CI/CD Pipeline Engineering
Build, test and release automation that turns a merge into a production deployment — with quality gates, artefact promotion and instant rollback.
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI
- Jenkins
- Argo CD
DORA-aligned delivery for cloud-native engineering teams
Ship faster with DevOps automation that never sleeps
Grey Bracket designs, builds and operates the pipelines, cloud infrastructure and observability that let your team release many times a day — safely, securely and at a cost you can predict.
- CI/CD
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- DevSecOps
- SRE & FinOps
No lock-in. You own every pipeline, module and runbook we write.
320+
Pipelines delivered
99.99%
Platform uptime achieved
68%
Faster release cycles
41%
Average cloud cost saved
Trusted by platform and engineering teams at
Northwind Pay
Vantiq Health
Corevo Retail
Lumen Labs
Orbit Logistics
Skyforge Games
What we do
DevOps automation services, end to end
From the first pipeline to a fully managed platform, we cover every layer of modern software delivery — and hand it over documented, tested and reproducible.
Generative AI Solutions
Build production-ready AI applications and agents on AWS — from conversational analytics and natural-language data exploration to agentic workflows and enterprise GenAI platforms.
- Amazon Bedrock
- AI Agents
- Conversational AI
- GenAI on AWS
Infrastructure as Code
Every environment described in version-controlled modules, so staging and production stop drifting apart and a new region is a pull request.
- Terraform
- Pulumi
- Ansible
- Crossplane
Kubernetes & Containers
Production-grade clusters with GitOps delivery, autoscaling, network policy and a sane upgrade path — on any cloud or on-premises.
- EKS / AKS / GKE
- Helm
- Istio
- Karpenter
Cloud Migration & Modernisation
Assessment, landing zone, migration waves and cutover. We move workloads without the weekend-long outage and modernise what is worth modernising.
- AWS
- Azure
- Google Cloud
- Hybrid
DevSecOps & Compliance
Secrets management, SAST/SCA/DAST, signed artefacts and policy as code — so audits become a report you export, not a project you dread.
- SOC 2
- ISO 27001
- OPA / Kyverno
- Vault
Observability & SRE
Metrics, logs and traces that answer real questions, with SLOs, error budgets and alerting that pages a human only when a human is needed.
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- OpenTelemetry
- Datadog
FinOps & Cost Optimisation
Find the spend nobody owns. Rightsizing, commitment planning, autoscaling and per-team showback that keeps the bill honest month after month.
- Rightsizing
- Savings plans
- Tagging
- Showback
Platform Engineering
An internal developer platform with golden paths, self-service environments and templates, so shipping a new service takes an afternoon.
- Backstage
- Golden paths
- Service catalogue
- Templates
Managed DevOps & 24×7 SRE
We take the pager. Patching, upgrades, capacity, incident response and monthly reporting — with named engineers who know your stack.
- On-call
- Incident response
- Patching
- Reporting
The Grey Bracket standard
Five things every system we touch ends up being
Automated
Infrastructure, pipelines, policy and runbooks — all as code, all repeatable.
Secure
Least privilege, signed artefacts and scanning built into the pipeline, not bolted on.
Scalable
Architecture that survives the traffic spike you have not had yet.
Observable
SLOs, traces and dashboards that tell you what broke before your customers do.
Cost-aware
Every resource tagged, owned and sized for what it actually does.
Continuous delivery
From commit to production in under 15 minutes
Most teams do not have a deployment problem — they have a confidence problem. We rebuild your delivery path so that every merge is automatically built, tested, scanned, signed and promoted through environments, with a rollback that takes one click.
- Trunk-based workflows with branch protection and required checks
- Reproducible builds, cached dependencies and parallel test matrices
- Progressive delivery: blue/green, canary and feature flags
- GitOps promotion with Argo CD or Flux — Git is the source of truth
- DORA metrics wired up from day one so improvement is measurable
.github/workflows/deploy.yml
# build → scan → sign → deploy, on every merge on: push: branches: [main] jobs: ship: uses: greybracket/pipelines/.github/workflows/ship.yml@v3 with: service: checkout-api environments: staging,production strategy: canary slo_gate: 99.9
14 minMedian lead time to production
< 1%Change failure rate
Infrastructure as code
Infrastructure your team can actually reason about
Click-ops leaves you with an environment nobody can rebuild. We codify what you already run, break it into reviewed modules, and put a plan-and-approve workflow in front of every change — so infrastructure gets the same rigour as application code.
- Reusable Terraform modules with versioning and automated tests
- Multi-account landing zones, SSO and guardrails from the start
- Drift detection and remote state with locking and audit history
- Environments cloned in minutes, torn down just as fast
90%
Less manual provisioning
4 hrs
To stand up a new region
0
Undocumented resources
infra/environments/production/main.tf
# one module, every environment module "platform" { source = "git::ssh://git@github.com/acme/tf-modules//platform?ref=v4.2.0" environment = "production" region = "eu-west-1" cluster_version = "1.30" min_nodes = 6 max_nodes = 48 enable_gitops = true enable_otel = true }
policy/require-signed-images.rego
# unsigned images never reach production package kubernetes.admission deny[msg] { input.request.kind.kind == "Pod" image := input.request.object.spec.containers[_].image not signed(image) msg := sprintf("unsigned image: %v", [image]) }
100%Images signed & attested
< 24 hrsCritical CVE remediation
DevSecOps
Security that lives in the pipeline, not in a spreadsheet
Security reviews at the end of a release are how deadlines slip. We move the controls left — into the pull request, the build and the admission controller — so risky changes are blocked automatically and your evidence for auditors generates itself.
