DevOps & Platform Engineering
Kubernetes platforms, GitOps delivery, and infrastructure as code across AWS, GCP, Azure, and Oracle OCI, run by engineers embedded in your team.
Platforms decay quietly. Upgrades slip, configuration drifts from Git, alerts lose signal. Senior engineers from Sophotech take this on from inside your team, under your management. They design, build, and operate Kubernetes platforms, GitOps delivery, and infrastructure as code.
The working stack is Kubernetes, Terraform, FluxCD and ArgoCD, Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry, running on AWS, GCP, Azure, and Oracle OCI.
Platform Engineering
An internal developer platform is working when product teams deploy without filing tickets. Engineers build that layer on Kubernetes. It gives them golden-path templates for new services, self-service environments, and paved deployment routes with guardrails already in place. Backstage goes in where a portal helps. Plain Git repositories and pipelines cover the rest.
Treating the platform as a product means doing the maintenance nobody celebrates. Documentation developers actually read, deprecation paths for old templates, and platform changes shipped behind the same review discipline as application code.
Deliverables
- Golden-path service templates with CI/CD, observability, and security defaults
- Self-service environment provisioning driven from Git
- Developer portal or service catalog wired to live deployment data
- Platform documentation and onboarding guides for product teams
Tools: Kubernetes · Backstage · Helm · Kustomize · FluxCD · ArgoCD
CI/CD & GitOps
Delivery runs declaratively. The cluster reconciles from Git, and nothing else writes to it. Sophotech engineers build GitOps pipelines on both FluxCD and ArgoCD, and have shipped code upstream into FluxCD. Delivery problems get fixed at the source instead of living as a private patch. That cross-ecosystem footing matters when you inherit one and would have chosen the other.
The work covers pipeline design in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI, image update automation, progressive delivery with Flagger or Argo Rollouts, multi-cluster and multi-tenant repository layouts, and promotion between environments by pull request. Existing GitOps setups get taken over and hardened in place.
Deliverables
- GitOps repository structure for multi-cluster, multi-tenant delivery
- CI pipelines with build, test, scan, and signing stages
- Automated image updates and environment promotion by pull request
- Progressive delivery with canary analysis and automated rollback
- Runbook covering the delivery system and its failure modes
Tools: FluxCD · ArgoCD · Flagger · Argo Rollouts · GitHub Actions · GitLab CI · Helm · Kustomize
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform carries the infrastructure estate across AWS, GCP, Azure, and Oracle OCI. Modules are kept small enough to review. State lives remotely with locking. Every change ships through a plan that a human reads before it applies.
Provider gaps get handled inside the module so they stay out of local workarounds. Reviews, policy checks, and CI validation gate every change before it reaches an account.
Deliverables
- Reusable Terraform modules with versioning and review workflow
- Remote state with locking and least-privilege access
- Plan-and-apply pipelines with policy checks in CI
- Drift detection on scheduled pipeline runs
- Module documentation and upgrade notes
Tools: Terraform · Terragrunt · AWS · GCP · Azure · Oracle OCI
Cloud Migration & Modernization
Migrations fail on the workloads nobody fully understands. The cron job has no owner. The service works only because of a hardcoded IP. The work starts with an inventory of what runs, what it talks to, and what breaks when it moves, then orders that work by risk.
From there, workloads move to Kubernetes on AWS, GCP, Azure, or Oracle OCI in reviewable steps. Engineers containerize each one, wire it into GitOps delivery, and cut over behind a tested rollback path. Modernization is decided per workload. Some services deserve a rewrite, some need only a clean lift, and each step leaves the estate in a working state.
Deliverables
- Workload inventory with dependencies, owners, and migration order
- Containerized workloads delivered through GitOps
- Cutover and rollback plans tested per workload
- Decommission checklist for systems left behind
Tools: Kubernetes · EKS · GKE · AKS · OKE · Terraform · FluxCD · ArgoCD
SRE & Observability
Observability is treated as an engineering practice. Engineers instrument services with OpenTelemetry, run Prometheus and Grafana as platform components, and design alerts from SLOs. Alerts page on the symptoms users actually feel.
The practice covers SLO definition with error budgets, alert routing with clear ownership, and dashboards built for the questions on-call actually asks. Incident response gets the same care, with runbooks, structured timelines, and reviews that produce fixes.
Deliverables
- SLO definitions with error budgets per service
- Alert rules routed by ownership with reviewed paging thresholds
- Grafana dashboards built around on-call questions
- OpenTelemetry instrumentation and trace pipelines
- Incident runbooks and postmortem templates
Tools: Prometheus · Grafana · OpenTelemetry · Alertmanager · Loki · Tempo
GitHub Organization Governance
A GitHub organization drifts the same way infrastructure does, one repository at a time, until no two are configured alike. Engineers manage the fleet as code. Repository settings, branch protection, team and permission structure, and Actions controls are defined in Terraform and applied across the organization.
The same definitions double as audit evidence. Who can merge to main, which checks are required, and how access is granted become answers you can produce for SOC 2 and ISO 27001 instead of screenshots assembled the week before an audit.
Deliverables
- Organization and repository settings managed in Terraform
- Branch protection and required checks enforced fleet-wide
- Team and permission structure as code with review history
- Actions allowlists, runner policies, and secrets hygiene
- Access and change evidence usable for SOC 2 and ISO 27001
Tools: Terraform · GitHub · GitHub Actions · Dependabot · CODEOWNERS
Engagements are open-ended and embedded in your team, under your management and processes. Delivery direction stays with you. Sophotech, a European company, holds the employment side, which covers contracts, payroll, and compliance. You interview every engineer before the engagement starts, and the engagement scales up or down as the work changes.
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How does an embedded engineer work with our existing team?
As a member of it. The engineer joins your standups, your review process, your on-call rotation if you run one, and works under your managers' direction. Sophotech handles employment, contracts, and payroll. You interview the engineer before the engagement starts, the same way you would a direct hire.
Do you work with FluxCD or ArgoCD?
Both. Sophotech engineers run production GitOps on FluxCD and ArgoCD, so the recommendation is not tied to one ecosystem. If you already run Flux or Argo, the engineer works inside that setup. Your existing pipelines get hardened and extended where they stand.
Do you build new platforms or modernize existing ones?
Both modes are normal. Greenfield work starts from cluster and delivery design. Existing platforms start from an assessment of what already works, and there is usually more of it than the team expects. Build versus modernize is decided per component, with your architects, on operational cost.
How do engineers work in regulated environments?
The platform work itself produces much of the evidence regulated clients need. GitOps history shows who changed what, policy checks show controls enforced, and governance configuration maps to SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, NIS2, and DORA requirements. Engineers build and operate the controls, and your auditors certify against them.
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