medve.biz
Infrastructure Advisory & SRE
SOVEREIGN INFRASTRUCTURE • SRE ADVISORY • FED & GOV ASSURANCE

Secure, Resilient & Scalable Infrastructure Consulting

Applying hyperscaler Site Reliability Engineering standards and over a decade of Silicon Valley tech leadership to mission-critical systems, container migrations, and compliance-hardened public sector platforms.

10+ YRS
Silicon Valley Hyperscaler SRE Track Record
99.999%
High-Availability Architecture & SLI/SLO Target
Zero-Downtime
Container & Kubernetes Migration Playbooks
High-Assurance
Government, Defence & Regulated Enterprise
HYPERSCALER DISCIPLINE

SRE Principles Built for Mission-Critical Uptime

We reject fragile, manually configured infrastructure. Every system we design enforces infrastructure-as-code, deterministic container runtime environments, comprehensive observability, and automated failure recovery.

  • Immutable Infrastructure: Automated drift elimination via GitOps and declarative configuration.
  • Golden Signals Observability: Latency, traffic, error rates, and saturation wired directly into automated triage.
  • Defense-in-Depth: Air-gapped deployment readiness, encrypted transport, and zero-trust service meshes.
medve-sre-telemetry@gov-node-01: ~
LIVE AUDIT
$ medve-audit --env=high-assurance-cluster-prod --standard=fedramp
[INFO] Initiating SRE Infrastructure Readiness Verification...
Target Topology:
Multi-Region Kubernetes (Air-Gapped GovCloud)
Orchestrator Drift:
0.00% (GitOps Strict Enforcement)
• Service Mesh MTLS Enforcement [VERIFIED: STRICT]
• Automated Chaos & Failover Health [RTO: < 15s | RPO: 0]
• Distributed Tracing & Telemetry (OTel) [100% INGESTION ACTIVE]
• Hardened Container Base Images [0 CRITICAL CVEs]
✓ All operational reliability benchmarks nominal. High-assurance baseline met.

Consulting Capabilities

Specialized SRE & Platform Engineering

Tailored engineering engagements designed to strengthen system fundamentals, reduce operational risks, and modernize mission-critical systems.

Core Infrastructure Modernization

Transforming fragile legacy servers into declarative, reproducible, and automated infrastructure as code (Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi) with automated validation and security policy guardrails.

IaC / GitOps Terraform Linux Hardening

Complex Container & Cloud Migrations

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.

Kubernetes Docker / OCI Zero-Downtime

Observability & Incident Management

Upgrading monitoring to full-spectrum distributed tracing, actionable alerting topologies (eliminating alert fatigue), SLI/SLO dashboards, and structured blameless post-mortem protocols.

Prometheus OpenTelemetry SLOs & SLIs

Security Hardening & Air-Gapped Operations

Hardening platforms for compliance, defense-readiness, and air-gapped operations. Implementing automated secret management, identity federation, and zero-trust perimeter controls.

GovCloud Zero-Trust Air-Gap

Resilience & Disaster Recovery (DR)

Eliminating single points of failure (SPOFs), automating cross-datacenter multi-region failovers, disaster recovery simulation drills, and database replication integrity testing.

Chaos Testing RPO / RTO Zero DR Automation

SRE Team Uplift & Operating Models

Embedding with your staff to elevate operational maturity. Establishing production readiness reviews, on-call schedules, blameless culture, and automated developer platform ergonomics.

Staff Mentorship Runbook Automation PRRs
OPERATIONAL MATURITY & SRE DISCIPLINE

The Target End-State: SLIs, SLOs & Anticipated Failure Modes

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.

01
MEASUREMENT BASELINE

Declared SLIs & Advertised SLOs

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.

User-Centric SLIs
Error Budget Governance
02
FULL-SPECTRUM TELEMETRY

End-to-End Operational Instrumentation

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.

Golden Signals Telemetry
Zero Blind-Spot Tracing
03
PROACTIVE READINESS

Identified Failure Modes & Codified Runbooks

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.

Automated Runbooks
Chaos & SPOF Modeling
04
CONTINUOUS RESILIENCE

Regular, Blameless Post-Mortem Analysis

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.

Systemic Root Cause Elimination
Action Item SLA Tracking
THE SRE DIVIDEND

From Fragile Operations to Predictable Uptime

How our operational frameworks transform day-to-day engineering and mission readiness.

UNSTRUCTURED OPERATIONS
  • × Vague uptime promises without SLI telemetry
  • × Alert storms leading to alert fatigue & ignored outages
  • × Guesswork during midnight on-call incidents
  • × Blame-oriented culture hiding architectural debt
MEDVE.BIZ END-STATE STANDARD
  • Advertised SLOs with programmatic error budgets
  • 100% operational aspect instrumentation (OTel/Prom)
  • Tested, step-by-step runbooks for all failure modes
  • Blameless post-mortems preventing repeat incidents

Systematic Delivery

The 4-Stage Engagement Framework

How we take mission-critical platforms from fragile and risk-prone to robust, automated, and self-healing.

01

Architectural Audit

Comprehensive discovery of failure domains, single points of failure, security compliance posture, and operational debt.

02

Immutable Blueprint

Detailed design of the target container architecture, IaC blueprints, observability schema, and phased zero-downtime migration plan.

03

Automated Migration

Hands-on implementation of automated CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, automated testing gates, and cutover execution.

04

Operational Handover

Codified runbooks, game-day simulation exercises, team enablement, and ongoing high-level advisory retainers.

Marton Neher

Founder & Principal SRE

10+ Yrs SRE Silicon Valley
LEADERSHIP & PEDIGREE

Applying Hyperscaler Best Practices to High-Assurance Platforms

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.

Available for Strategic Advisory & Retainers
INITIATE ENGAGEMENT

Consult With Our Infrastructure Practice

Reach out directly for architectural assessments, legacy-to-container migration strategies, or long-term high-assurance SRE retainers.

Or direct email: contact@medve.biz