SHALB

SHALB is a DevOps development and consulting company headquartered in Ukraine, with an additional office presence in Portugal. The company provides infrastructure and operations engineering services for clients across Europe and other international markets, working with organisations in finance, e-commerce, analytics, payments and media.

Services and Capabilities

• DevOps consulting and managed DevOps delivery: audits of development workflows, ongoing managed DevOps services and team training.
• Kubernetes and container orchestration: cluster setup and management, containerisation of services, Helm chart development and running applications in Kubernetes.
• Cloud architecture and migration: cloud infrastructure design, cloud migration, cloud cost optimisation and cloud managed services.
• CI/CD and automation: design and implementation of CI/CD pipelines, automated testing pipelines and infrastructure as code implementations.
• Site Reliability Engineering and 24/7 support: observability (monitoring, logging, tracing), service level objectives, infrastructure maintenance, backup and disaster recovery, and security hardening.
• Application development support: web and mobile development support related to deployment, staging and infrastructure delivery platforms.

Industry Focus

• Banking and financial services: design and delivery of fault-tolerant platforms and secure infrastructure for banking clients.
• E-commerce and retail: infrastructure for event-driven e-commerce platforms and scalable SaaS storefronts.
• Analytics and data platforms: configuration management and infrastructure to support analytics workloads.
• Payments and fintech: infrastructure and platform work for payment service providers.
• Media and SaaS: server architecture and scaling for content and software-as-a-service platforms.

Technology and Delivery Approach

• Work is executed through infrastructure as code, containerisation and Kubernetes-based platforms to deliver repeatable, versioned infrastructure.
• CI/CD pipeline construction and automation are used to streamline deployments and testing across development and staging environments.
• Observability is implemented via logging, tracing and monitoring systems; backup and disaster recovery procedures are part of operational delivery.
• Services include cloud cost optimisation, security hardening and platform engineering; responsibilities range from architecture design to ongoing 24/7 maintenance.