What it is
Platform engineering is the work that lets a small team ship like a larger one: pipelines that are fast and trustworthy, environments that are created on demand, and monitoring that tells you about a problem before a customer does. Rozell builds this on AWS with GitHub Actions, containers, and infrastructure as code.
What you get
- CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions: build, test, security scan, deploy to staging on merge, promote to production with an approval.
- Containerized deployments on ECS Fargate (or EKS where justified), with blue/green or rolling releases and one-command rollbacks.
- Preview environments per pull request, so reviewers can open the change instead of imagining it.
- Observability: structured logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and alerts tuned to page only for real incidents.
- Secrets, access and supply-chain hygiene: OIDC instead of long-lived keys, least-privilege roles, dependency scanning.
- Documentation and runbooks so on-call is a checklist, not a scramble.
How an engagement runs
- Platform review (1 week). We look at how code gets to production today, where it hurts, and what to fix first.
- Foundations (2–3 weeks). Pipelines, environments, and monitoring in place and used by your team.
- Improve (retainer). Many teams keep us on for ongoing platform work: new services, cost tuning, incident follow-up.
Who it’s for
- Startups whose deploys are manual, slow, or scary.
- Teams with one person who “knows how production works.”
- Companies preparing for SOC 2 that need change management and audit trails built into delivery.
- Engineering leaders who want a platform without hiring a platform team.
Common questions
We deploy by hand today. What is the first thing you would change?
A pipeline that builds, tests and deploys to a staging environment on every merge, with production behind a single approval. It removes the riskiest manual step, and everything else — rollbacks, previews, monitoring — builds on it.
Do you prefer ECS or Kubernetes?
For most teams under a few dozen services, ECS Fargate is simpler to run and cheaper to own, and that is our default. We build on EKS when a client already runs Kubernetes or has workloads that genuinely need it.
Can you set up monitoring without a large tooling bill?
Yes. We start with CloudWatch, structured logs and a small set of alerts that page a human only when it matters. Datadog or Grafana come later if the team wants them and the budget supports it.
Will this slow down our developers?
It should do the opposite. Good platform work removes waiting — preview environments per pull request, fast pipelines, and self-service deploys. We measure lead time before and after.