DevOps Services | CI/CD, Cloud Infrastructure, Kubernetes and Managed DevOps for Web Products

Updated September 2026 · Written and maintained by the Progression Agency strategy team

Progression Agency provides DevOps services for web applications and SaaS products: CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, containers and Kubernetes, observability, security automation and managed DevOps for teams without a platform engineer. A DevOps company earns its place when releases get boring, with routine deploys and rehearsed rollbacks, and a DevOps services provider should be able to show both on a past project.

What are DevOps services?

Engineering services that automate how software is built, tested, released and operated: continuous integration and delivery pipelines, environment provisioning with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi), container orchestration (ECS, Kubernetes), cloud architecture on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, observability, incident response, security automation and cost optimization, delivered as a project or as an ongoing managed service.

DevOps is the operational half of the software development life cycle; we apply it to the products we build and to products built elsewhere. See AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud and SaaS hosting.

Practices follow the DORA research on delivery performance and the NIST Secure Software Development Framework.

DevOps services and solutions

Projects we are most often asked to build.

CI/CD pipeline development

GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or Azure DevOps pipelines with automated tests, preview environments, staged rollouts and one-click rollback.

Cloud infrastructure and infrastructure as code

Landing zones, networking, compute, databases and storage on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud defined in Terraform or Pulumi and reviewed like code; see backend hosting options.

Containers and Kubernetes

Dockerizing applications and running them on ECS, EKS, GKE, AKS or Cloud Run with autoscaling, health checks and zero-downtime deploys.

Observability and incident response

Centralized logs, metrics, tracing and alerting (Datadog, Grafana, CloudWatch, Sentry), runbooks, status pages and on-call design.

DevSecOps and compliance automation

Dependency and container scanning, secrets management, IAM least privilege, backup and recovery testing, evidence for SOC 2 and HIPAA; see website security services.

Managed DevOps services

Ongoing operation of your pipelines and infrastructure: patching, scaling, cost reviews, incident handling and improvements, for a monthly fee.

Ongoing operation of your pipelines and infrastructure: patching, scaling, cost reviews, incident handling and improvements, for a monthly fee.

DevOps solutions provider: what to ask before you sign

Cloud and DevOps services only help if your team can run them after the engagement ends. That means infrastructure code committed to your repository, pipeline definitions your engineers can read, a written playbook for the failures most likely to occur, and cloud accounts that stay in your name from day one. Ask which parts are handed over and which stay managed, and who is paged when a deploy fails at night. Buyers comparing DevOps services in USA or DevOps services solutions from several vendors should weigh those answers above any list of tool names.

DevOps as a service and managed DevOps support

An outside team running your pipelines and infrastructure on an ongoing subscription, rather than a one-off project, is what DevOps as a service means. Buying DevOps as a managed service suits products with no platform engineer on staff, or small teams whose developers keep getting pulled into operations. With DevOps as a service, AWS accounts, roles and billing should still stay in your name.

Outsourced DevOps services differ mostly in what triggers them. Plain DevOps support may mean a ticket queue during business hours. DevOps 24/7 support means someone gets paged at 3 a.m., so ask for the response time in writing, who is on call and what they may change without asking.

DevOps consulting services: advice before anyone builds

The consulting half of this work is about decisions rather than builds: which parts of your release process slow you down, which tools are worth keeping and what order to fix things in. DevOps consulting usually begins by measuring how a change reaches production today, from merge to live, including the waits nobody wrote down.

A DevOps consulting company should leave written recommendations your engineers agree with, then either help carry them out or hand them over cleanly. Recommended DevOps consulting solutions should name who owns each change once the engagement ends, because a slide deck with no owner changes nothing.

Enterprise DevOps consulting adds change-approval boards, separation of duties and many teams on different stacks, so the plan often proves a pattern on one product team before spreading it. Lists of top DevOps consulting companies can supply names, but they rarely show whether a firm has worked at your scale. Ask instead what a firm would leave out of its first ninety days.

Key features and components

What separates a useful build from a costly one.

Common integrations

Where the value usually comes from.

Reliability and security standards

Good DevOps is measurable: deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate and time to restore.

• We track the four DORA metrics and report them.
• Security automation follows the NIST SSDF and OWASP guidance: scanning, least privilege, secrets, patching.
• Cloud architecture follows the AWS Well-Architected Framework or the equivalent for Azure and Google Cloud.
• Backups are automated and restores tested on a schedule; disaster recovery plans are documented.

Our DevOps process

We assess the current setup, design the target environments, build CI/CD and infrastructure as code, add observability and security automation, cut over with a rollback plan, and either hand over with documentation or operate the platform under a managed DevOps agreement. DevOps transformation services stretch that sequence across many teams, and the slow part is usually changing who approves releases rather than installing tools. DevOps services for startups compress it, often to a single pipeline and a managed platform, with anything heavier deferred until the product needs it.

How much do DevOps services cost?

As US price figures: CI/CD setup for one product $5,000-$20,000; cloud infrastructure with IaC $15,000-$60,000; Kubernetes platform builds $40,000-$150,000; managed DevOps $3,000-$15,000 a month depending on scale and on-call needs.

Technology we typically use

Mainstream, maintainable choices.

AWS DevOps consulting often centers on accounts, IAM and pipeline choice, so ask an AWS DevOps consulting company why it prefers its tools. Azure DevOps consulting can mean Microsoft’s product suite or Azure infrastructure, so confirm which. Cloud DevOps consulting should start from your team’s existing skills.

Mistakes to avoid

Common causes of overruns and low adoption.

• Kubernetes for a product that a platform service could run.
• Manual production changes nobody can reproduce.
• No staging environment.
• Alerts that nobody is on call for.
• Secrets in repositories or environment files.
• Cloud cost reviewed once a year.

Why choose Progression Agency for DevOps?

Engineering, design and go-to-market in one team.

• DevOps from engineers who also build the products, so pipelines fit the code.
• Right-sized: platforms and managed services before Kubernetes.
• Managed DevOps with defined response times and monthly cost reviews.
• You own the code, data and accounts.
• Headquartered in New York City, working with clients nationwide and worldwide.

Compare DevOps consulting services in USA and offshore time zones by asking for overlap with your working hours and for named engineers, since incidents and reviews rarely wait for the next morning.

Related services

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Frequently asked questions