Faster and more cost effective production

Senior DevOps and SRE as a Service (DaaS)

From 10 hours a month - EU based

Senior DevOps, SRE and cloud engineers join your team, work in your repos and accounts, and fix what slows your releases. From 10 hours a month to full platform ownership service offering.

Talk to a senior engineer, not a salesperson. You leave with your biggest platform risk named and a concrete next step, whether or not you work with us.

Inside your team, not beside it
  1. Your backlog
  2. Your pipelines
  3. Your cloud accounts

Blue Code senior engineersDevOps * SRE * Cloud

What changes in
the first 90 days

Releases
Daily, automated deploys with one-step rollback
Incidents
Fewer repeats, faster recovery (MTTR), one named owner
Ownership
Visible from backlog to production
Infrastructure
100% in code, reviewable and reproducible
Cloud cost
Visible and explainable
Knowledge
Retained inside your team
  • Your accounts, your repos, your IP
  • Fixed scope, approved by you
  • Documentation and handover included
  • No lock-in: monthly, cancel anytime
  • From 10 hours a month

Start with the problem you have.
We scope the rest.

Deliverables are typical examples. Final scope is agreed after the assessment.

DevOps as a Service

Use when the path to production is slow, manual or dependent on one person.

  • CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps)
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi)
  • Release documentation and runbooks

Repeatable releases that do not depend on one person.

Best fit: Starting or Pro

Can extend to Kubernetes and container platforms, environment strategy and release governance.

SRE and Reliability

Use when incidents repeat and 'uptime' is a feeling, not a number.

  • SLOs and error budgets
  • Incident response process and runbooks
  • Capacity planning and load testing

Fewer preventable incidents and a clear owner when one happens.

Best fit: Pro or Custom

Can extend to post-incident reviews, reliability reporting and on-call design. On-call itself is agreed separately.

Monitoring and Observability

Use when dashboards exist, but diagnosis still depends on guesswork.

  • Metrics, logs and tracing (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)
  • Alerts tied to user impact
  • Dashboards and alert-noise reduction

Signals that show what broke, who is affected and who acts.

Best fit: Starting or Pro

Can extend to instrumentation standards, log-retention cost control and alert routing.

Cloud Infrastructure and FinOps

Use when the cloud estate has become difficult to change, audit or explain.

  • Cloud architecture and migration
  • IAM, backups and disaster-recovery planning
  • Cloud cost visibility and optimisation

Infrastructure that scales, with a cloud bill you can explain and reduce.

Best fit: Starting, Pro or Custom

Can extend to account structure, network design and resource tagging for cost allocation.

Cloud Sovereignty and EU Data Residency

Use when customers, regulators or procurement ask where data lives and who can access it.

  • Residency and jurisdiction assessment (incl. US CLOUD Act exposure)
  • Sovereign or EU-hosted architecture
  • Identity, encryption and audit design
  • Readiness for NIS2 and DORA (financial sector) reviews

Pass customer security reviews and procurement with an architecture built for EU residency and GDPR.

Best fit: Pro or Custom

Can extend to key-management design and a documented exit and portability plan.

Separate hiring service

Separate hiring service

DevOps Recruitment

Use when you want a permanent senior engineer in your own team.

  • Role definition
  • Candidate sourcing
  • Practical technical assessment

A permanent hire, vetted by engineers who do the job every day.

How DevOps Recruitment works

From first call to full ownership,
at your pace.

Each step ends with a decision you make before we move on.

  1. Assess (week 1)

    We review pipelines, infrastructure, monitoring and incidents with your team.

    You receive a prioritised list of constraints and risks.

    Decision: is there a problem worth solving together?

  2. Prioritise (week 2)

    We rank the work by delivery risk, business impact and effort.

    You receive a written scope and a recommended model.

    Decision: which model and scope to start with.

  3. Implement (from week 3)

    We build the agreed changes in your repositories, accounts and backlog.

    You receive working pipelines, infrastructure code and documentation.

    Decision: what to keep, extend or hand over.

  4. Operate and transfer

    We run and improve the platform alongside your engineers.

    You receive runbooks, reviews and knowledge-transfer sessions.

    Decision: scale up, scale down or take ownership.

Your infrastructure stays yours. We work in your accounts and repositories and document what we build.

Automation where it helps.
Human judgement where it matters.

Every stage has a named owner and a visible gate. Changes do not disappear between teams, and ownership remains clear from backlog to production.

  1. Build

    Every change is built the same way.

    A versioned image from each merged pull request.

  2. Validate

    Checks run before a person has to.

    Tests, security scans and policy checks.

  3. Deploy

    Releases are small and reversible.

    A staged rollout with one-step rollback.

  4. Observe

    Impact is measured, not assumed.

    Error rate and latency against the SLO.

  5. Improve

    What we learn changes the system.

    A post-incident review becomes a new check.

