Cloud & DevOps Consulting
Move from legacy infrastructure to AWS, GCP, or Azure with confidence. We design CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, and monitoring so your team ships faster — without production incidents.
In short: Tech Programmer handles cloud and DevOps end-to-end — migration, CI/CD pipeline design, and AWS/GCP/Azure optimisation — through an Agile process, with monitoring and ongoing support continuing after go-live rather than stopping at cutover.
What this means for you
- Covers the full lifecycle: architecture and migration planning, pipeline implementation, deployment, and ongoing monitoring/support — one team throughout.
- Works across AWS, GCP, and Azure, matching the approach to your existing infrastructure rather than forcing a single-vendor stack.
- Delivered in Agile sprints with regular demos and code reviews, so infrastructure changes are visible and reviewable as they happen, not just at cutover.
- Cost and timeline depend on the size and complexity of your existing infrastructure, and are scoped during discovery.
- Cloud migration (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- CI/CD pipeline design and implementation
- Infrastructure as code and monitoring
- Zero-downtime deployment strategies
Who this is for
- You're running on-prem or legacy infrastructure and need a path to AWS, GCP, or Azure without a risky big-bang cutover.
- Deployments are manual, slow, or nerve-wracking, and you want a CI/CD pipeline your team can actually trust.
- You've had a production incident tied to infrastructure and want monitoring and process in place before the next one.
- You need infrastructure as code so environments are reproducible instead of hand-configured and undocumented.
What's included
- Infrastructure and constraints audit during discovery
- Migration plan and CI/CD architecture designed around your existing environment
- Infrastructure as code, so environments are reproducible and reviewable
- Zero-downtime deployment strategy built into the migration, not added afterward
- Monitoring and alerting set up before cutover, not after an incident
- Documentation of the new infrastructure and a handover so your team can operate it
- Post-migration support to handle what only shows up under real production load
Tech stack
How a migration or DevOps engagement runs
The same four-phase process applies: Discover (mapping your current infrastructure and constraints), Design (migration plan and CI/CD architecture aligned to your timeline), Develop (Agile implementation with regular demos), and Deploy & Support (cutover, monitoring, and ongoing optimisation). Zero-downtime deployment strategies and infrastructure-as-code are built into the design phase, not bolted on afterward.
Timelines
Migration timelines vary more than almost anything else we build — there's no honest generic range. What actually drives it:
- The size and complexity of your existing infrastructure
- How many interdependent systems need to move together
- Your tolerance for downtime during cutover
- Whether CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code already exist in some form, or need to be built from zero
Engagement models
We don't publish a fixed price because the cost is driven almost entirely by the size and current state of your infrastructure, not a generic per-service rate — we scope it against your actual environment during discovery, not before we've seen it.
A defined scope, deliverables, and timeline agreed upfront after discovery. Best when requirements are clear enough to lock in before work starts.
Ongoing development or support at a predictable monthly cadence. Best for continuous work — iterative feature development, DevOps support, or a system that needs regular attention.
Our engineers work as an extension of your team, on your timeline and tools. Best when you have in-house capacity but need to scale up quickly.
Case study
Frequently asked questions
Which cloud providers do you work with?
AWS, GCP, and Azure. We match the approach to whatever you're already running or migrating to, rather than pushing a single preferred vendor.
How much does cloud migration or a CI/CD setup cost, and how long does it take?
It depends on the size and complexity of your existing infrastructure and how many systems are involved. We scope cost and timeline during the discovery phase against your actual environment rather than quoting before we've seen it.
Do you support the infrastructure after migration, or just hand it off?
Support is part of the same engagement, not a separate handoff. The 'Deploy & Support' phase includes monitoring and ongoing optimisation after go-live.
How do you avoid production incidents during a migration?
Through zero-downtime deployment strategies, infrastructure as code, and monitoring built into the design phase — plus an Agile process with regular reviews, so issues surface in sprint demos before they reach production.
Do you handle multi-cloud setups, or only single-cloud migrations?
Both. Some clients consolidate onto a single provider; others need workloads split across AWS, GCP, and Azure for cost, redundancy, or compliance reasons. We design around whichever fits your situation.
Can you migrate us without downtime?
Zero-downtime deployment strategies are built into the design phase for exactly this reason. Whether zero downtime is fully achievable depends on your current architecture — we'll tell you honestly during discovery if something short of zero is more realistic.
Do you sign an NDA before reviewing our infrastructure?
Yes. We'll sign your NDA before any detailed discussion, or provide our own if you'd prefer — infrastructure details are sensitive, and confidentiality is a standard part of scoping this kind of engagement.
Who has access to our infrastructure during and after the engagement?
Only the engineers actively working on your environment, for as long as the engagement requires it. Access, credentials, and handover are addressed explicitly as part of the Deploy & Support phase, not left implicit.
What happens if something breaks during cutover?
Zero-downtime deployment strategy and monitoring are built into the design phase specifically so problems surface immediately rather than after the fact. The exact rollback approach depends on your architecture and is agreed during discovery, not left undefined.
Do you provide ongoing on-call or 24/7 monitoring support?
Monitoring is set up as part of every migration. Whether that extends to 24/7 on-call coverage depends on how critical the system is to your business — we'll tell you honestly during discovery what level of coverage your setup actually needs, rather than upselling a tier you don't need.
Related reading
- Cloud Migration Strategy: The 6 R's Explained (and How to Pick the Right One)Not every application should move to the cloud the same way. Here's the framework for deciding which workloads to lift-and-shift, which to re-architect, and which to leave alone.
- Zero-Downtime Deployment: Blue-Green, Canary, and Rolling Strategies ExplainedZero-downtime deployment isn't one technique — it's a choice between blue-green, canary, and rolling strategies, each with a different cost and rollback profile. Here is how they actually differ, and the database migration step that breaks most 'zero-downtime' releases anyway.