Cloud & DevOps

Platform Engineering

Internal developer platforms that turn infrastructure into a self-service product.

Overview

Platform Engineering

Every engineering team eventually hits the same wall: infrastructure requests pile up faster than a central platform or DevOps team can action them. Platform engineering solves this by building an internal developer platform — a self-service layer of golden paths, templates, and a service catalogue — that lets application engineers provision what they need in minutes, while the platform team maintains the guardrails. We design and build these platforms, whether on top of Backstage, a commercial IDP, or a bespoke foundation.

Discuss Your Project
Faster Onboarding

New engineers reach their first production deploy in days, not weeks, via self-service templates.

Service Ownership Clarity

A living service catalogue answers who owns what, ending Slack-message archaeology during incidents.

Guardrails, Not Gatekeeping

Golden paths bake in security and compliance defaults so teams move fast without reinventing the basics.

What We Offer

Service Scope & Deliverables

Internal developer platform (IDP) design and implementation
Backstage-based software catalogue setup and plugin development
Golden path templates for common workflows (new service, database, environment)
Self-service infrastructure provisioning via Terraform and Kubernetes operators
Developer experience (DX) metrics and platform adoption tracking
Platform-as-a-product roadmapping and stakeholder alignment
Migration path from ad hoc tooling to a unified platform
Governance model for catalogue ownership and template publishing
How We Work

Our Delivery Process

01
Discover

Interview engineering teams to find the highest-friction, most-repeated infrastructure requests.

02
Scope

Pick a narrow, genuinely useful first slice — service ownership data plus one or two self-service actions.

03
Build

Stand up the catalogue and golden paths, integrated with your existing CI/CD and cloud accounts.

04
Iterate

Expand based on real developer requests, with adoption metrics guiding the roadmap.

Tech Stack

Technologies & Tools

BackstageKubernetesTerraformCrossplaneArgoCDGitHub ActionsHumanitecPort
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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about our Platform Engineering service.

DevOps and SRE teams typically operate infrastructure and respond to incidents; a platform engineering team builds and maintains a product — the internal developer platform — that other engineers use directly. The mindset shift is treating the platform team's output as a product with users, not a set of internal-only scripts.

Backstage is our default recommendation because of its plugin ecosystem and CNCF backing, but it is not the only option. For simpler needs a lightweight custom catalogue can be faster to ship; for teams already invested in a commercial IDP, we integrate with that instead. We scope this based on your existing tooling and team capacity.

A narrow first release — service catalogue plus one or two high-value self-service actions — can ship in 6-10 weeks. The compounding value (faster onboarding, fewer production incidents, less time on infrastructure tickets) becomes measurable over the following two to three quarters as adoption grows.

Over-engineering the initial rollout by trying to model every service and workflow before launch. This delays value and risks the project being deprioritised. We always recommend shipping a narrow, genuinely useful slice first and expanding based on what developers actually request.

Leading indicators like self-service adoption rate and time-to-first-deploy for new engineers, alongside lagging DORA metrics — deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate. We help you baseline these before rollout so improvement is measurable, not assumed.

A dedicated platform team, even if small — one or two engineers plus a product-minded lead. Platforms that lack a named owner and a feedback loop with developers tend to go stale within a year, regardless of how well they were built initially.

Ready to get started with Platform Engineering?

Our team will scope your requirements and come back with a clear proposal within 48 hours.

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