We based our list of DevOps consulting agencies on reviews of over 300 companies worldwide. It considers several factors, such as expertise, client feedback, pricing, portfolio, and industry reputation. You can also read our selection methodology at the end of our list to learn how we choose the best agencies in the industry.
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The Number 1 DevOps Consulting Company as Selected by DesignRush Is...
1. IT Outposts
- Best for: Overall
- Average hourly rate: $75
- Minimum budget: $50,000 & Up
- Size: Under 49
- Founded: 2020
- Location: Limassol, Cyprus
- Notable clients: Vidby, C Teleport, Openware, Excelsior, Handy.ai
IT Outposts provides cloud-based DevOps automation to help your company optimize your software development and IT operations and achieve seamless workflows. It also offers IT infrastructure and architecture design, Kubernetes deployment, minimum value product scaling (MVP), and infrastructure monitoring, tracking, and migration services. Companies partnered with IT Outposts have experienced a 55% increase in workflow improvements and a 63% time-to-market reduction.
One such successful partnership was with Vidby, an AI-powered translation app. Vidby needed to improve its multiple services' performance while ensuring its stable global operations. It also wanted to build the technical infrastructure to rapidly scale its real-time translation services worldwide rapidly.
After identifying weak points in the service infrastructure, IT Outposts pushed for a more agile iteration, focusing on more responsive translations and constant service quality improvements. The DevOps consulting agency implemented and continued to support the startup’s tech base and help it maintain its project goals. The result was less than 25 monthly deployments and a 10-minute average lead time for changes. Downtimes were also limited to 1 to 2 minutes before service was restored.
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2. IT Svit
- Best for: IT infrastructure management
- Average hourly rate: $65
- Minimum budget: $50,000 & Up
- Size: 100-249
- Founded: 2005
- Location: Lviv, Ukraine
- Notable clients: Shoebacca, Hurma Systems, Glasswall Solutions, Amcor, Zebitex
IT Svit has provided end-to-end infrastructure management solutions for over 800 projects worldwide. It offers diverse services, including DevOps engineering, transformation and managed services, site reliability engineering, container management, and Kubernetes and Terraform consultations. The DevOps consulting company also offers cost-effective custom cloud logging and monitoring solutions and process automation.
IT Svit’s expertise has proved invaluable for companies like Shoebacca. The Texas-based footwear retailer tasked IT Svit to ensure their IT infrastructure remains stable, especially during peak traffic. Its existing system often collapsed without reason, and with the holiday season approaching, Shoebacca wanted peace of mind that their entire system would withstand the increased load.
In response, IT Svit built a comprehensive roadmap that included overhauling the snapshot lifecycle policy, establishing CloudWatch agents, and removing redundant volumes. It also identified the underlying causes of platform vulnerabilities and made relevant optimizations. In one week, the system withstood peak load during the holiday season. The revamped snapshot policies also saw a 75% decrease in AWS costs.
3. Tasrie IT Services
- Best for: Automation consulting
- Average hourly rate: $90
- Minimum budget: $1,000-$10,000
- Size: Under 49
- Founded: 2023
- Location: Dubai, UAE
- Notable clients: Coventry and Warwickshire Health and Care Partnership Trust, Venmo, Nordic Global, Burberry, Bluesky
Tasrie IT Services offers various DevOps services to optimize business operations and reduce costs. From cloud infrastructure migration to automation, the agency offers sophisticated and customized solutions backed by expert engineers. It also provides bespoke DevOps consultation services for healthcare delivery and genome research providers to ensure speedy delivery of life-saving solutions.
Organizations such as Coventry and Warwickshire Health and Care Partnership Trust (CWPT) leveraged Tasrie's custom solutions. Part of the UK’s NHS Trust, CWPT needed to migrate its services to the cloud to reduce maintenance costs, enhance cybersecurity, and achieve higher service availability overall.
After a thorough assessment, Tasrie implemented a multi-stage migration system that included setting up a cloud environment, migrating data and apps, optimizing management, and enhancing security. It also conducted a post-migration evaluation to identify areas of further improvement. As a result, the migration led to significant cost savings for CWPT and a more resilient IT infrastructure.
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4. StackOverdrive
- Best for: Multi-platform product delivery automation
- Average hourly rate: $149
- Minimum budget: $25,000-$50,000
- Size: Under 49
- Founded: 2014
- Location: New York, NY
- Notable clients: xCheck, Petco, Zebra, McGraw Hill Education
StackOverdrive helps companies switch from manual processes to automated, collaborative, and agile ones, resulting in more efficient solutions and processes. It offers a wide range of DevOps consulting services, including but not limited to Kubernetes consulting, cloud infrastructure strategy and design, infrastructure automation, continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD), and automated monitoring. The DevOps consulting firm also provides managed DevOps support for clients with or without in-house infrastructure teams.
