DevOps & automation consulting
AI app modernisation, OpenShift Virtualisation, VMware to OpenShift migration and cloud landing zones, set up properly and handed over with the documentation your team needs to run it.
$ terraform plan
aws_vpc.main: Refreshing state...
aws_instance.app[0]: Refreshing state...
No changes. Your infrastructure matches
the configuration.
$ ansible-playbook site.yml --check
PLAY RECAP *****************************
web01 : ok=24 changed=0 failed=0
web02 : ok=24 changed=0 failed=0
db01 : ok=31 changed=0 failed=0Services
Every engagement ends with a written handover, so your team can run what was built.
Owned, rebuilt and upgraded enterprise Ansible Automation Platform installs over several years.
A production-ready Ansible Automation Platform, configured as code so it can be rebuilt.
You get: Working platform, config-as-code repository, admin runbook, handover session
An assessment of an existing AAP install, followed by a planned upgrade.
You get: Health check report, upgrade runbook, completed upgrade
Central content, patching and subscription management for RHEL servers.
You get: Working Satellite, patching runbook, host onboarding guide
Manual runbooks turned into tested, reusable automation.
You get: Code in your repository, README per role, AAP job templates
Secure, repeatable cloud foundations defined in Terraform, and bills that stop creeping up.
A secure AWS setup defined in Terraform, sized for startups and small businesses.
You get: Terraform repository, architecture diagram, operating guide
A fixed-price review of an AWS or Azure account that finds and ranks savings.
You get: Savings report with estimated monthly impact, list of changes made
Every change reviewed in Git and deployed the same way, every time.
Cluster deployments driven from Git, so every change is reviewed and repeatable.
You get: GitOps repository, onboarding guide for new applications
Build, test and deploy pipelines for teams still releasing by hand.
You get: Working pipelines, documentation, handover session
Hands-off operations, and AI that does useful, auditable work.
Hands-off patching for Windows and Linux fleets, from the approach that took 2,800 servers to monthly cycles.
You get: Patching automation, compliance report, operations runbook
Let staff run approved automation by chatting, or add AI to an existing workflow.
You get: Working prototype, architecture notes, production recommendations
Hands-on sessions online, in the evening or at weekends.
Practical training built around your team's own use cases.
You get: Session materials and lab exercises your team keeps
Approach
A fixed scope and a written quote before any work starts. No surprises on the invoice.
We talk through the problem and your environment.
Scope, deliverables, timeline and a fixed price, before any work starts.
Work in agreed blocks, with a short progress update each week.
Documentation, code in your repository and a walkthrough session.
Questions and small fixes covered after handover.
Agreed price for an agreed scope
Suits: Most services
Prepaid hours used as needed
Suits: Ongoing playbook work, ad-hoc fixes
Set hours each month
Suits: Platform support, mentoring
Availability: weekday evenings and weekends (Melbourne time). Maintenance-window work can be scheduled in advance.
About
Tech Grove Consulting is run by Ajay Paul, a DevOps Lead Consultant based in Melbourne with 10+ years of enterprise delivery. You work directly with the engineer doing the work, with no account managers and no hand-offs to juniors.
Ajay spent eight years automating and running platforms for Victorian Government agencies, and now leads infrastructure modernisation and migration work.
Contact
Book a free 30-minute call. Send a line about what you need and I'll reply within one business day.