#1 Enterprise Priority · 2025

Platform Engineering

Build the paved roads your engineers actually want to use. iGEN designs and delivers Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs), golden paths, and self-service infrastructure that let teams ship faster — without drowning ops in tickets.

Backstage / Port ArgoCD / Flux Kubernetes Terraform / IaC GitHub Actions OpenTelemetry

What is Platform Engineering?

Platform engineering is the practice of building and running the internal infrastructure, tooling, and workflows that your application development teams use every day. The goal: let developers self-serve everything they need — environments, pipelines, secrets, monitoring — without waiting on ops.

Done well, it reduces cognitive load, eliminates ticket queues, enforces security by default, and compresses lead time from code to production. iGEN builds platforms that your team can actually run — not a maze of YAML that only one person understands.

  • Faster onboarding for new engineers
  • Self-service environments — no ops ticket required
  • Security and compliance baked into every scaffold
  • Full runbooks and handover docs included
Golden Paths

Pre-built, opinionated templates for new services, APIs, and data pipelines.

Internal Portal (IDP)

A single pane of glass for services, docs, and self-service actions.

GitOps & CI/CD

ArgoCD, Flux, and GitHub Actions pipelines with policy as code.

Observability

OpenTelemetry, SLOs, dashboards, and alert runbooks from day one.

What We Deliver

Platform Assessment

Audit of your current developer experience, toolchain, and deployment pipeline. Written report with a prioritised improvement roadmap.

Week 1
IDP / Golden Path Build

A working Internal Developer Platform with service templates, self-service environments, and CI/CD scaffolding tailored to your stack.

Weeks 2–8
Runbooks & Handover

Full documentation, architecture diagrams, operator runbooks, and a recorded walkthrough. Your team runs it independently from day one.

Every engagement
GitOps Pipeline Setup

ArgoCD or Flux with progressive delivery, policy-as-code, and branch-based environment promotion. Secure, auditable, and rollback-ready.

Add-on or standalone
Observability Stack

OpenTelemetry instrumentation, SLO definitions, Grafana dashboards, and alert runbooks. Metrics, logs, and traces from the first deploy.

Add-on or standalone
Platform Engineering Advisory

Ongoing fractional platform engineering support. We help your team evolve the platform over time without hiring a full team in-house.

Monthly retainer

Toolchain We Use

GitHub Actions
Kubernetes
ArgoCD / Flux
Terraform / IaC
Backstage / Port
OpenTelemetry
Grafana / Prometheus
Docker
Vault / Secrets

Ready to build your internal platform?

Start with a 30-minute discovery call. We'll map out what your teams need and show you what a platform could look like in your environment.

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