Enterprise Platform Engineering
Platform Engineering Services That Accelerate Developer Velocity at Scale
We design, build, and operate internal developer platforms that give your engineering teams self-service access to infrastructure, golden paths, and tooling - reducing cognitive load and compressing lead time from weeks to hours. Our platform engineering consultants bring deep expertise in Backstage, Kubernetes platform design, service mesh, and developer experience across large, complex enterprise environments.
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The Challenge
Developer Toil is Throttling Your Engineering Organisation
As engineering organisations scale, the gap between infrastructure complexity and developer capability grows into a productivity crisis. Developers spend an increasing proportion of their time navigating bespoke toolchains, waiting for infrastructure provisioning, and deciphering inconsistent deployment practices rather than building product features. Without a coherent platform strategy, organisations accumulate technical debt in their developer experience that compounds with every new hire and every new service.
Why QuickHire
Why Enterprises Choose QuickHire
Platform-as-a-Product Mindset
We treat your internal developer platform as a product with engineers as customers, applying rigorous product management disciplines to ensure the platform continuously delivers value. Developer NPS, adoption rates, and productivity metrics drive every roadmap decision.
Backstage Implementation Expertise
Our teams have deployed and customised Backstage across dozens of enterprise environments, building proprietary plugins, integrating enterprise identity providers, and populating service catalogs with thousands of services. We know the pitfalls and the patterns that work at scale.
Kubernetes Platform Architecture
We design multi-cluster Kubernetes platforms with namespace-as-a-service provisioning, policy enforcement, and workload identity that abstract away infrastructure complexity without sacrificing control. Our architectures are built for enterprise-grade reliability and compliance.
Golden Path Engineering
We craft opinionated software templates and scaffolding workflows that encode your organisation best practices for security, observability, and deployment. New services launch in minutes with every organisational standard already in place.
Security-First Platform Design
Security controls are embedded into platform abstractions and golden paths rather than bolted on as post-development gates. Policy-as-code, automated image scanning, and secrets management are platform defaults that application teams inherit automatically.
Measurable Developer Experience Improvement
We establish DORA baselines before engagement start and track deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and recovery time throughout. Our engagements deliver demonstrable improvements in engineering throughput that are visible to leadership.
Challenges
Common Enterprise Pain Points
Fragmented Toolchains Create Organisational Debt
Organisations that allow each team to choose their own CI/CD tools, infrastructure provisioning methods, and deployment workflows accumulate toolchain sprawl that makes it impossible to enforce standards, move engineers between teams, or implement organisation-wide improvements efficiently. Each bespoke setup becomes a silo that resists standardisation and slows every cross-cutting initiative.
Infrastructure Teams Cannot Scale to Meet Developer Demand
Centralised infrastructure and operations teams become bottlenecks as organisations grow, fielding hundreds of provisioning requests that require manual review and approval. Without self-service capabilities, developer lead time is bounded by infrastructure team capacity regardless of how many engineers are hired.
Cognitive Load Degrades Engineering Quality
When developers must master Kubernetes resource definitions, cloud IAM policies, Terraform modules, and observability configuration alongside their product domain knowledge, the cognitive overhead degrades code quality and increases burnout. Platform engineering lifts this burden by providing higher-level, opinionated abstractions that encode organisational decisions correctly by default.
Inconsistent Practices Amplify Security and Compliance Risk
Without standardised deployment pipelines and infrastructure patterns, security controls are applied inconsistently across services, creating gaps that are difficult to audit and remediate. Compliance evidence collection becomes a manual, error-prone exercise when each team has implemented controls differently.
Onboarding New Engineers Takes Weeks Instead of Days
Organisations without a well-designed internal developer platform struggle to onboard new engineers efficiently, requiring weeks of informal knowledge transfer before a new hire can deploy their first change to production. Poor onboarding compounds attrition and slows the return on investment from every engineering hire.
Our Approach
A Purpose-Built Internal Developer Platform That Scales With Your Organisation
Our platform engineering practice designs and delivers internal developer platforms anchored in Backstage, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code that give your development teams a consistent, self-service path from code to production. We apply platform-as-a-product thinking to ensure the platform drives adoption and delivers measurable improvements in engineering velocity, developer satisfaction, and operational reliability.
Developer Portal and Service Catalog
A production-grade Backstage deployment populated with your service catalog, integrated with your identity provider and toolchain, and extended with custom plugins that surface the information developers need most.
Self-Service Infrastructure and Golden Paths
Backstage software templates and scaffolding workflows that provision compliant, production-ready services - complete with CI/CD pipelines, observability, and secrets management - in minutes rather than days.
