Hire a DevOps team: Scalable operations for your digital assets
Anyone striving for digital market leadership today faces a dilemma: building internal operational expertise is expensive, slow and, due to the shortage of skilled workers, hardly scalable. At the same time, the stable operation of your application is no longer purely an IT issue, but directly affects revenue security. So why not hire a DevOps team?
The Flying Circus solution: Instead of laboriously building up headcount, you can hire a well-coordinated DevOps team from us. We don't act as a passive host, but as your proactive operating partner. We take full responsibility for the availability and performance of your revenue-critical applications – so that your internal resources are free to focus on what's important: the further development of your digital product.
Operations as a service – or: Why "hosting" falls short
Traditional hosting sells you infrastructure. We offer you knowledge and experience, as well as a resilient, maintained and high-performance platform. When you hire our DevOps team, we integrate seamlessly into your value chain.
We break with the outdated dogma of "never touch a running system". In a world full of security risks, standing still is dangerous. Our philosophy is based on continuous progress: we update the foundation of our platform on a weekly basis. This also forces your application to stay up to date and prevents the creeping accumulation of technical debt, which makes later migrations an incalculable cost risk.
In doing so, we consciously focus on digital sovereignty. Instead of driving you into vendor lock-in with US hyperscalers such as AWS or Azure, we use our own highly automated open source stack (NixOS) in German data centres. You retain full control over your data and become independent of global price fluctuations and compliance uncertainties.
The division of labour: your vision, our operation
At Flying Circus, hiring a DevOps team means clear responsibilities with maximum integration.
Our part (Ops): We provide the automated platform, take care of CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, backups and – crucially – rapid recovery in the event of an error. We don't promise dubious 100% uptime, but resilience: when things go wrong, we're there and the impact is minimal.
Your part (Dev): Your developers focus 100% on features, code quality and releases.
The network (Dev support): Are you currently lacking a development team? No problem. If you need development services as well as operations, we activate our curated network of experts. We bring exactly the right people to the table to move your project forward. This keeps your setup lean: you pay for expertise when you need it, instead of carrying permanent overhead costs.
No risk for your digital strategy!
Interventions in the digital value chain – whether changing platforms or service providers – require absolute certainty. Our proof of concept (PoC) serves as risk-free due diligence.
Even before signing the contract, we validate success together: we make an advance investment by migrating your application to our platform for testing. This allows us to demonstrate our technical expertise, while you can check the business value directly on your real project.
Your advantage is full transparency: a direct comparison with the current situation shows in black and white what we can achieve. Without demonstrable added value for your application, you do not enter into a long-term commitment. This allows us to eliminate investment risks almost completely before you have to make a final decision.
Let's discuss your business case.
Björn Langer
Let's talk about your project!
As your first technical contact, I am committed to understanding your individual requirements and developing tailor-made approaches for the successful operation of your application. Our exchange also enables us to determine an initial price indication for your individual project. I look forward to talking to you!
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The difference lies in the responsibility for the result. Traditional hosting usually ends at the operating system ("The server is running, the problem lies in your application"). Our "application operations" approach is where it all begins: we see ourselves as an operational department of your company. We not only take care of the infrastructure, but also assume responsibility for the deployment pipelines (CI/CD), incident management and the operability of the application itself. We are not just a provider of computing power, but the guarantor of your digital value creation.
This distinction governs responsibility. With "managed service," we assume full operational responsibility and guarantee availability – your team only provides the code. With "guided service," you remain in control and operate yourself, but use our curated platform and our expertise as "co-pilots" for architectural questions or complex problems. Guided service is ideal for teams that want to retain full control but don't want to reinvent the wheel when it comes to infrastructure.
Through physical and legal independence. We deliberately do not rely on US hyperscalers such as AWS or Azure in order to rule out conflicts with the CLOUD Act or opaque data leaks. Our infrastructure is our own and is located in ISO 27001-certified data centres in Germany. This enables us to offer compliance security, which is particularly essential for applications in healthcare, the public sector or for data-sensitive companies.
We don't start with a sales pitch, but with technical due diligence – our proof of concept (PoC). Before we can take on responsibility, we need to understand your architecture. In an expert discussion between your developers and our operations team, we analyse the status quo, identify risks and outline the migration path. This ensures that we are a good fit, both technically and culturally.
NixOS is our insurance against "configuration chaos". It allows us to manage servers purely declaratively via code. The massive business advantage is reproducibility and reversibility: if an update produces unexpected errors, we can reset the system atomically – i.e. completely and error-free – to the last working state within seconds (rollback). This drastically minimises downtime during updates.
Yes, we specialise in re-platforming. Many customers come to us to reduce costs or complexity. We lift your application out of the proprietary logic of hyperscalers and transfer it to open standards on our platform. The goal is to create an environment that performs better and frees you from vendor lock-in.
We tailor our response times strictly to the business criticality of your application. Business support is often sufficient for standard projects. For revenue-critical systems (e-commerce, high-traffic APIs), we offer genuine 24/7 on-call support. Here, we guarantee that a qualified engineer (not a call centre agent) will deal with the fault within 15 minutes.
Absolutely. We reduce your dependence on external giants. Since our stack is 100% open source and fully documented, the knowledge belongs to you. As the ultimate proof of sovereignty, we offer the "Private Stack Option": we can also run our entire cloud technology on your own hardware in your own data centre. You retain the assets, we provide the operation.
We reject the classic "shared responsibility model", in which the provider is off the hook as soon as the server is pingable. We take responsibility for the application level. This means that our monitoring checks whether your application is responding properly, not just whether the port is open. In the event of an error, we debug together with your developers instead of assigning blame. We guarantee the operation of the service, not just the server.
Yes, we won't leave you alone when you're facing resource bottlenecks. Although our core focus is on operations, we see ourselves as a solution provider for your digital product. If you don't have a development team, we activate our curated network of experts. Unlike traditional recruiters, we don't provide you with anonymous freelancers, but hand-picked specialists and well-coordinated teams with whom we have been successfully implementing projects for years.
The strategic advantage for you: these developers already know our platform and our CI/CD processes in detail. This eliminates the usual training period and friction between "Dev" and "Ops". You effectively receive an integrated full-service solution from a single source without having to build up long-term headcount.
