More product, less platform
Every hour your team spends on cluster upgrades, monitoring and on-call is missing from the product – and platform roles often stay open for months. kloudease takes over platform operations, you cut operating costs and gain capacity for what sets you apart.
Where your engineering capacity goes today
An in-house Kubernetes platform is never finished. It permanently ties up experienced people – usually exactly the ones your product needs.
Upgrades and patches
Kubernetes ships a new version three times a year, plus security patches for every component in the stack.
Round-the-clock on-call
Running 24/7 takes a team that covers holidays, sickness and nights – not a single person.
Integration instead of innovation
Monitoring, logging, secrets, policies and GitOps need to be wired together and kept up to date.
Knowledge silos
Often only a few people know the platform in detail. If someone drops out, operations are at risk.
- full-time platform engineers – the cost of a typical three-cluster setup
- ≈ 0.7
- engineers needed to run it yourself with 24/7 on-call
- ≥ 3
- difference per year – capacity you can put into the product
- approx. 237,000 €
Assumptions: Business worked example with three workload clusters (approx. 71,300 € per year incl. infrastructure) versus three platform engineers (median 82,250 € gross per JobJump, 07/2026, plus 25% employer costs). Infrastructure, build-up and recruiting for running it yourself are not included.
Two effects that add up
You do not just save operating costs. What often matters more is what your team does with the time it gains:
- Cut operating costs – a predictable monthly fee instead of staff costs, on-call allowances and outage risk
- Seize the opportunity – your engineers work on features, data products and AI applications instead of the platform
- Offload risk – updates, security patches and platform incidents are handled by AOE
- Stay sovereign – the interface remains Kubernetes, and you can take over operations at any time
Hiring for platform roles?
Skip the search
Platform engineering roles often stay open for months. Instead of searching on, hand off operations – whatever the reason you are hiring:
You're building it yourself
Even with a team in place, it takes months before your own platform runs in production. kloudease lets you skip all of that.
You want to cut costs
A predictable fixed price instead of team salaries, training and oversized infrastructure. You pay for operations, not idle capacity.
You want to hand off responsibility and risk
Clear SLAs, round-the-clock operations, defined response times. If a cluster fails at night, we respond, not your team.
You want to stay digitally sovereign
Operated in the EU, fully on STACKIT if you want, with no dependency on US hyperscalers. Open-source standards from the CNCF ecosystem – your data, infrastructure and control stay with you.
In practice: PC CADDIE
The market leader for golf club software in the DACH region is modernising its applications on kloudease and STACKIT. AOE takes over platform operations – the team focuses on the application, and a second initiative could start in parallel.
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