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Red Marina is a specialist engineering consultancy. Technical leadership, AI automation, DevOps, performance testing, security and quality engineering. Chat with our AI to explore how we can help.
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Scale-to-Zero Dev Environments in Azure
Dev environments become expensive when they're treated like production. Use scale-to-zero compute, auto-pausing databases, and automated teardown to pay only when developers are actually using them.
Compliance for AI Implementations
AI doesn't remove your compliance obligations — it multiplies the places data can leak. Get explicit about GDPR, DPIAs, residency, and auditability.
Data Foundations for AI
Most AI failures are data failures. Define data quality, ownership, lineage, access controls, retention, and labelling so your AI outputs are trustworthy and auditable.
Hard engineering skills, delivered by practitioners
We don't do fluff. Every engagement is led by engineers who've built, broken and rebuilt production systems at scale.
AI & Intelligent Automation
LLM integration, AI-assisted development workflows, and intelligent automation. We help teams adopt AI practically — solving real problems, not chasing hype.
Technical Leadership & Advisory
Interim CTO, VP Engineering, and principal engineer engagements. We provide experienced technical leadership to steer teams, shape strategy, and deliver transformation.
DevOps Engineering
CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, container orchestration and cloud-native architecture. We build deployment systems that ship reliably at any velocity.
Cloud Engineering & Migration
Cloud-native architecture, migration planning, and managed service adoption across Azure, AWS, and GCP. We move workloads to the cloud properly — not just lift and shift.
Software Architecture
System design for complex, high-traffic applications. Microservices, event-driven architecture, CQRS, and modular monoliths — chosen for your context, not ours.
Test Automation
End-to-end automation frameworks, API testing, contract testing and continuous quality pipelines. We eliminate manual regression and accelerate your release cadence.
Precise, embedded, outcome-driven
Discover
We listen first. Understand your goals, constraints, team shape and technical landscape before proposing anything.
Assess
We audit your current state — architecture, pipelines, test coverage, security posture — and map every gap to a concrete risk.
Plan
We define a prioritised roadmap with clear milestones, owners and success criteria. No ambiguity, no scope creep.
Execute
Our engineers embed with your team and deliver. No slide decks. We write code, build pipelines, run tests and ship improvements.
Validate
We measure outcomes against the plan — performance benchmarks, security findings, test coverage — and iterate until targets are met.
Transfer
We document, train and hand over. Every engagement leaves your team stronger, with runbooks, automation and knowledge that persists.
Boutique consultancy, senior delivery
Red Marina is a boutique engineering consultancy founded and led by Darren Ferguson, drawing on over 25 years of hands-on IT experience across enterprise, startup and public sector. We work with a trusted network of senior associates — each a specialist in their field — so every engagement gets experienced practitioners, not juniors learning on your time. Our clients include PwC, BNY Mellon, Toyota, Kingfisher, Nomura, Eversheds, PPG Industries and many more.
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