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 6-12 week platform pilot.
Roadmap & Investment
90-Day Platform Engineering Timeline
Set expectations with product, finance, and reliability leads before you greenlight the work.
Days 1-30
Discover & Design
- • Team interviews, toil & DORA baseline.
- • Target architecture + golden paths.
- • Backlog, OKRs, and resourcing plan.
- • Executive-ready roadmap & cost model.
Investment: $25K-$40K USD
Days 31-60
Build & Automate
- • IaC modules, paved roads, internal portal.
- • Secure CI/CD with SAST/DAST/SCA gates.
- • Observability stack + policy guardrails.
- • Pilot team onboarded to new workflows.
Investment: $40K-$70K USD
Days 61-90
Transfer & Scale
- • Enablement sessions + shadowing.
- • Documentation, runbooks, SLO dashboards.
- • Production rollout + DORA uplift tracking.
- • 30-day hypercare and hiring plan.
Investment: $20K-$35K USD
Stakeholder Alignment
Arm Every Stakeholder With the Rationale to Act
Platform engineering touches budget, compliance, and developer experience. These talking points keep the steering committee aligned.
CTO / Finance
Predictable investment with measurable ROI
- • Fixed-scope 90-day pilot before platform scale-up.
- • DORA + toil baselines quantify ROI every sprint.
- • Tooling recommendations reuse existing cloud spend.
- • Hiring plan shows which roles you won't need to staff.
Product / Engineering Managers
Less firefighting, more roadmap velocity
- • Paved roads + self-service requests cut wait time.
- • Runbooks + enablement keep squads independent.
- • Shared SLAs/SLOs clarify when platform steps in.
- • Transparent backlog ties platform work to features.
Security / Compliance
Guardrails embedded from day one
- • Policy-as-code + RBAC templates enforce least privilege.
- • Audit-ready evidence (deploy logs, drift alerts, IaC history).
- • Automated security scanning in every pipeline.
- • Shared dashboards for SOC 2 / CMMC reporting.
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.
Timeline & Investment
Platform Engineering Engagement Roadmap
Hand this to finance, product, and security so everyone knows what we deliver, when, and what it costs.
Weeks 1-4
Baseline & design sprint
- • DORA/toil measurement and platform vision workshops.
- • Golden paths + service catalog architecture drafted.
- • Executive-ready roadmap with budget + hiring impact.
Investment: $35K-$60K
Weeks 5-10
Build core capabilities
- • Self-service IaC modules, CI/CD templates, guardrails.
- • Observability + incident response automation wired in.
- • Pilot teams onboarded with pairing + working sessions.
Investment: $60K-$110K
Weeks 11+
Adoption & enablement
- • Backstage/Port portal content, documentation, trainings.
- • SLO dashboard + KPI cadence for execs and squads.
- • Knowledge transfer + transition plan for internal owners.
Investment: $20K-$35K / month
Stakeholder Confidence
Give Every Stakeholder the Confidence to Approve This
Use these talking points when briefing execs, platform leads, and compliance owners.
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.
Executive Triage
Platform Engineering Readiness Estimator
Answer four quick prompts and we'll recommend the pilot, timeline, and stakeholder brief to run internally.
Recommended pilot
Toil reduction & timeline
Stakeholders to brief
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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
Pick the Next Step That Fits Your Team
Whether you need executive-ready answers or want a low-friction way to collaborate, choose your path.
Paid · Credited Toward Delivery
Platform Engineering Readiness Review
60-minute working session covering DORA/toil baselines, tooling gaps, and an executive-ready plan for the first 90 days.
$750 USD
Applied toward a full engagement if you kick off within 60 days.
Free · Low Friction
Platform Pilot Blueprint + Checklist
Includes paved road template, stakeholder deck, and the exact KPIs we track in every 90-day pilot.
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View Platform Engineering FAQsReady to Transform Your Engineering Operations?
Start with a platform engineering assessment to understand your current state and build a roadmap to operational excellence.
Platform Engineering Assessment Includes:
- Current state analysis of your engineering operations
- DORA metrics baseline measurement
- Toil identification and quantification
- Platform engineering roadmap with ROI projections
2-week engagement
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A pilot program is a small, focused project (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 program is a small, focused project (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.
