Platform Engineering Consulting
Build a Platform Engineering Practice That Scales
Transform how your engineering teams deliver value. Reduce operational toil, improve DORA metrics, and give developers the tools they need to ship faster.
Share your stack, bottlenecks, and goals, and we'll outline a platform pilot scoped to your team.
Your Engineering Team Is Drowning in Operational Work
Result: Your best engineers spend the majority of their time on toil instead of building features
Platform Engineering: The Modern Solution
Build an internal platform that treats infrastructure as a product. Give your developers self-service capabilities while maintaining security, compliance, and cost control.
Self-Service Infrastructure
Enable developers to provision resources without tickets or waiting.
Automated CI/CD
Ship code from commit to production in minutes, not days.
Observability Platform
See everything happening in your systems, all the time.
Security by Default
Bake security into every deployment automatically.
Cost Optimization
Right-size resources automatically and eliminate waste.
Developer Experience
Make the right thing the easy thing for your developers.
Measurable Impact on Your DORA Metrics
Platform engineering can directly improve the metrics that matter when it is implemented and adopted effectively.
Deployment Frequency
Lead Time for Changes
MTTR
Change Failure Rate
Our Platform Engineering Approach
Assessment & Discovery
We analyse your current engineering operations, identify pain points, measure baseline DORA metrics, and understand your team's needs.
Platform Strategy & Design
Design your internal developer platform with self-service capabilities, golden paths, and guardrails that enable speed without sacrificing safety.
Implementation & Migration
Build the platform incrementally, starting with highest-impact capabilities. Migrate teams gradually with minimal disruption.
Adoption & Optimization
Drive adoption through training and documentation. Continuously measure and improve based on developer feedback and metrics.
Engagement Phases
Platform Engineering Roadmap
Hand this to finance, product, and security so everyone knows what we deliver at each phase and what it costs. Duration varies based on your team size, stack complexity, and compliance requirements.
Phase 1
Discover & Design
- • DORA/toil measurement and platform vision workshops.
- • Golden paths + service catalog architecture drafted.
- • Executive-ready roadmap with budget + hiring impact.
Investment: Scoped to your team
Phase 2
Build & Automate
- • Self-service IaC modules, CI/CD templates, guardrails.
- • Observability + incident response automation wired in.
- • Pilot teams onboarded with pairing + working sessions.
Investment: Scoped to your environment
Phase 3
Transfer & Scale
- • Backstage/Port portal content, documentation, trainings.
- • SLO dashboard + KPI cadence for execs and squads.
- • Knowledge transfer + transition plan for internal owners.
Investment: Monthly retainer
Stakeholder Confidence
What Every Stakeholder Needs to Know
Platform engineering affects execs, platform leads, and compliance owners. Here is what each role needs to evaluate.
CTO / VP Engineering
Proof that platform spend pays for itself
- • Executive deck tying reduced toil to hiring deferral savings.
- • Quarterly KPI cadence (DORA, toil %, incidents, cost).
- • Scenario modeling for full-time vs. fractional delivery mix.
- • Clear exit criteria + handover milestones.
Platform & DevOps Leads
Hands-on patterns the team can own
- • Terraform/Pulumi module library with guardrails baked in.
- • CI/CD reference architectures + GitOps blueprints.
- • Battle-tested incident + change playbooks.
- • Embedded pairing to upskill internal platform team.
Finance / Product / Security
Risk, cost, and delivery confidence
- • Cost forecast + allocation model (per team or product).
- • Security/compliance controls mapped to SOC 2 / CMMC.
- • Roadmap alignment showing faster GTM for product asks.
- • Audit-friendly documentation of guardrails + approvals.
What We Build Into Your Platform
Infrastructure as Code Platform
- Terraform/Pulumi module library
- Self-service provisioning portal
- Policy as code enforcement
- Cost controls and tagging
CI/CD Pipeline Platform
- Standardized pipeline templates
- Automated testing frameworks
- Progressive delivery capabilities
- Rollback automation
Observability Platform
- Centralized logging and metrics
- Distributed tracing
- SLO monitoring and alerting
- Incident response automation
Developer Portal
- Service catalog (Backstage)
- API documentation hub
- Self-service workflows
- Knowledge base integration
The ROI of Platform Engineering
Meaningful reduction in operational toil
Faster deployment velocity
Fewer production incidents
Example scenario for a 50-person engineering team:
- Substantial time savings by eliminating repetitive tasks
- Faster feature delivery with automated pipelines
- Reduce burnout by eliminating 3am pages
- Scale efficiently without linear headcount growth
Ready to Get Started?
Choose how you'd like to begin your journey with Pilotcore
Full Consultation
Discuss your complete cloud and security strategy with our experts. Perfect for comprehensive transformations and enterprise initiatives.
Start with a PilotA pilot project is a small, focused engagement (1-4 weeks) that demonstrates our expertise and delivers real value. It's a low-risk way to experience our services before committing to larger engagements.
A pilot project is a small, focused engagement (1-4 weeks) that demonstrates our expertise and delivers real value. It's a low-risk way to experience our services before committing to larger engagements.
Test our expertise with a focused 1-4 week engagement. See real results before committing to larger initiatives.
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