Cloud & DevOps for Australian engineering teams.
Deploy faster. Break nothing. Scale without fear.
We build the cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and reliability engineering your product needs to ship confidently — from startup to enterprise, on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- 20+ Years engineering at scale
- 99.9% Uptime SLA maintained in production
- 3× Average deploy frequency increase
- 200+ Cloud workloads on AWS, Azure & GCP
Powering apps for Australia's most recognised brands
Four situations. One partner.
Pick the one that sounds like you.
You're deploying manually and one wrong move breaks production. You need a pipeline that ships reliably — every time.
The product is growing. Deployments are taking all day. Engineers are scared to push on Fridays. You know this isn't sustainable but you don't have the DevOps expertise in-house to fix it properly.
What most engineering leads worry about
- Our deployments are manual and terrifying. One bad push takes us down.
- Cloud costs are creeping up and we don't know why.
- We're growing fast — will our infrastructure hold?
What EB Pearls does
- CI/CD pipeline from scratch — automated build, test, and deploy on every commit
- Staging environment that mirrors production — test before you ship
- Infrastructure as Code from day one — reproducible, version-controlled, auditable
- Cost monitoring and alerting built in — no surprise bills
- 99.9% uptime SLA — know when something's wrong before your users do
"Before EB Pearls, we were doing manual deployments to production. It was terrifying. Now we deploy 20 times a day with complete confidence. The pipeline they built is rock solid." CTO
HealthTech SaaS · Sydney
Your infrastructure has grown organically for years. Every change is risky. Every release is a process. You need modern DevOps without disrupting what's running.
You've got complexity. Multiple teams, multiple environments, legacy systems that can't go down. A full rebuild isn't possible. What you need is a phased modernisation that improves velocity without creating new risk.
What enterprise engineering leads worry about
- We can't touch the live system — too many downstream dependencies.
- Our pipeline is a patchwork. Every deployment is a risk.
- Security and compliance requirements are getting stricter every year.
What EB Pearls does
- Phased modernisation — stability first, new capability second
- Audit what exists before touching anything — no unnecessary disruption
- DevSecOps gates built into every pipeline — compliance as code
- Gradual IaC migration — Terraform wraps your existing infrastructure
- Documentation handed over — no new tribal knowledge created
"We had an existing product, internal stakeholders, and a lot of complexity. EB Pearls helped us improve what was already there without disrupting the business — they even came in to view our processes in person." Michael Hanna
Digital Transformation Lead · Bingo Industries
Your data centre lease is ending. Or you're on the wrong cloud. Either way, you have a hard deadline and can't afford unplanned downtime.
Cloud migrations are high-stakes. The biggest risks aren't technical — they're around planning, sequencing, and compliance. EB Pearls has executed 20+ successful Australian cloud migrations without a single hour of unplanned downtime.
What operations leaders worry about
- What if something breaks during the migration and we can't roll back?
- We have a compliance audit scheduled — can we pass it after migration?
- How do we sequence 14 different applications without disruption?
What EB Pearls does
- Migration readiness assessment before any workload moves
- Phased execution with parallel run periods — no big-bang cutovers
- HIPAA, SOC2, and PCI DSS controls built into the new environment
- Full IaC rebuild after lift-and-shift — everything documented in Terraform
- Compliance audit support — documentation ready for your first review
"We had a major data centre migration with a hard deadline. EB Pearls came in, built the plan, and executed it flawlessly. Not a single hour of unplanned downtime. Genuinely impressed." CIO
Logistics Enterprise · Brisbane
You have a DevOps engineer or two. You need specialist expertise for a specific project — or to upskill your team — without a full outsourcing model.
Sometimes you don't need a full team. You need a senior AWS architect for the next 12 weeks. Or a Kubernetes specialist to get your cluster production-ready. Or someone to review your IaC and tell you what's wrong.
What engineering leads worry about
- We need AWS expertise but can't justify a full-time hire for a 3-month project.
- Our team can run it — we just need help getting it built right first.
- I want my team to own this long-term, not outsource it forever.
