90-Day DevOps Transformation for Cloud SaaS Platforms | Stonetusker Systems
Cloud SaaS and Platform Engineering · Worldwide

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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 — or we keep working until you do.

Stonetusker Systems is a specialist DevOps transformation consultancy delivering a structured 90-day programme for Cloud SaaS and platform engineering teams. The programme moves teams from their current CI/CD and cloud operations state to Elite DORA performance — defined as multiple daily deployments, lead time under one hour, MTTR under 60 minutes, and change failure rates below 15% — through three phases: Foundation (Days 1–30), Acceleration (Days 31–60), and Elite Optimisation (Days 61–90).

90% Faster Deployments
40% Cloud Cost Reduction
99.9%+ Uptime Achieved
Elite DORA Performance
70% Less Ops Toil
60% Higher Dev Satisfaction
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10x Faster Deployment Frequency
Under 60 min MTTR After Implementation
Sub-15% Change Failure Rate
Day One Productivity for New Engineers
SOC2 / ISO 27001 Compliance Automated
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 — identifying your top velocity killers before a single line of code is written.

01

GitOps CI/CD Pipelines

ArgoCD and FluxCD-native deployments across all environments, with microservices migration and container optimisation built in from day one. Pull-based deployments with full auditability and one-click rollbacks.

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 in seconds rather than hours.

03

DevSecOps and Compliance

Shift-left SAST, DAST, OPA Gatekeeper, secrets management, and automated SOC2, ISO 27001, and GDPR reporting built into every pipeline. Audit-ready dashboards on demand.

04

FinOps and Cost Intelligence

Auto-tagging, anomaly detection, Kubernetes rightsizing, and serverless optimisation for sustained 40% cloud cost reductions as you scale. FinOps visibility from day one.

05

Internal Developer Platform

Backstage or a custom IDP with self-service golden paths, CLI tooling, and onboarding automation that delivers 5x developer velocity and eliminates 90% of ops support tickets.

06

AIOps and MLOps

Kubeflow and Seldon ML pipelines, chaos engineering with Litmus, predictive scaling, and intelligent alerting for self-healing operations that resolve issues before users notice.

The Impact

Before and After Stonetusker

Real DevOps transformation means measurable change across every dimension of engineering performance. Here is what that looks like in practice.

Metric ⚠ Before ✓ After 90 Days
Deployment Frequency Weekly or monthly Multiple times daily
Lead Time for Changes Days to weeks Under 1 hour
Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) Hours to days Under 60 minutes
Change Failure Rate 30–45% Below 15%
Cloud Infrastructure Cost Unoptimised, growing 40% reduction sustained
Environment Setup Time Days of manual work Seconds (IaC automated)
New Engineer Onboarding 2–4 weeks to first deploy Day-one productivity
SOC2 / Compliance Prep Weeks of manual evidence Audit-ready in minutes
Operations Toil High — repeated manual work 70% eliminated
DORA Performance Band Low or Medium Elite (top 7% globally)
Days 1 to 30

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.
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Days 31 to 60

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

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
Client Results

What Engineering Leaders Say

DevOps transformation that sticks because it is built around your team, your tools, and your specific velocity bottlenecks — not a templated approach.

"We went from deploying once a week with significant manual steps to deploying twelve times a day autonomously. The Kubernetes migration was smoother than we expected, and the FinOps work immediately found savings we did not know we had."

★★★★★
↑ 12x Deploy Frequency · 38% Cost Reduction

"The DevSecOps implementation got us to SOC2 Type II in half the time we projected. The automated compliance dashboards are something our board asks about in every quarterly review now — it became a genuine competitive differentiator."

★★★★★
↑ SOC2 in 6 weeks · 0 Security Bottlenecks

"The Internal Developer Platform changed how our engineers work entirely. New team members deploy to staging on their first day. The ops ticket volume dropped so sharply in week six that we actually thought the monitoring was broken."

★★★★★
↑ 5x Dev Velocity · 88% Ops Ticket Drop
Common Questions

DevOps Transformation FAQ

Everything engineering leaders ask before starting a 90-day DevOps transformation — answered clearly and completely.

