Platform engineering · Cloud · Security · Delivered anywhere

Faster, safer software delivery. Engineered as a platform.

Platform engineering, cloud, security and software, delivered anywhere. Tech Digital Services designs, builds, secures and runs the platforms enterprises ship software on: developer platforms, automated CI/CD and cloud-native infrastructure, plus the security, operations and custom development around them. Proven in regulated banking and financial services, available to any sector.

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Remote by default. On-site anywhere in the world when the job needs someone in the room.

Clients

Teranode IKEA Ikano Bank Qualipro

Our engineers bring hands-on delivery experience from across banking, payments, insurance, retail and government

Barclays Lloyds Banking Group Zurich Admiral Atradius Crowdcube National Trust Accenture IBM Sainsbury’s

Services

Eight ways Tech Digital Services delivers

From the developer experience at the top to the cloud infrastructure underneath, provided end to end or as targeted engagements.

01

Cloud platforms

AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.

  • Landing zones, SSO and IAM
  • On-prem and VMware migrations, rehost through re-architect
  • VPC, hybrid and multi-cloud networking
  • Backup, DR and resilience design
  • FinOps: rightsizing and spend guardrails
02

Platform engineering

Kubernetes and developer platforms.

  • Docker, EKS, GKE and AKS build and operation
  • Karpenter, Helm, GitOps with Flux or Argo CD
  • Self-hosted CI runner fleets at scale (Actions Runner Controller, Linux and Windows)
  • Internal developer platforms and golden paths
  • Self-healing automation and auto-remediation
03

Infrastructure as code

Automation and Linux.

  • Terraform, Terragrunt and Ansible
  • Python and shell automation
  • Linux build, hardening and management
  • Secrets and configuration management
  • Dev, test and production from one codebase
04

DevOps transformation

CI/CD and source control.

  • GitHub Enterprise rollout and administration at scale
  • GitHub Actions, GitLab CI and Jenkins pipelines
  • Jenkins to GitHub Actions and SVN to Git migrations, history preserved
  • Build once, promote everywhere with gated deployments
  • SDLC governance, rulesets and ServiceNow change integration
  • Database delivery automation (Oracle PL/SQL)
05

Security

Ethical hacking and penetration testing.

  • Web application, API, network and cloud penetration testing
  • Security assessments of platforms and pipelines
  • Supply chain security: dependency, container and secret scanning
  • Firewall and network security design and migration
  • Incident response, root cause analysis and remediation
06

SRE and operations

Managed, observed, tuned.

  • Monitoring, alerting and on-call design
  • Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics, Prometheus and Grafana
  • Performance engineering: heap analysis, SQL tuning, load testing
  • Production support and post-incident review
07

Custom development

Built to fit your business.

  • Bespoke web and backend applications
  • API design and systems integration
  • Legacy application modernisation
  • Websites, hosting and maintenance
08

AI and automation

Less toil, better decisions.

  • AI integrated into your existing tools and data
  • Workflow automation that removes manual toil
  • AI-assisted engineering: coding agents, review, documentation
  • Assistants and chatbots trained on your business

Capabilities

The toolkit

The technologies and practices behind the services.

Cloud & Infrastructure

  • AWS (EKS, ECR, IAM Identity Center, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, GuardDuty, Cost Explorer)
  • Google Cloud
  • Azure
  • Hetzner: cost-optimised, EU data residency, hybrid with AWS
  • VPC, networking and VPN

Kubernetes & Runners

  • Kubernetes, EKS, GKE, AKS
  • Karpenter
  • Helm, Flux, Argo CD
  • Actions Runner Controller
  • Linux and Windows runners

CI/CD

  • GitHub Enterprise Cloud and EMU administration
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI, Jenkins
  • Jenkins to GHA migration
  • Build once, promote everywhere
  • Deployment matrices

IaC & Automation

  • Terraform, Terragrunt
  • Ansible
  • Docker
  • Python
  • Bash

Security

  • Penetration testing, OWASP
  • Mend, Trivy, Grype, Dependabot
  • Secrets management
  • FortiGate and cloud firewalling
  • Security incident RCA

Observability & Performance

  • Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics
  • Prometheus, Grafana
  • PagerDuty
  • JVM heap and memory analysis
  • SQL tuning

Data & Legacy

  • Oracle PL/SQL delivery
  • Subversion to Git
  • Nexus Repository Manager and artifact management
  • Release-tooling replacement

Practices

  • Platform engineering
  • Trunk-based development
  • DevSecOps
  • Workflow governance
  • FinOps, SRE

Selected impact

Delivered at enterprise scale

A snapshot from leading platform and migration programmes across banks and financial services.

