DevOps Services · UK
DevOps Services: ship faster, run safer with UK DevOps as a Service
CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, observability and platform engineering. Embed senior UK DevOps engineers in your team, or hand us the whole platform. ISO 27001.
No slide deck. Real DevOps engineer, real answers.
Faster deployments, modelled
Cloud cost reduction, average
CI/CD pipelines built and run
Platform support, UK-shifted
The reality
When releases scare your team, the business stops shipping.
We hear this from every CTO who switches to a managed DevOps practice. Three problems, all solvable, and all draining engineering time and competitive ground you’d rather spend on growth.
Deployments are scary and slow.
✕
Manual cutovers, weekend release windows, rollback drama. Engineers avoid deploying. Features wait weeks for a release train that nobody trusts to land cleanly.
✓
Daily deploys with confidence. CI/CD that just works.
Dev and ops point fingers.
✕
"Works on my machine" hits production reality. No single accountable owner for the platform. Incident calls become blame-storms, not solve-storms, and root cause stays hidden.
✓
One DevOps team. End-to-end accountability.
Cloud bills outpace features
✕
Over-provisioned VMs, forgotten dev environments, unattached storage. By Q4 the cloud bill has eaten next year's feature budget, and finance wants a meeting.
✓
FinOps discipline. Average 30% cloud cost reduction.
What you get
Four outcomes, one accountable DevOps team.
Not a long features list: four operational outcomes that show up in your deploy frequency, your cloud bill and your CTO’s incident-free weekends. Every one of them runs from a UK Network Operations Centre.
Daily deploys with confidence
Daily deploy
CI/CD pipelines with automated tests, security scans, blue/green or canary deployments. From commit to production rapidly, with rollback ready.
- rapid median phone answer
- AI auto-resolution for 23% of L1 volume
- Phone · portal · Teams · email · chat
Infrastructure-as-code
IaC native
Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, Pulumi. Every environment reproducible from git. No more snowflake servers, no more configuration drift.
- SOC integration on every L1 ticket
- ISO 27001 chain of custody · GDPR-ready
- Identity-aware access provisioning
Observability that pre-empts incidents
Pre-empt
Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, OpenTelemetry. SLO-driven alerting, structured logging, distributed tracing. You see issues before users do.
- 40% reduction in repeat-cause tickets
- Automated patch waves · 0 rollbacks
- Monthly trend & root-cause review
FinOps: 30% cloud cost reduction
30% saved
Right-sizing reviews, reserved-instance planning, savings-plan optimisation, dev/test scheduling. Documented monthly savings against baseline.
- Elastic per-user fee · agreed notice
- M&A & multi-region rollout playbooks
- Named service-delivery manager
How it works
Three phases from manual chaos to platform discipline.
Most DevOps engagements end with a half-finished pipeline and a Confluence page nobody reads. Ours start with a documented platform audit, end with measurable deploy-frequency improvements, and keep running afterwards.
01
Weeks 1 – 3
Assess
Audit your current platform, CI/CD, IaC and observability. Map the deploy pipeline end-to-end. You leave with a documented improvement roadmap.
02
Weeks 4 – 12
Build
Implement CI/CD pipelines, IaC modules, observability stack and FinOps controls. By week 12 your team is deploying daily without weekend windows.
03
Week 13 onwards
Optimise
Continuous improvement: pipeline tuning, cost reviews, security hardening, platform evolution. Fixed monthly fee, no per-ticket charges.
Why Transputec
Why our DevOps service doesn’t behave like a typical consulting agency.
Most DevOps consultancies leave you with a slide deck and a Slack channel. We’ve spent 38 years engineering platform operations as a discipline, and it shows up in the four things our clients tell us they buy us for.
01 · Senior UK DevOps engineers
No L1 swap-out, no offshoring.
Senior UK DevOps engineers with 8+ years average tenure, on UK PAYE, in our London office. The engineer who builds your pipeline is the engineer who fixes it at 3am.
02 · Multi-cloud expertise
AWS, Azure, GCP, hybrid.
AWS-fluent, Azure-deep, GCP-aware, hybrid-ready. We design what fits, not what we sell. No vendor lock-in baked into our SoW.
