Do we still need our own developers?

Yes — we complement your developers, we do not replace them. We build and run the delivery pipeline and infrastructure so your engineers spend their time on product features instead of plumbing.

How do you work with our existing code and cloud accounts?

We plug into your existing Git repositories and AWS or Azure accounts and work as an embedded team, using named least-privilege access. Everything we build — pipelines, Terraform, configuration — lives in your repositories, so you own it and there is no lock-in.

Can you collaborate with our team across the UAE and Gulf?

Yes. We work on Gulf Standard Time, so stand-ups, reviews and releases happen during your working day. Collaboration runs through your existing tools — Git, chat and ticketing — the same as a co-located team.

What if we already have some CI/CD in place?

That is common. We assess what exists, keep what works and improve the rest rather than forcing a rebuild — often starting with the pipeline stages or manual steps that cause the most pain.

How is DevOps-as-a-Service priced?

It is scoped to the engagement — the state of your current setup, the platforms involved and whether you need a project or an ongoing embedded team. For context, a single senior DevOps engineer hired in Dubai costs upward of AED 600,000 a year fully loaded; an embedded ONYX team is a fraction of that on a monthly retainer — and you get the breadth of a team rather than one hire. We provide a written quote after a short scoping conversation; we do not publish fixed rates.

Which tools and platforms do you use?

We work with the mainstream, portable toolchain — CI/CD pipelines, Terraform and Ansible for infrastructure as code, Docker and Kubernetes for containers, on AWS or Azure — chosen to fit your stack rather than to lock you into ours.

Pillar 02

DevOps-as-a-Service

A remote DevOps team on demand — pipelines, automation and infrastructure as code.

Ship faster without hiring a full platform team. We build and operate the delivery pipeline behind your product — automating the manual work so your developers focus on features, not infrastructure.

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What's included

CI/CD pipelines

Automated build, test and deploy pipelines that make releases fast, repeatable and safe to roll back.

Infrastructure as Code

Your environments defined in code (Terraform, Ansible) — versioned, reviewable and reproducible.

Containers & orchestration

Containerisation and orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes, sized to your real workload.

Cloud architecture

Well-architected, cost-aware environments on AWS and Azure — scalable and observable by design.

Observability

Logging, metrics and alerting so you see problems before your customers do.

Release automation

The repetitive, error-prone manual steps between commit and production, automated away.

How we deliver it

We plug into your existing repos and cloud accounts and work as an embedded remote team — collaboratively, with your developers, on your schedule.

How we work

A predictable, remote-first engagement — from first assessment to steady-state delivery on Gulf Standard Time.

1
Assess the current state
We review your codebase, existing pipelines and cloud setup to find the bottlenecks between a commit and production — and the quickest wins.
2
Design the foundation
A pipeline and infrastructure-as-code blueprint (Terraform/Ansible) mapped to how your team actually ships, not a generic template.
3
Build & automate
We implement CI/CD, containerisation and the environments in code — reviewed alongside your developers, so nothing is a black box.
4
Operate & iterate
As an embedded remote team on Gulf Standard Time, we run observability, tune the pipeline and keep automating the repetitive work as you grow.

Who it's for

Common situations we solve

Not sure if this fits? These are the typical scenarios where Gulf businesses bring us in for devops-as-a-service.

Developers doing ops instead of shipping

Product and engineering teams whose developers spend too much time on deployment and infrastructure.

Releases are manual and time-consuming. Senior engineers babysit deploys and firefight infrastructure instead of building the product.

Automated CI/CD pipelines so build, test and deploy are fast and repeatable
Infrastructure defined as code (Terraform/Ansible) — versioned and reproducible
Observability wired in so problems surface before customers hit them

Outcome: Developers get their time back and spend it on features, while releases become routine instead of risky.

Need DevOps capacity, can’t hire it in Dubai

Startups and scale-ups that need DevOps now but can’t justify — or can’t find — a full-time senior hire.