Kubernetes Platform and Service Mesh
A multi-cluster Kubernetes platform with namespace-as-a-service provisioning, policy enforcement, and optionally a service mesh layer that delivers mTLS, traffic management, and distributed tracing as platform capabilities.
Platform Observability and Developer Metrics
Pre-configured dashboards, alerting templates, and DORA metric tracking embedded into the platform so teams can measure and improve their delivery performance continuously against organisational targets.
Delivery Models
How We Deliver
Rapid delivery of a production-ready IDP foundation including Backstage deployment, service catalog population, two to three golden path templates, and Kubernetes platform hardening.
Comprehensive platform engineering engagement covering IDP, self-service infrastructure, service mesh, observability platform, and security policy automation with full documentation and team enablement.
Ongoing embedded platform engineering support that augments your internal team with experienced platform engineers who drive continuous platform improvement and capability expansion.
Capabilities
Technical Capability Matrix
Engagement Models
How We Engage
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Our Process
From Discovery to Delivery
Discovery and Assessment
Week 1We conduct structured workshops with engineering leadership and developer teams to audit the current toolchain, measure toil and lead time, and identify the highest-value platform capabilities to prioritise.
Platform Architecture Design
Weeks 1-2Our architects produce a detailed platform design covering IDP architecture, Kubernetes platform topology, self-service capability roadmap, and security control mapping - reviewed and approved by your engineering leadership.
Foundation Deployment
Weeks 3-6We deploy Backstage and the Kubernetes platform foundation in your environment, establish CI/CD for the platform itself, and populate the service catalog with existing services.
Golden Paths and Self-Service Capabilities
Weeks 7-14We build and release golden path templates, self-service infrastructure workflows, and Backstage plugins aligned with the prioritised roadmap, running regular developer feedback sessions throughout.
Enablement and Handover
OngoingWe conduct structured knowledge transfer, publish platform runbooks in TechDocs, and provide retained support to ensure your internal team can operate and extend the platform confidently.
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Security & Compliance
Enterprise-Grade Security by Default
Governance
Programme Governance
Platform Product Council
A governing body including engineering leadership, platform team leads, and developer representatives that reviews the platform roadmap quarterly and prioritises capabilities based on adoption data and developer feedback.
Golden Path Review Process
A structured review and approval workflow for new and updated golden path templates that ensures security, compliance, and architectural standards are validated before templates are published to the developer portal.
Policy-as-Code Enforcement
All platform policies covering image provenance, network segmentation, resource quotas, and secrets handling are codified and enforced automatically at admission time, with policy violations logged for audit.
Platform SLA and On-Call
The platform team maintains defined SLAs for IDP availability and self-service provisioning, with a rotating on-call schedule and documented escalation paths for platform incidents.
Team Structure
Your Enterprise Team
Our platform engineering engagements are staffed with senior practitioners who have operated internal developer platforms in production at enterprise scale. Teams combine platform architects, Backstage specialists, Kubernetes platform engineers, and a platform product manager who owns developer experience metrics and roadmap alignment throughout the engagement.
Project Lifecycle
From Kickoff to Production
Discovery and Audit
Toolchain audit report, developer experience survey results, toil measurement baseline, and prioritised platform capability roadmap.
Architecture and Design
Platform architecture document, Backstage customisation plan, Kubernetes platform topology, golden path specifications, and security control mapping.
Foundation Build
Production Backstage deployment, populated service catalog, Kubernetes platform with policy enforcement, and initial CI/CD pipeline templates.
Platform Expansion
Self-service infrastructure workflows, golden path templates, service mesh deployment, observability platform, and DORA metrics dashboards.
Enablement and Steady State
Platform runbooks in TechDocs, operator training, adoption reporting, roadmap refinement, and retained engineering support.
Case Studies
Enterprise Outcomes
A global bank with 800 developers was losing an estimated 35% of engineering capacity to infrastructure provisioning delays and inconsistent deployment practices across 12 product lines.
We delivered a Backstage-powered IDP with self-service environment provisioning, eight golden path templates covering microservices and data pipelines, and Kubernetes namespace-as-a-service across three cloud regions.
A rapidly scaling InsurTech needed to onboard 150 new engineers over 12 months without degrading delivery quality or overwhelming a small platform team.
We built a developer portal with guided onboarding workflows, automated developer environment provisioning, and a comprehensive service catalog that reduced new engineer time-to-first-deployment from three weeks to two days.
A large retailer operating 400 microservices had no consistent observability or service ownership visibility, making incident response slow and costly during peak trading periods.
We deployed Backstage with a fully populated service catalog, implemented OpenTelemetry-based observability as a platform default, and built Backstage scorecards that tracked SLO compliance and ownership completeness for every service.
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