Enterprise Kubernetes Platforms That Just Work.
Stop wrestling with infrastructure complexity. We design, build, and manage production-grade container platforms so your developers can ship code faster, securely, and at scale.
Why Choose CIS: Your AI-Enabled Platform Partner
Kubernetes promises velocity, but delivers complexity. We bridge that gap. With over 20 years of enterprise experience and a CMMI Level 5 commitment to quality, we don't just build platforms; we build the reliable, secure, and cost-effective foundation for your business's future.
AI-Powered AIOps
Our platform isn't just managed; it's intelligent. We leverage AI to proactively detect anomalies, predict failures, and automate remediation, ensuring maximum uptime and performance before issues impact your users.
DevSecOps Native
Security isn't an afterthought; it's built-in. From secure container supply chains to policy-as-code and runtime threat detection, we embed security into every stage of your development lifecycle, ensuring compliance and peace of mind.
Cloud Cost Optimization
Stop overspending on cloud resources. Our experts implement FinOps best practices, right-sizing workloads and leveraging intelligent scaling to reduce your cloud bill by up to 40% without sacrificing performance.
CMMI 5 Process Maturity
Benefit from the highest standard of process excellence. Our CMMI Level 5 appraisal ensures your platform is built and managed with predictable quality, continuous improvement, and statistical performance measurement.
Vendor-Agnostic Expertise
Whether you're on AWS, Azure, GCP, or on-prem, our expertise is portable. We design solutions that are right for your business, not a specific cloud vendor, giving you flexibility and preventing lock-in.
24/7/365 SRE Support
Your platform is always on, and so are we. Our global team of Site Reliability Engineers acts as an extension of your own, providing round-the-clock monitoring, incident response, and expert support.
Accelerated Time-to-Market
Empower your developers with a true self-service platform. By abstracting away infrastructure complexity, we enable your teams to deploy applications faster, more frequently, and with higher confidence.
100% In-House Vetted Talent
We never outsource our expertise. Your platform is managed by our dedicated, full-time team of certified Kubernetes and cloud professionals, ensuring consistent quality and deep institutional knowledge.
Transparent Partnership
We operate with full transparency. You get clear documentation, shared dashboards, and regular strategy sessions. Our success is measured by your success, and we act as a true partner in your cloud-native journey.
Our Comprehensive Kubernetes & Container Platform Services
From initial strategy to 24/7 management, we offer a full spectrum of services to ensure your cloud-native ecosystem is powerful, resilient, and aligned with your business goals.
AI-Enabled Kubernetes Platform Design & Build
We architect and construct a bespoke, production-grade Kubernetes platform tailored to your specific performance, security, and scalability requirements. This isn't a one-size-fits-all solution; it's your custom-built application delivery engine.
- Multi-Cloud & Hybrid Strategy: Design a platform that runs seamlessly across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premise data centers for ultimate flexibility.
- High-Availability Architecture: Engineer for resilience with multi-zone and multi-region deployments to guarantee uptime.
- Custom Internal Developer Platform (IDP): Build a paved road for your developers, abstracting complexity and enabling true self-service.
Cloud-Native CI/CD & GitOps Implementation
Automate your entire software delivery lifecycle. We implement robust, secure, and efficient CI/CD pipelines using cloud-native tools, enabling you to ship better software, faster.
- Declarative GitOps Workflows: Implement Argo CD or Flux for a single source of truth, ensuring your cluster state always matches your Git repository.
- Automated Quality & Security Gates: Integrate automated testing, static code analysis, and container scanning directly into your pipeline.
- Advanced Deployment Strategies: Enable canary, blue-green, and progressive rollouts to minimize risk and deploy with confidence.
Container Security & DevSecOps
Embed security into the DNA of your platform. We implement a defense-in-depth strategy that protects your applications from build to runtime.
- Secure Software Supply Chain: Implement image signing and vulnerability scanning to ensure only trusted code runs in production.
- Policy-as-Code Enforcement: Use OPA or Kyverno to enforce security and organizational policies automatically across your clusters.
- Runtime Threat Detection: Deploy tools like Falco to monitor for and alert on suspicious activity within your running containers.