StackOverdrive’s services have been critical for companies like xCheck. An ad-tech services provider for some of the world’s largest airlines, xCheck tapped StackOverdrive to support its current AWS infrastructure and optimize it for improved performance and reduced costs.
After conducting a full audit of xCheck’s existing infrastructure, StackOverdrive crafted and implemented a roadmap focused on maintaining uptime, system resiliency, and AWS backups. The agency also provided continuous support on its application pieces to ensure long-term stability. This collaboration has led to a marked improvement in AWS product delivery and the implementation of best practices that enabled the company staff to focus on their applications and services.
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5. Urolime Technologies
- Best for: Cloud migration
- Average hourly rate: Inquire
- Minimum budget: Inquire
- Size: 100-249
- Founded: 2011
- Location: Dallas, TX
- Notable clients: Intel, Wheedle, LeadFerret, VAT19, Carnival Cinemas
Urolime Technologies has the extensive experience and resources that businesses can rely on to adopt DevOps practices. As a certified Amazon cloud consulting partner, Urolime helps companies build and maintain scalable and highly reliable architecture on the AWS, Azure, and GCP cloud platforms. The agency also provides deployment and infrastructure automation, Dockerization, security, disaster recovery planning and implementation, managed services, and Kubernetes consulting solutions.
One of Urolime’s more successful partnerships was with Wheedle, a New Zealand bidding and auction portal. To achieve its business goals, Wheedle needed Urolime to set up a stable server infrastructure capable of handling millions of user requests. The agency must also provide IT support to assist in the rollout and provide user training.
Urolime’s team built best-in-class infrastructure to host Wheedle’s online bidding, auction, and remote management services. They also provided remote 24/7 support including system updates, server and network health checks, monthly server status reports, and an IT Help Desk. After a successful 1-month rollout, Wheedle saw a significant improvement in service levels with a 17% reduction in incidents and a 20% reduction in support calls. The company also cut its costs per incident by 30%.
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6. Innowise Group
- Best for: Custom DevOps project management
- Average hourly rate: $150
- Minimum budget: $25,000-$50,000
- Size: 1000 & Up
- Founded: 2007
- Location: St. Petersburg, FL
- Notable clients: Lavarient Holdings, Atlas Guides, Definely, Netdevops, Talmatic
The Innowise Group is a global software development provider that offers customized DevOps consulting and management services. Whether it’s CI/CD, testing automation, or infrastructure monitoring, Innowise takes advantage of the latest industry trends and best practices to build robust and cost-effective cloud platforms and solutions for businesses.
One of the agency’s recent DevOps projects is with a biotech firm specializing in DNA testing and microbiome analysis. The firm needed to upgrade its legacy systems and improve the scalability and efficiency of its data processing operations. They also wanted to expand their AWS architecture, migrate towards remote software deployment, and optimize processes.
Innowise’s solution focused on three core areas: overhauling the client’s infrastructure, automating and simplifying processes, and refining their CI/CD system. The result was a 70% reduction in the firm’s computing costs and significant improvements in its infrastructure and processes. Innowise also provided long-term AWS environment support to ensure they met the project requirements.
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7. MindK
- Best for: Enterprise and scale-up companies
- Average hourly rate: $95
- Minimum budget: $10,000-$25,000
- Size: 100-249
- Founded: 2009
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Notable clients: Adidas, Paramount, Roblox, Rodan+Fields
Since 2009, MindK has helped dozens of companies worldwide to implement the best DevOps practices. It offers industry-leading in-house solutions, infrastructure and software deployment frameworks, and numerous expert engineers with extensive experience in the latest DevOps trends and practices. This dedication towards excellence has earned it a 96% client satisfaction rate and membership in the prestigious Inc. 5000.
MindK recently partnered with AISEMO, an IoT company that provides monitoring solutions for injection-molding machines. AISEMO found its legacy infrastructure inadequate in handling the demands of its customers. It was up to MindK to update it and help optimize its operations for greater efficiency.
The MindK DevOps team quickly went to work automating the creation, maintenance, and updating of AISEMO’s customer infrastructure. With a single command-line interface, it reduced the processing time from four days to five minutes. The team also lowered costs via a centralized ECS cluster and introduced a more efficient serverless framework.
