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Platform Reliability at Scale

Keep your platform reliable without burying your engineers in operations.

OpsWerks manages recurring platform operations across Kubernetes, CI/CD, patching, infrastructure as code, and developer support, while your team retains architecture, standards, and roadmap ownership.

Results from Fortune 100 platform engagements
500+
Kubernetes clusters upgraded
in 90 days
10x
reduction in platform outages, holding
above 99% uptime
5,000+
EKS nodes patched in under seven days with zero rollout-caused P0/P1 incidents
The problem

When the platform becomes the bottleneck

In OpsWerks' 2026 practitioner survey, platform and developer support bottlenecks ranked as the second most commonly cited top operational challenge, and Kubernetes and CI/CD each rank among the top engineering effort areas for half of respondents.

The cost shows up in the roadmap: 63% of respondents spend at least half their time on reactive work. When recurring operations consume the team, architecture, enablement, automation, and roadmap priorities move more slowly.

22%
name platform and developer support bottlenecks as their biggest operational challenge
50%
count Kubernetes and container orchestration among their top effort areas; CI/CD ties at 50%
63%
are reactive at least half
of their time
Source: OpsWerks State of SRE Operations 2026.

Independent industry data backs this up: 55% of teams spend a fair amount or more of their time just integrating and connecting tools, and median toil sits at 34% of an engineer's time.

Source: The SRE Report 2026 (Catchpoint / LogicMonitor, n=418).
The operating boundary

What OpsWerks owns, and where your engineers engage

OpsWerks owns

  • Release planning, coordination, and deployment within the agreed service scope
  • CI/CD pipeline maintenance and troubleshooting
  • Production and non-production patching cycles
  • Kubernetes and EKS investigation, maintenance, and upgrades
  • Terraform maintenance, module lifecycle management, and approved infrastructure changes
  • Runbook creation, maintenance, and automation
  • Developer and workload onboarding support
  • Routine platform monitoring and operational response

Your engineers engage for

  • Platform architecture and roadmap priorities
  • Engineering standards and technology decisions
  • Application code and service design
  • Security, governance, and change approvals
  • Upgrade sequencing and business-priority decisions
  • Changes outside the approved runbooks or service scope

Your platform team retains architecture, standards, governance, and roadmap control; OpsWerks owns the agreed recurring operations and execution layer. During a critical kernel CVE response, the customer set cluster priorities while OpsWerks handled coordination, execution, monitoring, and validation. Our goal is to reduce recurring toil over time; we want you to need us less, not more.

How we get there

A dedicated team that builds and retains operational context

After a structured transition, the same stable team manages the agreed scope and retains context over time. Knowledge compounds through documentation and runbooks instead of walking out the door with turnover.

01Engagement alignment. Define service scope, responsibilities, success measures, access requirements, and approvals.
02Discovery and planning (weeks 1-2). Review architecture, dependencies, tooling, operating procedures, risks, and current pain points.
03Team integration (weeks 3-4). OpsWerks engineers work alongside your team to validate access, monitoring, documentation, runbooks, and escalation paths.
04Gradual ownership (weeks 5-8). Shadow and reverse-shadow periods progressively transfer the agreed operational responsibilities.
05Managed operations. Operate the agreed scope 24/7 while continuously improving documentation, automation, monitoring, and remediation.
Managed capabilities

Recurring platform work, managed across the lifecycle

Deliver change

  • Release planning, coordination, and deployment
  • CI/CD pipeline maintenance and troubleshooting
  • Build-system support and release-branch coordination
  • Kubernetes and EKS upgrades

Operate

  • Production and non-production patching
  • Kubernetes and cloud platform operations
  • Platform monitoring and operational response
  • Terraform maintenance and approved infrastructure changes

Improve and enable

  • Runbook creation, maintenance, and automation
  • Developer and workload onboarding
  • Module lifecycle and configuration standardization
  • Recurring reliability and toil reduction
Proven at scale

Kubernetes operations at a scale few teams ever see

Repeatable platform modernization

Upgrading 500+ Live Kubernetes Clusters in 90 Days

Hundreds of EKS clusters had no defined upgrade process; versions drifted across regions, and EKS control planes can't be rolled back. OpsWerks took end-to-end ownership, proving the framework in non-production before owning production cutovers.

  • 500+ EKS clusters upgraded in 90 days with zero major disruptions
  • Service disruptions during version upgrades eliminated
  • Repeatable, automated upgrade process established as the standard operating procedure
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Urgent risk response

Over 5,000 EKS Nodes Patched in Less Than a Week

During the rollout, an OpsWerks engineer caught that the customer's traffic engineering stacks ran a different EKS version that had to be upgraded first; missing it would have broken regional failover at cutover. The team raised it, replanned, and executed without disruption.

  • A 30-day compliance cycle compressed to under 7 days against an actively exploited kernel CVE
  • Zero rollout-caused P0/P1 incidents and no unplanned outages caused by the change
  • Delivered inside the existing SOW: no amendment, no change order tickets, no added cost
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What customers say

“This is great work and it is immense help which you have taken. I am really happy that all these rollouts happened without any outages or issues.”
DevOps Engineer, World-Leading Engineering Organization

“Once the team had been trained on something, they were actually very effective at owning that space.”

James, Staff Software Engineer, Networking & Data Platform
Due to strict enterprise confidentiality requirements, customer names and organizations are anonymized. First names used where publicly attributed.
How we deliver

We don't bill hours; we own results.

Our managed services model: predictable pricing, aligned incentives, and a strict focus on operational outcomes, not headcount.

Predictable pricing Defined service levels Outcome-based delivery Dedicated team
Why OpsWerks

What makes OpsWerks different

Outcome Ownership

Full accountability for results, not just tasks. No pile-up of tech debt or stale tickets; issues get resolved, not recycled.

Autonomous Execution

Self-managing teams that don't drain your engineering bandwidth. Eliminate the management overhead and micro-coordination that comes with contractors.

Predictable Partnership

No contract churn. No retraining every 6 months. A stable, embedded team with consistent output and pricing.

Give your platform team their roadmap back.

Shift recurring upgrades, patching, pipeline maintenance, infrastructure-as-code upkeep, and developer support to a dedicated team, so your platform engineers can focus on architecture, automation, and the roadmap.

You define the outcomes. We own the delivery.