What we do at this stage:
- Senior specialists embedded in your team for a defined scope
- Knowledge transfer built into every engagement — your team learns as we build
- Architecture reviews and code reviews for your existing IaC
- Clear handoff documentation — no ongoing dependency on EB Pearls
- Optional ongoing retainer if you want continued support after delivery
"What stood out straight away was how clear they were on scope and cost. We understood exactly what was included — and there were no hidden extras later." Engineering Lead
FinTech · Sydney
Why cloud projects go wrong —and how we prevent it
After 200+ cloud workloads delivered, the failure patterns are consistent. These aren't technical problems — they're commercial problems with a technical cause.
No audit before the build
Jumping straight to solutions without understanding the existing system creates new problems on top of old ones. The most expensive engagements start with the least discovery.
Every engagement starts with a discovery sprint. We map the current state before recommending anything.
Cloud costs spiral undetected
Without cost monitoring and tagging from day one, cloud bills grow silently. Most teams only discover the problem after receiving a shocking invoice — by which point the damage is done.
FinOps controls, budget alerts, and tagging strategy implemented before your first workload goes live.
Security bolted on after launch
SAST, DAST, and compliance controls retrofitted into an existing pipeline are expensive and incomplete. Security found after launch costs 10× more to fix than security built in from sprint one.
Security gates in CI/CD from day one. OWASP, Snyk, SonarQube — built in, not bolted on.
Tribal knowledge walks out the door
Infrastructure built without IaC or documentation creates permanent dependency on the team that built it. When engineers leave, the system becomes unmaintainable.
Everything in Terraform. Runbooks, architecture docs, and on-call guides handed over before the engagement ends.
Big-bang migrations that break things
Cutting over too many workloads at once creates cascading failures with no clean rollback path. The deadline pressure that drives big-bang migrations is exactly what makes them dangerous.
Phased migration with parallel run periods. Proven sequencing from 20+ migrations — zero unplanned downtime.
The consultant disappears post-delivery
Many DevOps engagements end at delivery with no monitoring, no runbooks, and no support structure. The first incident after handover reveals every gap in the documentation.
Ongoing retainer option available. Monthly monitoring, patching, and incident response agreed before build begins.
Most cloud infrastructure is built to ship.
Ours is Built to Last™.
After 200+ cloud workloads in production, the pattern is clear: the failures that show up six months after launch trace back to decisions made in the first two weeks. Built to Last™ gets those foundations right from day one.
Architecture before code
The cost of a wrong architecture decision compounds. We eliminate it before a single resource is provisioned.
- Discovery sprint maps your current state honestly
- Target architecture designed and approved before build
- Cost modelling — you know what it costs before you commit
- Risk register created and owned by EB Pearls
- IaC blueprint in Terraform or Pulumi — reviewed before provisioning
Security and observability first
The things most teams add after launch are the things that matter most when something goes wrong.
- Monitoring and alerting configured before go-live
- Security gates in CI/CD — SAST, DAST, dependency scanning
- IAM least-privilege from environment one
- DR plan written and tested — not just documented
- Every change reviewed in Git — no console-only modifications
You own it. We document everything.
Our goal is your independence. Every engagement ends with a team that can operate without us.
- All repos, Terraform state, and accounts belong to you
- Runbooks written for every deployment and incident type
- Architecture diagrams and on-call guides handed over
- Knowledge transfer sessions with your engineering team
- Optional ongoing retainer — never a dependency
You can start at any stage.
Whether you're building from scratch, modernising legacy infrastructure, or migrating cloud providers — Built to Last™ gives you a clear path that doesn't require a costly do-over six months later.
The first conversation costs you nothing.
DevOps & Cloud Services —every discipline covered.
CI/CD Pipelines
Eliminate manual deployments. Automated pipelines that test, build, and ship your code on every commit — safely and repeatably. No more Friday deploys.
Cloud Infrastructure
Design, migrate, and manage cloud environments that scale with your growth — on AWS, Azure, or GCP — with cost controls built in from day one.
Infrastructure as Code
Your entire infrastructure in version-controlled code — reproducible, auditable, and reviewable. No snowflake servers. No tribal knowledge.
Containers & Kubernetes
Containerise your applications and let Kubernetes handle the heavy lifting — auto-scaling, self-healing, zero-downtime deployments at any scale.
DevSecOps
Bake security into the pipeline, not bolt it on at the end. Automated SAST/DAST, dependency scanning, and compliance gates on every build.
SRE & Observability
Define SLOs, implement error budgets, and instrument your systems so you know about problems before your customers do — 24/7.
