Fortstak · Platform Operations
Senior cloud-native platform teams — Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and DevSecOps — that operate your infrastructure remotely, watch every signal, and cost a fraction of hiring in-house.
50+ PRODUCTION CLUSTERS OPERATED · CKA · CKS · EX280 · AZ-104 · AZ-400 · AWS PRO · US & EU TIME ZONES
The problem
Software companies and modern MSPs have already made the move. The open question is no longer whether to run Kubernetes — it is who operates it well enough to sleep at night.
A cluster that won't schedule, and no one on-call who can read the signals.
Cloud bills that climb faster than the product they're supposed to serve.
One engineer holds the whole platform in their head — until they leave.
Surfaced only when a customer's security questionnaire lands on your desk.
Hiring a senior platform engineer is scarce, costly, and rarely a full forty hours of work. These teams need senior capability on demand — not another permanent headcount.
How we work
Handing production access to a remote team is a real decision. Every relationship is built to earn the next step — most begin with a fixed-price Health Check that leaves you with value whether or not we go further.
A fixed-scope review. Findings and a roadmap you keep.
We execute a defined build or the remediation itself.
A named senior engineer inside your team, part-time.
We operate the platform end to end, under SLA.
Offerings
Two carry published starting prices. The rest are scoped per engagement — a five-person software house and a thirty-engineer scale-up shouldn't get the same team, or the same price.
from $2,500 · 1–2 weeks, fixed scope
A fixed-scope production-readiness, security, and cloud-cost review. You receive a written findings report and a prioritised remediation roadmap — value you keep whether or not we work together again.
from $3,500/mo · 40 / 80 / 160 hrs
A named senior engineer embedded into your team — in your standups, owning your pipeline, clusters, and cloud — for a fraction of a full-time hire. The fastest way to add senior capability without adding headcount.
Fixed-scope builds: clusters, Terraform estates, CI/CD, observability.
We run your platform end to end — monitoring, on-call, upgrades, cost.
Policy-as-code and SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / HIPAA readiness.
A dedicated team as your platform arm — or an MSP's, white-labelled.
The platform we operate
Every engagement is anchored in the same five-system core. It's what we operate, hire against, and standardise on — which is what keeps quality consistent as we grow.
AKS · EKS · k3s
Cluster operations, scaling, upgrades, troubleshooting
PostgreSQL · Valkey
HA, backups, point-in-time recovery, failover
Prometheus · Grafana · Loki · OpenSearch
Metrics, dashboards, alerting, SLOs
Kyverno · OPA · cert-manager · Vault
Policy-as-code, hardening, secrets, compliance
Argo CD · GitHub Actions · Azure DevOps
Continuous delivery, promotion, drift control
FOUNDATIONS · AZURE · AWS · GOOGLE CLOUD / TERRAFORM / DOCKER · HELM · KPACK
For MSPs
Every ongoing offering can run entirely under your brand, inside your own PSA, RMM, and tools. Your clients experience your team; you gain senior cloud-native capability — Kubernetes, IaC, observability, DevSecOps — without recruiting for it.
NDA & NON-SOLICITATION STANDARD ON EVERY ENGAGEMENT
Book a Platform Health Check — a fixed-scope, fixed-price review of your Kubernetes and cloud environment, with a findings report and roadmap you keep. One call is enough to scope it.
