CI / CD pipeline build for UK SaaS and scale-ups. GitHub Actions, preview environments per PR, canary deploys, secret scanning, signed artefacts and an audit log on day one — the path from commit to production that lets you deploy on a Friday without the dread.
A pipeline is your release floor, not a side quest. We build the path from commit to production that runs the same way every time, leaves an audit log, and lets your team deploy without holding their breath.
The in-house attempt was two engineers part-time, no observability, no audit log, and a Confluence page with the runbook. The acquirer’s CTO walked the codebase pre-LOI and said it plainly: rip and replace, or take a 25% diligence haircut.
You don’t need a tool. You need the path from commit to production engineered properly, the first time, by people who’ve done it before. We rebuilt over ten to fourteen weeks. Senior engineers paired daily. ADRs documented the same day. The evidence pipeline was wired on day one.
The acquirer’s CTO came back to the diligence call, walked the same surface, and signed retention. Full team kept. Deal closed at ask. This page is for the CTO who decided the platform is the product floor, and wants it built by senior engineers, not bought as a tool.
The engineers who sign your scope are the ones who ship and maintain. Here’s what that buys you.
No staff aug. No day-rate. The names on the SOW are the names on the commits, start to finish.
Every decision in an ADR. Every deploy in an audit log. Acquirer CTO and regulator defendable.
Every workflow reruns clean. State recoverable. Disaster recovery rehearsed quarterly, not hoped for.
A £8K five-day audit, then the sprint quoted at audit end. You keep everything; IP assigns on commit.
Audit-led, evidence-pipeline-first, observable from day one. The honest sequence from first call to a pipeline your team deploys on a Friday.
Two senior engineers read your estate and brief. 30-page brief, six ADRs, risk matrix, fixed-price quote. £8K fixed.
GitHub Actions from commit to production. Preview environments per PR, secret scanning, signed artefacts, audit log on day one.
Ship to a slice, watch the metrics, roll forward or back in one click. Rollback rehearsed so the bad night is boring.
DORA metrics on a dashboard your board reads. Your next engineer opens it and understands it. 30-day walk-away both ways.
GitHub Actions as default. Terraform for everything that lives. AWS by default, with the hiring pool that means your next engineer is productive on day one.
Each one is the difference between a pipeline your team trusts and one they tiptoe around.
Production incidents on shipped engagements
CI / CD builds shipped since 2019
“Rip and replace, or take a 25% diligence haircut.” The acquirer’s CTO walked the same surface twelve weeks later and signed full-team retention.
A workflow died quietly and the customer found out first. Per-workflow observability with PagerDuty and Slack wired in, so on-call knows before the customer does.
Who deployed what, when? No record, and the SOC 2 auditor flagged it. An audit log per deploy, tied to the commit, so the auditor stops asking.
Half the CI runs go red for no reason and nobody trusts a red build. Flake tracking, quarantine, and a retry budget, so a red build means something again.
Backups run, the restore has never been tested. A DR drill quarterly, RTO and RPO documented. Restore inside four hours, proven, not promised.
Nobody deploys on Fridays for fear of the weekend page. Canary deploys and one-click rollback, so Friday becomes an ordinary day again.
An enterprise prospect asked for SOC 2, DPA, and a sub-processor list and you had none. SIG-Lite, CAIQ, DPA, SCCs, and a SOC 2 stance ready, so review clears in days.
We rebuilt a UK SaaS scale-up’s release path over twelve weeks: one GitHub Actions pipeline, preview environments per PR, canary deploys, signed artefacts, an audit log, and a Vanta evidence pipeline wired on day one.
The honest way in. A fixed-price audit bounds the risk at week one, before any code ships. Typical band £18-55K, fixed scope.
Two senior engineers read your estate and brief. You walk out with a plan you can take to the board.
Eight to fourteen weeks of fixed-scope shipping. Audit-led, evidence-pipeline-first, observable.
One day a week of senior engineering for three to six months. Your team gets unblocked, not babysat.
Pain-first, soft-second.
The audit is £8K fixed. The sprint typically lands in the £18-55K range, fixed-price, scoped at the audit. No day-rate, no scope creep. You decide whether to continue after the audit, so the risk is bounded at £8K before any build commits.
No. We work in-place where we can. GitHub Actions is our default, but we ship on GitLab CI and CircleCI too. If a migration makes sense, it’s scoped at the audit, and the old and new pipelines run in parallel until you sign off. Nothing flips overnight without your say-so.
An ADR pack, an audit log per deploy, an evidence pipeline, and a SOC 2 Type II stance. The acquirer’s CTO walks the surface and signs full-team retention. That happened three times across 2024 and 2025 on our CI / CD implementation services engagements.
Yes. AWS is the default, on EKS, ECS Fargate, and Lambda. We’ve also shipped on GCP, Azure, Cloudflare, DigitalOcean, Vercel, and Fly.io. The multi-cloud lock-in path gets documented at the audit so you’re never trapped on one provider.
30-day walk-away both ways. IP assigns on every commit, so your code lives in your GitHub org from day one. We’re UK VAT registered, listed on Companies House, and shipping since 2019. You’re never more than a few weeks at risk of paying for nothing.
Every CI / CD pipeline build has two senior engineers paired, not one. Every decision goes into an ADR the same day. Mohit reviews the work. Two handovers in seven years, both inside 48 hours. Your bus factor is four, not one.
Yes. GitHub Actions, Terraform, and Docker are the largest DevOps hiring pool in the UK in 2026. We hand over a pipeline your next engineer opens and understands, and we’ll pair with the people you eventually hire so the knowledge stays in your team, not ours.
Yes, with 14 days’ notice. Engineers move to other work, spend pauses, and you resume with 14 days’ notice. No cancellation fee. We’d rather pause cleanly than bill you for a sprint your runway can’t carry right now.
A Vanta or Drata evidence pipeline wired on day one. SOC 2 Type 1 is achievable in eight to twelve weeks if you don’t have it. A signed DPA, SCCs for cross-border, and a DSAR runbook. Procurement clears in days because the pack ships by default, not on request.
ci cd pipeline build, in context — the dashboards, flows and components your team actually ships, reviews and maintains.
Tell us your current estate, your deadline, and the outcome you want. Mohit replies inside 24 hours: a clear yes, a clear no, or the one question that decides it, plus the next audit slot.
Yes, no, or the deciding question. Straight to your inbox, with the next audit slot.
30 pages, six ADRs, a risk matrix, and a fixed-price quote for the sprint.
One pipeline, preview envs, canary deploys, signed artefacts, audit log. No dread.