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Six engagements that leave your team able to run the result.

Every engagement below is scoped in writing before it starts, priced as a fixed fee rather than an hourly rate, and finished with a handover your engineers take part in.

Engagements
Six, combinable
Typical length
4 to 20 weeks
Pricing
Fixed scope, quoted up front
Handover
Included in every engagement

All NordsCode services

01

DevOps Engineering

We build the infrastructure, pipelines and operating practices your product needs, then hand them over with the documentation and access model your team needs to own them.

Timeline
8 to 14 weeks
Investment
Fixed-scope engagements from EUR 18,000
Service details

What you receive

  • Infrastructure as code

    Your entire environment described in Terraform, version controlled and reviewed like any other change, so nothing important lives only in a console someone once clicked through.

  • Environment parity

    Development, staging and production built from the same modules with the same guardrails, so a change that passes staging behaves the same way in production.

  • A release and rollback path

    A documented route from merged pull request to production, and a rollback any engineer on your team can run at two in the morning without escalating to anyone.

  • Secrets and access management

    Central secret storage, scoped credentials per service, and an access model that still makes sense after somebody leaves the company.

  • On-call and incident runbooks

    Written procedures for the failures your system actually has, rehearsed with your engineers during handover rather than discovered during an outage.

  • Cost visibility

    Resource tagging and monthly reporting that ties spend back to services and teams, so budget conversations are about numbers instead of guesses.

02

Cloud Migration

We inventory every workload, build the target environment first, rehearse the cutover against production-scale data, and shut the old infrastructure down on a written schedule.

Timeline
10 to 20 weeks
Investment
Fixed-scope engagements from EUR 24,000
Service details

What you receive

  • Migration assessment

    An inventory of every workload, dependency, data store and licence, with a per-workload recommendation to rehost, re-platform, rebuild or retire, and the reasoning behind each one.

  • Landing zone

    Accounts, network topology, identity, logging and guardrails built and tested before a single workload moves into them.

  • Data migration plan

    A replication and cutover strategy sized to the downtime your business can actually absorb, with the exact sequence of steps written out and timed.

  • Rehearsed cutover

    A full dry run against production-scale data, with the rollback path executed and timed, so the decision to proceed on the day is based on evidence.

  • Cost model

    A projected monthly bill per workload agreed before migration, then reconciled against the real invoice sixty days after cutover so any drift is caught early.

  • Decommissioning

    Old infrastructure retired on a written schedule with verified backups, so you stop paying for two environments as quickly as it is safe to.

03

CI/CD Automation

We design and build the pipeline that tests, packages and ships your software, with the gates that catch problems early and the rollback that makes shipping a low-stakes decision.

Timeline
4 to 8 weeks
Investment
Fixed-scope engagements from EUR 12,000
Service details

What you receive

  • Pipeline design and build

    A complete path from commit to production for each service, built on your existing CI platform where it is doing the job and migrated where it is not.

  • Automated quality gates

    Unit, integration and smoke tests wired into the pipeline with clear ownership, so a failing gate names the team that can fix it.

  • Build caching and parallelisation

    Dependency caching, layer reuse and parallel test execution, tuned against your actual build so the pipeline is fast enough that people wait for it.

  • Artifact and version management

    Immutable, versioned build artifacts in a registry, so the thing you tested is provably the thing that reaches production.

  • Progressive delivery

    Blue-green or canary releases with automated health checks, so a bad release is caught by the pipeline rather than by your customers.

  • Delivery metrics

    Deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate and time to restore, reported automatically so improvement is measured rather than asserted.

04

Monitoring and Observability

We define what good looks like for your services, instrument them properly, and build alerting that wakes someone only when a person is genuinely needed.

Timeline
5 to 9 weeks
Investment
Fixed-scope engagements from EUR 14,000
Service details

What you receive

  • Service level objectives

    Availability and latency targets agreed with your business, not invented by engineers, and an error budget that makes the trade-off between speed and stability explicit.

  • Metrics, logs and traces

    Consistent instrumentation across services so a single request can be followed from the edge to the database and back without guesswork.

  • Alerting that respects sleep

    Alerts tied to customer-visible symptoms rather than individual resource thresholds, each one linked to a runbook and a clear owner.

  • Dashboards per audience

    One view for the on-call engineer, one for the engineering team, one for the business. Each answers a different question rather than showing the same graphs at different sizes.

  • Incident response practice

    Severity definitions, an escalation path, a communication template and a blameless review format your team can run without us.

  • Telemetry cost control

    Sampling, retention tiers and log volume management, because an observability bill that rivals your compute bill does not survive the next budget review.

05

Security and Compliance

We harden your cloud environment, tighten identity and supply chain controls, and automate the evidence collection that certification and enterprise customers demand.

Timeline
6 to 12 weeks
Investment
Fixed-scope engagements from EUR 16,000
Service details

What you receive

  • Cloud posture review

    A prioritised assessment of your accounts against the provider benchmarks, separating findings that matter for your threat model from findings that merely score badly on a report.

  • Identity and least privilege

    Single sign-on, role-based access, short-lived credentials and the removal of long-lived keys, done in a sequence that does not lock your own engineers out.

  • Secrets management

    Secrets moved out of repositories, environment files and chat history into managed storage, with rotation and an audit trail of who read what.

  • Supply chain controls

    Dependency scanning, signed build artifacts, pinned base images and a software bill of materials, so you know what is actually running in production.

  • Automated audit evidence

    Access reviews, change approvals, backup verification and vulnerability reports collected on a schedule, so evidence gathering stops being a quarterly fire drill.

  • Policy documentation

    The written policies an assessor expects, describing controls that genuinely exist in your environment rather than aspirational ones copied from a template.

06

Training and Enablement

Workshops, pairing weeks and documentation that move operational knowledge into your team, measured by how rarely you need to call us afterwards.

Timeline
4 to 10 weeks
Investment
Fixed-scope engagements from EUR 9,000
Service details

What you receive

  • Skills assessment

    An honest read of what your team can do today and what it needs to be able to do, per person, so training targets real gaps rather than a standard syllabus.

  • Workshops on your systems

    Hands-on sessions using your repositories, your pipelines and your cloud accounts, so what people learn on Tuesday is directly usable on Wednesday.

  • Pairing weeks

    Our engineers working alongside yours on real backlog items, with your engineers holding the keyboard and making the decisions.

  • Internal documentation

    Architecture notes, runbooks and decision records written into your own wiki or repository, in a structure your team can keep current.

  • On-call readiness

    A rotation your team can actually staff, with rehearsed incident scenarios and an escalation path that does not end at one person's phone.

  • Office hours

    A scheduled weekly session for eight weeks after the engagement, so questions that surface later have somewhere to go.

Not sure which of these you need?

Most companies are not, and picking the wrong one is expensive. Describe what is going wrong and we will tell you which engagement fits, or that none of them do.