The team needs pipelines, cloud architecture and automation, but hiring an experienced DevOps engineer in the UAE is slow and expensive.

An embedded remote DevOps team plugs into your existing repos and cloud accounts
Works alongside your developers on Gulf Standard Time — stand-ups, reviews and releases in your working day
Everything built lives in your repositories: no black boxes, no lock-in

Outcome: Senior DevOps capability on demand, scaled up or down as you need it, without a permanent headcount commitment.

Every release is a white-knuckle event

Teams shipping to production manually, where a bad deploy means downtime and a late night.

Deployments are hand-run and hard to roll back. Environments drift, “works on my machine” is a real problem, and nobody trusts the release process.

Repeatable pipelines with automated testing and safe, one-click rollback
Containerisation and orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes) sized to the real workload
Environments reproduced from code, so staging actually matches production

Outcome: Releases become boring — predictable, reversible and frequent — which is exactly what you want them to be.

Frequently asked questions

Do we still need our own developers?: Yes — we complement your developers, we do not replace them. We build and run the delivery pipeline and infrastructure so your engineers spend their time on product features instead of plumbing.
How do you work with our existing code and cloud accounts?: We plug into your existing Git repositories and AWS or Azure accounts and work as an embedded team, using named least-privilege access. Everything we build — pipelines, Terraform, configuration — lives in your repositories, so you own it and there is no lock-in.
Can you collaborate with our team across the UAE and Gulf?: Yes. We work on Gulf Standard Time, so stand-ups, reviews and releases happen during your working day. Collaboration runs through your existing tools — Git, chat and ticketing — the same as a co-located team.
What if we already have some CI/CD in place?: That is common. We assess what exists, keep what works and improve the rest rather than forcing a rebuild — often starting with the pipeline stages or manual steps that cause the most pain.
How is DevOps-as-a-Service priced?: It is scoped to the engagement — the state of your current setup, the platforms involved and whether you need a project or an ongoing embedded team. For context, a single senior DevOps engineer hired in Dubai costs upward of AED 600,000 a year fully loaded; an embedded ONYX team is a fraction of that on a monthly retainer — and you get the breadth of a team rather than one hire. We provide a written quote after a short scoping conversation; we do not publish fixed rates.
Which tools and platforms do you use?: We work with the mainstream, portable toolchain — CI/CD pipelines, Terraform and Ansible for infrastructure as code, Docker and Kubernetes for containers, on AWS or Azure — chosen to fit your stack rather than to lock you into ours.

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Proven delivery

Related work

Anonymized reference projects our engineers delivered in this discipline — the depth now behind the remote service.

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Regional Fintech — Payment Gateway

Cloud-native, PCI-aligned platform for a payment gateway

A regional payment-gateway provider needed a production AWS platform that scales with real payment traffic and stands up to payments-grade security. We designed and delivered the entire environment as code — Amazon EKS with an Istio service mesh, Karpenter and KEDA autoscaling, CI/CD, full observability and HSM-backed key management. This is remote-native cloud engineering, delivered end to end.

Fintech — Digital Payments (UAE / MENAP market)

Cost-efficient Kubernetes autoscaling for a UAE payments fintech

A digital-payments fintech operating in the UAE and wider MENAP region — a PCI-DSS, 3-D Secure payments environment — needed a platform that absorbs spiky transaction volume without paying for idle capacity. We built it on Amazon EKS with Karpenter so nodes scale to real demand, backed by managed AWS data services and GitLab CI/CD, delivered and operated entirely remotely. (A different client and pattern to the payment-gateway build above: cost-driven autoscaling rather than service-mesh security.)

By location

Serving Dubai & Abu Dhabi

Delivered remotely on Gulf Standard Time to businesses across the UAE. See how devops-as-a-service works for your emirate.

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Pillar 01

Managed IT & Cloud Operations

Proactive remote monitoring, cloud management and end-user support — off your plate.

Pillar 03

Cybersecurity & Network Management

Enterprise security and connectivity, configured and managed remotely.

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