The Brief
A growing technology organisation needed to replace manual, error-prone infrastructure processes with automated, repeatable pipelines. Deployments were slow, environment consistency was unreliable, and the team had no visibility into infrastructure state.
The brief was clear: build infrastructure that deploys itself, monitors itself, and scales without manual intervention.
What We Built
A complete DevOps platform built on AWS, covering everything from infrastructure provisioning to production monitoring.
- Infrastructure as Code — full AWS environment defined in Terraform, versioned in Git
- Kubernetes on EKS — containerised workloads with automated health checks, autoscaling, and rolling deployments
- CI/CD pipelines — Jenkins and GitLab CI with integrated SAST/DAST security scanning
- Observability stack — Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki for metrics, dashboards, and log aggregation
- Ansible automation — configuration management eliminating manual server setup
- Disaster recovery — automated backups, failover procedures, and recovery runbooks
Technical Decisions
Terraform for all infrastructure. Every AWS resource is defined in code, stored in version control, and deployed through a pipeline. No manual console changes, no configuration drift.
Helm for Kubernetes deployments. Helm charts provide reusable, parameterised deployment templates across development, staging, and production — with one command to promote between environments.
Prometheus + Grafana + Loki as the observability layer. The full metrics, alerting, and logging stack gives complete visibility without depending on expensive managed monitoring services.
Results
- 85% reduction in infrastructure provisioning time
- 40% reduction in mean time to recovery (MTTR)
- 35% improvement in deployment velocity
- 99.9% uptime maintained across production workloads
- Zero configuration drift across all managed environments