DORA metrics are the four key DevOps performance indicators defined by the DevOps Research and Assessment programme at Google: Deployment Frequency, Lead Time for Changes, Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR), and Change Failure Rate. Elite DORA performance means deploying multiple times daily, lead times under one hour, MTTR under 60 minutes, and change failure rates below 15%. Research shows Elite teams deploy 973 times more frequently and recover 6,570 times faster than low performers. Stonetusker delivers Elite DORA for Cloud SaaS teams in 90 days.
The 40% cloud cost reduction is achieved through a structured FinOps programme: automated resource tagging, anomaly detection, Kubernetes pod rightsizing, cluster autoscaling, serverless optimisation with AWS Lambda and Google Cloud Run to eliminate idle server costs, and reserved instance optimisation. Continuous FinOps dashboards provide real-time visibility as the team scales. These savings are sustained — not a one-time optimisation.
GitOps is a CI/CD methodology where Git repositories serve as the single source of truth for both infrastructure and application deployments. Unlike traditional push-based CI/CD, GitOps uses pull-based deployments via tools like ArgoCD and FluxCD, providing full auditability, automatic drift correction, and reliable rollbacks. Every change is traceable to a Git commit. Stonetusker implements GitOps-native pipelines that typically deliver a 10x deployment frequency improvement within the first 30 days.
An Internal Developer Platform (IDP) is a self-service layer over your infrastructure that gives developers golden paths for deploying, monitoring, and managing services without relying on ops for every task. Stonetusker builds IDPs with Backstage or custom tooling, with CLI tooling, project templates, and automated onboarding. The typical result is 5x developer velocity, 90% fewer ops support tickets, and day-one productivity for all new engineers.
Stonetusker supports all major cloud platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), as well as multi-cloud and hybrid environments. Infrastructure as Code is implemented with Terraform and Pulumi across all platforms, with vendor-neutral golden paths that preserve cloud provider negotiation leverage.
Yes. Automated compliance reporting for SOC2, ISO 27001, and GDPR is integrated directly into DevSecOps pipelines as part of Phase 2. This includes SAST, DAST, OPA Gatekeeper for policy enforcement, secrets management, and continuous compliance posture monitoring. Audit-ready dashboards are generated on demand, typically reducing compliance preparation time from weeks to minutes.
FinOps (Financial Operations for cloud) brings financial accountability to cloud spending through collaboration between engineering, finance, and product teams. For Kubernetes environments, FinOps includes pod and namespace rightsizing, cluster autoscaling policies, cost allocation by team and service, and anomaly detection for unexpected spend spikes. Stonetusker's FinOps programme delivers sustained 40% cloud cost reductions that scale with your team's growth.
Stonetusker operates on a pilot-first engagement model with no long-term contracts. The process: (1) Free DevOps audit identifying your top velocity killers and cost inefficiencies, (2) Precise proposal for your specific stack and team, (3) 90-day transformation with weekly progress milestones, (4) Full handover including runbooks, architecture diagrams, and a 12-month optimisation roadmap. NDA from day one. Results in 90 days.
Investment varies based on team size, existing infrastructure complexity, and automation scope. Stonetusker offers a free DevOps audit to assess your current state and provide a precise proposal — no commitment required. You can also use the free Tusker90Pro tool to get a personalised indicative investment range for your specific stack in approximately two minutes, with no email required.
Stonetusker implements a comprehensive DevOps toolchain: ArgoCD and FluxCD for GitOps CI/CD, Terraform and Pulumi for IaC, Kubernetes for container orchestration, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and Jaeger for full-stack observability, PagerDuty and Opsgenie for incident management, Backstage for Internal Developer Platforms, Kubeflow and Seldon for MLOps, Litmus for chaos engineering, and LaunchDarkly for feature flags and progressive delivery.
Why Stonetusker

Stonetusker vs. DIY vs. Generic Agencies

Not all DevOps transformations are equal. Here is how a specialist 90-day programme compares to the alternatives CTOs and VP Engineers most often consider.

Capability Stonetusker DIY / Internal Generic Agency
Time to Elite DORA 90 days 12–24 months 6–12 months
Cloud Cost Savings 40% sustained 5–10% 10–20%
SOC2 / ISO 27001 Automation ✓ Full ✗ Manual ~ Partial
Internal Developer Platform ✓ Included ✗ Separate project ✗ Not typical
AIOps and MLOps ✓ Phase 3 ✗ Rare capability ~ Add-on cost
Team Certification (CKAD / FinOps) ✓ Included ✗ Separate budget ✗ Not offered
Knowledge Transfer + Runbooks ✓ Full handover ~ Informal ~ Variable
Commercial Risk Pilot-first, no lock-in High — FTE commitment Medium — long contracts
12-Month Optimisation Roadmap ✓ Included ✗ ✗

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