ENTERPRISE KUBERNETES ENGINEERING
Deploy Production Kubernetes
in Weeks, Not Months.
- ISO 27001 Certified
- ISO 22301 Certified
- DORA Aligned
- GDPR Compliant
- Start in 7–10 days
- From €5–6k/mo
HST Solutions delivers enterprise Kubernetes and container orchestration services across Ireland, the UK, and Europe, embedding senior platform engineers who build production-grade EKS, AKS, and GKE infrastructure with PM and architecture included. ISO 27001 certified.
Why Teams Bring Us In
- Containers run locally, not in prod
- Platform team overwhelmed
- Hiring K8s talent is brutal
- One engineer can't run a platform
You don’t need another Kubernetes POC. You need containers
running in production on a platform your team can actually operate.
Who brings in a Managed Kubernetes Engineer
Product teams with containerised apps
CTOs who need microservices architecture
50–500 person organisations
Teams running EKS/AKS
Regulated industries
If that sounds familiar, this offer is built for you.
What is Kubernetes?
Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source container orchestration platform that automates deployment, scaling, and management of containerised applications. Originally developed by Google, Kubernetes has become the industry standard with 92% of enterprises now adopting container orchestration strategies.
But Kubernetes is complex. Most teams can spin up a cluster; few can run one in production with security, observability, and GitOps. HST provides embedded Kubernetes engineers with the platform expertise to ship production-grade container infrastructure.
What you get
Senior Kubernetes/Platform Engineer
- EKS, AKS, GKE
- Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD
- Service Mesh, Networking, Security
Project Manager included
- Scope
- Comms
- Weekly Status
- Risk Tracking
Architecture reviews included
- 2h/week Design Reviews
- Security Patterns
- Cost Optimisation
DevOps/QA assist included
- CI/CD integration
- Container Image Pipelines
- Deployment Automation
SLA & Compliance
- Weekly Demos
- 48-hour remediation on issues we touch
- ISO 27001 & 22301
- DORA aligned
- GDPR
- Full IP assignment
One monthly price. One embedded seat. A full bench behind it.
What we deploy
Orchestration
- Amazon EKS
- Azure AKS
- Google GKE
- OpenShift
- Rancher
Networking & Service Mesh
- Calico, Cilium
- Istio, Linkerd
- AWS App Mesh
- Ingress controllers (NGINX, Traefik)
- Network policies
GitOps & CI/CD
- ArgoCD, Flux
- Helm, Kustomize
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI
- Jenkins
Observability
- Prometheus, Grafana
- Datadog, New Relic
- Loki, ELK Stack
- Jaeger, Zipkin
- PagerDuty, Opsgenie
Security
- OPA/Gatekeeper
- Falco
- Trivy, Aqua
- Pod Security Standards
- Secrets management (Vault, External Secrets)
Storage
- CSI drivers
- EBS, EFS, Azure Disk
- Rook-Ceph
- Persistent volumes
- StatefulSet patterns
We work with your chosen platform. If you’re on AKS,
we won’t push EKS we make your platform production-ready.
The 12-week "Platform & Ship" Program
A proven framework to go from containers-in-dev to production Kubernetes platform.
Assess
Platform
Ship
Deliverables
Why marketplaces can't deliver
Kubernetes for enterprises
Marketplace 
Toptal/Proxify | 
HST Managed Cloud Engineer | |
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| Talent only | ||
| PM + Architecture | ||
| DevOps/GitOps built in | ||
| Security & compliance | ||
| SLAs & ISO 27001 | ||
| Fixed monthly price |
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We ship production platforms, not résumés.
Proof that Reduces Risk
Case Study
Container Platform — CameraMatics
- Challenge
- Monolithic application couldn't scale for video workloads
- Manual deployments causing production incidents
- No observability into container performance
- Dev team unfamiliar with Kubernetes operations
- What We Built
- EKS cluster with auto-scaling node groups
- ArgoCD for GitOps deployments
- Prometheus/Grafana observability stack
- Network policies and pod security standards
- Team training and runbook development
- Result
- Deployment frequency increased 10x, production incidents reduced by 70%, and the platform team can now operate Kubernetes independently.
Trusted by leading organisations
Pricing
Precision Pod
€5–6k/month
Single seat
- 1 Senior Kubernetes/Platform Engineer
- PM included (up to 6–8h/month)
- Architecture reviews (up to 2h/week)
- DevOps/QA assist
- 3-month minimum, then 30-day notice
- Start in 7–10 business days
Pair Pod
€10–11k/month
Two engineers
- 2 Senior Engineers (e.g., Platform + Backend)
- PM included (up to 10h/month)
- Architecture reviews (up to 4h/week)
- DevOps/QA release assist
- 3-month minimum, then 30-day notice
- Start in 7–10 business days
Mini-Team
€15–16k/month
Three engineers
- Platform Engineer + DevOps + Full-stack
- PM included (up to 15h/month)
- Architecture reviews (up to 6h/week)
- DevOps/QA release assist
- 3-month minimum, then 30-day notice
- Start in 7–10 business days
- Swap guarantee
If fit is off in the first 2 weeks, we replace within 5 business days at no cost.
* Anything beyond the included caps is an add-on or an upgrade. No hidden overages.
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Docker and Kubernetes?
Docker packages applications into containers. Kubernetes orchestrates those containers at scale handling deployment, scaling, networking, and self-healing across clusters of machines. Docker creates containers; Kubernetes runs them in production.
Should we use EKS, AKS, or GKE?
EKS if you’re AWS-native. AKS if you’re a Microsoft shop with Azure AD and O365. GKE if you need the most mature managed Kubernetes or heavy ML workloads. We’re platform-agnostic and recommend based on your existing stack.
How long does Kubernetes implementation take?
Basic production cluster in 2–4 weeks. Full platform with GitOps, observability, security, and first workloads typically takes 8–12 weeks. Our 12-week program delivers incrementally you see progress every sprint.
Is Kubernetes overkill for my application?
Possibly. Kubernetes adds operational complexity. It’s justified when you have multiple microservices, need rapid scaling, have multiple teams deploying independently, or require multi-cloud portability. We’ll tell you honestly if serverless or simpler options fit better.
What about Kubernetes security?
We implement defence-in-depth: network policies, pod security standards, image scanning, secrets management, RBAC, and audit logging. All aligned with CIS Kubernetes benchmarks and your compliance requirements.
How fast can you start?
7–10 business days from signed agreement to engineer embedded in your team.
Give us 20 minutes. We'll show you a Kubernetes plan you can actually ship.
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