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DevOps · SRE · DevSecOps

Kubernetes & Cloud
Consulting

Flionis IT Consulting is a professional IT consulting firm specialising in Kubernetes. We design, build and operate secure, reliable platforms, from the first cluster to day-to-day production operations.

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  • Cloud and on-premises
  • Air-gapped environments
$ kubectl get pods READY 0/0 SELF-HEALED 0
cluster healthy · every pod Running

Why outside help

Why Kubernetes, and why an expert partner

Kubernetes has become the standard platform for modern applications and AI. Building and running it in-house takes scarce skills and a long learning curve. An experienced partner gets you to production faster, at lower cost and with fewer mistakes.

Why Kubernetes

82%
of container users run Kubernetes in production

Up from 66% two years earlier. Kubernetes is now the default way to run modern applications.

Choosing Kubernetes means choosing the industry standard.

66%
run their generative AI on Kubernetes

Share of organisations hosting generative AI models that use Kubernetes for inference.

A platform built today is ready for the AI workloads of tomorrow.

Why a partner

46%
faster to production with expert help

Full rollout took 7 months with specialist help, against 13 months done alone.

Experienced engineers skip the trial and error.

42%
use outside partners mainly for access to talent

The top reason organisations give for using external providers, ahead of cost reduction at 34%.

Senior engineers from day one, with no hiring cycle.

What you get

Three ways to work with us

Start small and grow the engagement as your platform grows.

  1. 01

    Platform review

    A focused look at your clusters, pipelines and cloud setup. You receive a clear picture of where you stand and a prioritised list of improvements.

    • Architecture and security findings
    • Quick wins and a roadmap
  2. 02

    Build & migrate

    Hands-on delivery of new clusters, migrations to Kubernetes, pipelines and infrastructure as code, handed over to your team fully documented.

    • Reproducible, version-controlled setups
    • Runbooks and architecture diagrams
  3. 03

    Ongoing reliability

    Continuing support for the platform you run, with observability, upgrades, incident readiness and security hardening at your pace.

    • Monitoring and alerting kept current
    • Regular upgrades and security updates

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Tell us about your platform

Answer four short questions and an engineer replies with next steps and a first call to scope the work.

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About

An expert team for your platform

Cloud and on-premises, reliability and security: expertise that covers a Kubernetes platform end to end.

In charge of the engineering team are senior specialists with hands-on production experience: John, who works on cloud platforms, keeping high-traffic services reliable and secure, and Nektarios, who works on-premises, operating air-gapped Kubernetes for critical infrastructure.

Together they cover the full path a workload travels, from the virtual machine and the firewall rule to the pipeline, the cluster and the dashboard that tells you everything is healthy.

Cloud and on-premThe same engineering standard in public cloud and in a sealed data centre.
Security firstSupply-chain checks, hardening and access control in every build.
Senior hands onlyThe people you speak with are the senior engineers who do the work themselves.
Documented deliveryRunbooks, diagrams and reproducible setups your team keeps.

John Flionis

Platform & Security Engineer · SRE

Builds and scales cloud platforms for containerised microservices. Production experience with AI services handling millions of requests a day, fintech products and applied security research.

  • Moved production workloads from local deployments to managed Kubernetes in the cloud
  • Introduced infrastructure as code and GitOps for automated cluster provisioning
  • MSc in Electrical & Computer Engineering with a thesis in web application cybersecurity
  • AWS · EKS
  • Terraform
  • GitOps
  • Site reliability
  • Security

Skill sheet

John Flionis

Cloud & infrastructure as code
AWS, EKS, Terraform, migrations from local deployments to managed Kubernetes
Kubernetes delivery
Helm, Kustomize, Argo CD, GitOps workflows, CI/CD pipelines
Reliability
SRE practice, incident response, performance analysis, production troubleshooting
Observability
Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic Stack, log management
Security
Information security, web application security, intrusion detection research with machine learning
Data & tooling
PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, Python automation
Sectors
AI and machine-learning services, fintech, applied research in 5G security and health data
Education
BSc and MSc in Electrical & Computer Engineering, thesis in web application cybersecurity

Nektarios Flionis

Systems & DevOps Engineer

Runs business-critical, air-gapped infrastructure in the electricity sector. Covers the whole lifecycle, from provisioning virtual machines to shipping production services on Kubernetes.

  • Operates a multi-node Kubernetes cluster with highly available control planes, fully offline
  • Designed a multi-stage pipeline with SBOMs, vulnerability scanning and static analysis
  • Leads infrastructure rollouts built for reproducibility and auditability
  • Kubernetes
  • Linux
  • CI/CD
  • DevSecOps
  • Virtualisation

Skill sheet

Nektarios Flionis

Kubernetes operations
Air-gapped HA clusters, Helm, Argo CD, MetalLB, HAProxy Ingress
Secure CI/CD
GitLab CI, BuildKit and Nexus image builds, CVSS quality gates
Software supply chain
CDXGen SBOMs, Dependency-Track, OWASP Dependency-Check, SonarQube
Systems & virtualisation
Linux and Ubuntu hardening, VMware vSphere and ESXi, storage
Network & identity
FortiGate, VPN, VLANs, Active Directory, LDAPS, two-factor access
Observability
Prometheus with custom exporters, Grafana dashboards, Elastic Stack
Internal platforms
GitLab CE, Nexus, RabbitMQ, MinIO, BookStack, GLPI
Sector & delivery
Electricity sector, critical infrastructure, documentation and SOPs

Services

Everything a Kubernetes platform needs

Five services with Kubernetes at the centre. Choose one or combine them into a complete platform.

Kubernetes & Platform Engineering

Most popular

Cloud and on-premises Kubernetes, container orchestration and platform operations.

  • Cluster design and build, including highly available and air-gapped setups
  • Ingress, load balancing and internal routing
  • Helm packaging, upgrades and day-two operations
  • Internal developer platforms your teams can self-serve
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Cloud Engineering

AWS, Azure, cloud infrastructure, migrations and automation.

  • Managed Kubernetes on EKS and AKS
  • Migrations from local deployments to the cloud
  • Networking, storage and cost-aware sizing for clusters
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DevOps & Automation

CI/CD, Terraform, Infrastructure as Code and GitOps.

  • Pipelines that build, test and ship to the cluster
  • GitOps delivery with Argo CD
  • Terraform for repeatable environments
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Site Reliability Engineering

Observability, performance, monitoring, incident management and reliability.

  • Prometheus, Grafana and centralised logging
  • Alerting tied to service-level objectives
  • Incident response practice and runbooks
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DevSecOps & Infrastructure Security

IAM, hardening, secrets management and security automation.

  • SBOMs, vulnerability scanning and static analysis in the pipeline
  • Hardened nodes, images and cluster access
  • Secrets management and least-privilege roles
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