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Service 02 — DevOps & CI/CD Pipelines

PR merge to multi-region prod in under twelve minutes.

With the audit trail a regulator would accept. We wrote the observability stack during Ataccama's first week — not their eighteenth.

Engagement length

4—12 weeks

Deploys after launch

<12 min

Typical uptime

99.99%

First deliverable

48 hours

What's includedThe work itself

Pipelines your team can debug at 2am — not black boxes you inherited.

Four stages
of delivery

01
Pipeline architecture
Branch strategy, build stages, promotion rules — designed around your product cadence. Monorepo or polyrepo. Trunk-based or Git-flow. We match the shape of your team, not a template.
02
Infrastructure as code, end-to-end
Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK — your choice, versioned in your repo. Environments reproducible from zero. Drift detection wired up before anything goes to production.
03
Observability & alerting from day one
Metrics, logs, traces, and meaningful dashboards. DataDog, Grafana, or CloudWatch native. We don't ship a pipeline without the telemetry that tells you when it breaks — and who to wake up.
04
Security & compliance controls
Secret scanning, SAST, container image signing, SBOM. The audit trail a regulator would accept. Built into the first commit, not bolted on before a SOC 2 audit.

DeliverablesWhat you'll have at the end

Pipelines, dashboards, and the on-call playbook your engineers wrote with us.

Pipeline code

Every workflow versioned in your repo. No "ask us for the YAML" — you own it.

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IaC modules

Reproducible environments: PR preview, staging, production. Spun up and torn down on schedule.

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Observability stack

Dashboards that show what's breaking, not what's green. Alerts that page a human only when one is needed.

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On-call runbooks

Three real incidents walked through before we leave. Written during the build, not after.

Security baseline

Scanning, signing, and policy-as-code hooked into every merge.

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Handoff sessions

Three weeks of pair-ops. We answer pages. Your engineers drive.

StackWhat we build with

Tools chosen for the team that will inherit them.

CI/CD

GitHub Actions · GitLab CI · Jenkins

GitOps

ArgoCD · Flux · Kustomize

IaC

Terraform · CloudFormation · CDK

Containers

ECS · EKS · Fargate · Docker

Observability

DataDog · Grafana · CloudWatch · OpenTelemetry

Secrets

Secrets Manager · Vault · SOPS

Security

Snyk · Trivy · Cosign · OPA

Config

Ansible · Helm · Packer

Case studyAtaccama · 2021 — 2023

We sold the Fortune 500 account. We have ninety days to stand up a Toronto DevOps function. We don't have one.

Entire cloud operation built from zero. Eight major projects shipped in six months.

They'd closed a tier-one enterprise deal before the operational capability existed to support it. We stood up the North American DevOps function — team structure, toolchain, delivery standards, onboarding playbooks — alongside their first three production releases.

By quarter four we'd replaced manual releases with ArgoCD-based GitOps across 25+ multi-tenant EKS clusters. By year two, the same pipeline was running their global product at 99.99% uptime.

A good fit if you —

Want a pipeline your team owns.

Ship weekly or daily, and need deploys to be boring.
Have compliance requirements — SOC 2, PCI, OSFI, HIPAA — that need evidence, not promises.
Are tired of bespoke CI scripts no one can read and no one wants to touch.
Have 5+ engineers and need the pipeline to scale with the team, not against it.

Not a fit if you —

Want a managed service, not a handoff.

Want us to run your pipeline forever. We build, we hand over, we leave.
Are a two-person startup. A single GitHub Action file is fine; don't hire us yet.
Want a pre-packaged Jenkins template — we design pipelines around your specific product, not a starter.
Need 24/7 incident response as a service. We recommend firms that specialize in that.

ProcessFrom first call to handoff

Four stages. Plain rules at each one.

Step 01

Discovery

48 hours to architecture + budget. If we can't deliver both in the same document, we refund the discovery fee.

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Step 02

Design

Your team signs off before we build. Pipeline shape, branch strategy, tool choice — all reviewed, all yours.

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Step 03

Build

Everything in your repo, your IAM. We ship incrementally. You see deploys working by week two.

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Step 04

Handoff

Three weeks of pair-runbooking. Then we go — unless you retain us for continued builds.

QuestionsCommonly asked

The honest answers.

What buyers ask us before signing

How much does a CI/CD engagement cost?

New pipelines from scratch: $40–90k. Rebuilds of existing systems: $70–180k depending on scope and compliance burden. You get the architecture plan and budget in the first 48 hours.

Can you work with our existing Jenkins / GitLab / GitHub Actions setup?

Yes. Most engagements are rebuilds or consolidations, not greenfield. We'll assess what's worth keeping — and tell you honestly what isn't.

Do you handle Kubernetes too?

Yes — EKS is where we live. We've operated 25+ multi-tenant clusters in Fortune 500 environments. Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD — whichever fits your team.

What's your approach to observability?

Dashboards that show what's breaking, not what's green. Alerts that page only when a human action is needed. We've built on DataDog, Grafana, and CloudWatch — we'll use what your team already has.

Will you help with SOC 2 / PCI audits?

Yes — we build the evidence trail into the pipeline from day one. When the auditor asks "how do you know who deployed this commit?" you'll have the answer in one query.

Ready to make your deploys boring again?

First call is thirty minutes, on a Tuesday or Thursday, with two engineers — not a sales rep. If we're the wrong fit, we'll name someone better.

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