IMPLEMENTATION
Four deliberate stages establish the environment, the working relationship, and the rhythm your team can rely on.
Timings below describe a typical implementation sequence. Actual delivery depends on scope, access, dependencies, and acceptance criteria agreed with your team.
01 / DAYS 1–3
Stand up the StationOps workspace, gather context, and agree how delivery will run.
Day 1
A dedicated operating workspace — ready before you fill out a form.
STATIONOPS OWNSCreate your workspace, engagement profile, and delivery checklist on the StationOps platform.
YOUR TEAM CONTRIBUTESNothing. We start the moment the agreement is signed.
Most providers ask you to wait for a kickoff deck. We stand up your StationOps workspace on day one so every decision, access request, and deployment has a single source of truth from the start.
Day 1–2
We understand your stack, risk, and goals without a week of workshops.
STATIONOPS OWNSSend a structured form that maps environments, apps, compliance, and access needs.
YOUR TEAM CONTRIBUTESAbout 30–45 minutes answering what you already know about your cloud.
No blank page. A focused form captures the details that matter — so the first call is already about decisions, not discovery theatre.
Day 2–3
Shared priorities, clear owners, and a realistic path to go-live.
STATIONOPS OWNSRun the call, confirm scope, surface risks early, and set the delivery rhythm.
YOUR TEAM CONTRIBUTESBring the people who know the product and the environments — one focused session.
This is alignment, not a sales replay. We confirm what “done” looks like, who owns what, and what can move in parallel so we do not waste a week waiting on a single dependency.
02 / WEEK 1
Architecture, required access, and an implementation plan with acceptance criteria.
Week 1
Proposed landing zones, environments, and build order.
STATIONOPS OWNSDraft the target architecture and workstream sequence from StationOps patterns.
YOUR TEAM CONTRIBUTESReview and correct assumptions.
We start from existing patterns for AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud and adapt them to your application. The aim is a clear plan within the first week — not a long discovery project.
Week 1 · parallel
Cloud, DNS, repo, and tool access ready so delivery is not blocked.
STATIONOPS OWNSRequest least-privilege access to cloud accounts, DNS, repos, SSO, and tools.
YOUR TEAM CONTRIBUTESApprove access or introduce the right admin.
Access work runs in parallel with planning so we are not waiting on logins before the design is finished.
Week 1
Open questions closed before build starts.
STATIONOPS OWNSTrack and close decisions that would block delivery.
YOUR TEAM CONTRIBUTESAnswer the items only your team can confirm.
We keep a short list of blockers and work through them. The loop ends when there is enough detail to build against.
Week 1
Detailed plan and acceptance criteria for go-live.
STATIONOPS OWNSDocument landing zone design, service layout, CI/CD approach, security controls, cutover plan, and success criteria.
YOUR TEAM CONTRIBUTESReview and approve the plan — usually one pass.
This sets what we will build and how we will know it is done. Security, pipelines, monitoring, and cutover are defined before delivery starts.
03 / WEEKS 2–4
Deploy infrastructure and services, stand up environments, test, and cut over to production.
Start of Week 2
Build starts against the agreed plan — StationOps runs delivery through the platform.
STATIONOPS OWNSConfirm sequence, lock acceptance criteria, and start platform-backed delivery.
YOUR TEAM CONTRIBUTESConfirm hard deadlines and who signs off at cutover.
From here StationOps executes. Work is tracked in your StationOps workspace — not a separate consulting project plan your team has to chase.
Weeks 2–3
CIS-aligned cloud foundations live — landing zones, networking, identity/SSO, logging, and guardrails — deployed through StationOps.
STATIONOPS OWNSUse StationOps automation and senior engineers to deploy multi-account/subscription landing zones, private networking, centralized logging, encryption defaults, SSO/federated access, and CIS-aligned guardrails.
YOUR TEAM CONTRIBUTESConfirm cloud boundaries, IdP/SSO details, and any compliance constraints in scope.
