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Senior platform engineers who run EKS, GKE, AKS, and bare-metal clusters in production for a living — not a slide deck. We design cluster topology, build internal developer platforms, write the GitOps pipeline, harden security to CIS Benchmark, cut cloud bills by 30–45% with FinOps, and stand on-call with your team through the first three releases. Fixed-scope, all-in USD pricing: a Kubernetes audit from $700, a turnkey platform from $1,800, managed Kubernetes from $1,100/month, or a dedicated platform engineer from $100/hour. IP transferred on day one, no recruitment markup, no tool surcharges.
CKA/CKS-certified platform engineers · EKS, GKE, AKS & on-prem in production · CIS Kubernetes Benchmark hardening · GDPR-aligned · ISO 27001 ready · SOC 2 Type II in progress · HIPAA-capable · CET workday with 9 AM–1 PM ET overlap
Kubernetes is not the product — the paved road your engineers walk every day is. Most teams arrive with the same three problems: a cluster that grew organically and nobody fully owns, a cloud bill that doubled when traffic only grew 30%, and a deploy process that still requires a senior engineer holding the keyboard. We fix all three. Week 1 is an architecture and FinOps audit with a written ADR. Week 2 onwards we ship: GitOps with Argo CD, Karpenter or Autopilot for compute, Cilium for network and observability, Kyverno for policy, External Secrets for credentials, and Backstage for self-service. Your engineers stop writing YAML and start shipping features. Running a broader cloud estate? See our cloud & DevOps engagement, or the AWS, Azure and GCP practices for the platform underneath.
EKS, GKE, AKS, or on-prem (kubeadm, Talos, Rancher RKE2). Multi-AZ control plane, node-group strategy, namespace tenancy model, multi-cluster federation with Cluster API when scale demands it. Written ADRs against your SLOs.
Argo CD or Flux with App-of-Apps, Helm + Kustomize per environment, signed images via Cosign and Sigstore, Renovate for upstream bumps, progressive delivery with Argo Rollouts or Flagger (canary, blue/green, traffic-shifted).
Pod Security Standards restricted, Kyverno or OPA Gatekeeper admission, Cilium network policies default-deny, IRSA/Workload Identity, Falco runtime detection, External Secrets via Vault or AWS/GCP secret manager, CIS Benchmark v1.9 evidence pack.
Kubecost or OpenCost for chargeback, Karpenter or Autopilot for elastic compute, spot/preemptible adoption with PDBs, VPA-driven right-sizing, HPA with KEDA custom metrics. Typical first-quarter saving 30–45% on six-figure cluster bills.
OpenTelemetry collectors, Prometheus + Thanos or Grafana Mimir for long-term metrics, Loki or Elastic for logs, Tempo or Jaeger for traces, Grafana for dashboards, Alertmanager wired to PagerDuty/Opsgenie/Slack. SLO-driven alerts, not CPU spikes.
Backstage developer portal, Crossplane or Terraform-controller for self-service infra claims, golden-path templates per workload type, paved-road docs in Backstage TechDocs. Service onboarding drops from two weeks to one PR.
Week 1: cluster topology review, kube-bench & kubescape scan, Kubecost install, IaC inventory, on-call interviews. We deliver a written ADR pack with the top 10 risks and the top 10 cost wins ranked by impact.
Weeks 2–4: GitOps pipeline live, Pod Security Standards restricted enforced, Kyverno policies merged, External Secrets cut over from plaintext, Karpenter or Autopilot rolled out behind a feature flag.
Weeks 5–12: IDP build — Backstage portal, golden-path templates, Crossplane claims for the five most-requested infra primitives, OpenTelemetry pipeline, SLO-based alerting. Co-built with your platform team, not over the wall.
90-day post-go-live support window. Weekly platform review, on-call rotation alongside your team, runbooks in Backstage TechDocs, monthly FinOps report with savings tracked against baseline.
