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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.

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Timeline
8 to 14 weeks
Investment
Fixed-scope engagements from EUR 18,000
Delivered by
2 engineers, embedded with yours
Ends with
Documented handover

Overview

A delivery platform your own engineers can run.

Most small and mid-sized companies end up with infrastructure that grew rather than infrastructure that was designed. One engineer knows how the production environment was built, deployments happen by hand on a Thursday afternoon, and the staging environment stopped resembling production about a year ago.

DevOps engineering with NordsCode replaces that with a platform written down in code. Everything is reviewable, everything is reproducible, and nothing critical lives only in someone's memory or someone's browser history.

This is for you if

  • Deployments are manual, or only one person knows how to do them.
  • Staging no longer resembles production closely enough to trust.
  • Infrastructure changes happen in a web console and are not written down anywhere.
  • You are growing past the point where shared memory is a workable system of record.

What we provide

Everything below is in the written scope before the engagement starts.

If something you need is missing from this list, it is a conversation during the proposal rather than a change request halfway through the build.

  • 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.

Typical engagement timeline

A 8 to 14 weeks engagement, phase by phase.

A first platform build runs eight to fourteen weeks. We work in your repositories from week one, and your engineers review every change we make, so the platform is familiar before it is handed over.

  1. 01

    Discovery and assessment

    Weeks 1 to 2

    We read your codebase, pipelines and cloud accounts, then interview the people who deploy and the people who get paged. You receive a written assessment with prioritised findings, and it is yours whether or not the engagement continues.

  2. 02

    Foundations

    Weeks 3 to 6

    Networking, identity, secret storage and the base infrastructure modules, delivered as code and merged incrementally so your team sees each piece land rather than receiving a finished black box.

  3. 03

    Delivery pipeline

    Weeks 5 to 10

    Build, test and deployment automation for each service, migrated one service at a time. Your existing route to production keeps working until its replacement has run real releases.

  4. 04

    Handover and support

    Weeks 10 to 14

    Runbooks, architecture documentation and three live working sessions with your engineers. We stay reachable for thirty days after the final session at no extra cost.

Key benefits

What changes for your team once this is in place.

These are the outcomes clients tell us mattered most six months after the engagement ended, rather than the ones that sound best in a proposal.

Deployments stop being events

Releasing becomes a routine action rather than something scheduled around a quiet afternoon and a nervous group chat.

No single point of human failure

When the platform is code and the procedures are written, the person who built it can go on holiday without the company holding its breath.

New engineers are productive sooner

A documented environment that builds from a single command turns a five-week onboarding into a few days.

The platform outlives us

We build on standard, widely used tooling with no NordsCode-specific glue, so you are never dependent on us to change something.

Questions we are asked

Three things people ask before committing.

If your question is not here, ask it on the introductory call. We would rather answer it before a proposal than after one.

Do we need to hire a DevOps engineer afterwards?

Most of our clients do not. The platform is deliberately built so that your existing backend engineers can operate it, and the handover is designed around that. If growth means you eventually do hire a platform engineer, the code and documentation we leave behind make that person productive in days rather than months.

Will releases stop while you work?

No. We migrate service by service and keep your existing route to production working until the replacement has shipped real releases successfully. Teams typically keep their normal release cadence throughout the engagement.

Which cloud providers do you work with?

Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, plus Hetzner and DigitalOcean where the economics clearly favour them. We do not resell any provider and take no partner commission, so the recommendation follows your workload and your budget.

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Fixed-scope engagements from EUR 18,000. 8 to 14 weeks.

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Ready to scope DevOps Engineering?

Send us the shape of the problem and we will come back with a written scope, a timeline with dates, and a fixed price. The introductory call is free.

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