack (a single microservice or a platform with dozens of services), the complexity of your security and compliance requirements, whether you want ongoing management or just an implementation, and your cloud choice (managed services cost more but save engineering hours). We work with fixed sprint budgets for implementations and a monthly subscription for managed DevOps, so there are no surprises halfway through.
How do you handle on-call and SLAs?
With a managed contract, we agree four response-time levels in advance: critical (production down), high (partial degradation), normal (functional issue) and low (question or improvement). You choose whether you need 24/7 cover or office hours only, and whether we are the sole on-call party or rotate with your own team. We don't commit to hard uptime percentages, as those depend on your architecture, not just on our response.
What falls within the security scope?
As standard, we build in SAST (static code analysis), dependency scanning for CVEs, container image scanning (Trivy or Snyk), secrets management via Vault or cloud-native vaults, and runtime policies via OPA or Falco. For compliance projects (ISO 27001, NIS2, DORA, SOC 2), we configure audit logging, access reviews and vulnerability remediation workflows so you can demonstrate those controls. DAST and penetration testing are handled by specialist partners, which is more honest than doing it ourselves.
What does a transition from our current setup to a new DevOps stack look like?
Step by step, not all at once. First, we set up the new pipelines and infrastructure alongside the existing ones, migrate one service as a pilot, learn what needs adjusting, and then roll out in phases. Your production keeps running, your team can follow along, and if we discover along the way that a choice isn't working, we roll it back. For larger organisations, we often embed this approach within a broader enterprise software architecture.
Do you also work alongside our own developers?
Almost always. We see ourselves as a complement to your team, not a replacement. In an embedded engagement, a platform engineer sits in your stand-ups and sprint planning. For audit or implementation projects, there are fixed touchpoints with your lead developer or CTO. Knowledge transfer is always built in, as we consider dependency on the client a red flag.