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DevOps, cloud and platform engineering

Engineering

Our engineering capability sits at the core of Opencast’s offer, bringing together software, DevOps and test engineers. Expert technology consultants, they are innovators who have designed and built solutions across public and private sector. Our software consultants are experts who have delivered applications using modern technologies and methodologies.

Following Agile principles, our engineering specialisms offer expert advice, working as partners to help you deliver. We advocate for Extreme Programming (xP) practices. These include test-driven development, continuous integration and the collaborative techniques such as paired programming and mobbing. We will keep you close to your dedicated team to increase efficiencies, resolve complexities early and drive quality and consistency.

We test end-to-end, automating where possible, and deliver live lifecycle testing as part of continuous integration, continuous deployment (CI/CD). Our development team follows ‘secure by design’ principles, DevOps methodologies and DevSecOps best practice. We are experts at delivery into cloud environments. And we promote a sustainable approach to development. 

Meeting your engineering challenges

Our engineers turn your designs, visions and plans into reality. They work to build the digital and technology solutions you need. Whether they're building new digital services, developing APIs to join up systems, migrating and cleansing data or building a new greenfield product, they focus on...

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Usability and functionality

At the heart of what we’re building, we ensure the software we build meets your business goals and user needs. 

Usability and functionality

At the heart of what we’re building, we ensure the software we build meets your business goals and user needs. 

Usability and functionality

At the heart of what we’re building, we ensure the software we build meets your business goals and user needs. 

Efficiency, dependability and security

We’ll ensure we deliver efficient solutions from a budget, operational or sustainability perspective, giving you confidence in performance, quality and security.

Efficiency, dependability and security

We’ll ensure we deliver efficient solutions from a budget, operational or sustainability perspective, giving you confidence in performance, quality and security.

Efficiency, dependability and security

We’ll ensure we deliver efficient solutions from a budget, operational or sustainability perspective, giving you confidence in performance, quality and security.

Reusability, interoperability and adaptability

We’ll help ensure your digital products and services adapt to your needs, integrating data and services, and reusing code where needed.

Reusability, interoperability and adaptability

We’ll help ensure your digital products and services adapt to your needs, integrating data and services, and reusing code where needed.

Reusability, interoperability and adaptability

We’ll help ensure your digital products and services adapt to your needs, integrating data and services, and reusing code where needed.

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Maintainability, flexibility and scalability

We’ll set you up for success, ensuring your software systems are easy to maintain and can adapt to business and user requirements.

Maintainability, flexibility and scalability

We’ll set you up for success, ensuring your software systems are easy to maintain and can adapt to business and user requirements.

Maintainability, flexibility and scalability

We’ll set you up for success, ensuring your software systems are easy to maintain and can adapt to business and user requirements.

Our engineers bring multi-disciplinary skill sets and wide experience to projects. They specialise across four core engineering disciplines – software engineering, data engineering, DevOps engineering and test engineering/quality assurance. 

They are innovators who follow core principles and best practice. And they offer a breadth of expertise in varied programming languages, tools and technologies.

Software engineering

DevOps engineering

Test engineering

Data engineering

Technically skilled and determined problem solvers, our software engineers will design, develop and maintain software applications for a wide range of digital systems and services. Software consultants specialise in bespoke software solutions but also bring experience in ‘off the shelf’ cloud technologies and low-code applications. Our development team will work with you to identify the best software products,development processes and project solutions that meet your business objectives.

Software engineering

DevOps engineering

Test engineering

Data engineering

Software engineering

DevOps engineering

Test engineering

Data engineering

Industry standards and tools

Our engineers advocate Agile methodologies and follow best practice in test-driven development, behaviour-driven design and extreme programming (xP).

We work to industry standards, from the NCSC’s secure by design principles to the OpenAPI Specifications (OAS). We’re also experienced working to sector-specific standards in government and health, whether the Government Technology Code of Practice, the GDS/GOV.UK manual or following fast healthcare interoperability resources (FHIR) with our healthcare clients.

Across our organisation, we are technology agnostic. This means that we won’t come in with a pre-conceived idea of a solution. Instead, we’ll make your business goals as the client the key driver – using the right technology for the job.

Our engineers have expertise including in: Cloud solutions: AWS and Azure with major programming languages: Java, Scala, C#, Javascript (typescript), Python Data: Databricks, SQL, No-SQL with Devops: (Jenkins, Gitlab CI/CD, Docker, Ansible and Terraform.

Case studies

Where we’ve made it work

Working together at HMRC

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) urgently needed to provide new digital services to support people and businesses as the Covid pandemic took hold in 2020. Opencast played a significant role in helping it to deliver.