Infrastructure & Security Subscription SaaS Platform (Anonymized)

Platform Operations & 24/7 SRE for Subscription SaaS

Assumed 24/7 cloud infrastructure management, telemetry, automated off-site backups, and CVE patching for a subscription platform supporting €1M+ in monthly revenue and 150,000+ active users.

145 Servers Managed Continuous 24/7 fleet oversight
99.95% Uptime Sustained Supporting 150,000+ active users
€1M+ Monthly Revenue Supported Zero revenue-impacting downtime
The Challenge

Scaling Infrastructure Without Internal Ops Overhead

The client operates a fast-growing subscription SaaS platform with over 150,000 active users and €1M+ in monthly recurring revenue. Without a dedicated in-house DevOps department, the platform faced escalating operational complexity, compliance demands (PCI-DSS), and the risk of server outages interrupting payment processing and user access.

  • 150,000+ active users requiring reliable around-the-clock availability.
  • No internal Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team to handle patch management or failover.
  • Strict PCI-DSS data protection and encryption requirements for payment transactions.
Transformation

Before & After Implementation

Before United Gurus

Before: Fragile Manual Operations

Developers managing server alerts ad-hoc, manual OS patching, and lack of unified real-time health telemetry across regions.

  • Ad-hoc server maintenance distracting core product engineers
  • No unified metrics or automated anomaly alerting
  • Growing anxiety around compliance audits and vulnerability windows
After Implementation

After: Fully Managed 24/7 Infrastructure

Autonomous, hardened cloud infrastructure with real-time telemetry, automated backups, and guaranteed SLA compliance.

  • 145 cloud servers monitored and patched 24/7
  • 99.95% sustained uptime across all customer regions
  • Continuous PCI-DSS compliance and automated encrypted backups
The Solution

What United Gurus Changed

Engineered across the complete technical workflow with thorough QA and zero downtime.

01

24/7 Telemetry & Alert Automation

Deployed Prometheus daemons and custom Grafana dashboards across the 145-server fleet with automated anomaly detection and instant escalation paging.

  • Multi-region metric aggregation
  • Threshold & latency alert triggers
  • Real-time CPU, RAM, disk I/O, and network telemetry
02

Automated Off-Site Backups & Disaster Recovery

Engineered automated hourly snapshot pipelines and encrypted off-site replica syncs with periodic automated restore verification tests.

  • Encrypted AES-256 backup replication
  • Sub-15 minute Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
  • Automated backup integrity validation scripts
03

Security Hardening & PCI-DSS Compliance

Hardened SSH with WireGuard mesh VPN access, automated CVE patch pipelines, configured strict firewall rules, and passed PCI-DSS compliance audits.

  • Zero-trust VPN administrative access
  • Automated kernel & library security patching
  • Audit-ready compliance reporting
Engineering Detail

Monitoring Topology & Zero-Downtime Patch Pipeline

Our team built a rolling update pipeline that drains node connections before patching, verifies health checks on updated instances, and puts them back in rotation without dropping a single active customer session.

  • Rolling blue/green daemon updates across multi-datacenter clusters
  • Prometheus Node Exporter + Grafana Loki centralized log aggregation
  • Automated WireGuard mesh tunnels for encrypted inter-server communications
  • Proactive synthetic health checks polling transaction endpoints every 30 seconds

Technologies Deployed

Linux (Debian/Ubuntu) Prometheus Grafana Docker WireGuard MySQL / Redis PCI-DSS Compliance Automated Backups
★★★★★
"We've had the managed IT retainer for two years. Monitoring, backups, security patches — it all just happens, and the monthly report tells me exactly what was done. Zero downtime drama."
Steve Cunningham Managing Director, Cel MD
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