Make shipping software the boring part.

Platform engineering, GitOps, and SRE — done deliberately

The phrase "DevOps" now covers a wide and sometimes contradictory set of practices. What our clients usually want is something specific: deployment that is fast and safe, infrastructure that is reproducible from code, environments that look the same on Tuesday and on Friday, and an on-call rotation that engineers don't dread. We help build that, on a foundation that fits your organisation rather than a vendor's deck.

We work with greenfield platform teams designing a paved road for the first time, and with established estates carrying years of accumulated tooling that needs simplifying before it needs scaling. In both cases the work is concrete, and the success metric is whether your engineers can move faster six months after we leave than they could when we started.

Where we add value

GitOps delivery

We implement GitOps as the source of truth for cluster and application state — structured for multi-cluster, multi-environment estates with promotion flows that are reviewable and auditable. Drift becomes visible. Rollback becomes a revert.

CI/CD pipelines

We design pipelines that fit the team — whatever the underlying platform — with a focus on fast feedback, signed artefacts, reproducible builds, and clean separation between build, deploy, and release.

Infrastructure-as-code

We bring infrastructure under code, structured into modules and state boundaries that match how the organisation actually operates. We also bring the configuration-management and templating tooling that sits alongside, and the discipline to keep all of it tidy as it grows.

Internal developer platforms

We design internal platforms — golden paths, self-service interfaces, service templates, and the governance that keeps them coherent. The goal is to reduce cognitive load on application teams without constraining the things they legitimately need to control.

Observability and SRE practice

We deploy and tune modern observability stacks covering metrics, logs, and traces; define SLOs that map to real user experience; and coach on-call practice, incident response, and blameless retrospectives so that operational maturity grows alongside the tooling.

Policy-as-code and supply-chain integrity

We implement guardrails as code: admission policies that fail loud rather than silently degrading, signed images and provenance, software bill-of-materials generation, and controls that turn compliance evidence into a side effect of how the platform works rather than a quarterly fire drill.

Capabilities we cover

• GitOps delivery
• CI/CD pipelines
• Continuous delivery
• Infrastructure-as-code
• Configuration management
• Internal developer platforms
• Self-service tooling
• Service templates
• Policy-as-code
• Admission control
• Supply-chain integrity
• Image signing & provenance
• Metrics, logs, traces
• SLOs & error budgets
• On-call & incident response
• SRE coaching

Engagement patterns

We usually engage in one of three modes: a platform assessment that produces a written roadmap and prioritised remediation plan; a delivery engagement where we build alongside your team with explicit hand-over points; or embedded coaching where consultants pair with engineers to lift internal capability while shipping real work.

Start a conversation

Email hello@peakitlabs.com with a short brief. We will respond with a discovery proposal and a realistic next step.