Assessment
A fixed-scope review of your platform, delivery pipeline, and operational gaps. We document what we find and leave you with a prioritized set of recommendations — ones you can act on with or without us.
Aligns with: Discover
How We Work
How We Work
We work alongside your engineers, not above them. No discovery theater. No transformation roadmaps that gather dust.
Working With Us
What it actually looks like.
You talk to the people doing the work
No account managers, no hand-off to a delivery team after the sale. The engineers you meet are the engineers on your project.
We'll tell you when something isn't the right call
If a vendor tool isn't the right fit, we'll say so. If the timeline is unrealistic, we'll say that too.
Engagements have a clear end state
We don't design engagements to maximize billable hours. Work ends when the outcome is met and your team can operate independently.
Knowledge transfer is the deliverable
Every decision we make gets documented. Every system we build gets explained. Your engineers leave knowing how it works.
The Engagement
How a typical engagement runs.
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Discover
Honest assessment of your infrastructure, team maturity, delivery pipeline, and operational gaps. We document what we find — including things that are working.
1–2 weeks
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Design
Target platform architecture — network topology, security controls, GitOps patterns, and workload guardrails — scoped to your actual environment, not a reference template.
1–2 weeks
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Deliver
We implement production-ready foundations alongside your team. CI/CD, observability, and day-2 operations are built in from the start, not retrofitted.
4–12 weeks
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Operate
SRE-informed support, upgrade strategy, and drift control — for as long as you need it. Engagements end when your team is ready to own it, not when our retainer says so.
Ongoing
Engagement Models
How teams usually get started.
Fixed Project
Defined scope, defined outcome. Works well when the target state is clear enough to bound up front. We design, implement, and hand off a working platform with documentation your team can own.
Aligns with: Design → Deliver
Time & Materials
Flexible scope for work that needs to evolve as you learn. Common for platform migrations, complex integrations, or environments where the full picture isn't clear until you're in it.
Aligns with: Deliver
Retainer
Ongoing engineering support for teams that want a consistent operational partner. We handle upgrades, drift control, incident support, and lifecycle management for as long as it's useful.
Aligns with: Operate
Ready to work together?
Let's talk about your situation.
Every DevsOperative engagement is structured around DORA — our DevsOperative Reference Architecture. It encapsulates the decisions we've made across dozens of Kubernetes platform builds, so your team gets a running start instead of solving already-solved problems.
We bring proven patterns for the challenges you're most likely to face, scoped to your environment, your team, and where you actually are today.