Your DevOps setup is only as good as the thinking behind it. We bring CTO level thinking.
DevOps isn’t just tooling, it’s how your business ships, scales, and survives. At Red Corner, our fractional CTOs step into your team and untangle the mess behind slow releases, brittle systems, and firefighting ops. We’ve built DevOps from scratch, fixed it mid crisis, and evolved it to support product teams moving at speed. If your engineers are stuck babysitting deployments or scrambling on Slack every release, we can help. And we won’t throw buzzwords at you, we’ll show you what works, what doesn’t, and what to do next.
DevOps Is a Culture, Not a Toolset, And We’ve Lived It
DevOps is not just about continuous delivery, it's about continuous understanding. At Red Corner, our fractional CTOs bring the lived experience of building DevOps systems that survive and thrive under pressure. We’ve stepped into startups with no pipelines, growth companies with unscalable infrastructure, and regulated industries with strict audit trails, and made DevOps not only work, but stick.
Our approach is grounded in real business impact. We work across product, engineering, operations, and leadership to make DevOps a shared responsibility. That means we tailor tooling, communication, and deployment strategies to how your business functions, not just how some book says it should.
From CI/CD pipelines to complex multi cloud environments, we create systems that are observable, secure, and resilient. But more than that, we create cultures of ownership. Teams stop asking, “Who owns this?” and start saying, “We’ve got this.”
DevOps doesn’t always mean Kubernetes. The right infrastructure depends entirely on your product delivery model. Whether you deploy to the cloud, into customer environments, on prem systems, or some hybrid mix, we design DevOps strategies that match how your customers actually access your product. On prem? Hybrid? Multi tenant SaaS with regional failover? We’ve done it. And we’ll help you get it right, from the first deploy to the thousandth.
Red Corner’s FCTOs aren’t guessing. They’ve run these systems, coached these teams, and recovered from these outages. They know the real DevOps work starts after the automation is built, when it's time to evolve, support, and grow. That’s the expertise you get with Red Corner.
The Red Corner Approach
At Red Corner, we don’t treat DevOps as a checklist. Our fractional CTOs have operated in the trenches, building, scaling, and stabilizing DevOps setups that support fast moving product teams. We’ve led teams through full CI/CD adoption, rescued infrastructure after outages, and scaled platforms without blowing up budgets. Our approach is pragmatic: understand the business, assess the risk, and deliver infrastructure that doesn’t just work, it evolves.
We know that DevOps looks very different in regulated industries like healthcare and finance, we’ve built compliant, auditable systems without sacrificing speed. Most consultancies hand you a playbook. We hand you a plan, a partner, and a CTO who knows what good really looks like.
Foundational
We begin by identifying the real blockers, not just the tech gaps, but the organizational friction points that stall delivery and wear out teams. By the end of this foundational stage, your team won’t just have a working pipeline, they’ll have a DevOps strategy that’s aligned with how your company actually operates. The right tooling will be in place, yes, but more importantly, the cultural groundwork will be set: teams will understand their role in the release cycle, silos will start to break, and DevOps will begin to feel like a shared responsibility, not a function bolted on. That’s the baseline we build from.
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Evolution
With the foundation laid, we shift to evolution, not just of systems, but of people and process. At this stage, we focus on embedding the cultural changes that make DevOps sustainable. That means hands on training, leadership coaching, and making sure teams aren’t just using the tools, but owning the process. We help engineer buy in, refine team rituals, and set up feedback loops that actually get used. Alongside this, your Red Corner FCTO reviews how far you’ve come, in delivery speed, stability, and team confidence, and lays out the ROI in clear terms. DevOps isn’t just working. It’s becoming how you work.
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Growth
Real growth in DevOps doesn’t stop at deployment, it continues through observability, monitoring, and strategic readiness. At this stage, we help you design systems that don’t just work, but scale with your business. What happens when an API hits its SLA threshold? What do alerts mean for business impact, not just uptime? We help you answer those questions before they become problems. From intelligent alerting to capacity planning and cross functional runbooks, your FCTO ensures the system grows with the company, without burning out the team or gambling with reliability.