Thousands
repository transformations, SVN → Git at enterprise scale
7
Countries in a single delivery programme
100%
commit history preserved, via custom migration tooling
25+
Years in IT & software delivery

Leadership & delivery

Owning the outcome: people, budget, and reliability

Senior enough to lead the whole delivery, not just the engineering: the teams that build it, the budget that funds it, and the automation that keeps it healthy and on-plan.

TEAMS

Built & led engineering teams

Hired, mentored, and led cross-functional platform and migration teams, setting the standards and ways of working that let them deliver at pace and stay self-sufficient.

Hiring & mentoringWays of workingCross-functional
BUDGETS

Owned & managed delivery budgets

Planned, forecast, and managed programme budgets end to end, accountable to stakeholders and keeping delivery within plan.

ForecastingCost trackingStakeholder reporting
RELIABILITY

Self-healing automation

Automation that detects and remediates issues on its own: self-healing infrastructure that cuts incidents, reduces on-call toil, and keeps platforms available.

Auto-remediationSelf-healing infraToil reduction
FINOPS

Cost-driven automation

Automation that holds cloud spend to budget: cost-aware autoscaling, automated rightsizing, and spend guardrails that maintain budgets without manual policing.

FinOpsCost-aware autoscalingBudget guardrails

Why Tech Digital Services

Why work with Tech Digital Services

Senior, architecture-led engagements focused on outcomes your teams keep after handover.

Practitioner-led, senior end to end

The person you talk to designs, builds and runs it, and is senior enough to own teams, budgets and outcomes.

Secure and compliant by default

Security and governance built into the platform, not bolted on. Suited to regulated industries.

Build once, promote everywhere

One artifact, gated through every environment: reproducible, auditable and fast.

Teams left self-sufficient

Platforms and documentation are handed over for your own engineers to own, run and extend.

STEP 01

Scope

Share the problem. You get an itemised scope, no obligation.

STEP 02

Build

Architecture-led delivery, your engineers in the loop throughout.

STEP 03

Launch

Reviewed, tested and cut over with you, on your schedule.

STEP 04

Run

Supported by Tech Digital Services, or handed over with your team self-sufficient.

Why us, not the big firms

The same regulated-finance credibility. None of the pyramid.

The global systems integrators bring scale, and juniors billed as seniors. You get the senior who has actually done it, and only that.

The big-firm model

  • Junior teams billed at senior rates
  • Time-and-materials, scope that creeps
  • The team rotates; knowledge walks out at handover
  • Over-engineered to grow the contract
  • Offshore blend and time-zone lag
  • Compliance treated as a checkbox

Tech Digital Services

  • The senior who scopes it is the one who builds it
  • Fixed scope, fixed price, published starting rates
  • You own it: documented, handed over, no lock-in
  • Right-sized to the job, no platform sprawl
  • Remote by default, on-site anywhere when it counts
  • Compliance evidence delivered as an artefact

Engagements

Ways to work together

Fixed-scope or ongoing. Remote by default, on-site anywhere in the world when the job needs someone in the room. Every engagement starts with an itemised scope and no obligation.

Assess

Platform assessment

Fixed fee, from £2,500

A focused review of your delivery, cloud and security posture, with a clear picture of where the risk, cost and speed wins are.

  • Architecture and pipeline review
  • Security and cost findings
  • Prioritised, itemised roadmap
  • Readout call with your team
Book an assessment
Most popular Build

Build sprint

Fixed scope, quoted per project

Architecture-led delivery of a defined platform capability, on a set timeline, with your engineers in the loop throughout.

  • Fixed scope and timeline
  • Cloud, Kubernetes, CI/CD or security
  • Reproducible, documented build
  • Tested handover, no lock-in
Scope a build
Run

Managed platform

Monthly retainer, from £3,000 / month

Ongoing operation and continuous improvement of your platform, so it stays fast, secure and available without adding headcount.

  • Monitoring, alerting and on-call
  • Security and compliance upkeep
  • FinOps and performance tuning
  • Continuous improvement
Discuss a retainer

Get in touch

Talk to Tech Digital Services about your platform.

Available for contract and consulting engagements. Remote by default, on-site anywhere in the world when the job needs someone in the room.

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