DevOps engineering. Sorted.

Scrums.com provides end-to-end DevOps engineering services that help you ship faster with fewer failed releases: CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code and observability for cloud, on-premise and hybrid systems.

Through the Software Factory Delivery Plan, you get one team, one predictable monthly price and one prioritised backlog. Add custom software, AI, backend, web, mobile, data or DevOps and cloud work to the same backlog whenever you need it.

Now $4,500£3,750R79,000/ monthSave $3,500£2,950R61,000/moStart your Delivery Plan →
48 hours to first codeDelivering since 2012Thousands of companies served
“The Scrums.com team often pre-empted and identified solutions and enhancements to our project.”
— CX Expert, Volkswagen

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Delivery Plan · Factory
Your backlog. Delivered.
One plan. Any software development.
Now $4,500£3,750R79,000/ monthWas $8,000£6,700R140,000
Save $3,500£2,950R61,000/moOne active workstream
14DAYSFirst deliverable in 14 days or your first month is free.
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Managed security
Expert project manager
Unlimited backlog
100% your code and IP
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How your Software Factory Delivery Plan works

How the DevOps engineering process works

  1. 01SubscribeCheck out and onboarding starts immediately.
  2. 02Queue your DevOps workPick DevOps scopes or describe your own.
  3. 03We start coding in 48 hoursAccess to your repos, cloud accounts and CI.
  4. 04Ship, observe, repeatTrack every deployment on the Scrums.com Platform.
The Software Factory

See the Software Factory at work

Scrums.com Platform

Track every pipeline, deployment and SLO on the Scrums.com Platform

We turn your goals into clear tasks and agree milestones before work starts. Follow progress from research and prototypes through to production, with every handoff visible. As each task ships, Scrums.com moves to the next priority.

Scrums.com Platform / delivery board
Requirement9
OPS-313est 40hrs
Terraform modules for the staging environment
DevOps5 pts
OPS-314est 32hrs
Canary releases with automated rollback
DevOps5 pts
QA-208est 24hrs
Security scan gate in the pipeline
QA3 pts
SRE-115est 24hrs
Alert rules and on-call rotation
DevOps3 pts
Delivering1
OPS-312day 3/6
Kubernetes autoscaling for the APIDevOps
  • Change written as code
  • Pipeline runs green
  • Code review approved
  • Live in production
DevOps · SREPR #1820
Gate
Live38
OPS-311✓ live
CI/CD pipeline for the payments service
DevOps · just now
OPS-309✓ live
Secrets moved to a managed vault
DevOps · 4d ago
API-062✓ live
Health checks for the orders API
Backend · 6d ago
SRE-110✓ live
DORA metrics dashboard
DevOps · 8d ago
Illustrative demo with sample data. On the Scrums.com Platform, the board shows your own goals, tasks and releases.
Scope and capacity

What one workstream delivers, for DevOps or any software

Your backlog can hold any number of requests, but the team delivers them one workstream at a time. A workstream is one managed team working on your highest-priority request until it is live, then starting the next. More requests mean more months, not faster delivery. Work is scoped and delivered within your plan’s capacity. Priorities can change; additional parallel workstreams require more capacity. The same plan covers mobile, web, backend, AI, data and QA work, so all of it can share one backlog.

Active at once
One request
Basic CI/CD
2 to 4 weeks
Comprehensive DevOps
2 to 3 months
Infrastructure code owned by
You

Example: DevOps on one workstream

Illustrative
  1. Month 1DevOps assessment against DORA targets, then the foundation: the CI/CD platform, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring and secret management, and the first pipelines for priority applications.
  2. Month 2Automation rolls out: CI/CD across services, infrastructure-as-code for every environment, testing and security scanning in the pipeline, auto-scaling and alerting.
  3. Month 3SRE practices: SLOs and error budgets, capacity planning and cost optimisation, toil automated, and incident postmortems that prevent recurrence.

A sample DevOps programme. It matches the 2 to 4 weeks basic CI/CD typically takes, and the 2 to 3 months comprehensive DevOps takes. Onboarding starts immediately after checkout, and your delivery owner scopes your own plan with you.

