Through independent consultancy, specialist expertise, fractional leadership, and focused technical delivery, we support teams from engineering through to leadership.

Consultancy: Vendor-Agnostic, Outcome-Focused
A top-level evaluation of your platform’s security, availability, performance, efficiency, and recoverability.
Identify risks, close gaps, and align with relevant security and compliance standards.
Assess resilience, scalability, and design for long-term operational continuity.
Uncover and address bottlenecks affecting speed, efficiency, and user experience.
Reduce waste, consolidate tooling, and optimise spend across your stack.
Validate your ability to recover quickly and maintain continuity under failure.
Plan and execute change with minimal risk and maximum clarity.
Fractional Leadership and Specialists
Technology and security leadership, architecture direction, compliance oversight, and strategic planning.
Automation, infrastructure as code, observability, performance tuning, and secure delivery practices.
Technical project coordination, prioritisation, governance support, and compliance-first infrastructure guidance.
Contracted Technical Delivery
Designing, deploying, and transitioning environments with minimal disruption.
Establishing proactive visibility and reliable alerting across platforms and services.
Implementing robust disaster recovery and backup solutions to protect critical systems and data.
Identifying, addressing, and resolving infrastructure security and compliance gaps.
Targeted investigation and resolution of challenging technical issues.
Why Pipe Ten?
Over 20 years of experience designing, delivering, and supporting production infrastructure.
Engineer-led and outcome-focused, we deliver practical advice grounded in real-world delivery.
Technology agnostic, we recommend what works best for your environment, not what pays best.
Flexible engagement models, from consultancy through to fractional and contracted delivery.
Trusted by developers and management alike, we give technical teams clarity and leadership teams confidence.
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