Cloud SaaS and Platform Engineering
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in 90 Days.
CI/CD automation, GitOps, Kubernetes, FinOps, and AIOps built specifically for Cloud SaaS and platform engineering teams. Deploy multiple times daily, cut cloud costs by 40%, and achieve 99.9% uptime in 90 days.
90%
Faster Deployments
40%
Cloud Cost Reduction
99.9%+
Uptime Achieved
Elite
DORA Performance
70%
Less Ops Toil
60%
Developer Satisfaction
The Transformation
What Stonetusker Delivers
Production-ready DevOps automation built around your stack, your team, and your growth objectives. Not a generic playbook. Every engagement starts with a real audit of where you are today.
01
GitOps CI/CD Pipelines
ArgoCD and FluxCD-native deployments across all environments, with microservices migration and container optimisation built in from day one.
02
Kubernetes and IaC Mastery
Multi-cloud Terraform and Pulumi for AWS, Azure, and GCP. Zero environment drift, global deployment automation, and production-like environments on demand.
03
DevSecOps and Compliance
Shift-left SAST, DAST, OPA Gatekeeper, secrets management, and automated SOC2, ISO 27001, and GDPR reporting built into every pipeline.
04
FinOps and Cost Intelligence
Auto-tagging, anomaly detection, Kubernetes rightsizing, and serverless optimisation for sustained 40% cloud cost reductions as you scale.
05
Internal Developer Platform
Backstage or a custom IDP with self-service golden paths, CLI tooling, and onboarding automation that delivers 5x developer velocity.
06
AIOps and MLOps
Kubeflow and Seldon ML pipelines, chaos engineering with Litmus, predictive scaling, and intelligent alerting for self-healing operations.
Days 1 to 30
01
Foundation. Bulletproof Pipelines and IaC Mastery.
Eliminate manual deploys and environment chaos. Build the velocity foundation that top SaaS platforms depend on, with GitOps-native CI/CD and multi-cloud infrastructure as code from day one.
- Complete audit of existing CI/CD pipelines, identifying your top velocity killers and mapping a precise roadmap to Elite DORA performance. Immediate 2x visibility. Clear roadmap to Elite DORA.
- GitOps-native CI/CD with ArgoCD and FluxCD across all environments for consistent, auditable, and fully automated delivery. 10x deployment frequency by day 30.
- Monolith-to-microservices migration with Docker and Kubernetes for independent scaling and parallel release cycles across teams. Deploy times from hours to minutes.
- Multi-cloud IaC with Terraform and Pulumi across AWS, Azure, and GCP, eliminating environment drift and enabling production-like environments in seconds. Zero drift. Prod-like environments on demand.
- Full testing pyramid with unit, integration, end-to-end, and API contract testing integrated into every pipeline stage before anything reaches production. 90% bug prevention pre-prod. Failure rates below 15%.
- Multi-region and global deployment automation with traffic management, blue-green switching, and one-click rollbacks at any scale. 99.99% SLA worldwide from launch.
- Container optimisation and private registry implementation (Harbor or ECR) reducing image sizes by 70% and dramatically cutting pull times. 70% smaller images. 50% faster pulls.
- Database migration strategies with zero-downtime deployment patterns and backward compatibility built into every schema change workflow. Schema changes with no outages.
- Environment parity automation ensuring dev, staging, and production are configuration-identical, eliminating production surprises for good. 95% fewer production surprises.
Days 31 to 60
02
Acceleration. DevSecOps, FinOps, and Golden Paths.
Scale securely with developer portals, advanced FinOps practices, and progressive delivery patterns built for enterprise-grade SaaS performance.
- Shift-left DevSecOps with SAST, DAST, OPA Gatekeeper, and secrets management integrated into pipelines so security never slows down delivery. Compliance acceleration. Zero security bottlenecks.
- Internal Developer Platform with Backstage or a custom IDP and self-service golden paths, reducing operational overhead and enabling teams to ship independently. 5x developer velocity. 90% ops ticket reduction.
- Advanced FinOps with automated tagging, anomaly detection, and Kubernetes rightsizing delivering sustained cloud savings while the platform scales. 40% cloud savings while scaling 3x.
- Progressive delivery with canary deployments, LaunchDarkly feature flags, and blue-green strategies for risk-free production rollouts and live experimentation. Risk-free 100% rollouts. Live A/B experimentation.
- Full-stack observability with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and Jaeger for end-to-end tracing, log correlation, and predictive outage prevention. MTTR under 60 minutes. Predictive outage prevention.
- Event-driven serverless optimisation with Lambda and Cloud Run for pay-per-execution scaling and complete elimination of idle server costs. Pay-per-execution. Zero server management overhead.
- API Gateway with Kong or Ambassador and service mesh with Istio for mTLS across services and production-grade API scale and observability. mTLS everywhere. Production-grade API scale.
- Automated compliance reporting for SOC2, ISO 27001, and GDPR with audit-ready dashboards generated on demand and continuous posture monitoring. Audit-ready in minutes. Continuous compliance.
- Incident management with PagerDuty and Opsgenie integration, structured on-call rotations, and automated postmortem generation after every event. 30-second alert-to-response. Postmortems automated.
Days 61 to 90
03
Elite Optimisation. AIOps and a Self-Healing Future.
AI-powered operations, chaos engineering, and sustained excellence. A platform that runs, scales, and improves itself over time with minimal manual intervention.
- MLOps pipelines with Kubeflow and Seldon for production ML model deployment, versioning, and continuous retraining without engineering overhead. 50% faster AI feature delivery.
- Chaos engineering with Litmus automation and self-healing runbooks to proactively discover failure modes before they affect users. 99.99% uptime. Automated incident response.
- Custom DORA dashboard with team scorecards, trend tracking, and executive reporting that measures what matters at every level of the organisation. Daily deployments. Elite DORA status certified.
- AIOps integration with anomaly detection, predictive scaling, and intelligent alerting that resolves problems before they reach end users. Operations on autopilot. Problems solved proactively.
- Global CDN and edge computing optimisation delivering sub-100ms latency worldwide for a genuinely performant global SaaS experience. Sub-100ms latency worldwide.
- Multi-cloud portability and vendor-neutral golden paths that preserve negotiation leverage and ensure optimal pricing across all cloud providers. Cloud vendor independence. Negotiation power.
- Developer experience optimisation with CLI tooling, project templates, and onboarding automation cutting new engineer ramp time by 50%. Day-one productivity. 50% ramp time reduction.
- Team enablement through CKAD and FinOps certification preparation, internal workshops, and knowledge transfer building lasting in-house capability. Internal experts. 60% higher engineering retention.
- Full handover with runbooks, architecture diagrams, and a 12-month optimisation roadmap ensuring the transformation compounds long after the engagement ends. Self-sustaining excellence. Results that compound.
Proven Results
Delivered Worldwide
90%
Faster Deployments
40%
Cloud Cost Reduction
99.9%+
Uptime Achieved
Elite
DORA Metrics
70%
Less Ops Toil
60%
Developer Satisfaction
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Elite DORA Performance?
Start with a free DevOps audit. We will identify your top velocity killers and cost inefficiencies in the first conversation, at no cost and with no commitment required.
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Pilot-first engagement
Results in 90 days
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