Platform engineering services
Platform engineering services for companies whose developers wait on operations to ship: internal developer platforms, Backstage portals and software catalogues, golden paths and service templates, self-service infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, preview environments and shared pipelines, with dedicated platform engineers for your team or a platform built end to end.
Platform engineering work we take on
Internal developer platforms
One supported route from commit to production, with the runtime, pipelines, secrets, observability and access already connected, run by a platform team as a product with its own roadmap, documentation and users.
Backstage developer portals
A Backstage portal with the software catalogue filled from your repositories, owners and on-call shown for every service, plug-ins for your CI, cloud and incident tools, and documentation kept beside the code. Hosted portals such as Cortex or Port when you would rather not run one yourselves.
Golden paths and service templates
Templates a new service starts from, with the build, tests, container image, deployment, dashboards and alerts already in place, and scorecards that show which services have drifted from the standard.
Self-service infrastructure
Databases, queues, buckets and whole environments requested from the portal or a pull request and created by reviewed Terraform modules or Crossplane compositions, within limits on size, region and cost.
Kubernetes as a shared platform
Multi-tenant clusters with a namespace and quota per team, network policies and Kyverno rules applied to every workload, GitOps through Argo CD or Flux, and a short application spec in place of hand-written manifests.
Shared pipeline building blocks
Reusable GitHub Actions workflows, GitLab CI/CD components or Azure Pipelines templates owned by the platform team, so signing, scanning and deployment steps reach every team through a version update.
Ephemeral preview environments
A short-lived copy of the application for each pull request, created by the pipeline with seeded test data, linked from the review and deleted on merge.
Cloud development environments
Dev containers, GitHub Codespaces or Coder workspaces that reproduce the build and its dependencies on any machine, so a new engineer runs the code on their first day.
Developer experience metrics
DORA delivery metrics, build and review times and short developer surveys measured before and after each change to the platform, so its value is shown in numbers rather than asserted.
Hire platform engineers
Dedicated platform engineers
Platform engineers who join your team full time, work in your tools and process, and report to your lead. You interview them; we carry the Ukrainian contract, payroll, invoicing and leave.
Platform engineering projects
A defined piece of platform engineering with a scope, a fixed plan and a named lead on our side who owns the result and reports progress in your channels.
Ongoing platform engineering
Platform engineering as a continuing service: the same people every month, a backlog you prioritise, and hours you can see in our portal and on the invoice.
The dedicated team page explains how specialists join your team, and the outsourcing page covers project delivery, take-overs and how we charge.
Who works on your platform engineering
Platform engineers
The platform, its templates and self-service
Kubernetes engineers
Multi-tenant clusters and GitOps
DevOps engineers
Shared pipelines and infrastructure as code
Backend developers
Backstage plug-ins and platform APIs
Site reliability engineers
Observability and on-call built into the templates
How we build platforms
A platform is run as a product: the developers who use it are its customers, the first version takes the most common request from start to finish, and each addition starts from a measured bottleneck rather than a tool someone wanted to try. Golden paths stay optional and well kept, so teams choose them because they are faster.
Everything the platform provides is code: templates, Terraform modules, policies and portal configuration in Git, released with version numbers so teams upgrade on their own schedule. On an existing set-up we start with a read-only review and interviews with the teams who deploy through it, then a written plan in order of impact.
Other cloud, DevOps and security services
AWS development
AWS development services: EKS and ECS containers, serverless, landing zones, migrations, databases, data platforms, Bedrock generative AI, security and cost optimisation, with dedicated AWS engineers or project delivery.
Google Cloud development
Google Cloud development services: Cloud Run and GKE, BigQuery, Firebase backends, Cloud SQL and AlloyDB, Gemini on Agent Platform, security and migrations, with dedicated Google Cloud engineers or project delivery.
Kubernetes consulting
Kubernetes consulting and development: clusters on EKS, AKS, GKE and on premises, Helm, GitOps with Argo CD or Flux, cluster security, upgrades and GPU workloads, with dedicated Kubernetes engineers or project delivery.
