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Cloud & DevOps Readiness Review

Find out why releases hurt — and what to fix in the pipeline first.

Cloud posture, CI/CD audit, observability gaps, and scalability recommendations. Grounded in how your team actually deploys, not how a reference architecture says they should.

Starts with

Your pipelines, environments, deployment frequency, and the incidents that keep repeating.

You leave with

A CI/CD maturity snapshot, observability gap list, and a sequenced fix plan your platform team can execute.


Fit

Is this for you?

Platform and DevOps leads where releases are painful, environments drift, or nobody trusts the monitoring. Teams mid-migration who need an honest read before committing to the next phase.

Probably not if

  • Full cloud migration execution — this scopes it; a retainer or scoped build delivers it.
  • Security compliance certification — pair with Sentinel for that lens.

Deliverables

What you receive.

  • Cloud posture assessment: accounts, networking, cost patterns, and blast radius
  • CI/CD pipeline audit: build, test, deploy stages, environment promotion, rollback capability
  • Observability review: logging, metrics, alerting, and on-call readiness
  • Scalability recommendations with effort estimates
  • Prioritized remediation roadmap sequenced by release risk reduction

Build options

What we can deliver after.

The diagnostic is the front door. If the roadmap still needs hands on the work, these are the typical next steps — scoped from the problem, not from a menu.

  • CI/CD pipeline rebuild: GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, or your stack — through to production gates
  • Infrastructure-as-code migration (Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation)
  • Observability stack setup: CloudWatch, Datadog, or Grafana with alert routing
  • Fractional TPM / Delivery Program Lead if releases need governance, not just tooling

Scoping to delivery

How the engagement runs.

  1. 01Discovery call: confirm cloud provider, team size, and the release pain you want solved
  2. 02Access: CI/CD configs, infra repos, monitoring dashboards, recent incident postmortems
  3. 03Week 1: pipeline walk-through, environment inventory, deployment frequency analysis
  4. 04Week 2: observability and scalability assessment, stakeholder interviews
  5. 05Week 2–3: findings report, roadmap, and handoff to build or retainer

Typical follow-on

Post-Diagnostic Execution Retainer for pipeline rebuild, or Fractional TPM for release governance.

Want to talk about Forge?

A 30-minute call is enough to tell you whether this is the right first step — and what size of engagement the problem actually needs.