From first call toproduction confidence.
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Discovery & Current State Audit 1-2 Weeks
We map your existing infrastructure, deployment processes, security posture, and cloud costs. We find the pain before we prescribe the solution — and we never recommend more than what you need. -
Target Architecture Design 1 week
We propose the cloud architecture with detailed cost modelling — you know what you're getting and what it costs before any work begins. Approved by you before a single resource is provisioned. -
Environment Setup & IaC Foundation 1–2weeks
Dev, staging, and production environments built in Terraform. Networking, IAM, secrets management, and tagging strategy — all codified and version-controlled from the start. -
CI/CD Pipeline Implementation 1-2 weeks
Automated build, test, and deploy pipelines. Environment promotion gates, rollback capability, and deployment approvals baked in from sprint one. Manual deployments eliminated. -
Security & Compliance Integration Ongoing
SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, and compliance policy checks run on every build. Nothing lands in production that hasn't passed the gate — SOC2, HIPAA, PCI DSS ready from the start. -
Observability & Alerting Before go-live
Dashboards, SLO definitions, alerting rules, and on-call runbooks configured before your first user arrives. You know your system is healthy — and you know first when it isn't. -
Disaster Recovery & Backup Testing Before go-live
DR plans written and tested — not just documented. We run actual drills so your recovery time objective is real, not theoretical. You know your system can recover before it ever has to. -
Performance Tuning & Cost Optimisation Post launch
Right-size compute, reserved instance strategy, caching layers, and CDN. FinOps dashboards and anomaly alerts so your team stays accountable for cloud spend. Average 34% cost reduction identified in first pass. -
Documentation & Knowledge Transfer End of engagement
Architecture diagrams, runbooks, IaC documentation, and on-call guides handed over before the engagement closes. Your team owns it completely — no dependency on EB Pearls to keep the lights on. -
Ongoing Support & Evolution Optional retainer
Monthly retainer or on-demand support covering monitoring, patching, incident response, and infrastructure evolution as your product grows. Most clients stay on retainer — but it's entirely optional. We build for independence, not dependency.
Live systems. Measurable outcomes.
Every project below is in production — not a proof of concept. Real engineering teams depend on these systems every day.Healthcare platform: Zero-downtime migration of 14 applications under a 90-day deadline
An ASX-listed healthcare provider's data centre lease was ending in 90 days. 14 legacy applications, no IaC, no CI/CD, and a HIPAA compliance audit scheduled for month four. We planned, executed, and handed over — two days early.
Read the case today→
Series B FinTech: From monthly releases to 40 deploys a day in 8 weeks
A Series B lending platform was shipping once a month, with deployments taking 4.5 hours and requiring the whole engineering team. We rebuilt their pipeline on Kubernetes and GitHub Actions. Eight weeks later, they deploy 40 times a day in 8 minutes.
Read the case study →
Plenti: Cloud infrastructure that scaled to 40,000+ users without a single rebuild
We built Plenti's lending platform cloud infrastructure from scratch — designed for production load from day one, not retrofitted at scale. The result: 40,000+ active users, 50% faster loan processing, and zero architecture rebuilds since launch.
Read the Plenti case study →
Don't take our word for it.
CTO · HealthTech SaaS · Sydney
They cut our AWS bill by 41% in the first three months — without touching the application. Then they rebuilt our infrastructure as code. Night and day difference in how we operate.
VP Engineering · FinTech · Melbourne
CIO · Logistics Enterprise · Brisbane
Optus
Product Manager · EML
Technology Director · Rello Pay
EB Pearls vs your other options.
EB Pearls
In-house hire
Freelancer
Big consulting firm
Collecting quotes from DevOps partners?
Everything your engagement covers —from day one.
CI/CD Pipelines
Automated build, test, and deploy pipelines. Environment promotion gates, rollback capability, and blue/green deployments baked in from sprint one.
Cloud Infrastructure
Design, migrate, and manage cloud environments on AWS, Azure, or GCP. Cost controls, scaling policies, and FinOps built in from day one.
Infrastructure as Code
Your entire infrastructure in version-controlled code — reproducible, auditable, and reviewable. No snowflake servers. No tribal knowledge.
Containers & Kubernetes
Production-grade clusters on EKS, AKS, or GKE. Auto-scaling, self-healing, and zero-downtime deployments from launch day.
