Platform Engineering

DevOps & Automation. Ship every hour, safely.

Relic's DevOps practice builds the internal developer platform that great engineering orgs run on: reproducible environments, secure CI/CD, GitOps deployments, and the automation that turns tickets into pull requests.

18×
Deployment frequency
-73%
Change failure rate
42 min
Median lead time
3.2×
Engineer NPS
Benefits

What you get with Relic.

Deploy on demand

Push-to-production pipelines with policy-as-code gates.

Faster onboarding

New engineers ship in day one, not week four.

Fewer incidents

Progressive delivery, feature flags and canary releases.

Compliance as code

SOC2 evidence collected automatically from your pipelines.

Challenges

What we're built to solve.

Snowflake environments

Dev, stage and prod drift; bugs only reproduce in production.

Manual release theater

Ceremony, spreadsheets and Sunday night deploys.

Ticket-driven ops

Every environment change waits behind a queue.

Security bolted on

Scanning happens after code merges. Too late to fix.

Solutions

How Relic delivers.

IDP with Backstage

Golden-path templates, self-service scaffolding, unified catalog.

CI/CD as a product

Reusable pipelines, DORA metrics, developer experience surveys.

GitOps at scale

Argo CD, progressive delivery and drift detection.

DevSecOps pipelines

SAST, SCA, IaC scanning and SBOMs shifted left.

Technologies

A modern stack.

GitHub ActionsGitLab CIArgo CDTerraformAnsibleBackstageVaultSnykFluxRenovate
Process

Our delivery rhythm.

01
Discover

Deep-dive workshops to align technology moves with business outcomes and quantify ROI.

02
Design

Reference architectures, target operating models and a phased delivery roadmap.

03
Build

Sprint-based delivery with senior engineers, embedded QA and continuous stakeholder demos.

04
Deploy

Blue/green rollouts, feature flags and a runbook-first approach to production readiness.

05
Optimize

Observability, FinOps and iterative tuning to compound value after launch.

Case studies

Selected outcomes.

8 → 800 deploys/day
Global bank

Standardized CI/CD across 60 product teams with policy-guarded golden paths.

SOC2 in 90 days
Retailer

Compliance-as-code pipeline collected all evidence automatically.

-68% incidents
InsurTech

Progressive delivery + observability platform cut Sev-1s by two thirds.

FAQ

Frequently asked.

Do you replace our DevOps team?+

No. We augment and coach, so your team owns the platform after we leave.

Which CI/CD tool is best?+

Whichever your teams already use well. We optimize; we don't rip-and-replace.

How do you measure success?+

DORA metrics, developer experience surveys and business-outcome KPIs.

Can you build an internal developer platform?+

Yes, golden paths, self-service environments, catalogs and progressive delivery paved for your engineering org.

Do you include security in the pipeline?+

DevSecOps is standard: SAST, SCA, IaC scanning and SBOMs shifted left so security is a guardrail, not a late gate.

Ready to make devops & automation a competitive advantage?

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