Is Your Engineering Velocity Grinding to a Halt?
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Elite Platform Engineering & DevOps: Go from Code to Cloud, Faster & Safer
We build the 'paved road' for your developers: self-service Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs), automated CI/CD pipelines, and SRE frameworks that eliminate toil and accelerate innovation.
Why CIS for Platform Engineering?
Your developers are your most valuable asset. We build the platforms that unleash their potential, turning operational friction into a competitive advantage.
AI-Augmented Delivery
We leverage enterprise-grade AI to accelerate diagnostics, automate testing, and predict pipeline failures before they happen, ensuring faster, more reliable deployments.
CMMI Level 5 Process
Our CMMI Level 5 appraisal isn't just a badge; it's your guarantee of a quantitatively managed process that delivers predictable, high-quality outcomes every time.
Security-First Mindset
With SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certifications, we embed security into every stage of the lifecycle (DevSecOps), building platforms that are secure and compliant by design.
Developer Experience (DevEx) Obsessed
We don't just build pipelines; we build 'paved roads.' Our focus is on creating self-service, low-friction environments that developers actually love to use.
Accelerated Time-to-Market
Our pre-built blueprints and IaC modules for common patterns mean we're not starting from scratch. We deliver a functional, value-producing platform in weeks, not months.
End-to-End Ownership
From initial strategy and architecture to 24x7 SRE support, we provide a single point of accountability for the entire platform lifecycle. We build it, we run it, we own it.
Full IP & Knowledge Transfer
You own 100% of the intellectual property. We provide comprehensive documentation and training to ensure your team can confidently operate and evolve the platform we build together.
Risk-Free 2-Week Trial
Experience our expertise firsthand. Our paid 2-week trial lets you validate our team's skill and cultural fit on a real, small-scale project before committing long-term.
True Partnership Model
We integrate with your team, acting as a strategic extension, not just a vendor. Our goal is to make your entire engineering organization more effective and self-sufficient.
Our Platform Engineering & DevOps Services
We offer a comprehensive suite of services to design, build, and operate a modern, scalable, and secure software delivery platform tailored to your unique needs.
Internal Developer Platform (IDP) Implementation
We build a centralized, self-service platform that provides developers with the tools, services, and automated workflows they need to ship code independently and efficiently.
- Reduces developer cognitive load and onboarding time.
- Enforces standards and best practices automatically.
- Creates a single source of truth for your software delivery lifecycle.
CI/CD Pipeline Automation & Optimization
We design and implement robust, secure, and high-velocity CI/CD pipelines that automate everything from code commit to production deployment.
- Increases deployment frequency and reduces lead time for changes.
- Minimizes manual errors and improves release reliability.
- Integrates security scanning (SAST, DAST) directly into the pipeline.
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Enablement
We help you adopt SRE principles to achieve higher levels of reliability and performance, moving from a reactive firefighting model to proactive, data-driven operations.
- Defines and tracks Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets.
- Automates incident response and toil reduction.
- Implements blameless post-mortems to foster a culture of continuous improvement.
Cloud-Native & Kubernetes Consulting
We architect and manage scalable, resilient, and cost-effective infrastructure on Kubernetes and public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Leverages containerization and microservices for application portability and scale.
- Optimizes cloud resource utilization to control costs (FinOps).
- Ensures high availability and disaster recovery for critical services.
DevSecOps & Pipeline Security
We integrate security seamlessly into your development lifecycle, making it an automated and continuous part of your delivery process.
- Automates vulnerability scanning, dependency checking, and compliance validation.
- Implements secrets management and secure infrastructure practices.
- Shifts security left, identifying and remediating risks earlier and cheaper.
Observability & AIOps Implementation
We build comprehensive observability platforms (logs, metrics, traces) and apply AI/ML to help you understand system behavior, detect anomalies, and resolve issues faster.
- Provides deep insights into application performance and user experience.
