DevOps Teams

A dedicated DevOps team for Melbourne, with pipelines typically live in Week 1

CI/CD pipelines typically live in Week 1
AIOps anomaly detection and self-healing infra
99.9% uptime SLA with Australian leadership
Afternoon overlap for daily standups
DevOps engineers collaborating on infrastructure and pipelines

DevOps Teams in Melbourne

Typically start in 14 days

Why Cipher Projects

Built for how Melbourne actually operates

Perfect Time Zone Overlap

AEST (GMT+10 / AEDT GMT+11)

Melbourne afternoons (11am-4pm) overlap with our Vietnam and Singapore delivery hubs for daily standups

Daily standups that work for both teams. Same-day communication every business day.

Local Melbourne Understanding

Tailored to Melbourne's fintech and enterprise sectors, where release safety and uptime are non-negotiable

We understand Australian business culture and Melbourne's unique requirements.

Australian Legal Framework

Australian contracts. Invoiced from Australia. Legal comfort for your CFO and board.

Full compliance with Australian business standards and expectations.

AI Capabilities

AI-augmented delivery and operations

Modern DevOps is more than scripts. We bring AI into the pipeline and the incident loop so your team ships faster and sleeps better.

AI-augmented CI/CD

Pipelines with automated testing, code-review assist and release gates that catch regressions early.

AIOps & anomaly detection

Telemetry-driven alerting that surfaces incidents before your users ever feel them.

Self-healing infrastructure

Automated remediation and runbooks wired directly into your observability stack.

MLOps delivery

The same pipelines that ship your apps, extended to ship, version and monitor models.

The old way

You chase Melbourne talent. You react to outages

The Cipher way

We build the team. We automate the fix

Team Structure

Your team composition

DevOps Teams starter pack: 4 members

Senior DevOps Engineer

×1
Senior

Leads infrastructure and pipeline design

DevOps Engineers

×2
Mid

Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines

QA/SDET

×1
Mid

Automated testing and quality assurance

Seniority Mix

75% mid, 25% senior

Balanced team with the right mix of experience and cost efficiency

Scale Path

Add an SRE for 24/7 coverage, a platform engineer or a security specialist as needed

SRE for 24/7 coveragePlatform EngineerSecurity Specialist
Proof of work

Real systems, in production

A sample of what dedicated Cipher teams have already shipped and now operate.

Insurance broker go-to-market platform with AI agent

Financial services · Full platform · AI assistant

Insurance broker go-to-market platform

20 pages · lead funnel · AI client support

A complete launch platform for an Australian insurance broker: marketing website, lead qualification funnel, client portal backed by a database, and a secure AI assistant for first-line client questions.

Sports membership platform cloud engineering

Sports & membership · Platform build · Security hardened

Sports membership platform as embedded engineering team

8 months · scaled infrastructure · security closed

Eight months embedded with an Australian sports membership app: secure member accounts, scalable video delivery, fixes after independent security testing, and monitoring the internal team can run day to day.

AI UGC video automation pipeline

Advertising · Video automation · Applied AI

AI ad-video production pipeline

Low-cost compute · 3 inputs to finished video

A repeatable video production workflow for an Australian advertising agency. Add a presenter, script, and voice description; get social-ready videos back. No studio, actors, or usage fees.

Secure AWS agent environment for data analysis

Research · Document automation · Private cloud

Secure analysis environment with AI agents

Private environment · automated triage · full audit trail

A private cloud workspace for an Australian research firm. AI reads incoming documents and email, pulls out structured findings, and hands them to the internal team. All data stays in the client's own environment.

Cost Calculator

See your cost savings

Compare costs for Melbourne vs dedicated teams

3 members12 members

Local Melbourne Hiring

$1008k

per year (incl. overheads)

Dedicated Team

$475k

per year (all-inclusive)

Your Annual Savings

$533k

That's approximately 53% savings

* Calculation includes superannuation, payroll tax, leave loading, recruiter fees, and office overheads for local hiring

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FAQ

Questions Melbourne teams ask

Ready when you are

Build Your DevOps Teams in Melbourne

Join Australian businesses who've already made the switch. Typically start in 14 days with ~40% cost savings.

2-week replacement guarantee

Zero risk on team quality

Australian contracts & invoicing

Legal comfort for your CFO

99.9% uptime SLA

Reliability you can count on