DevOps Team Extension
12-month DevOps augmentation with 3 engineers for e-commerce platform scaling.
Duration
12 months
Team Size
3 engineers
Industry
E-commerce
Category
Staff Augmentation
DevOps Team Extension
A 12-month staff augmentation engagement providing DevOps expertise to help an e-commerce platform scale for rapid growth.
The Engagement
A fast-growing e-commerce company needed DevOps help:
- Scaling challenges - Infrastructure couldn't handle growth
- Manual deployments - Engineers deploying on weekends
- High costs - Over-provisioned infrastructure
- No DevOps team - Developers doing everything
They needed dedicated DevOps expertise.
Our Team
We embedded a DevOps team into their organization.
Team Composition
- 1 Senior DevOps Engineer
- 2 DevOps Engineers
Engagement Goals
- Reliability - Achieve 99.99% uptime
- Automation - Zero manual deployments
- Cost Optimization - Reduce cloud spend
- Knowledge Transfer - Enable internal team
The Work
Infrastructure Modernization
- Kubernetes migration
- Infrastructure as code
- Multi-region deployment
- Auto-scaling implementation
CI/CD Transformation
- Pipeline automation
- GitOps with ArgoCD
- Automated testing
- Feature flags
Observability
- Centralized logging
- Metrics and dashboards
- Distributed tracing
- Alerting optimization
Cost Optimization
- Right-sizing analysis
- Reserved instances
- Spot instance adoption
- Waste elimination
Technology Stack
| Layer | Technologies |
|---|---|
| Orchestration | Kubernetes (EKS) |
| IaC | Terraform |
| CI/CD | GitHub Actions, ArgoCD |
| Monitoring | Datadog |
| Cloud | AWS |
| Security | Vault, Trivy |
Results & Impact
The engagement transformed operations:
- 99.99% uptime from 98% before
- 10x more deploys per week
- 70% lower costs through optimization
- Zero downtime deployments implemented
Engagement Model
How We Integrated
- Daily standups with dev team
- On-call rotation participation
- Incident response support
- Documentation and runbooks
Knowledge Transfer
- Pair programming sessions
- Internal documentation
- Brown bag sessions
- Runbook creation
Client Testimonial
"They became part of our team. We went from fearing Black Friday to handling 10x traffic with no issues. The cost savings paid for the engagement many times over."
— VP of Engineering, E-commerce Company
Scaling your platform? Contact us to discuss DevOps augmentation.
Key Results
99.99% uptime achieved
10x deployment frequency
70% cost reduction
Zero downtime deployments
Technology Stack
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