- Reduces Mean Time to Detection (MTTD) and Resolution (MTTR).
- Enables proactive problem identification before it impacts users.
Proven Success in Platform Transformation
We don't just talk about theory. We deliver tangible results that accelerate business outcomes.
FinTech & Payments
Building a Secure, Compliant IDP for a FinTech Scale-Up
Client Overview: A rapidly growing FinTech company providing payment processing solutions, facing pressure to accelerate feature delivery while meeting stringent PCI-DSS and SOC 2 compliance requirements.
Problem: Their manual, ticket-based deployment process was slow, error-prone, and a major source of frustration for their 100+ developers. Environment provisioning took days, and compliance checks were a bottleneck at the end of every release cycle.
Key Challenges:
- Slow developer onboarding and inconsistent local environments.
- Lack of standardized tooling and deployment patterns.
- High risk of security misconfigurations.
- Inability to scale deployment frequency to meet market demand.
Our Solution:
We partnered with their team to design and build an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) using Backstage, Kubernetes, and ArgoCD, focusing on developer self-service and automated compliance.
- Created standardized software templates for new microservices.
- Automated CI/CD pipelines with integrated security (SAST, DAST) and compliance checks.
- Implemented a GitOps workflow for consistent, auditable deployments.
- Provided developers with a self-service portal to provision infrastructure and view service health.
75%
Reduction in Deployment Time
4x
Increase in Deployment Frequency
90%
Decrease in Security Policy Violations
Retail & E-commerce
Modernizing CI/CD for a Global E-commerce Enterprise
Client Overview: A Fortune 500 retail company with a massive e-commerce platform struggling with a legacy, monolithic CI/CD system that was brittle, slow, and required a dedicated team of "release engineers" to manage.
Problem: Deployment failures were common, rollbacks were complex, and the entire system was a black box that no one fully understood. This technical debt was severely hampering their ability to innovate and respond to competitors.
Key Challenges:
- High change failure rate (>20%).
- Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) of over 4 hours.
- Dependency on a small group of specialists for all deployments.
- Inability to adopt modern practices like canary releases or A/B testing.
Our Solution:
We executed a phased migration from their legacy Jenkins setup to a modern, decentralized pipeline architecture using GitLab CI and Terraform, empowering individual development teams.
- Broke down the monolithic pipeline into smaller, reusable, and version-controlled components.
- Implemented Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to manage build agents and environments.
- Introduced automated quality gates and progressive delivery strategies (blue/green deployments).
- Trained their development teams to own and manage their own service pipelines.
<5%
Change Failure Rate
80%
Reduction in MTTR
100%
Self-Service Deployments
SaaS & Cloud Technology
Implementing SRE and Observability for a High-Growth SaaS Platform
Client Overview: A B2B SaaS provider experiencing rapid customer growth, which led to frequent performance degradation and outages. Their operations team was constantly firefighting, and they lacked the data to proactively address reliability issues.
Problem: The company had no formal reliability targets (SLOs), and their monitoring was a disparate collection of tools that provided alerts but no context. They were at risk of losing major customers due to poor service stability.
Key Challenges:
- Lack of visibility into system performance and dependencies.
- High Mean Time to Detection (MTTD) for production issues.
- No data-driven way to prioritize reliability work vs. feature work.
- Operational toil was consuming over 60% of the ops team's time.
Our Solution:
We implemented a full SRE program, starting with establishing a robust observability stack using Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry, and then defining and tracking SLOs for critical user journeys.
- Instrumented their applications with structured logging, distributed tracing, and key metrics.
- Built comprehensive dashboards to visualize service health and dependencies.
- Defined SLOs and error budgets, giving them a framework to balance reliability and innovation.
- Automated common operational tasks and incident response runbooks.
99.95%
Achieved Service Availability
60%
Reduction in Critical Incidents
50%
Reduction in Ops Team Toil
Our Collaborative Delivery Process
We follow a structured, transparent process to ensure we deliver the right platform that solves your most critical challenges.