What affects the number of months

  • Starting maturityTeams with manual deployments need pipelines first; existing automation can be extended.
  • Number of servicesEach application, microservice and environment adds pipeline and infrastructure work.
  • Infrastructure footprintCloud, on-premise, hybrid or multi-cloud estates each add architecture and networking work.
  • Existing toolingCurrent tools are kept where they work; migrations add work where a tool limits capability.
  • ComplianceAudit trails, policy-as-code and security scanning for regulated industries add work.
  • Review and approvalsHow quickly your team agrees acceptance criteria and approves changes to production.
See the DevOps scopes you can queue →
Capabilities

DevOps engineering services: pipelines, infrastructure, Kubernetes, cloud, observability and SRE.

CI/CD pipeline engineering and automation

Jenkins · GitLab CI · GitHub Actions · Azure Pipelines

Automated CI/CD pipelines that test code, scan for security vulnerabilities, build containers, deploy to multiple environments and roll back on failure. Deployment time drops from hours to minutes, with reliability from consistent, repeatable processes.

When it fitsManual deployments cause frequent failures, and releases wait for conservative release windows.
Trade-offsPipelines are built on your existing tools where they work. A new tool is recommended only where the current one limits capability.
How the plan covers it
Pipelines on Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines or CircleCI
Automated tests, security scans and container builds on every change
Multi-environment deployment with rollback on failure
Progressive delivery: blue-green and canary releases
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What's included in DevOps engineering

Pipelines, infrastructure, observability and reliability. Managed together.

Every Delivery Plan · Core comes with the full DevOps team and the tooling around it: assessment, pipeline and infrastructure engineering, AI operations agents and SRE practices, run by one delivery owner. DevOps consulting and platform engineering services use the same backlog.

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Delivery managementOne accountable delivery owner.Milestones agreed before work begins.
01DevOps assessment and strategyCI/CD maturity, infrastructure and cloud costs reviewed, and a phased roadmap set against DORA targets
02CI/CD pipelinesJenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines and CircleCI, with security scanning and quality gates
03Infrastructure-as-codeTerraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi and Ansible, with secrets in Vault or AWS Secrets Manager
04Containers and KubernetesDocker and Kubernetes on EKS, AKS, GKE or self-managed clusters
05Cloud infrastructureAWS, Azure and GCP, with high availability, disaster recovery and cost optimisation
06ObservabilityPrometheus, Grafana, DataDog, New Relic and CloudWatch for metrics, logs and tracing
07Incident responseAlerting, on-call rotations, runbooks and postmortems
08SRE practicesSLOs, error budgets, chaos engineering, capacity planning and toil reduction
10Pipeline and infrastructure ownershipAll pipelines, infrastructure code and runbooks are yours from day one.
100%

A green pipeline is not the finish line.

Continuous optimisationAutomation improved and the platform scaled as your services grow.
Cost reviewsRight-sizing, auto-scaling and cleanup of unused resources kept current.
DORA dashboardsDeployment frequency, lead time, MTTR and change failure rate tracked against baselines.
Quarterly reviewsPlatform reviews and roadmap updates every quarter, with knowledge transfer to your team.
Runs on the Scrums.com platform

Every Delivery Plan runs on the Enterprise AI Platform for software engineering.

Your team, its AI agents and your delivery data sit on one governed platform. That is what powers your delivery board, the operations and code-review agents, and the talent bench behind your plan.

What your DevOps team draws on, already part of your planBrowse the full AI catalog →
Engineering talentTalent

DevOps engineers and teams

DevOps specialists, SREs and cloud architects from the Scrums.com bench, matched to your infrastructure and domain.

AI Catalog304 items

Agents, MCPs and models for DevOps

The operations, code-review and release agents that run alongside your team, plus the MCP servers they use.

AI infrastructure512 items

Infrastructure for your environments and AI operations

Cloud, container and observability infrastructure, deployable from the catalog with your $500 first-month credits.

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One DevOps hire covers one role. The plan covers the whole team.