DevSecOps
Security gates in every pipeline — SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, and compliance policy checks on every build, every commit.
SRE & Observability
SLOs, error budgets, dashboards, and on-call runbooks. You know your system is healthy — and you know first when it isn't.
Cloud Cost Optimisation
Right-size compute, reserved instance strategy, tagging, and FinOps dashboards. Average 34% cost reduction found in first audit.
Cloud Migration
Phased workload migration from on-premise or between cloud providers. 20+ migrations. Zero hours of unplanned downtime.
Cloud Platforms
Amazon Web Services
AWS
Microsoft Azure
Cloud
Google Cloud Platform
GCP
Digital Ocean
Cloud
Containers & Orchestration
Kubernetes
Orchestration
EKS / AKS / GKE
Managed K8s
Docker
Container
Helm Charts
Packaging
Argo CD
GitOps
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform
IaC
Pulumi
IaC
Ansible
Config
AWS CloudFormation
IaC
CI/CD
GitHub Actions
CI/CD
Bitbucket Pipelines
CI/CD
GitLab CI
CI/CD
Jenkins
CI/CD
CircleCI
CI/CD
Observability & Monitoring
Datadog
APM
Grafana
Dashboards
Prometheus
Metrics
ELK Stack
Logs
PagerDuty
On-call
CloudWatch
AWS
Security & Compliance
Snyk
SAST/DAST
SonarQube
Code quality
OWASP ZAP
DAST
HashiCorp Vault
Secrets
AWS IAM
Access
Checkov
IaC security
Databases & Data
RDS / Aurora
AWS
ElasticSearch
Search
Redis / ElastiCache
Cache
S3 / Blob / GCS
Object storage
PostgreSQL
Database
Discovery-First
Every engagement starts with an audit of your current state — infrastructure, costs, security posture, deployment process. No solutions before we understand the problem.
Architecture Before Code
Two-week sprints with a live working build at the end of every cycle. No status reports in place of working software. You see progress every fortnight, not at the end.
Security by Design
IAM least-privilege, secrets management, SAST/DAST gates, and compliance controls built in from environment one — not retrofitted after launch.
Observability First
Metrics, logs, traces, and alerting implemented before you go live — not retrofitted after your first outage. You know when something's wrong before your users do.
Everything as Code
Your infrastructure lives in Git. Every change is reviewed, auditable, and reproducible. No snowflake servers. No tribal knowledge that walks out the door.
Phased Delivery
No big-bang releases. Staged rollouts with parallel run periods and proven rollback paths — especially for migrations. Zero hours of unplanned downtime on record.
Documentation as Standard
Architecture diagrams, runbooks, IaC documentation, and on-call guides handed over before the engagement ends. Your team owns it — no ongoing dependency on EB Pearls.
FinOps Built In
Tagging strategy, cost allocation, budget dashboards, and anomaly alerting built in from day one. Surprise invoice events eliminated within 90 days on average.
Healthcare & MedTech
HIPAA-compliant cloud architecture, Australian privacy legislation, patient data sovereignty. Clinical systems with zero-downtime requirements.
FinTech & Financial Services
PCI DSS, ASIC-regulated environments, lending platform infrastructure, real-time transaction processing. SOC 2 audit preparation.
Insurance
Claims platform infrastructure, compliance-grade audit logging, and high-availability architecture for regulated decision systems.
PropTech
Property marketplace infrastructure, high-concurrency platforms, and data-intensive pipeline architecture at national scale.
SaaS & Technology
Multi-tenant cloud architecture, feature flag infrastructure, blue/green deployments, and scaling pipelines for high-growth products.
Telecommunications
Always-on infrastructure for high-volume consumer platforms. Millions of concurrent users without degradation.
Education & EdTech
Institutional-scale cloud infrastructure, data sovereignty compliance, and high-availability platforms for student-facing systems.
Enterprise & Government
Data centre migrations, legacy modernisation, SOC 2 compliance infrastructure, and Australian data sovereignty requirements.
When this is the right fit.
When it probably isn't.
We'd rather spend 60 seconds on this now than waste your time on a call that goes nowhere.
We're probably not right if you…
We're a strong fit if you…
If that sounds like you — let's talk. One 60-minute call. No pitch. A straight answer on whether we're the right fit.
