Your K8s Platform Team — Without the Hiring

Fully managed Kubernetes operations or a fractional platform engineering team embedded with your developers. AI-powered monitoring, 15-minute P1 response, and continuous optimization — globally.

Duration: Ongoing Team: Dedicated K8s engineers
The Challenge

You might be experiencing...

Globally, senior K8s engineers are 3-6x oversubscribed vs. demand — you cannot hire fast enough
K8s upgrades, security patches, and capacity planning falling behind
Incidents take hours to resolve because nobody understands the cluster
Need K8s expertise but not enough work for a full-time hire
Our Approach

Engagement Phases

Week 1

Onboarding

Cluster access, monitoring setup, alert configuration, runbook creation, team introductions.

Ongoing

Steady State

24/7 monitoring, incident response, weekly cost reports, monthly optimization reviews, quarterly architecture reviews.

Ongoing

Continuous Improvement

Platform upgrades, security patching, capacity planning, new feature enablement, team mentoring.

What You Get

Deliverables

24/7 K8s platform monitoring and alerting
15-minute P1 incident response SLA
Weekly cost optimization reports
Monthly platform health reviews
Quarterly architecture reviews
K8s version upgrades and security patching
Capacity planning and autoscaling management
On-call coverage and incident management
Expected Outcomes

Before & After

MetricBeforeAfter
Incident ResponseHours15 minutes (P1)
Platform AvailabilityUntracked99.9% SLA
K8s Version Currency2+ versions behindAlways current (-1)
Cost OptimizationAd hocWeekly automated
Technology

Tools We Use

Prometheus Grafana PagerDuty Kubecost Claude Code Agents ArgoCD
Common Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

What is included in Managed K8s Operations?

The service includes 24/7 platform monitoring and alerting, 15-minute P1 incident response SLA, weekly cost optimization reports, monthly platform health reviews, quarterly architecture reviews, K8s version upgrades, security patching, and capacity planning.

How quickly do you respond to incidents?

P1 incidents receive a 15-minute response SLA. We use PagerDuty for on-call management and AI-powered monitoring with Claude Code agents for faster diagnosis. Monthly platform health reviews identify and address emerging issues before they become incidents.

Can we use this as a fractional platform team instead of hiring?

Yes. Many clients use our managed operations as a fractional platform engineering team embedded with their developers. Senior K8s engineers are 3-6x oversubscribed globally — our service gives you dedicated senior engineers without the hiring overhead, long ramp-up time, or retention risk.

How do you keep our clusters current?

We manage K8s version upgrades and security patching on an ongoing basis, targeting current version minus one at all times. Upgrades are planned, tested in non-production environments first, and executed during maintenance windows with rollback procedures in place.

What does the onboarding process look like?

Onboarding takes approximately one week. We gain cluster access, deploy monitoring and alerting, configure dashboards, create operational runbooks, and meet your development team. By the end of week one, we are in steady-state operations with full visibility into your platform.

Which cloud providers and cluster types do you support?

We support all major managed Kubernetes services — AWS EKS, Google GKE, Azure AKS — as well as self-managed Kubernetes on-premises or on bare metal. Our managed operations are cloud-agnostic and we can manage multi-cloud environments from a single team.

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