Location
Norway / Global
Industry
Maritime
A specialist in real-time drilling automation needed Infrastructure as Code expertise to automate the provisioning of on-premises infrastructure underpinning their drilling software platforms. Devspace embedded an IaC engineering competency directly in their team, supporting delivery of automation across a globally deployed technology stack.
Our client is an international technology company operating at the frontier of drilling automation in the oil and gas sector. Their platforms combine real-time dynamic monitoring, drilling diagnostics, predictive analytics and automated control systems to advance the industry’s transition toward autonomous well construction. At the time of our engagement, their software had been deployed across more than hundreds of wells globally for major energy operators, delivering measurable reductions in well delivery time, operational cost and CO2 emissions.
The infrastructure underpinning these platforms is complex and operationally critical. Real-time drilling automation runs on on-premises hardware deployed at rig sites and operations centres worldwide — environments where reliability is non-negotiable and where unplanned downtime has direct consequences for drilling operations. As the platform scaled and deployment footprint grew, the need to automate the provisioning and configuration of this infrastructure became a clear priority.
The client needed an Infrastructure as Code specialist who could work inside a complex industrial software environment, understand the operational constraints of on-premises deployment at scale, and deliver automation that the internal team could own and extend.
What we did
Infrastructure as Code expertise embedded in a globally deployed real-time drilling automation platform.
We placed a senior Infrastructure as Code engineer embedded directly in the client’s platform team. The engagement focused on automating the provisioning and configuration of on-premises infrastructure supporting their real-time drilling software — replacing manual processes with repeatable, version-controlled IaC pipelines that could be applied consistently across deployment environments.
On-premises infrastructure in industrial software environments carries specific constraints: hardware dependency, network topology, operational continuity requirements, and the need for configurations that survive across long deployment cycles. Our engineer worked within these constraints from day one, without a ramp-up period to understand the context.
The infrastructure automation work was designed to be maintainable and extensible by the internal team after our engagement. Every decision documented, every pipeline built to a standard the client’s engineers could own. The goal was capability transfer, not dependency.
On-premises infrastructure provisioning across the client’s real-time drilling platform automated and standardised — replacing manual configuration with repeatable, version-controlled pipelines that the internal team could own and extend. The engagement supported a critical phase of the client’s platform scaling. Their software was already deployed across more than 1,300 wells globally when we engaged; the infrastructure automation work contributed to the operational consistency needed to sustain and grow that footprint. The client has since been acquired by a major US energy services company, with their drilling automation technology integrated into one of the industry’s largest digital well construction platforms. The work delivered during our engagement formed part of the foundation that made that transition possible.
Location
Norway
Industry
Maritime
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