1. Discover & Strategize
We start by deeply understanding your goals, workflows, and pain points through workshops and value stream mapping. We define key metrics for success and create a strategic roadmap.
2. Architect & Design
We design a future-state architecture for your platform, selecting the right tools and patterns. We create a detailed implementation plan, focusing on a Minimum Viable Platform (MVP) to deliver value quickly.
3. Build & Iterate
Working in agile sprints, we build, test, and deploy the platform components. We gather continuous feedback from your developer community to ensure the platform is intuitive and meets their needs.
4. Operate & Evolve
We provide ongoing support, monitoring, and optimization for the platform. We help you drive adoption, measure impact, and continuously evolve the platform's capabilities as your organization grows.
Our Technology Stack & Tools
We are experts in the modern, cloud-native ecosystem, leveraging best-of-breed open-source and commercial tools to build powerful platforms.
What Our Clients Say
Our partnerships are built on trust, transparency, and delivering measurable results.
"CIS didn't just sell us DevOps; they transformed our engineering culture. Their platform team built an IDP that cut our onboarding time from weeks to hours. It's been a game-changer for our developer velocity."
"The SRE engagement was phenomenal. We finally have clear SLOs and an error budget that allows us to make data-driven decisions. Our platform is more stable than ever, and our on-call engineers can finally sleep."
Frequently Asked Questions
Platform Engineering is the discipline of designing and building toolchains and workflows that enable self-service capabilities for software engineering organizations. The goal is to create a secure and efficient 'paved road'—an Internal Developer Platform (IDP)—that reduces cognitive load on developers, automates operational tasks, and allows teams to deliver applications faster and more reliably.
While DevOps is a culture and a set of practices, Platform Engineering is the implementation of those practices at scale. A platform team builds the tools and infrastructure that other development teams consume. This prevents each team from having to reinvent the wheel for CI/CD, infrastructure, and monitoring, creating consistency and efficiency across the organization.
Many internal DevOps teams are overwhelmed with day-to-day operational tasks and "keeping the lights on." They often lack the dedicated time or specialized expertise to build a cohesive, product-minded internal platform. We act as an accelerator, bringing our battle-tested blueprints, CMMI 5 processes, and expert engineers to build your platform faster and more robustly, freeing your team to focus on supporting developers.
Our approach focuses on delivering value quickly. We can typically deliver a Minimum Viable Platform (MVP) that includes a software template catalog, a standardized CI/CD pipeline, and basic observability for a single service within 8-12 weeks. From there, we iterate and expand the platform's capabilities based on developer feedback and business priorities.
We believe in using the best tool for the job and avoiding vendor lock-in. Our solutions are primarily built on a foundation of best-in-class open-source technologies like Kubernetes, Backstage, ArgoCD, and Terraform. We integrate commercial tools where they provide a distinct advantage (e.g., for security scanning or observability), but the core platform remains open and extensible. You own all the IP and configurations.
Ready to Build a World-Class Developer Platform?
Stop letting infrastructure bottlenecks and developer toil slow you down. Let's build a platform that empowers your team to innovate at the speed of your business. Schedule a free, no-obligation consultation with one of our platform architects today.
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Success Stories in Platform Engineering
See how we've helped organizations like yours transform their development lifecycle, boost productivity, and accelerate innovation.
Our Technology & Tooling Expertise
We build modern platforms using a best-of-breed, open-source-first approach. We have deep expertise across the entire cloud-native ecosystem.
Meet Our Platform Engineering Experts
Our teams are composed of certified cloud architects, SREs, and DevOps specialists who have built and scaled platforms for some of the world's most demanding technology organizations.
Flexible Engagement Models
We tailor our engagement to fit your specific needs, whether you need a full-scale platform build, expert guidance, or to augment your existing team.
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