8. ScienceSoft
- Best for: Healthcare software development
- Average hourly rate: $50
- Minimum budget: Inquire
- Size: 500-999
- Founded: 1989
- Location: McKinney, TX
- Notable clients: IBM, Child Mind Institute, bioAffinity Technologies, Rivanna, HealthPoint Plus
For over three decades, ScienceSoft has delivered reliable, scalable, and secure IT solutions for various platforms. It has helped businesses in 70+ countries keep their IT infrastructure and software stable, assist in system integrations, and ensure compliance with HIPAA, GDPR, and other international standards. They are among the few DevOps specialists with extensive expertise in the healthcare IT sector.
One of ScienceSoft’s more notable partnerships was with a North American university-based company specializing in surgical instrument tracking solutions. The client had an RFID-based instrument tracking and analysis software and it assigned ScienceSoft to augment its in-house DevOps team to manage the solution.
To ensure fast software delivery, ScienceSoft introduced a DevOps strategy emphasizing collaboration across various teams and configuring the CI/CD pipeline. It also conducted field testing of the entire system to check its performance and accuracy in real-time and make necessary corrections. This collaborative effort led to 50% less wastage of surgical instruments, which amounted to an estimated $7 million in annual savings.
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9. Veritis Group Inc.
- Best for: DevOps service delivery
- Average hourly rate: Inquire
- Minimum budget: Inquire
- Size: 100-249
- Founded: 2004
- Location: Irving, TX
- Notable clients: Undisclosed
Veritis Group’s experts can help you craft and implement a DevOps implementation strategy that matches your business needs. It offers consulting services like DevOps assessment and planning, framework development, process implementation, automation, and security integration. The DevOps consulting firm also provides DevOps-managed services and custom monitoring solutions.
Veritis has been instrumental in helping one of the largest telecommunications companies in the US accelerate its processes through DevOps. The client needed a comprehensive platform to decentralize its various applications and integrate them within their infrastructure. It also didn’t have an in-house DevOps team, or individual project teams that could try setting up their own tools and services.
Veritis’s approach to the company’s problems focused on merging its various teams and improving collaboration and communication. The DevOps consulting firm then automated repetitive tasks and implemented a unified development environment supported by continuous monitoring and an iterative development process. This enabled the client to achieve faster deployment times and smoother and more frequent deliveries. Its teams also benefited from the increased collaboration, as it reduced complexity and increased employee engagement.
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10. ELEKS
- Best for: Software delivery solutions
- Average hourly rate: $50
- Minimum budget: $25,000-$50,000
- Size: 1000 & Up
- Founded: 1991
- Location: Chicago, IL
- Notable clients: Acino, Eset, Autodesk, Reactoo, AVG
ELEKS offers DevOps consulting services to improve IT infrastructure agility, foster internal collaboration, and reduce time-to-market by up to 21%. From planning and strategy development to long-term maintenance and support, ELEKS can help your team formulate unique strategies to optimize operations, reduce costs, and enable more frequent deployments. Its team of specialists is fully certified by Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. It also has extensive experience in high-performance computing, cloud computing, database management systems, and various cloud service models such as IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
One of the businesses that has benefited from ELEKS’s DevOps solutions was Reactoo, a UK-based digital media solutions provider. The company contracted ELEKS to help them develop a video capture application that incorporated bespoke emotion recognition technology. It must also provide consulting and support services to ensure the app is fully mobile-ready and launched quickly.
Closely collaborating with the product owner and key developers, ELEKS delivered a market-ready product and deployed a unique cloud-based service architecture with no analog in the market. The entire delivery product was also delivered within five months, which is 25%-30% faster than the market average, thanks to the seamless collaboration between teams.
How We Picked the Top DevOps Consulting Companies
Our list of the best DevOps consulting service providers was handpicked using an in-house scoring system based on several important factors:
- Reviews: Quality of output and client feedback and satisfaction
- Portfolio: Measurable examples of the company’s projects with previous clients
- Awards and press: Reputation and recognition within the industry
- Team bios: The qualifications and team dynamics of the team members
- Key specialities: The agency’s core competencies and areas of proficiency 
- Industry expertise: The company’s overall experience in DevOps consulting, including
- Deploying and updating applications in the cloud
- Optimizing IT infrastructure for increased productivity
- Automating workflows
- Improving overall system reliability and scalability
You can read DesignRush Agency Ranking Methodology for more details on our selection process and the criteria we used to determine the best DevOps consulting firms in the field.