Decoding Labs / DevOps Consulting

DevOps for infrastructure that has to perform.

Decoding Labs is a specialist consulting practice for Kubernetes, GitLab, Linux, Azure DevOps, and CI/CD. Direct expert delivery into regulated and enterprise environments across the world.

01 / About

A specialist DevOps practice. No agency layers.

Decoding Labs builds, modernises, and stabilises the infrastructure enterprises depend on. Twelve years of senior engineering, currently delivered into Swiss reinsurance and Swiss smart-metering technology.

The practice is narrow on purpose. Kubernetes, GitLab, Linux, Azure DevOps, CI/CD, automation, and platform engineering. Done by people who have run them in production, under audit, and on call.

The standard is simple. Reliable systems, clean automation, predictable operations, and decisions you can defend in front of a security review.

  • 12+Years of hands on infrastructure and DevOps engineering.
  • CHActive delivery into Swiss reinsurance and Swiss smart-metering technology.
  • EUWorking with regulated and enterprise environments across Europe.
  • AZMicrosoft certified for Azure DevOps. Production grade pipelines.
  • K8sProduction Kubernetes from greenfield to migrations and recovery.
  • DLDirect senior ownership of the work, from architecture to operations.
02 / Services

Practical engineering. Not slideware.

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Kubernetes Consulting

Production grade clusters, hardened workloads, sane operations. Greenfield design, migrations, scaling, and the recovery of brittle environments.

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Linux Infrastructure

Stable, predictable, observable. The kind of Linux estate that does not surprise anyone on a Sunday night.

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GitLab and CI/CD

GitLab as a platform, not a checkbox. Pipelines, runners, security scanning, release automation, and developer experience that holds up at scale.

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Azure DevOps

Boards, repos, pipelines, environments, and policies wired into a delivery model engineering teams actually use. Certified, opinionated, fast.

/05

Infrastructure Automation

Terraform, Ansible, GitOps. Reproducible environments, codified change, and a clean path from commit to production.

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Cloud and Platform Engineering

Internal platforms that reduce cognitive load. Self service where it pays off, guardrails where it has to hold.

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DevOps Audits

A clear written assessment of your CI/CD, infrastructure, and operations. Honest findings, prioritised actions, no theatre.

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DevOps Modernisation

Replatforming, pipeline rewrites, Kubernetes adoption, and the kind of cleanup that turns a fragile setup into a calm one.

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Reliability and Operations

SLOs that mean something, on call that does not burn people out, and observability that answers the question before the question is asked.

03 / Stack

The tools we run in production.

Linux
Kubernetes
GitLab
CI / CD
Azure DevOps
Azure / AWS
Terraform
Ansible
Helm / ArgoCD
Prometheus
Grafana
Loki / ELK
Vault
Containers
SRE / Ops
04 / Why Decoding Labs

Senior delivery. High standards. Direct ownership.

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Senior DevOps Expertise

Engineering led by practitioners with deep production experience. No juniors learning on your platform.

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Swiss Enterprise Experience

Active delivery into Swiss reinsurance and Swiss smart-metering technology. Comfortable inside regulated, audited, change controlled environments.

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Practical Delivery

Outcomes shipped, not decks rendered. Working pipelines, hardened clusters, clean automation, calm operations.

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Clear Technical Ownership

One point of accountability. The person reviewing the architecture is the person writing the manifests.

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Reliable Infrastructure Thinking

Decisions made for the next three years, not the next sprint. Maintainability, automation, and operational stability as defaults.

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No Buzzwords

If a tool, pattern, or migration is not the right call, we say so. Honest engineering beats fashionable engineering.

05 / Channel

The Decoding Labs Channel.

The media side of the brand. Honest reviews, hands on engineering takes, hardware, software, and the tools we actually use. Made for people who care about how technology really works.

Youtube channel is where the brand thinks out loud about the technology behind it.

06 / Contact

Talk to Decoding Labs.

For Kubernetes, GitLab, Linux, Azure DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure modernisation, and platform engineering work, get in touch. Replies within one business day.

Direct contact hello@decoding-labs.com

Replies within one business day. No intake forms, no agency layers.

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