Honest advice: when not to hire a DevOps partner
You're still finding product-market fit
Your team actively resists process change
You want someone to own it forever
ISO 27001 Certified, ISO 9001 Certified, AWS Technology Partner, Google Partner, Microsoft Azure Partner and more.
Answered honestly.
Straight answers to the questions we're asked most often about DevOps engagements, cloud costs, compliance, and what it's like to work with us.
Both — whatever's right for your situation. If you have an existing AWS account, we work within it with appropriate IAM roles. If you're starting fresh, we help you set up your account structure properly from day one, including multi-account strategy if you need it.
DevOps engagements in Australia typically range from $15,000–$30,000 for a focused CI/CD pipeline build, to $50,000–$150,000+ for a full cloud infrastructure project or migration. The biggest drivers are environment count, compliance requirements, and whether existing infrastructure needs re-architecting. We provide a detailed cost model after the discovery sprint — before any commitment is required.
Yes. We offer monthly support retainers covering monitoring, patching, incident response, and infrastructure evolution as your product grows. Most clients stay on retainer — but it's entirely optional. We build the infrastructure so your team can manage it independently if you prefer.
Yes. EB Pearls is an AWS Consulting Partner with certified Solutions Architects and DevOps Professional engineers on the team. We also have Azure and GCP certified engineers. We can show you the specific engineers who will be working on your project.
HealthTech, FinTech, PropTech, and SaaS are our deepest verticals — all with demanding compliance and reliability requirements. If you're in healthcare or finance, we have done the compliance architecture before and will not be learning on your time.
We start with an audit of what you have, understand what's working, and build on top of it wherever possible. We don't rip and replace for the sake of it. If something is well-built and serving you, we keep it. We document everything and improve what needs improving.
The discovery sprint is a 1–2 week engagement where we audit your current infrastructure, interview your engineering team, review your deployment process, and analyse your cloud costs. We deliver a written assessment and proposed architecture. You can take that to any partner — or work with us to implement it.
All cloud resources are provisioned in your accounts — you own the billing relationship with AWS, Azure, or GCP directly. We never resell cloud or mark up your cloud costs. Our fees are for engineering time only. You get full cost transparency from day one.
You do — 100%. All Git repos, Terraform state, cloud accounts, access credentials, and documentation are yours from day one. We never create dependency structures. Our goal is always to leave you self-sufficient.
DevOps combines software development and IT operations to deliver software faster and more reliably. DevSecOps extends this by integrating security practices — automated vulnerability scanning, compliance checks, and security gates — directly into the CI/CD pipeline. Security built in from the start, not bolted on at the end.
Yes. As an AWS Consulting Partner, we've completed 20+ successful cloud migrations for Australian businesses. Our approach includes a migration readiness assessment, phased workload migration, cost modelling before you commit, and full IaC rebuilds so everything is documented and reproducible after migration. Zero hours of unplanned downtime across all migrations completed.
Tell us about your app. We'll take it from there.
Share a few details about your project and what you need help with. Once you submit the form, you’ll be able to book your free discovery call.
What to expect
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Discovery Call
60 minutes. Your infrastructure, your pain points, your goals. We give you an honest read — no pitch. -
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Assessment & Proposal
Written proposal within 48 hours. Detailed cost model. Specific engineers named. You know exactly what you're getting. -
3
Discovery Sprint
Infrastructure audit, architecture review, cost analysis. Written assessment delivered — you can take it to any partner. -
4
Build Phase
Staged delivery with regular demos. No black boxes. You see progress every week — and you approve the architecture before we build it. -
5
Handoff & Support
Full documentation, runbooks, and knowledge transfer. Optional ongoing retainer. You own everything — forever.
What to expect
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1
Discovery Call
60 minutes. Your infrastructure, your pain points, your goals. We give you an honest read — no pitch. -
2
Assessment & Proposal
Written proposal within 48 hours. Detailed cost model. Specific engineers named. You know exactly what you're getting. -
3
Discovery Sprint
Infrastructure audit, architecture review, cost analysis. Written assessment delivered — you can take it to any partner. -
4
Build Phase
Staged delivery with regular demos. No black boxes. You see progress every week — and you approve the architecture before we build it. -
5
Handoff & Support
Full documentation, runbooks, and knowledge transfer. Optional ongoing retainer. You own everything — forever.