Managed Kubernetes & Day 2 Operations
Offload the 24/7 operational burden of managing Kubernetes. Our SRE team handles everything from monitoring and incident response to patching and upgrades, letting you focus on innovation.
- Proactive 24/7 Monitoring & Alerting: We use a sophisticated observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki) to watch your platform around the clock.
- AI-Driven Incident Response: Leverage AIOps to rapidly diagnose root causes and automate remediation for faster recovery times.
- Continuous Performance & Cost Optimization: We constantly analyze your platform's performance and resource usage to ensure it's both fast and cost-effective.
Application Modernization & Containerization
Transform your legacy applications into scalable, resilient microservices. We guide you through the entire process of decomposition, containerization, and migration to your new Kubernetes platform.
- Monolith to Microservices Strategy: We help you analyze your existing applications and develop a pragmatic roadmap for modernization.
- Dockerization & Best Practices: We containerize your applications following best practices for security, size, and efficiency.
- Service Mesh Implementation (Istio/Linkerd): Add traffic management, security, and observability to your microservices without changing application code.
Our Battle-Tested Delivery Process
We follow a structured, transparent process that ensures your platform is delivered on time, on budget, and perfectly aligned with your strategic objectives.
1. Discover & Strategize
We immerse ourselves in your goals, technical landscape, and challenges to co-create a detailed architectural blueprint and strategic roadmap.
2. Design & Architect
Our cloud architects design a resilient, secure, and scalable platform foundation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for full automation and repeatability.
3. Build & Integrate
Our DevOps engineers build the platform, integrating CI/CD, security, and observability tools to create a seamless, end-to-end delivery ecosystem.
4. Operate & Manage
Our 24/7 SRE team takes over Day 2 operations, providing proactive monitoring, management, and support to ensure your platform runs flawlessly.
5. Optimize & Evolve
We continuously analyze performance and cost metrics, providing data-driven recommendations to evolve your platform and maximize its value.
Success Stories: Real-World Platform Transformations
FinTech Scale-Up Achieves PCI Compliance and 5x Faster Deployments
"CIS didn't just give us a Kubernetes cluster; they gave us a secure, compliant, and automated platform that became a competitive advantage. Our developers are happier, and our auditors are satisfied."
- Michael Harper, CTO, FinSecure Payments
The Problem
A rapidly growing payment processing startup was struggling with slow, manual deployments and facing an urgent deadline for PCI DSS compliance. Their monolithic architecture couldn't scale to meet demand, and their lack of in-house DevOps expertise was a major bottleneck.
Key Challenges
- Achieving and maintaining stringent PCI DSS compliance.
- Reducing a 2-week manual deployment cycle.
- Improving application stability and scalability.
- Lack of a secure and repeatable infrastructure process.
Our Solution & Outcomes
We designed and built a DevSecOps-native Kubernetes platform on AWS EKS. The solution included a secure CI/CD pipeline with integrated vulnerability scanning, policy-as-code via OPA for PCI controls, and a GitOps workflow for auditable, automated deployments.
E-commerce Giant Handles Black Friday Traffic with Zero Downtime
"The platform CIS built for us is rock-solid. For the first time ever, our team could focus on promotions during our peak season instead of fighting fires. The auto-scaling worked flawlessly."
- Jenna Raynor, VP of Engineering, StyleTrove
The Problem
A major online retailer had experienced costly outages during their peak Black Friday sales for two consecutive years. Their legacy infrastructure couldn't handle the massive, unpredictable traffic spikes, leading to lost revenue and customer frustration.
Key Challenges
- Ensuring 100% uptime during peak traffic events.
- Scaling infrastructure rapidly and automatically.
- Gaining real-time visibility into application performance.
- Controlling spiraling cloud costs from over-provisioning.
Our Solution & Outcomes
We migrated their core e-commerce services to a microservices architecture on a GKE platform. We implemented Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) and Cluster Autoscaler, combined with a service mesh for advanced traffic management and real-time observability.
Healthcare SaaS Provider Accelerates HIPAA-Compliant Feature Delivery
"Navigating HIPAA in the cloud is complex. CIS built us a platform that not only meets all security and compliance requirements but also allows our developers to innovate safely and quickly. They are true partners."