When teams are building under pressure, especially in early stage companies or during intense product cycles, they often enter survival mode. It’s fast, it’s reactive, and honestly, it works when you need to get something out the door. At Red Corner, we respect that. We never show up with judgment. Teams do what they need to do, and they put in hard, meaningful work. Acknowledging that is critical to any kind of real DevOps transformation. Because change doesn’t happen when people feel criticized, it happens when they feel supported.
One example that really stuck with me came from a client in logistics. Their entire engineering team was offshore. They were smart and committed, but they’d never been trained on server or deployment fundamentals. The product was being deployed manually, straight onto production servers. No backups. The database was moved by hand. The application and database were completely disconnected. By most standards, it was a disaster waiting to happen.
And yet, this company was making millions. They were profitable. Until the downtime started. That’s when they called us.
What followed wasn’t just a DevOps upgrade, it was a cultural evolution. Yes, we eventually got CI/CD in place, but that was the easy part. What took time, six full months, was changing how product managers worked with developers, how decisions were made, how testing was treated, how releases were planned. We helped them shift from reactive to resilient, from patched up infrastructure to intentional architecture.
That’s what DevOps really is. It’s not a tool or a buzzword. It’s a shared understanding of how things should work, across roles and time zones. And when you get it right, it doesn’t just improve deployment, it changes how the company operates.
— Oshri Cohen
Founder, Red Corner
Expert Guidance
Our FCTOs have led DevOps transformations in high stakes environments where uptime is revenue and failure isn’t an option. We've introduced DevOps into chaotic startups, scaled it across growth stage teams, and hardened it for compliance in regulated industries like finance and healthcare. We’ve worked across multiple industries, juggling distributed teams, competing priorities, and projects with wildly different deployment cadences. It gets complicated fast, and we’ve navigated that complexity, delivering clarity, stability, and velocity. This isn’t DevOps in theory. This is DevOps lived and led.
Continuous Support
DevOps isn’t a one time install. It needs ongoing care, guidance, and adjustment, especially as your business evolves. With Red Corner, your FCTO doesn’t just keep an eye on the tech, they stay plugged into the entire business. We talk to executives, product leads, and even marketing as much as we do developers, because DevOps touches every part of how you deliver. Whether we’re embedded daily, checking in weekly, or monitoring remotely, we ensure your systems and teams stay aligned, stable, and ready for what’s next.
Tailored Solutions
DevOps may follow a standard set of principles, but how those principles are assembled and applied varies with every company. That’s because the way you deliver value to your customers is unique. Your architecture, your constraints, your team dynamics, all of it shapes what good DevOps actually looks like for you. At Red Corner, we don’t force fit best practices. We build tailored systems that reflect your reality, and then raise the bar from there. Your FCTO makes sure the process serves the business, not the other way around.
Innovative Approach
Innovation isn’t a buzzword here, it’s survival instinct. Our FCTOs come from startups where you either build something better or get left behind. That means we bring creative problem solving into DevOps, not just safer pipelines. We’ll show you ways to reduce manual toil, cut release friction, or re architect legacy systems that are slowing everyone down. But we also know when speed beats purity. Sometimes the right fix is a clever workaround, not a six month refactor. Real innovation is knowing the difference, and acting fast when it matters.
DevOps Is a Culture, Not a Toolset, And We’ve Lived It
Red Corner doesn’t send you a contractor who knows GitHub Actions or CircleCI, we give you a CTO who’s lived through launches, outages, audits, and reorgs. Someone who’s built DevOps strategies from the ground up, guided engineering and product through painful trade offs, and always kept one eye on delivery and the other on the bottom line. Our FCTOs plan for what happens after the tools are in place, how the business runs faster, smoother, and with fewer surprises.
Deep Expertise in CI/CD for Complex Applications
We’ve designed CI/CD workflows for companies running microservices, monoliths, and everything in between. Whether it’s managing multiple environments, coordinating approval flows, or integrating with security and compliance gates, we’ve seen the mess and made it clean. We use tools like GitHub Actions and CircleCI, but more importantly, we design the pipelines around the business. Releases happen faster, safer, and with less noise.
