Embedded teams
Sometimes you do not need a project, you need a workstream to move. An embedded pod sits inside your organisation, uses your tools, joins your standups, and is accountable through a delivery lead who answers to you.
- Team size
- Two to six engineers plus a delivery lead
- Duration
- Three to twelve months
- Notice
- 30 days
- Tooling
- Yours. We adopt your stack, not the reverse
- Reporting
- Your board, your standups, your definition of done
An embedded team from CloudOps Network is two to six vetted engineers plus a delivery lead, working inside your organisation on your tooling and your process. Engagements typically run three to twelve months with 30 days notice, contracted through a single statement of work with CloudOps Network.
What the engineers actually do
Composed for the work
A pod is assembled against your brief. A migration pod and an AI pod share almost no skills, so we do not pretend a generic team fits both.
Delivery lead included
One person accountable for sequencing, quality and escalation, who is not also the person writing the code.
Your process, not ours
Your repository, your board, your review standards, your release process. Imported methodology is how embedded teams become a parallel organisation.
Documented as it goes
Architecture decisions and runbooks written during the work, because handover written at the end is written badly.
Scales in both directions
Add an engineer when a workstream opens, remove one when it closes, on 30 days notice.
Handover from day one
The engagement is designed to end. If your team cannot run the result, the work is not finished.
Signs you need outside help
Embedded pods make sense when the constraint is sustained capacity rather than a specific missing skill.
A roadmap item has slipped three quarters
Not because it is hard, but because nobody has uninterrupted time for it.
Hiring would take longer than the work
A permanent search takes three to six months. The work needs to start now.
The need is real but time-bounded
Twelve months of work does not justify a permanent team you will have to unwind.
Your seniors are being consumed by delivery
Which means architecture and mentoring have stopped.
How an embedded engagement runs
Shape the pod
We propose a composition against the brief, with named engineers, and explain why each seat exists.
Onboard in week one
Access, context, codebase orientation and a first shipped change inside the first week. A pod that takes a month to become useful is badly run.
Work on your board
Same tickets, same reviews, same definition of done as your own engineers. Separate tracking is how transparency dies.
Review against the SOW
The delivery lead reviews progress with you at a fixed cadence, including what is not going well.
Wind down deliberately
Documentation, runbooks, knowledge transfer sessions and a staged reduction rather than a cliff edge.
Questions on this work
How is this different from a staffing agency?
An agency places individuals and steps out of the relationship. An embedded pod arrives as a working unit with a delivery lead accountable through the contract, and the statement of work commits to outcomes rather than to hours.
Do the engineers work only on our project?
Yes for full-time seats. Part-time seats are possible and are stated clearly in the statement of work, never implied.
Can we change the composition mid-engagement?
Yes, on 30 days notice for a reduction and as soon as we can match for an addition.
Who owns what the pod builds?
You do. IP assigns to your company on payment.
Tell us what you are building
Describe the work in a few lines. We come back with a shortlist of engineers who have done it before, their availability, and a rate range. No account, no platform fee, no obligation to hire.
Most briefs get a shortlist within three business days.