- Dr. Evelyn Morton, Founder & CEO, MedInnovate EMR
The Problem
A provider of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) software needed to accelerate their feature development to stay competitive, but their process was hampered by strict HIPAA compliance requirements and a cumbersome, non-containerized environment.
Key Challenges
- Ensuring end-to-end HIPAA compliance on the cloud.
- Enabling developers to work in isolated, secure environments.
- Automating audit trails and compliance reporting.
- Modernizing their application without compromising data security.
Our Solution & Outcomes
We deployed a HIPAA-compliant Kubernetes platform on Azure (AKS) with strict network policies, end-to-end encryption, and robust logging and auditing. We implemented dynamic, on-demand development environments within the cluster, giving developers a safe sandbox for innovation.
Technology We Master
We use a best-of-breed, cloud-native toolkit to build and manage your platform, ensuring it's modern, maintainable, and powerful.
What Our Clients Say
CIS transformed our operations. Their managed Kubernetes platform is incredibly stable, and their SRE team is always one step ahead. We've seen a 60% reduction in production incidents.
The GitOps workflow they implemented has been a game-changer for our compliance and audit processes. Every change is tracked, approved, and automatically deployed. It's brilliant.
We were struggling to hire Kubernetes talent. Partnering with CIS gave us instant access to a world-class team for less than the cost of two senior hires. The ROI was immediate.
Their focus on cost optimization was phenomenal. The team identified and eliminated so much waste in our cloud spend. The platform they built is not only better, but it's also cheaper to run.
The application modernization process was seamless. They carefully planned the migration from our monolith, and we moved to microservices with zero disruption to our customers.
The level of expertise and professionalism is top-notch. They are true partners who are genuinely invested in our success. I can't recommend them highly enough.
Frequently Asked Questions
While EKS, GKE, and AKS are excellent foundations, they only manage the Kubernetes control plane. You are still responsible for architecting, securing, and operating everything else: worker nodes, networking, ingress, monitoring, logging, security policies, and CI/CD integration. CIS provides a production-ready, opinionated platform *on top* of these services. We deliver a fully-managed, secure, and cost-optimized environment out-of-the-box, saving your team months of complex engineering effort and preventing costly misconfigurations.
Our AI-enabled AIOps platform proactively monitors your clusters to predict and prevent issues before they cause downtime. It analyzes metrics, logs, and traces to identify performance bottlenecks, detect security anomalies, and provide intelligent recommendations for resource optimization. This translates to higher uptime, enhanced security, and significant cloud cost savings through features like intelligent node scaling and pod right-sizing.
Security is at the core of our platform design. As a CMMI Level 5, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 certified company, we build DevSecOps principles into every layer. This includes a hardened container supply chain with vulnerability scanning, policy-as-code enforcement (using OPA/Kyverno), runtime security monitoring, and secrets management. We have extensive experience building platforms that meet stringent compliance standards for industries like FinTech (PCI DSS) and Healthcare (HIPAA).
Absolutely. Application modernization is one of our core competencies. Our process begins with a thorough assessment of your existing applications. We then work with your team to strategize the decomposition into microservices, containerize the new services, and build the CI/CD pipelines to deploy and manage them on Kubernetes. We follow the 'strangler fig' pattern and other best practices to ensure a smooth, phased migration with minimal disruption to your business.
'Day 2 Operations' refers to all the tasks required to run a platform in production *after* the initial setup. This is often the most challenging part. Our 24/7 SRE team handles all of it: proactive monitoring and alerting, incident response, security patching, cluster upgrades, performance tuning, cost management, and providing ongoing support to your development teams. We effectively become an extension of your team, ensuring your platform remains stable, secure, and efficient.
We offer a range of models to fit your specific needs. For companies wanting to build internal expertise, we offer a 'Platform Build & Handover' project. For those who want to completely offload infrastructure management, our 'Fully Managed Platform POD' is ideal. We also provide 'Staff Augmentation' with expert SRE and DevOps engineers to supplement your existing team, and 'Advisory Consulting' for strategic guidance and architectural reviews.
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