Automation Adoption

Adopting automation is not just a technical shift. It is an operational and cultural transformation. Many organisations have the desire to automate but struggle with where to start, how to scale, and how to ensure their teams can sustain it long-term. We guide you through the entire journey, from initial assessment to a fully embedded practice your team can own and build on.

01

Maturity Assessment

We evaluate your current automation posture across tooling, processes, team capabilities, and governance. You get a clear picture of where you stand today and a prioritised view of what to address first.

02

Strategy & Roadmap

We work with your stakeholders to align automation goals with business outcomes, select appropriate tooling, and build a phased delivery plan that balances quick wins with lasting transformation.

03

Proof of Concept

Before committing to full rollout, we run targeted pilots to validate tooling choices, de-risk the approach, and build internal confidence and stakeholder buy-in.

04

Implementation

We deliver production-ready automation at scale, from single-server playbooks to multi-team pipelines, built to your compliance and quality standards from day one.

05

Team Enablement

We upskill your engineers through hands-on pairing, workshops, and structured knowledge transfer. The goal: your team owns and extends the automation independently when we leave.

06

Governance & Standards

We establish coding standards, testing frameworks, peer review processes, and documentation practices that keep your automation healthy, auditable, and scalable as it grows.

This service is right for you if:

You're starting your automation journey and don't know where to begin

You have automation in place but it's inconsistent, undocumented, or hard to maintain

You've bought tooling but haven't achieved the expected return

Your team lacks the skills or confidence to scale automation further

You need compliance built into your automation from the outset

You want to reduce reliance on key individuals and build team-wide capability

Infrastructure Automation

We specialize in transforming manual, repetitive IT processes into streamlined, automated workflows. Our infrastructure automation services help organizations:

Reduce human error and increase consistency
Deploy faster and more reliably across environments
Scale infrastructure efficiently without proportional staff increases
Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices
Integrate automation into existing DevOps pipelines

Operating System Compliance

We help organisations meet and sustain compliance across their infrastructure — covering CIS Benchmarks, DISA STIGs, and custom security baselines on Linux and Windows platforms. As core contributors to Ansible-Lockdown, our compliance work is grounded in the community standard rather than built from scratch.

See How We Approach Compliance

Challenges We Solve

Our clients face common challenges that we're experienced in solving:

Manual and Repetitive Operational Tasks

Eliminate time-consuming manual processes across Linux, Windows, and application infrastructure with automation that maintains security and compliance standards.

Ad Hoc or Outdated Compliance Processes

Replace inconsistent compliance practices with modern, automated, and auditable processes.

Configuration Drift and Visibility Issues

Gain complete visibility into your infrastructure and prevent configuration drift with continuous monitoring.

Infrastructure Scaling Without Losing Control or Security

Scale confidently knowing your security and compliance standards scale with you.

Tools & Technologies

We work with the industry's leading automation and compliance tooling, selecting the right stack for your environment — not the one we happen to prefer.

Automation & Config

Ansible / AWX / AAP
Terraform / OpenTofu
Puppet / Chef
Packer

Compliance & Scanning

OpenSCAP / SCAP Workbench
CIS-CAT Pro
Lynis
Nessus / Tenable

CI/CD & Pipelines

GitLab CI / GitHub Actions
Jenkins
ArgoCD
HashiCorp Vault

Platforms & OS

RHEL / Rocky / CentOS
Ubuntu / Debian
Windows Server
AWS / Azure / GCP

Open Source Commitment

Working alongside our partners Tyto Athene, we are proud open source contributors and primary maintainers of Ansible-Lockdown, the community's leading open source project delivering audited, security-hardened Ansible roles implementing CIS Benchmarks and DISA STIGs across Linux and Windows platforms.

Our open source involvement means the approaches we bring to client engagements are tested and validated against community scrutiny, aligned with the latest compliance standards, and trusted by organisations worldwide. We believe in giving back to the ecosystem that underpins modern infrastructure automation.

See the Methodology

Ansible-Lockdown

Hundreds of audited compliance roles covering CIS Benchmarks and DISA STIGs for RHEL, Ubuntu, Windows, and more

Community Trusted

Roles reviewed and relied upon by security teams and compliance professionals across government, defence, and enterprise globally

Standards Aligned

Continuously maintained against the latest CIS and DISA releases — so compliance automation stays current and accurate

How We Work

Our engagement model is designed to deliver measurable value from day one, while leaving your team fully capable of maintaining what we build.

01

Discovery

We assess your current infrastructure, compliance posture, and automation maturity — identifying gaps, risks, and quick wins.

02

Design

We design a tailored framework aligned to your standards, existing tooling, and team capabilities. No unnecessary replacement of what is already working.

03

Implement

We deliver working automation, integrate into your pipelines, and apply compliance baselines across your environment.

04

Handover

We document everything, train your team, and ensure you fully own and can maintain what we've built together.

Infrastructure Automation & Compliance Services