Foundations are deployed through the StationOps platform from proven patterns — then adapted to your app and risk profile, with engineers reviewing the result.
Weeks 2–3 · parallel
Priority services are built and deployed through StationOps — pipelines, environments, and release path in place.
STATIONOPS OWNSBuild and deploy agreed services on the new foundations: CI/CD pipelines, environment configs, service releases, and deploy history recorded in StationOps.
YOUR TEAM CONTRIBUTESPoint us at priority services/repos and which environments matter.
While foundations go in, we build and deploy your services through StationOps. This is real application delivery — not just empty infrastructure waiting for your team to ship later.
Weeks 2–3
Non-prod and production environments are stood up through StationOps — ready for services and cutover.
STATIONOPS OWNSDeploy application environments (typically development, staging, and production) on the new infrastructure, with the right isolation, config, and promotion path between them.
YOUR TEAM CONTRIBUTESConfirm which environments you need and any differences required for production.
StationOps does not stop at shared infrastructure. We deploy the environments your services run in — including production — so testing and cutover happen against real targets, not a single shared sandbox.
Weeks 2–4
Infrastructure, services, and environments are tested together. Failures loop back into deploy work until ready for cutover.
STATIONOPS OWNSTest infrastructure, service deploys, non-prod and prod environment readiness, security guardrails, and basic operational behaviour. Issues loop back into infrastructure, services, or environments until they pass.
YOUR TEAM CONTRIBUTESValidate critical product journeys with us on the test checklist.
Testing is a loop, not a one-off checkbox. If infrastructure, a service, or an environment fails checks, we fix and redeploy through StationOps before traffic moves.
Weeks 2–4
Open test findings are fixed or explicitly deferred — the platform is ready to finish ops setup and cut over.
STATIONOPS OWNSClose or defer every test finding in StationOps, with evidence that infrastructure, services, and environments pass.
YOUR TEAM CONTRIBUTESConfirm deferred items are acceptable for go-live.
The test loop ends with a clear gate: issues are resolved, not hoped away. Only then do we move into monitoring, access, and production cutover.
Week 3–4
Observability is on, alerts route correctly, and your team can see deploys and requests in StationOps.
STATIONOPS OWNSWire baseline metrics, logs, dashboards, and alert routing for infrastructure, services, and environments. Onboard your team to StationOps.
YOUR TEAM CONTRIBUTESConfirm alert owners and who needs StationOps access.
With issues resolved, we finish monitoring and team access so day-two operations run through StationOps — not ad-hoc tools.
Week 4
Production traffic moves onto the production environment in a planned window — change recorded in StationOps.
STATIONOPS OWNSExecute DNS/traffic cutover to the production environment with health checks, monitoring watch, and rollback ready. Record the change in StationOps.
YOUR TEAM CONTRIBUTESApprove the window and join go/no-go.
Cutover happens only after issues are resolved and monitoring is in place. Production is already deployed — this step moves live traffic onto it.
04 / ONGOING
Managed cloud operations through StationOps — changes as requests, not new projects.
Week 4
You confirm the environment meets the plan — managed operations begin.
STATIONOPS OWNSConfirm run posture in StationOps: runbooks, access, monitoring ownership, and the request path for ongoing work.
YOUR TEAM CONTRIBUTESSign off against the acceptance criteria you already approved.
Implementation ends. From here, environments, pipelines, and guardrail changes are handled as managed operations through StationOps — not new projects.
Ongoing
Security, reliability, cost, and change — operated through StationOps. Your team builds product.
STATIONOPS OWNSMonitor, secure, optimize, and deliver changes within package hours. Requests are triaged and completed in StationOps with full history.
YOUR TEAM CONTRIBUTESSubmit requests in StationOps. We operate the cloud.
This is the product: platform + senior engineers. Day-two work is a request, not another statement of work.
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