Platform review
The usual starting point. I look at your clusters, infrastructure code, pipelines and monitoring, and deliver a written report with prioritized findings and a roadmap. Scope and fixed price are agreed up front.
Review detailsKubernetes and platform engineering consulting for teams in the DACH region
I'm Hagen Leitner, and I've been running Kubernetes in production since 2021. I review and build Kubernetes platforms together with your team, and help you bring coding agents into development safely. You talk directly to the engineer doing the work.
- Based in
- Graz, Austria
- Working with teams in
- Austria, Germany, Switzerland
- Kubernetes on
- AWS (EKS), GCP, Azure (AKS), OpenShift, bare metal
- Languages
- German, English
When teams bring me in
Usually the platform works. It has just become more expensive and more fragile than it needs to be.
- The cluster upgrade has been postponed for months because nobody is sure what will break.
- Deployments depend on one person. When they're on holiday, nothing ships.
- Customers notice outages first. Or there are so many alerts that nobody looks anymore.
- The cloud bill grows every month and nobody can say which workload is responsible.
- Your developers already use coding agents, but nobody has decided what those agents are allowed to access.
- The person who built the platform has left, and the documentation is thin.
Services
Kubernetes and platform engineering
Hands-on work with your team: setting up or migrating clusters, upgrades, infrastructure as code with Terraform and Ansible, CI/CD pipelines, and observability with Prometheus and Grafana. The goal is a platform your developers can deploy to without opening a ticket.
Safe agentic coding
Many developers already work with coding agents from the major AI providers. I help you put clear rules and technical guardrails around them: what permissions an agent gets, how secrets and customer data stay protected, which isolated environment it runs in, and how generated code gets reviewed before it reaches production.
Ongoing support
As an interim platform engineer, for example until a position is filled, or with a fixed monthly block of hours for upgrades, reviews and questions from the team.
The platform review in detail
After the review you know where your platform stands and where to start. You can implement it with your own team or with me.
What I look at
- Clusters
- Versions, upgrade path, deprecated APIs, requests and limits, node utilization
- Security
- RBAC, secrets handling, network policies, image provenance
- Delivery
- Build and deploy pipelines, rollbacks, who approves what
- Operations
- Monitoring, alerting, backups, and whether a restore has ever been tested
- Infrastructure code
- What lives in code and what was once clicked together in a console
- Cost
- Which workloads consume what, and where capacity is overprovisioned
What you get
- A written report in German or English
- Every finding with risk, estimated effort and a concrete recommendation
- A roadmap for the coming months
- A closing session with your team
For the review I need read access to clusters, repositories and monitoring. No write permissions required.
How it works
Intro call
30 minutes over video, no obligation. You describe the situation and I tell you honestly whether I'm the right person for it.
Proposal
A written proposal with a fixed scope and a fixed price. We pick the dates together.
Review
Analysis with read access, plus short conversations with the people who use the platform every day.
Report and walkthrough
We go through the findings and the roadmap together with your team.
Implementation, if you want it
Targeted fixes or ongoing support. The report is written so your team can act on it without me.
About me
I hold a Master of Science in Computer Science from TU Graz and have worked as a DevOps and platform engineer since 2021. I've run Kubernetes on AWS (EKS), GCP, Azure (AKS) and OpenShift, and built environments with Terraform and Ansible. Along the way came CI/CD pipelines that needed to become reliable.
Most recently I built a bare-metal Kubernetes cluster from scratch that ran open-source models in-house for production use. I work extensively with coding agents myself, and I know where they save time as well as where they create risk.
Arcadia Systems is a one-person company. From the intro call to the implementation, you work with me.
Tools I work with
- Containers
- Kubernetes, OpenShift, Helm, Docker
- Platforms
- AWS (EKS), GCP, Azure (AKS), bare metal
- Infrastructure as code
- Terraform, Ansible
- Delivery
- Jenkins, Git-based CI/CD
- Observability
- Prometheus, Grafana
- Code
- Python, Bash, Java
Contact
A few sentences about your environment and what's causing trouble right now are enough. I'll reply with a suggested time for an intro call.
In German or English.