Kubernetes audit
from $700
one-off · cluster + FinOps
Fixed-scope cluster, security and FinOps audit. Topology review, kube-bench/kubescape scan, Kubecost install, a written ADR pack with the top risks and cost wins.
Turnkey platform
from $1,800
one-off · GitOps + IDP
GitOps with Argo CD, Pod Security Standards, Kyverno policy, External Secrets, Karpenter/Autopilot and a Backstage internal developer platform — delivered as infrastructure as code you own.
Managed Kubernetes
from $1,100
per month · platform ops
Ongoing platform operation: SRE and on-call alongside your team, monthly FinOps and reliability reviews, cluster and pipeline upkeep against your SLOs.
Platform engineer
from $100
per hour · staff augmentation
A senior CKA/CKS-certified platform engineer embedded in your team on time-and-materials. No recruitment markup, no tool surcharges.
What moves the number: cluster count and fleet size, single-cloud vs multi-cloud/on-prem, migration scope, whether an internal developer platform is in scope, and compliance depth (CIS Benchmark evidence, SOC 2/ISO 27001, HIPAA, EU data residency). Cloud fees run on your own accounts, so you keep the cost lever. Prices are indicative and fixed in a written quote for your specific scope.
Consumer WireGuard VPN app for iOS and Android with zero-log architecture, launched across the US and EU.
Android + iOS refactor and rebuild for a German last-mile logistics operator — multi-point route planning, real-time driver tracking and in-app invoicing live in the EU.
Native iOS and Android e-signature clients with a Symfony + React CRM for a cross-border law firm — KYC onboarding and a defensible evidence trail for US & EU matters.
Multi-tenancy, autoscaling and compliance mean different things in each sector. We pair the GitOps and security baseline above with industry-specific controls — data residency, PHI isolation, peak-traffic elasticity — across US & EU markets.
Namespace-isolated tenancy, default-deny Cilium network policies, IRSA/Workload Identity for keyless auth and CIS-hardened clusters with SOC 2 evidence packs — the low-latency rigour behind our EverCoin Bank multi-exchange platform.
FinTech on Kubernetes →HIPAA technical safeguards, EU data residency with EU-only data planes, customer-managed encryption keys (KMS BYOK), PHI namespace isolation and an auditable Kyverno policy bundle ready for the next ISO 27001 or SOC 2 audit.
HealthTech on Kubernetes →Karpenter and HPA/KEDA autoscaling for peak-season traffic, spot/preemptible adoption with PodDisruptionBudgets and FinOps chargeback via Kubecost — the elastic workload profile behind our REHAU B2B commerce build.
Retail on Kubernetes →Low-latency EU regions, resilient SRE with SLO-based alerting and progressive delivery for dispatch, tracking and routing systems that cannot drop events — the profile behind our xRouten logistics app.
Logistics on Kubernetes →GDPR-aligned · ISO 27001 ready · SOC 2 Type II in progress · GDPR Schrems II + SCC + EU data residency
Every senior on the engagement has been on-call for production Kubernetes for 5+ years — CKA/CKS certified, contributors to upstream CNCF projects, and the people who debug etcd at 3am, not the people who draw boxes on slides.
We run EKS, GKE, AKS, and on-prem in production and have no commercial preference. The ADR you get in week 1 is scored against your workload — not against whichever cloud rebated us last quarter.
CIS Kubernetes Benchmark v1.9, SOC 2 Type II evidence packs, ISO 27001 Annex A controls, HIPAA technical safeguards, EU data residency with Schrems II and SCC clauses written into the DPA — we have shipped all of them.
For regulated workloads (fintech, healthtech, govtech) we stand up clusters with EU-only data plane, customer-managed encryption keys (KMS BYOK), and an auditable Kyverno policy bundle ready for the next ISO or SOC 2 audit.
Aggregating live prices across multiple exchanges while keeping latency under 500 ms is genuinely hard engineering. YuSMP built the multi-exchange feed, real-time token charts, and listing workflow into a coherent platform. We have not had an outage since launch.