We use AI tooling to speed up routine infrastructure work. Every change is still reviewed by a senior engineer.

Cloud-agnostic decisions.
Platform-specific implementation.

We work with the platform you use, or recommend one based on your constraints.

  • AWS

    A broad catalogue of managed services for growing products.

  • Microsoft Azure

    A natural fit for organisations built on Microsoft identity and tooling.

  • Google Cloud

    Often chosen for data, analytics and Kubernetes-based platforms.

  • European sovereign cloud

    e.g. OVHcloud, Scaleway, STACKIT, IONOS when residency or jurisdiction requires it.

Cloud sovereignty,
made explicit.

Architectures are designed to support your GDPR, residency and governance requirements. Compliance decisions remain with your organisation and its advisers.

  • Data residency
  • Provider jurisdiction
  • Identity and access
  • Encryption
  • Auditability
  • Exit and portability

Results you can check.

Credibility should be visible in the work—not hidden in a presentation.

  • Versioned infrastructure code

  • Written scope and technical decisions

  • Dashboards, SLOs and runbooks where relevant

  • Documented handover and knowledge transfer

You approve the scope, retain ownership of the infrastructure and can see the work throughout the engagement.

Simple monthly plans.
Start small.

Start with the smallest engagement that can produce a meaningful operational result.

Starter

Fix one problem with senior help.

Starting 10h / month

  • Best for one clearly defined problem
  • Typical work: pipeline repair, alerting setup or cloud cost review
  • Monthly written summary
  • Not included: 24/7 on-call or end-to-end ownership
Start with Starter

Custom

Scaling with you.

Tailored to your needs

  • Best for companies that want one accountable platform partner
  • Agreed roadmap, ownership model and service reviews
  • Team capacity sized to the approved scope
  • On-call can be agreed separately
  • Not included: product feature development
Discuss Operate
  • Scope is approved in writing before work starts.
  • Changes to scope or capacity are agreed before implementation.
  • Cloud-provider costs are billed separately.
  • Monthly terms. Scale up or down with one month's notice.

DevOps Recruitment · Separate hiring service

Need a permanent
hire instead?

DevOps Recruitment is a separate hiring service. We help define the role, source candidates and run a practical technical assessment. Once hired, the engineer joins your employment and payroll structure.

  • Role definition
  • Candidate sourcing
  • Practical technical assessment
  • Shortlist and hiring support

Embedded engineer

Works through Blue Code as part of a managed monthly engagement.

Permanent hire

Joins your company for the long term. Blue Code helps you find and assess the right person.

Discuss a DevOps hire

Questions
before you book.

Scope, access, ownership and support.

AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and selected European sovereign cloud providers. We work with the platform you already use, or recommend one based on your product, team and constraints.

Yes. Signal includes 10 hours per month for one defined constraint. When the work grows, you can move to Pro or Custom. Changes to scope or capacity are agreed before implementation.

Scope is written after the assessment and approved by you before work starts. Every managed engagement includes documentation and knowledge transfer. Specific deliverables depend on the model and the agreed scope.

Monitoring, support and 24/7 on-call are different services. Monitoring provides signals and alerts. Support covers agreed working hours. A 24/7 on-call engineer responds to incidents at any hour. On-call is not included by default and may be agreed separately within Operate.

Onboarding begins once scope, access and ownership are agreed. It covers access to your accounts and repositories, a walkthrough of your systems and agreement on first priorities. Most teams have an engineer contributing within 10 days.

You grant access, limited to what the agreed work requires, and you can revoke it at any time. We work inside your accounts rather than our own, under an NDA, and our engineers are background-checked. When an engagement ends, our access is removed.

You do. We work in your accounts and repositories, so the code, infrastructure definitions and documentation stay with your organisation.

Yes. That is how we work by default. We join your backlog, reviews and planning to strengthen your team, and take on more ownership only where you want us to.

Architectures are designed to support your GDPR, residency and governance requirements: where data lives, provider jurisdiction, access, encryption, auditability and exit planning. Compliance decisions remain with your organisation and its advisers.

A call with a senior engineer. We look at your current setup, your main operational constraint and what you have already tried. You leave with the most useful next step and an honest view on whether Blue Code is the right fit.

An embedded engineer works through Blue Code as part of a managed monthly engagement. DevOps Recruitment helps you hire a permanent engineer, who joins your employment and payroll structure once hired.

Yes. You can move between Signal, Embed and Operate as your needs change. Any change to scope or capacity is agreed in writing before implementation.

Stop firefighting.
Start shipping.

In 30 minutes, a senior engineer will pinpoint your biggest platform risk and the most useful next step, and tell you honestly whether we are the right fit.

Get your free platform assessment
  • No generic sales presentation.
  • No obligation.
  • Bring the person responsible for technical decisions.
  • If Blue Code is not the right fit, we will say so.