Workflow

Our work methodology is shaped by DevOps philosophy and based upon principles of automation, high availability, and peer support. By offering DevOps as a service opportunities, we provide a seamless project workflow, coupled with flawless vital data streams, first-class quality control, and professional support throughout the project lifespan.
Our infrastructure development life cycle

Our infrastructure development life cycle consists of three key stages – Discovery, Implementation and Support – each subdivided into smaller phases. This approach is Agile, which means we can be as effective and flexible as a client requires.

1. Discovery

The Discovery stage includes the review, consultation, roadmap creation, and solution architecture development phases.

During the initial meeting, our specialists get to know the customer’s technology stack and estimate new potential growth areas for their business. This is followed by the Review phase – a thorough examination of the customer’s existing infrastructure, identifying its bottlenecks and pain points. The process involves close communication with developers and product owners to find out their specific wishes and needs.

The review results in a consultation where our specialists present for consideration a plan of their solution and explain how it could help boost the customer’s processes. The estimated scope of work is then arranged into a roadmap of works with defined tasks and planned delivery time, and the solution architecture development begins.

2. Implementation

The Implementation stage implies realization of project goals defined in the roadmap. According to the agreements, we allocate the necessary number of engineering hours and engage required specialists to implement the roadmap on time. Our PMs organize the work of DevOps engineers, monitor their progress, and report to the customer.

Typical tasks within the Implementation stage include infrastructure coding, setup of services and code delivery pipelines (CI/CD), configuration and testing of observability systems, implementation of backup, and disaster recovery procedures, data migration and documentation.

3. Support

Once the main project workflows are complete, we remain available to offer field maintenance and technical support. The Support stage includes incident management 24/7, system improvements and maintenance, service updates, technical consulting, and support.

Our specialists monitor the state of customers’ systems around the clock, identify failures and take actions to restore normal operation. SHALB engineers also perform security patches and updates of customers’ software, and provide all kinds of technical consulting and support.

The Discovery stage includes the review, consultation, roadmap creation, and solution architecture development phases.

During the initial meeting, our specialists get to know the customer’s technology stack and estimate new potential growth areas for their business. This is followed by the Review phase – a thorough examination of the customer’s existing infrastructure, identifying its bottlenecks and pain points. The process involves close communication with developers and product owners to find out their specific wishes and needs.

The review results in a consultation where our specialists present for consideration a plan of their solution and explain how it could help boost the customer’s processes. The estimated scope of work is then arranged into a roadmap of works with defined tasks and planned delivery time, and the solution architecture development begins.

The Implementation stage implies realization of project goals defined in the roadmap. According to the agreements, we allocate the necessary number of engineering hours and engage required specialists to implement the roadmap on time. Our PMs organize the work of DevOps engineers, monitor their progress, and report to the customer.

Typical tasks within the Implementation stage include infrastructure coding, setup of services and code delivery pipelines (CI/CD), configuration and testing of observability systems, implementation of backup, and disaster recovery procedures, data migration and documentation.

Once the main project workflows are complete, we remain available to offer field maintenance and technical support. The Support stage includes incident management 24/7, system improvements and maintenance, service updates, technical consulting, and support.

Our specialists monitor the state of customers’ systems around the clock, identify failures and take actions to restore normal operation. SHALB engineers also perform security patches and updates of customers’ software, and provide all kinds of technical consulting and support.

Integration with the customer's team

We believe that effective cooperation relies on the synergy of both teams working together. Our DevOps engineers seamlessly integrate into your workflow and work as part of your in-house team to achieve the best results. An omnichannel approach to communication enables us to provide all-round support and continuous assistance to our customers within the shortest possible time.

Our communication channels include:

JIRA
All tasks are displayed with the time required for their solving in JIRA and are available to customers in the Jira Customer Portal to track statuses and make comments.
Slack
A shared channel in Slack allows for real-time messaging with the customer’s engineers and quick issue-solving.
Sync-up calls support
These weekly calls with engineers and PMs guarantee the most transparent communication. They keep a customer up to date with the work progress, enable the receipt of all necessary information, and allow for changes to be made to the roadmap.
Technical support terms (SLA)

Thanks to an advanced alert system based on Jira-Opsgenie integration, our on-duty engineers can swiftly respond to notifications to keep up with the highest SLA demands.

  • Response time to monitoring notifications – 5 minutes
  • Response time to tickets’ notifications – 5 minutes
Uptime 99.99%
and higher
Response time
to critical issues up to 5 minutes
Proactive monitoring 24/7
Alert prioritisation 
& status reporting
Engineering roles

At SHALB, we have a diverse system of engineering roles – dedicated specialists focused on particular areas of work, such as monitoring and security. Engaging such experts on a project allows us to be as productive as possible while effectively implementing DevOps practices and operations.