DevOps Built for Compliance and Audit Readiness
DevOps in healthcare or fintech isn’t just about automation, it’s about traceability, audit logs, and doing it right the first time. Our FCTOs have built delivery systems that meet HIPAA, SOC 2, and PCI expectations without turning teams into compliance bottlenecks. We bake in security reviews, approval workflows, and rollback strategies that satisfy auditors and keep engineering moving. You’ll get systems that are not just compliant, they’re smart, scalable, and production ready.
Aligning DevOps with Product and Business Goals
We don’t silo DevOps. We make it a business function. Our FCTOs work directly with product managers, marketing leads, and execs to ensure DevOps enables business goals, not just faster deployments, but smarter prioritization, clearer feedback loops, and real time visibility into delivery health. When DevOps is aligned with product and customer needs, everyone wins, fewer delays, tighter launches, and better user experiences.
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FAQ
1. What is DevOps?
DevOps is a set of practices that unifies software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops). It aims to shorten the systems development life cycle while delivering features, fixes, and updates frequently and reliably. At its core, DevOps is a cultural shift that promotes collaboration between traditionally siloed teams, automation of processes, and continuous feedback to enhance product quality and team efficiency.
2. Why is DevOps important for my business?
Implementing DevOps can dramatically improve deployment frequency, lead time for changes, and recovery from failures. It reduces friction between development and operations, which increases productivity, decreases deployment failures, and allows faster innovation. For business, this means quicker go-to-market cycles, improved customer satisfaction, and a stronger alignment between technical and business goals.
3. How does Red Corner approach DevOps consulting?
We begin by identifying real-world blockers that prevent your teams from shipping safely and confidently. From there, we align the DevOps transformation with your unique business goals. Our fractional CTOs don't just implement tooling, they reshape how product, engineering, and leadership interact. We focus on creating systems and behaviors that are sustainable long-term, not just quick wins.
4. What industries does Red Corner specialize in for DevOps consulting?
Red Corner has extensive experience across industries where uptime, reliability, and compliance are critical. These include healthcare, financial services, logistics, ecommerce, SaaS, and deep tech. Our consultants understand the nuances of regulated environments and can tailor strategies that balance innovation with auditability and control.
5. Can Red Corner help with compliance and regulatory requirements?
Yes. We’ve worked with teams bound by HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI DSS, and more. We implement controls that are embedded in the delivery process, like change tracking, audit trails, and environment isolation, so your team stays compliant without disrupting speed or agility. Compliance becomes an integrated part of development, not a roadblock.
6. What tools and technologies do you use?
We are tool-agnostic but experienced with a wide range of DevOps solutions including CI/CD platforms, infrastructure as code, observability stacks, and secrets management. Rather than forcing a stack, we work with your team to select and implement tools that fit your environment, culture, and growth plans.
7. How do you handle on-premises and hybrid cloud environments?
DevOps isn’t just for cloud-native systems. We’ve helped companies modernize and standardize delivery pipelines across hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, and even on-prem environments. Our approach takes into account latency, access control, and scalability requirements, ensuring your infrastructure supports growth without becoming a liability.
8. What is the typical duration of a DevOps transformation project?
Every organization is different. Some foundational improvements can take just a few weeks, while deeper cultural and technical shifts may span 6 to 12 months. We define short, medium, and long-term milestones, so you see consistent progress with business-impacting outcomes at every stage.
9. Do you provide training for internal teams?
Absolutely. We believe a sustainable DevOps culture can’t exist without empowered teams. We offer structured workshops, pair programming, live simulations, and documentation tailored to your stack. Whether it’s coaching senior engineers or onboarding junior developers, we ensure everyone is up to speed and on the same page.
10. How do you measure the success of a DevOps implementation?
We rely on industry-standard metrics like deployment frequency, lead time for changes, mean time to recovery (MTTR), and change failure rate. But we also track qualitative outcomes: team confidence, incident clarity, release regularity, and cross-team alignment. We present this in clear, non-technical dashboards for leadership and operational reports for engineering.