03 · CI/CD-first culture
Pipelines, not Powerpoints.
Everything we build runs through pipelines from day one. No manual deploy steps that disappear when our team leaves.
04 · ISO 27001 controls
Compliance baked into the pipeline.
Every change logged under ISO 27001 controls. SBOM generation, container scanning, secret detection, dependency review built into every pipeline.
Trusted by
The IT teams running production on our DevOps platforms.
Conservation · 1,200 seats
Global events · 800 seats
Property services · 2,100 seats
Also in this category
Managed IT Services
DevOps Services is one pillar of our broader Managed IT Services offering. Explore the sibling services that round out a fully outsourced UK IT estate, or step back to the parent service for the bigger picture.
← Back to Managed IT ServicesFrequently asked
Answers to what UK CTOs ask us most about DevOps as a Service.
What is DevOps as a Service?
DevOps as a Service is outsourced platform engineering: CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, observability, FinOps and security scanning, run by an external team and embedded in your development process. Transputec’s DevOps service is delivered by UK-based senior engineers under ISO 27001 controls. Our practice draws on the DORA research on elite DevOps performance and Google’s SRE handbook for outcome metrics. For the wider cloud-DevOps view, read our blog on how DevOps and cloud work together.
Which tools do you use?
For CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, Jenkins. For IaC: Terraform, Bicep, Pulumi, CloudFormation. For containers: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE), Helm, ArgoCD. For observability: Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry. For security: Snyk, Trivy, Dependabot, Aqua. We meet you on your existing stack rather than forcing a tooling change. See a real cloud-engineering engagement in our IT and cloud consulting case study for Higgins Group, and read our blog on how to build AI agents on AWS without creating a security headache.
How much does DevOps as a Service cost in the UK?
UK DevOps engagement pricing is typically structured as embedded engineer (per-FTE-per-month) or fully-managed platform (per-environment-per-month). Embedded senior DevOps engineer: £9,500-14,500 per month, full-time. Fully-managed platform (CI/CD + IaC + observability + FinOps): £6K-22K per month per environment band. Most clients start with a 12-week stabilisation engagement (£38K-68K) then move to monthly retainer. We publish indicative pricing in the SoW before contract signature. For the cost-optimisation lens that informs our pricing, read how to cut your AWS bill by 40%.
Can you augment our existing team or do you take full ownership?
Both. Augmentation: senior UK DevOps engineers embed in your team, under your delivery lead, on our payroll. Typically live in ~2 weeks. Fixed monthly fee, defined exit clause. Full ownership: we run your platform end-to-end, with documented runbooks, on-call rotation and quarterly platform reviews. Most clients start with augmentation then graduate to full ownership. Read our blog on co-managed IT: the smart way to scale without replacing your team.
How fast can we go from commit to production?
For a stabilised platform, sub-20-minute commit-to-production is the standard target. We hit this with automated unit + integration + smoke tests, container build + scan, IaC plan + apply, and blue/green or canary deployment. New engagements typically reduce deploy time by 60% in the first 12 weeks. For the wider FinOps perspective on running cloud platforms, read our blog on AWS FinOps in 2026: how to cut cloud waste without slowing innovation. Explore the full Managed IT Services pillar for the wider operations capability.
How do you embed security in our CI/CD pipeline?
We apply DevSecOps from day one: secrets scanning at commit, dependency vulnerability checks at build, SAST and SBOM generation in CI, container image signing at push, infrastructure-as-code policy checks at deploy, and runtime threat detection in production. Every pipeline aligns to OWASP, NIST SP 800-218 and UK NCSC secure development guidance. See our wider cyber security services for runtime SOC integration, or the NCSC Developer Collection for the baseline.
Consultation
Book a focused DevOps consultation.
A focused conversation with a senior Transputec DevOps engineer. We’ll audit your current pipeline, identify deploy-frequency blockers, and send you a costed roadmap, even if we don’t end up working together.
- DevOps maturity scorecard against UK benchmarks
- CI/CD blueprint with measurable deploy cadence
- Indicative monthly fixed fee with FinOps embedded
- Prompt reply. ISO 27001 secure handling.