Flexible Engineering

Access to named cloud expertise, collaborating with you to deliver iterative, cloud-native, automated, optimised, secure and resilient outcomes in the cloud.

Why Invest in Flexible Engineering?

Unlock your cloud challenges and put your business on a pathway to success.

Six Degrees’ Flexible Engineering service provides access to cross-functional expertise based on an agreed number of hours per month, assigning a team of resources who know your Azure environment and your business priorities.  

Your team will collaborate with you to deliver prioritised outcomes iteratively and innovatively, using cloud-native architecture, automation and optimisation while also considering resilience, security, and observability. We call this the ‘Six Degrees of Cloud Principles’. 

Your Cloud Challenges

Here are some of the key cloud challenges we hear from organisations. 

Maximise ROI

Organisations may not have the capability, capacity, or resources to maximise their return in cloud.

Lost Resources

Organisations may have lost resources and have committed timelines to meet.

Agile Operating Model

Organisations may wish to introduce an agile operating model but lack the time or skills in house to do so.

Application Performance

Cloud native developed applications may not be performing as expected.

Support for Teams

Organisations’ Azure Development, Operations or SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) teams may need additional support.

Committed Timelines

Organisations’ DevOps teams may be struggling to deliver to the timelines committed to.

Introducing Flexible Engineering from Six Degrees

Delivered by a highly accredited Microsoft Azure Expert MSP.

Six Degrees’ Flexible Engineering services can unleash your potential by providing named, highly experienced cloud and DevOps resources to augment or lead your DevOps team and drive accelerated completion of your CI/CD pipeline committed deliverables. 

Rather than compounding the impact of missed deadlines, be the enabler of business innovation and growth by partnering with Six Degrees and leverage our full portfolio of professional services experts and resources to give you confidence to enhance business agility and kickstart transformation efforts. 

Six Degrees can enhance your cloud engineering capability through augmenting and embedding additional cloud engineering resources on a monthly committed basis for 12 months. Don’t worry about recruiting and retaining top talent: we can mitigate the impact and accelerate development efforts with a broad range of capable, UK-based cloud experts to drive or support the completion of your committed deliverables. 

Flexible Engineering Resources Available

Flexible Engineering provides a pool of Six Degrees engineering resources contracted to a band of hours, monthly for a minimum of 12 months. 

Product Owner

Owns vision and goals for the team, working with customers, ensuring that value is delivered.

Cloud Technical Lead

Manages feasibility of delivery considering architecture, optimisation and automation, ensuring rapid releases.

Scrum Master

Facilitates the team ensuring that goals are achieved incrementally without impediments.

Cloud Engineers

Delivers to goals and vision while providing transparency.

Benefits of Working with Six Degrees

Overcome your cloud challenges when you partner with Six Degrees. 

Promote small gradual/incremental changes

Advancement with minimal risk.

Provide security

Increase confidence and peace of mind.

Remove manual work with use of tooling and automation

Drives agility for your organisation.

Bridge the gap between Development and Operation teams

More efficient and successful remediation and close out of backlog.

Maintain optimised and reliable infrastructure for applications to run on

Cloud can be a true enabler for innovation as more applications and services are brought onto the platform due to increased confidence.

Why Six Degrees?

Six Degrees is best placed to deliver Flexible Engineering services to your organisation. 

Our Microsoft credentials

One of the first Microsoft Azure Expert MSPs in the UK.

Best talent

Highly trained, highly capable cloud professionals.

Security focus

Security from the ground up in everything we do.

Seamless multiple-platform

One ubiquitous cloud experience no matter where your data is hosted.

Collaborating with you to deliver optimised outcomes.

We deliver end-to-end cyber security services that protect organisations from the threats that exist from malicious and accidental data breaches.

We deliver end-to-end cyber security services that protect organisations from the threats that exist from malicious and accidental data breaches. Our holistic security solutions include compliance, governance, testing and offensive and defensive managed security services, and we enable our clients to implement robust security measures across all levels of their organisation.

“Our secure cloud credentials are unrivalled – that’s why organisations including central government departments and leading financial services firms trust us with their mission-critical technology.”

James Donovan Practice Director – Cloud
“Our secure cloud credentials are unrivalled – that’s why organisations including central government departments and leading financial services firms trust us with their mission-critical technology.”

Jonathan Rawling
Platform and Technology Director

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