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
An SRE is a guru of administering large Linux systems, monitoring and IT-security. Keeping an eye on the systems’ availability and health, the SRE team is 24×7 ready to resolve any incident to ensure maximum stability and efficiency of customers’ environments.
Master of Monitoring
Monitoring Master is a DevOps engineer specializing in systems’ observability. An engineer assigned with this role configures monitoring systems to observe the state of infrastructure and applications, checks health and performance metrics and logs and sets up alerting and failure notifications.
CI/CD Developer
A CI/CD Developer is an engineer who builds and maintains CI/CD systems. This role requires working in close contact with the customer’s developers to help them build and set up code delivery pipelines.
Infrastructure Developer
The scope of responsibilities of an Infrastructure Developer includes describing infrastructure as code and maintaining created environments. An engineer assigned with this role is also responsible for the deployment of new infrastructure patterns and performs software upgrades.
Cloud Architect
A Cloud Solution Architect specializes in creating highly available, fault-tolerant cloud systems. In accordance with the roadmap, the Cloud Architect develops an infrastructure design considering capacity and workload estimation. This role also coordinates all kinds of cloud DevOps working, including cloud migration, infrastructure design and scaling, configuration of cloud services, and cloud security.
Kubernetes Administrator
A Kubernetes Administrator is responsible for setup, provisioning and maintenance of Kubernetes clusters in a cloud, on-premise or hybrid environments. The scope of responsibilities also includes configuring supportive services, managing storage and deployment of cloud native applications to the cluster, monitoring and maintenance of Kubernetes environment.
Security Officer
The Security Officer is responsible for overseeing information security, cybersecurity, and IT risk management programs within an organization. The role of a Security Officer is to provide a set of measures aimed to protect your data, systems, and assets against attacks and eliminate potential threats.
Database Administrator (DBA)
A DBA is a dedicated engineering role responsible for a seamless performance of databases. A DBA engineer is engaged in defining and optimizing factors that affect database performance, such as indexing, query structure, capacity of CPU, and memory resources.
Project Manager (PM)
The Project Manager’s task is to connect customers with SHALB’s DevOps engineers and organize a process flow with maximum efficiency. The PM takes part in roadmap preparation and task assignment, organizes the work of engineers, and reports to a customer about their progress of the project.
Technical Writer
Technical Writer is a dedicated role responsible for creating and keeping documentation up-to-date. As part of the engineering team, the Technical Writer is engaged in preparing internal project documentation, user manuals, and guidelines to onboard new employees.
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Navdip Bhachech, Senior Vice President Engineering Bedrock Analytics — SHALB — Image
Navdip Bhachech
Senior Vice President
Engineering Bedrock Analytics
Modern infrastructure with config managing for Bedrock Analytics

“What I liked about Volodymyr and Sergii is that they would figure things out. They were very proactive in finding the resolution to every little issue and figuring it out and doing the research. That was nice to see. We were leaning on them for their expertise as the process went on. I think they did a great job on that and figured out a lot of little details.”

Vazha Pirtskhalaishvili, Head Of DevOps Engineering unit at BoGh — SHALB — Image
Vazha Pirtskhalaishvili
Head Of DevOps
Engineering unit at BoG
Flexible and modern platform for the Bank of Georgia

“Bank of Georgia needed a reliable platform with a fault-tolerant system. The guys from SHALB did a great job, additionally working out aspects not covered in the initial contract.”

Olexy Sadovy, CTO at PartsTech — SHALB — Image
Olexy Sadovy
CTO at PartsTech
Reliable and protected infrastructure for PartsTech

“The problem with our project was we had so many people working on it that it was very convoluted, – comments Olexy Sadovy. – So it was tough to untangle all this mess. And I think SHALB did a great job of working with that. We had a couple of bumps but we got through that and I think we ended up on the good side of it.”

Piotr Nowinski, Head of Product Engineering at Spryker Systems GmbH — SHALB — Image
Piotr Nowinski
Head of Product Engineering at Spryker
Delivering an event platform for e-commerce giant

"Overall, they did a good job. They understood the timelines and worked towards them, delivering on time and within the budget. We didn’t have to push them. SHALB understood the goal we wanted to achieve and worked towards it."

Igor Stolnitsky, CEO of Horoshop — SHALB — Image
Igor Stolnitsky
CEO of Horoshop
Providing a reliable server architecture for SaaS platform

“The solutions proposed by Shalb have proven their quality over time. The built cluster turned out to be easy and cheap to scale. Using it, we easily increased the number of clients we can serve at the same time by tenfold, without proportionally increasing the size of our team.”

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