DevOps needs pipelines, infrastructure, cloud, observability and SRE work. Hiring covers them one role at a time. The Delivery Plan covers them in one monthly price.

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RecommendedScrums.com Delivery Plan · Core
In-house DevOps engineer
Traditional DevOps agency
Roles covered
Pipelines, infrastructure, Kubernetes, cloud, observability, SRE
One role per hire
Depends on the agency bench
Time to start
48 hours to first code
A hiring cycle first
Proposal and contract cycle first
How you pay
Was $8,000£6,700R140,000 now $4,500£3,750R79,000 / month, one plan price
Salary, benefits and recruiting fees
Project quotes and change requests
Who runs delivery
One accountable delivery owner
You manage the work
The agency project manager
Visibility
Every deployment, DORA metric and incident trend on the Scrums.com Platform
Your own tooling
Status reports by email
40-60%†lower cost than US and UK DevOps agencies
Start for was $8,000£6,700R140,000 $4,500£3,750R79,000/mo →
Basis: the figure that the current Scrums.com DevOps engineering page states against US and UK DevOps agencies. It is not a quote for your scope.
What you get

Why companies choose DevOps as a service from a managed team

01

Everything as code

Infrastructure, configuration, policies and monitoring are version-controlled, peer-reviewed and rolled back on any failure.

02

One monthly price

One plan price for pipelines, infrastructure and reliability work. Your scope sets the number of months.

03

Faster from day one

Pre-built CI/CD patterns, IaC modules and monitoring templates make implementation 3-5x faster than building from scratch.

04

Human plus AI

Agents correlate alerts, analyse logs, monitor capacity and fix common issues. Engineers keep architecture and platform work.

05

Multi-cloud experience

AWS, Azure and GCP experience keeps architecture decisions informed and vendor lock-in out.

06

Built for regulated industries

Compliance automation: audit trails, policy-as-code and security scanning in the pipeline.

Customers

DevOps engineering case studies

Teams are matched to your domain, built for payments, FinTech and enterprise platforms, across your cloud, pipelines and observability stack.

Engineering and DevOps Health Check for Network International payment platforms, delivered by Scrums.com
Featured DevOps case study

Network International: a reliability roadmap for four payment platforms

Challenge
A payments group ran four platforms with recurring production incidents, high change failure rates, extended MTTR and fragmented observability.
Platforms and technologies
PayFast, PayGate, SID and DPO payment platforms in South Africa and Kenya, benchmarked on SEOP against DORA and SPACE indicators.
Work delivered
An Engineering and DevOps Health Check: architecture, CI/CD, QA and observability reviews, 12 to 24 months of incidents analysed, and on-site deep-dives in three cities.
Result
One view across four platforms, root causes identified, maturity benchmarks per platform and a phased path toward 99.99% uptime.
Read the Network International case study →
Scopes

DevOps scopes you can queue

One Delivery Plan · Core covers your development priorities across services. Start with DevOps, then queue mobile, web, backend, AI, data or QA scopes on the same backlog, or describe your own.

DevOps scopes
0 scopes on your backlog · one active workstream at a timeStart your plan with this backlog →
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API Developer Portal

Design and launch a portal for API discovery, credentials, documentation, usage visibility, support, and onboarding.

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API Gateway & Rate Limiting Setup

Centralize API routing, authentication, throttling, observability, and policy enforcement behind one gateway. Finish state: every API fronted by a governed gateway with limits enforced.

DevOps ScopeView scope
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API Latency Reduction Sprint

Reduce response times for a defined set of APIs using profiling-led query, caching, code, and infrastructure changes.

DevOps ScopeView scope
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Application Memory & CPU Optimization

Profile and reduce excessive memory and CPU usage that drives instability, cost, or latency in a defined service.

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AWS Landing Zone Setup

Create a secure, governed multi-account AWS foundation with identity, networking, logging, and baseline controls, delivered as code.

DevOps ScopeView scope
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Azure Landing Zone Setup

Create a secure, governed Azure foundation with management groups, subscriptions, identity, networking, policy, and logging, delivered as code.

