Reliable deployments
Reduce deployment risk with repeatable delivery workflows, environment standards, and automation that teams can trust.
Platform Engineering • Infrastructure Architecture • Automation
Modern Infrastructure. Reliable Deployments. Audit-Friendly Automation.
Wentzel Consulting helps fintech, SaaS, regulated, and mid-market technology teams modernize infrastructure, improve deployment reliability, and build secure, repeatable platforms across Kubernetes, OpenShift, cloud, CI/CD, observability, and GitOps workflows.
Senior platform engineering and infrastructure architecture for companies that need more than DevOps support, but are not ready to hire a full platform team.
30+ clusters
OpenShift and Kubernetes architecture across hybrid enterprise environments.
Regulated teams
Experience with PCI/SOX-style controls, audit trails, RBAC, and change workflows.
Delivery focus
Hands-on implementation in repos, pipelines, dashboards, and runbooks.
Senior guidance
Architecture leadership for teams that need depth without permanent headcount.
What we help you improve
We work with teams that have outgrown ad hoc infrastructure, manual deployments, tribal knowledge, and inconsistent operational practices.
Scalable platforms
Design Kubernetes, OpenShift, and hybrid infrastructure patterns that scale across teams, clusters, and environments.
Operational visibility
Improve monitoring, logging, alerting, dashboards, and incident readiness so teams can see and resolve issues faster.
Audit-friendly operations
Use Git-based workflows, RBAC, secrets management, policy-as-code, and documented controls to support regulated environments.
Developer self-service
Create paved paths that help developers ship faster without bypassing security, compliance, or operational guardrails.
Consulting services
Concrete service pillars for technology teams modernizing infrastructure, improving deployment reliability, and creating repeatable operating patterns across platform, infrastructure, and application teams. Engagements usually produce working automation, reference patterns, decision records, runbooks, or a prioritized roadmap.
Platform engineering consulting
Infrastructure architecture
Kubernetes & OpenShift consulting
GitOps with Argo CD
Observability consulting
Compliance-ready infrastructure
Platform Engineering & Kubernetes
Design and improve Kubernetes, OpenShift, and cloud-native platforms with clear platform standards, ownership boundaries, guardrails, and production operating models.
- Kubernetes / OpenShift architecture
- Multi-cluster design and lifecycle patterns
- Namespace, tenancy, RBAC, ingress, secrets, and storage patterns
- Developer self-service and platform team enablement
GitOps, CI/CD & Automation
Implement repeatable delivery workflows for infrastructure and applications using Git, Argo CD, Helm, Kustomize, Terraform/OpenTofu, and Ansible, with promotion and rollback patterns teams can actually operate.
- Argo CD architecture and ApplicationSet patterns
- Helm and Kustomize standardization
- Environment promotion and release workflows
- Infrastructure-as-code and automation strategy
Cloud & Infrastructure Modernization
Assess and modernize cloud, hybrid, virtualization, Linux, networking, and storage foundations when they affect platform reliability, automation, compliance, or scale.
- Infrastructure architecture reviews and target-state designs
- Hybrid cloud and virtualization strategy
- Migration sequencing and technical debt reduction
- Availability, recovery, lifecycle, and operational risk planning
Observability & Reliability
Build the visibility and operational practices needed to run platforms confidently across infrastructure, applications, and teams, with signals tied to real operating decisions rather than dashboard sprawl.
- Metrics, logs, traces, and dashboards
- Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, and related tooling
- Alerting strategy and incident workflows
- SLOs, capacity, and operational readiness
Security & Compliance Enablement
Strengthen infrastructure controls and audit-friendly workflows for teams operating in security-conscious or regulated environments without turning delivery into a ticket queue.
- Secrets management and certificate automation
- RBAC, policy-as-code, and change tracking
- Environment separation and access patterns
- Support for SOC 2, PCI-DSS, SOX, and similar controls
Engagement models
Choose the shape of help that matches the urgency, clarity, and delivery needs of your infrastructure or platform initiative.
Assessment & Roadmap
A focused review of your current platform, infrastructure, automation, and operations with a prioritized improvement roadmap, risk register, and recommended delivery sequence.
Implementation Project
Hands-on delivery for GitOps, Kubernetes, observability, automation, or infrastructure modernization initiatives, including working patterns and handoff materials.
Fractional Platform Architect
Senior architecture guidance, roadmap ownership, design reviews, mentoring, and executive-ready communication without a full-time hire.
Advisory & Procurement Support
Support for technical decisions, vendor evaluations, platform strategy, architecture reviews, and implementation planning where infrastructure choices have long-term delivery, reliability, or compliance impact.
Results from past work
Past work spans Kubernetes, OpenShift, GitOps, infrastructure automation, regulated operating models, and practical team enablement.
90% faster platform rollout
Reduced OpenShift cluster deployment time by standardizing automation, reusable templates, and Git-based operating patterns.
Enterprise multi-cluster standard
Defined reference architectures and day-2 operations patterns for dozens of clusters across hybrid environments.
Compliance-ready, developer-friendly
Integrated secrets, policy, RBAC, and Git-based change workflows to support PCI/SOX-style operating requirements while improving developer velocity.
Operational patterns that scale
Built documentation, runbooks, dashboards, and team enablement practices that made handoffs and ongoing operations more predictable.
Built for teams where reliability and control matter
Wentzel Consulting is especially well suited for organizations that need stronger platform practices, cleaner automation, and more reliable operations without adding a large permanent platform engineering team. The work is architecture and implementation for technical teams, not outsourced help desk, device management, or generic managed IT.
Fintech & payments
SaaS and software companies
Regulated businesses
Mid-market IT and platform teams
Hybrid infrastructure environments
Companies modernizing legacy systems
About Wentzel Consulting
Wentzel Consulting is a boutique platform engineering and infrastructure architecture consultancy led by founder and principal architect Ryan Wentzel.
The firm
We help organizations design, automate, and operate reliable infrastructure platforms across Kubernetes, OpenShift, cloud, hybrid infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and security-conscious environments. That often means:
- Standardizing infrastructure and deployment workflows across environments
- Designing guardrails for security, compliance, tenancy, and reliability
- Helping teams move from ad hoc operations to platform-first practices
- Embedding patterns directly into repos, pipelines, runbooks, and dashboards
Led by founder & principal architect, Ryan Wentzel
Ryan is a platform architecture leader with deep experience across infrastructure, private cloud, Kubernetes, OpenShift, automation, Linux, virtualization, networking, and regulated enterprise environments. He has led OpenShift and Kubernetes initiatives spanning 30+ clusters, built GitOps frameworks with Argo CD, Helm, and Kustomize, and helped teams create secure, repeatable operating patterns that scale.
Personal site: ryanwentzel.com
Start a conversation
Tell us what is happening in your infrastructure, platform, deployment, or operations environment. We will follow up with a practical recommendation, even if that means you do not need outside help yet.
What to expect
We typically start with a 30-45 minute call to understand your current infrastructure, constraints, and desired outcomes. If there is a fit, we will propose a concrete way to help, usually anchored in one of the services above.
No high-pressure sales process. Just a practical assessment and clear options.