- Secrets out of repos and into Vault, SOPS or cloud KMS
- SAST, SCA, IaC scanning and container CVE gates on every build
- SBOM generation, image signing and provenance attestation
- Policy as code with OPA or Kyverno across every cluster
- Continuous evidence collection for SOC 2, ISO 27001 and HIPAA
How we work
A five-stage engagement, no mystery in the middle
Every engagement starts with evidence and ends with your team owning the result. You see working automation in the first two weeks, not a slide deck.
01
Assess
Two-week audit of pipelines, infrastructure, security posture and cloud spend, scored against DORA and a written findings report.
02
Blueprint
A target architecture, migration sequence and automation backlog agreed with your engineers — with effort and cost attached.
03
Automate
We build in two-week increments: modules, pipelines, clusters and policies, reviewed in your repos through normal pull requests.
04
Operate
Cutover, on-call, runbooks and enablement sessions. We stay on the pager until your team is comfortable taking it back.
05
Optimise
Monthly reviews of reliability, delivery metrics and cloud spend, with a prioritised list of the next improvements worth making.
Technology
The tools we automate with
We are deliberately tool-agnostic. These are the platforms our engineers run in production every week — and we will happily work in the stack you already have.
AWS
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud
DigitalOcean
Cloudflare
OpenStack
VMware
Hetzner
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
Jenkins
Argo CD
Flux
CircleCI
Azure DevOps
Tekton
Terraform
OpenTofu
Pulumi
Ansible
Crossplane
Packer
CloudFormation
Terragrunt
Kubernetes
Amazon EKS
AKS
GKE
Helm
Istio
Karpenter
Docker
Prometheus
Grafana
OpenTelemetry
Loki
Tempo
Datadog
Elastic
PagerDuty
HashiCorp Vault
Trivy
Snyk
SonarQube
Open Policy Agent
Kyverno
Sigstore / Cosign
Falco
Industries
Regulated, high-traffic and everything in between
The controls change by sector; the engineering discipline does not. We adapt compliance, residency and availability requirements to your industry.
Engagement models
Work with us the way that fits your team
Project Sprint
A defined outcome — a migration, a pipeline rebuild, a Kubernetes rollout — delivered to an agreed scope and date.
- Written scope and acceptance criteria
- Fixed price or capped time and materials
- Handover docs and enablement included
Dedicated DevOps Pod
An embedded squad working in your repos, your stand-ups and your board — with a lead engineer accountable for outcomes.
- Senior engineers in your time zone overlap
- Scale the pod up or down each month
- Sprint reporting against DORA metrics
Managed DevOps
We run the platform: monitoring, patching, on-call, incident response and continuous improvement, under an agreed SLA.
- 24×7 coverage with named engineers
- 15-minute response on Sev-1 incidents
- Monthly reliability and cost report
Client feedback
What engineering leaders say
Success stories
Automation with numbers attached
FinTech
Payments platform to zero-downtime releases
A card-issuing platform releasing fortnightly behind a maintenance window moved to canary deploys on every merge, with automated compliance evidence.
24×More deploys
0Downtime windows
-72%Lead time
Retail & eCommerce
Black Friday scale at 40% lower cloud cost
Rightsizing, Karpenter-based autoscaling and commitment planning cut steady-state spend while doubling peak capacity headroom.
-40%Cloud spend
2×Peak headroom
99.99%Peak uptime
HealthTech
HIPAA-ready platform in eleven weeks
A multi-account AWS landing zone, encrypted data paths, policy as code and continuous evidence collection built ahead of a funding round.
11 wksTo audit-ready
100%IaC coverage
-85%Manual controls
FAQ
Questions we get asked first
Most engagements begin within two weeks of a signed scope. The free DevOps health check can usually start within a few days — it needs read-only access to your repositories, cloud accounts and monitoring.
Yes. We work in your Git provider, your ticketing system and your cloud accounts, and we submit changes as ordinary pull requests your engineers review. Nothing is developed in a separate environment and thrown over a wall.
You keep everything: modules, pipelines, dashboards, policies and runbooks, all in your own repositories under an open licence. We run handover sessions and pair with your engineers before we step back, and there is no proprietary Grey Bracket layer you would need to keep paying for.
That is usually the cheaper answer, and it is our default. If you are on Jenkins and it works, we will make Jenkins better before suggesting a migration. We only recommend replacing a tool when the cost of keeping it is demonstrably higher than the cost of moving.
Least-privilege, time-boxed access through your own identity provider, with every action auditable. We sign NDAs and data processing agreements as standard, and our engineers can work under your device and background-check policies where required.
We baseline the four DORA metrics — deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate and time to restore — plus cloud spend and SLO attainment, at the start of the engagement, and report against them every sprint.
Get in touch
Tell us what is slowing your releases down
Send us a note and a senior engineer — not a salesperson — will reply within one business day. If it is easier, book a 30-minute call and bring your worst pipeline.
New projectshello@greybracket.io
Call us+1 (555) 018-4420
Support & incidents24×7 for managed clients · 15-minute Sev-1 response
Start with a free two-week DevOps health check
We review your pipelines, infrastructure, security posture and cloud spend, then hand you a written report with prioritised fixes — whether or not you work with us afterwards.