DevOps and CI/CD
DevOps and CI/CD services: pipelines, Terraform infrastructure as code, observability, SRE and on-call, DevSecOps, platform engineering and FinOps, with dedicated DevOps and SRE engineers or ongoing DevOps work.
Cybersecurity and pentesting
Cybersecurity and penetration testing services: web, mobile, API, network and cloud pentests, secure code review, SOC and incident response, ISO 27001 and SOC 2, with dedicated security engineers or defined projects.
IT infrastructure
IT infrastructure and system administration services: Windows and Linux servers, networks, Microsoft 365 and Entra ID, virtualisation, backups and telecom, with dedicated system administrators or ongoing support.
Site reliability engineering
Site reliability engineering services: SLOs, OpenTelemetry observability, on-call and incident management, load testing, disaster recovery and chaos engineering, with dedicated SRE engineers or project delivery.
Cloud architecture
Cloud architecture and consulting services: designs for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, migration plans, landing zones, Well-Architected reviews, resilience and cost, with dedicated cloud architects or project delivery.
FinOps
FinOps and cloud cost optimisation services: cost allocation, rightsizing, savings plans and reservations, Kubernetes, data and AI costs, budgets and anomaly alerts, with dedicated FinOps engineers or project delivery.
Terraform and IaC
Terraform and infrastructure as code services: Terraform and OpenTofu modules, imports, plan and apply pipelines, drift control, policy as code and Ansible, with dedicated Terraform engineers or project delivery.
Linux administration
Linux administration services: Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL, Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux servers set up, patched, hardened, monitored and backed up, and end-of-life upgrades, with dedicated Linux administrators or ongoing support.
Network engineering
Network engineering services: routing and switching, firewalls, SD-WAN and zero-trust access, cloud networking, Wi-Fi and automation on Cisco, Juniper and Fortinet, with dedicated network engineers or project delivery.
Cloud security
Cloud security services: CSPM and CNAPP, IAM reviews, Kubernetes security, network and data protection and cloud compliance on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, with dedicated cloud security engineers or project delivery.
SOC and security monitoring
SOC as a service and security monitoring: managed SOC, SIEM deployment, log onboarding, detection engineering, EDR, threat hunting and incident response retainers, with dedicated SOC analysts or ongoing monitoring.
Security compliance
Security compliance and audit readiness: ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, PCI DSS, HIPAA, NIS2 and DORA controls, gap assessments and audit evidence, with dedicated compliance engineers or a readiness project.
Questions about platform engineering
Which industries do your platform engineers work in?
Mostly fintech and banking, where every team has to ship through the same audited route; enterprise SaaS companies with many teams and services; e-commerce and retail; cloud, hosting and telecom companies that offer a platform to their own customers; AI and data products that need GPU and pipeline capacity on request; and healthcare, where compliance controls are built into the templates.
Do we need Backstage to start?
No. A platform is the supported route to production, and a portal is one way into it. Many teams begin with templates and self-service through pull requests, and add Backstage once the number of services makes a catalogue worth keeping.
How is platform engineering different from DevOps?
DevOps engineers usually work inside one product team, on its pipelines and infrastructure. Platform engineers build what every team shares: templates, self-service and the route to production, so each team does less of that work itself. We provide both, separately or together.
How quickly can platform engineers start?
When the right platform engineer is available, the start is gated only by your interview and the NDA and IP assignment. Otherwise we run a search, which typically produces candidate profiles within two to three weeks, and nobody starts until you have said yes.
How do we hire platform engineers through BigTree108?
Tell us the work, the seniority and the hours you need. We propose one or two people with their profiles, you interview them the way you would interview your own hire, and you sign one agreement with BIG TREE 108 LLC and receive one invoice a month.
Who owns the work they produce?
You do. Every specialist has a signed contract with BigTree108 that assigns all work product to the company, and our agreement with you assigns it onward. Code, designs and documents are delivered into your own repositories and tools, not kept where only we can change them.
Building an internal developer platform?
Tell us how many teams deploy, where they run and what slows them down. You get an answer within one business day: a plan for the first version, candidate profiles, or a scope for a review.