Four ways we work.
Every engagement is senior-led, hands-on, and scoped around a concrete outcome — a platform that runs, a control that holds, a team that no longer needs us.
Platform engineering
Your teams ship to Kubernetes, but the platform underneath is fragile: upgrades are feared, configuration drifts, and every incident takes longer than it should.
how we work
We design and operate Kubernetes platforms — cloud, on-premises, or hybrid, run in production on both AWS EKS and Azure AKS — as products: versioned, documented, and reproducible from code. GitOps is the default — the cluster state lives in Git, changes go through review, and rollback is a revert, not a war room.
Upgrades are treated as engineering, not events. We plan them against your change-control calendar, rehearse the breaking changes, and stay through the recovery window — because we know what actually breaks between minor versions.
Where it pays off, we automate: node lifecycle management, launch templates, and the runbooks your on-call team uses at 3 a.m. Most of what we build is distribution-agnostic by design.
what you get
- Platform architecture & design decisions, documented
- GitOps delivery pipeline your team owns
- Cluster upgrades planned, executed, and recovered
- Automation for node groups & lifecycle management
- Monitoring & alerting wired to real failure modes
Cloud security & compliance
Your security policy lives in a document; your cluster does whatever it wants. When the audit comes, the gap between the two becomes everyone's problem — usually yours, usually late.
how we work
We turn written policy into enforced policy. Admission control decides what runs in the cluster; image signatures are verified before a workload starts; secrets never touch a Git repository or a developer laptop.
Vault sits at the center: highly available, PKI-integrated, and operated with the discipline a secrets system deserves. Runtime security watches what policy can't predict.
And because regulated environments are often disconnected ones, everything we build works air-gapped: mirrored registries, offline scanning, supply chains that don't assume the internet exists.
what you get
- Secrets management architecture, built & operated
- Policy-as-code library mapped to your controls
- Runtime detection with actionable alerts
- Air-gapped delivery & supply-chain hardening
- Evidence your auditors can actually read
DevSecOps enablement
You don't want a permanent consultant — you want your own team to run this. But between delivery pressure and a thin hiring market, the team never gets the time to learn it properly.
how we work
We start with an honest assessment: where the platform, the practices, and the team actually are — not where the org chart says they should be.
Then we work embedded, pairing with your engineers on real work: real upgrades, real incidents, real policy rollouts. Knowledge transfer happens in the pull request, not in a slide deck.
Structured training complements the pairing — Linux, Bash, Kubernetes, and security fundamentals — delivered as courses we've already run inside enterprise environments.
what you get
- Maturity assessment with a prioritized roadmap
- Engineers who can operate the platform without us
- Training curriculum tailored to your stack
- Runbooks & documentation that survive turnover
- A defined exit — we measure success by leaving
Platform security audit
You need to know where your Kubernetes platform actually stands — before the regulator, the pentest report, or the incident tells you. And you need it in weeks, not quarters.
how we work
Read-only access, a defined checklist, and two weeks: we review cluster configuration, workload hardening, secrets handling, supply-chain exposure, and the gap between your written controls and what the cluster enforces.
Every finding comes with a severity, an exploitation scenario in plain language, and a remediation your team can execute — ranked so you know what to fix first and what can wait.
what you get
- Written report: findings, risk ranking, remediation plan
- Executive summary for non-technical stakeholders
- Walkthrough session with your platform team
- 90-day follow-up review of remediation progress
Not sure which fits?
Describe the problem — we'll tell you honestly which engagement solves it, or whether you need us at all.
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