Infrastructure and System Operations

Cloud Strategy and Enablement

Organizations often times believe moving workloads to the cloud in a “lift and shift” mode will instantly increase their scalability and reduce their cost. They quickly discover that this is not the case. Our team has years of experience provisioning, managing, and securing enterprise grade application in the cloud. We leverage this experience to advise organizations on how to best utilize cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure. By defining a clear cloud strategy we enable organizations to achieve the highest levels of business value from a cloud migration or hybrid solution.

Infrastructure Stand-up and Configuration Management

We believe that a modern infrastructure enables teams to provide business value as quick as possible. A modern infrastructure starts with a scalable, highly available and durable architecture. That architecture accounts not only for current needs but is adaptable to the future needs of the business. Our team embraces “infrastructure as code” principles and has years of experience with tools such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Salt Stack, and AWS CloudFormation. These tools enable operations teams to add new functionality, address security concerns and deploy new code in a testable and repeatable fashion.

Running Containers in Production

Our team was an early adopter of containers as a deployment plane for enterprise applications. As proponents of open source our team has experience deploying Kubernetes and Docker. Inside the enterprise our team has deployed and managed large scale (50+ node) installations of Docker and Docker Universal Control plane for Fortune 100 companies. We have worked with infrastructure, security, and development teams throughout the process to align their processes and controls to a container based workflow.

On Premise / Cloud Operations Teams as a Service

When it comes to running and managing production applications we have found that many companies want to guarantee an SLA or uptime to clients but may lack the expertise to manage these systems in the cloud or on-premise. Our teams leverage years of experience and battle scars to manage some of the largest websites on the internet to handle Web Scale traffic. Our teams can not only manage the infrastructure to handle the traffic, but also work with the development and client teams to harden and scale the applications. With an operations team as a service we can provide a diverse set of experiences and skills to manage application of any scale day one of your deployment.

Monitoring, Controls, and Auditing

Our team believe strongly in a well instrumented application, from the network to the application. We utilize tools such as New Relic, DataDog, Prometheus, CAdvisor, and many others to instrument and visualize the application. Utilizing these tools and our years of experience we can provide recommendations to reduce your application’s attack surface area, lock down network security, implement stricter controls, and monitor access. These considerations can not only increase security but increase scalability, threat detection, and quicker anomaly detection.