DevOps ScopeView scope
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Cache Architecture Implementation

Implement application, CDN, database, or distributed caching for a defined high-read or latency-sensitive workload — with invalidation designed first.

DevOps ScopeView scope
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CI/CD Pipeline Implementation

Automate build, test, release promotion, approvals, rollback, and deployment for a defined application or repository.

DevOps ScopeView scope
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Cloud Backup & Disaster Recovery Setup

Implement backups, recovery objectives, replication, and restore procedures for a defined workload, and prove them with a tested recovery.

DevOps ScopeView scope
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Cloud Cost Optimization Sprint

Find and implement high-confidence savings across compute, storage, data transfer, managed services, and idle resources, with guardrails that keep them.

DevOps ScopeView scope
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Cloud Network Architecture Upgrade

Redesign VPC/VNet structure, routing, private connectivity, ingress/egress, and segmentation for a defined cloud environment, with a staged cutover.

DevOps ScopeView scope
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Cloud Security Assessment

Assess a cloud environment for risky configurations, exposed assets, identity weaknesses, and control gaps — ranked by exploitability.

DevOps ScopeView scope
The plan in full

DevOps engineering services pricing

Core costs Was $8,000£6,700R140,000 now $4,500£3,750R79,000/month for one active workstream. Your infrastructure’s scope determines the delivery schedule and total cost. You can use the same subscription for other development priorities.

Best for companies whose manual deployments fail, whose production incidents consume engineering time, or whose infrastructure takes days to provision.

Delivery Plan · Factory

One plan for your software backlog.

Now $4,500£3,750R79,000/ monthWas $8,000£6,700R140,000
One active workstream. Managed delivery.
Coverage
Start your Delivery Plan →
Billed monthly · excl. VAT/sales tax · onboarding starts immediately after checkout
Included every month
Delivery owner. One accountable owner runs your DevOps engineers, SREs and cloud architects.
One backlog across your development priorities. You set the order; requests are scoped and delivered one workstream at a time.
Visibility. Milestones agreed up front. Deployments, DORA metrics and incidents live on the Scrums.com Platform.
Ownership. Pipelines, infrastructure code, runbooks and data are yours from day one, with handover included.

Work is scoped and delivered within your plan’s capacity. Priorities can change; additional parallel workstreams require more capacity.

First-month benefits
14DAYS
First-delivery guaranteeThe team builds your first agreed deliverable within 14 days of scope and access being confirmed, or your first month is free.
$500 in AI infrastructure catalog creditsMONTH 1
Annual-plan benefits$10,000 in specialist services
Technical Assessment & Delivery RoadmapWe review your systems, rank your priorities and agree the first deliverable.
CI/CD & Quality Pipeline SetupYour pipelines, environments and quality checks, set up and handed over to you.
You buy monthly delivery capacity, not a fixed project price. Infrastructure usage and third-party services are billed separately. Full Delivery Plan coverage and terms →
Need more workstreams or have complex requirements? Talk to Sales →
Day 0Scope and access confirmedOnboarding starts at checkout. You confirm scope and share repos, cloud accounts and CI.
Within 48 hoursCoding startsThe team starts work in your repositories.
Within 14 daysFirst deliverable builtFor example automated build and test stages for one priority repository.
If it does not shipYour first month is freeYou do not pay for month one.
The first deliverable is agreed in writing before the clock starts. The clock starts when scope and access are confirmed. Applies to the first deliverable on a new plan.Read the full Delivery Plan terms →
FAQ

DevOps engineering questions, answered

Still deciding? Talk to sales and get a scoped answer for your infrastructure.

Delivery Plan · Core costs Was $8,000£6,700R140,000 now $4,500£3,750R79,000 a month, excluding VAT or sales tax. That buys one active workstream with a managed DevOps team. It is monthly delivery capacity, not a fixed price for a complete DevOps programme, so your scope sets the number of months.

Want the detail? Read the AI development documentation →

IntroducingDelivery Plans · humans + agents

The Software Factory

We’ve spent 15 years building software for some of the world’s biggest brands. Now we’re upgrading how you buy it.

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  1. Backlog
  2. Scope
  3. Build
  4. Test
  5. Ship