Process control in a reactor environment cannot afford connectivity gaps. YuSMP delivered an offline-first MES that captures every step reliably and syncs to the central server without data loss. Audit readiness that once took days now takes minutes.
It is rarely about the control plane (all three are conformant and stable) and almost always about what surrounds it. Pick EKS if your data plane already lives in AWS — VPC CNI, IRSA for IAM, ALB Ingress, Karpenter for autoscaling, and EBS CSI are first-class and integrate with the rest of the AWS estate. Pick GKE if you need the most opinionated experience: Autopilot removes node management entirely, Workload Identity is the cleanest service-account-to-IAM binding on the market, and the upgrade cadence is the most aggressive. Pick AKS if you are an enterprise on Entra ID and Azure Policy — the IAM and compliance story is the smoothest. For greenfield without an existing cloud bias we usually recommend GKE Autopilot. We do the eval as week one of every engagement and write up an ADR with concrete trade-offs scored against your workload.
We default to Argo CD for app delivery and Flux for cluster bootstrap, both with the App-of-Apps pattern. Cluster infrastructure (VPC, node groups, IAM, KMS keys, IRSA roles) is Terraform or Pulumi, stored in a separate repo with OPA/Conftest policy gates in CI. Application manifests live in Helm charts wrapped by Kustomize overlays per environment. Image promotion goes through a signed registry (Cosign + Sigstore) with a Renovate bot opening PRs against the GitOps repo. PR merged to main triggers Argo sync. Rollback is a git revert. We never let humans kubectl apply in production.
Six controls, non-negotiable. (1) Pod Security Standards set to restricted with Kyverno or OPA Gatekeeper enforcement. (2) Network policies default-deny with Cilium or Calico, traffic explicitly allowed per namespace. (3) IRSA on EKS or Workload Identity on GKE/AKS — never long-lived static credentials in secrets. (4) Image signing via Cosign with Kyverno verifyImages admission policy. (5) Runtime detection via Falco or Tetragon shipping to your SIEM. (6) Secrets via External Secrets Operator backed by AWS/GCP/Azure secret manager or HashiCorp Vault — no plaintext secrets in git, ever. We harden against CIS Kubernetes Benchmark v1.9 and provide the audit evidence pack for SOC 2 and ISO 27001.
Yes, and Kubernetes FinOps is most of where we save money on EKS and GKE clients. Standard play: install Kubecost or OpenCost for namespace-level chargeback, switch overprovisioned static node groups to Karpenter or GKE Autopilot, move stateless workloads to spot/preemptible with PodDisruptionBudgets and topology spread constraints, right-size requests and limits using Vertical Pod Autoscaler recommendations, and add HPA with custom metrics from KEDA rather than CPU-only. Typical first-quarter saving on a six-figure monthly EKS bill is 30 to 45 percent without touching reliability targets. We share the savings model with finance in a monthly written report.
Yes — this is most engagements that go past six months. A typical IDP stack: Backstage for the developer portal, Crossplane or Terraform-controller for self-service infrastructure claims, Argo CD for delivery, Argo Workflows for batch and ML, Tekton or GitHub Actions runners for CI, Istio or Linkerd for service mesh, Cilium Hubble for observability, OpenTelemetry collectors shipping to your APM. We do not invent abstractions — we glue best-of-breed CNCF projects into a paved road and document it in Backstage. Onboarding a new service drops from two weeks of YAML to a Backstage template + one PR.
Fixed-scope, all-in USD pricing across four engagement shapes. A Kubernetes audit (cluster, security and FinOps) runs from $700; a turnkey Kubernetes platform with GitOps, a security baseline and a Backstage internal developer platform from $1,800; managed Kubernetes and platform ops from $1,100 per month; and a senior CKA/CKS-certified platform engineer via staff augmentation from $100 per hour. You see the line-item budget at the end of discovery and sign off before any code is written. There is no recruitment markup, no tool surcharges, and cloud fees run on your own accounts, so you keep the cost lever.
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