Applying hyperscaler Site Reliability Engineering standards and over a decade of Silicon Valley tech leadership to mission-critical systems, container migrations, and high-assurance public sector platforms.
We reject fragile, manually configured infrastructure. Every system we design enforces infrastructure-as-code, deterministic container runtime environments, comprehensive observability, and automated failure recovery.
Specialized SRE & Platform Engineering
Tailored engineering engagements designed to strengthen system fundamentals, reduce operational risks, and modernize mission-critical systems.
Transforming fragile legacy servers into declarative, reproducible, and automated infrastructure as code (Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi) with automated validation and security policy guardrails.
Architecting and executing non-disruptive migrations from bare-metal or legacy virtual machines to production Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, Tanzu, bare-metal k8s) with zero client downtime.
Upgrading monitoring to full-spectrum distributed tracing, actionable alerting topologies (eliminating alert fatigue), SLI/SLO dashboards, and structured blameless post-mortem protocols.
Hardening platforms for compliance, defense-readiness, and air-gapped operations. Implementing automated secret management, identity federation, and zero-trust perimeter controls.
Eliminating single points of failure (SPOFs), automating cross-datacenter multi-region failovers, disaster recovery simulation drills, and database replication integrity testing.
Embedding with your staff to elevate operational maturity. Establishing production readiness reviews, on-call schedules, blameless culture, and automated developer platform ergonomics.
High reliability is not an accident—it is an engineered outcome. We guide organizations from reactionary firefighting to an institutional standard where every product is instrumented, every expectation is quantified, and failure is treated as a learning mechanism.
Every product, API, and core subsystem defines explicit Service Level Indicators (SLIs) that capture true user experience (availability, latency percentiles, error ratios). These feed into clearly advertised Service Level Objectives (SLOs) backed by actionable error budget policies that balance feature releases against system stability.
Every operational aspect of a product is instrumented from day one. Using modern telemetry (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, structured distributed tracing), we eliminate blind spots across traffic ingress, worker concurrency, database query latencies, queue depths, and third-party dependencies.
Failure modes are systematically modeled and tested (FMEA, chaos experiments, split-brain simulations) before they occur in production. Every actionable alert links directly to a version-controlled, verified runbook—eliminating on-call panic and guessing during critical incidents.
When outages or near-misses happen, we establish a disciplined culture of blameless post-mortem analysis. Rather than finding human fault, we investigate systemic defects, tooling gaps, and architectural fragility, turning every incident into tracked, permanent engineering improvements.
How our operational frameworks transform day-to-day engineering and mission readiness.
The 4-Stage Engagement Framework
How we take mission-critical platforms from fragile and risk-prone to robust, automated, and self-healing.
Comprehensive discovery of failure domains, single points of failure, security compliance posture, and operational debt.
Detailed design of the target container architecture, IaC blueprints, observability schema, and phased zero-downtime migration plan.
Hands-on implementation of automated CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, automated testing gates, and cutover execution.
Codified runbooks, game-day simulation exercises, team enablement, and ongoing high-level advisory retainers.
Built on Recognized Frameworks
Every design and delivery is grounded in established assurance standards — not folklore.
Zero Trust Architecture principles applied to network, identity, and workload boundaries.
Hardened configurations for cloud, containers, and operating systems as the baseline, not the goal.
Control mapping and evidence collection workflows that keep authorizations current and defensible.
Supply-chain security, access control, and audit-trail practices aligned to CMMC 2.0 requirements.
A federal agency's mission-critical platform was retired from manually administered virtual machines and re-architected into a fully containerized, GitOps-driven stack.
>Baseline: unmanaged VM sprawl, manual deployments, no structured telemetry.
>Delivery: containerized services, Terraform-managed infrastructure, GitOps pipelines with automated rollback.
>Outcome: MTTR reduced ~70%, audit evidence generation fully automated, team onboarded with codified runbooks.
A Clear Path from First Contact to Operational Handover
Mutual NDA on request. Initial 30-minute call to frame objectives, constraints, and success criteria.
Fixed-scope SOW with deliverables, timeline, and pricing. No open-ended retainers without agreement.
For government and agency engagements: PWS-ready scope aligned to your procurement vehicle.
Contact form. Submissions (name, work email, organization, scope) are used solely to respond to your inquiry and prepare engagement documents. They are never sold, shared with third parties, or used for marketing.
US entity status. medve.biz is operated by a United States-based independent consultant. All deliverables, code, and documentation are delivered to you directly — no intermediary vendors handle your data.
NDA / CMMC posture. Engagement conversations can begin under a mutual NDA. Security and supply-chain practices are maintained consistent with CMMC and FedRAMP-aligned workflows, and evidence collection is available on request.
Retention. Inquiry records are retained only as long as needed to fulfill the engagement, then deleted or archived per your direction.
Founder & Principal SRE
medve.biz is led by Marton Neher, a seasoned Site Reliability Engineer with over a decade of deep infrastructure experience inside major Silicon Valley technology organizations.
Having managed internet-scale distributed systems under immense load and stringent reliability constraints, Marton founded medve.biz to bring that exact caliber of resilience, observability, and infrastructure automation to government agencies, regulated institutions, and enterprise engineering teams.
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