A senior platform engineer in your corner.
Sometimes you don't need someone to build anything. You need an experienced practitioner to tell you honestly whether the direction you're heading in is going to cause problems, before it does.
The decisions that keep engineering leaders up at night.
You're a CTO or VP of Engineering at a scale-up. Your team is growing, your infrastructure is getting more complex, and you're making architectural decisions that will be difficult to undo. You have internal engineers with opinions, vendors with agendas, and not enough time to pressure-test everything yourself.
What you don't have is an experienced platform engineer sitting across the table who has no stake in the outcome, someone who will tell you what they actually think, not what you want to hear.
That's what this engagement is.
Architecture review
You share your current or proposed infrastructure architecture. We go through it in detail, what's solid, what's fragile, what's going to become a bottleneck at twice your current scale, and what you should fix now versus later.
Platform roadmap review
You have a plan for how your platform engineering function develops over the next six to twelve months. We stress-test it. Are you solving the right problems in the right order?
Tooling decisions
Kubernetes or not yet. Backstage or Port or something custom. Terraform or Pulumi. Self-managed or managed. We give you a clear, reasoned recommendation based on your team's size, skills, and trajectory, not on what's trending.
Hiring & team structure
What does a platform engineering function actually need to look like at your stage? What should you hire for first? We help you build the spec and ask the right questions.
Second opinions
You've had a proposal from another consultancy or vendor. You want an independent read on whether it makes sense. We give you an honest assessment.
A focused conversation, typically 60 to 90 minutes, structured around your specific questions and decisions. No generic frameworks, no slide decks full of best practices you already know. Just a direct, experienced view on your specific situation.
Where relevant, we follow up in writing with a summary of recommendations, decision rationale, and suggested next steps.
Everything stays confidential.
Engineering leaders making platform or infrastructure decisions who want an experienced second opinion before committing
Teams debating tooling or architecture choices who want someone outside the debate to give a clear recommendation
Leaders planning to build a platform engineering function and want to make sure they're sequencing it correctly
Anyone who's received a proposal from a vendor or consultancy and wants an independent review before signing
CTOs who know something needs to change in their infrastructure strategy but aren't sure what to prioritise or where to start
KubeCounty has no commercial relationship with any tooling vendor. We don't get referral fees, we don't have preferred partners, and we don't benefit financially from recommending one product over another. Our only interest is giving you the most useful advice we can.
That independence is the point.
Ready to build a platform your engineers love?
Let's talk through where you are and what good looks like.