Platform engineering and DevSecOps for regulated companies. Bank-proven, multilingual, Swiss quality.
Infrastructure and pipelines that pass the audit.
From the server to the pipeline: we design, build and secure the platforms regulated companies run their software on. Fixed scope, fixed price, handover included.
Slow pipelines, a cluster nobody wants to touch, or an audit on the horizon? One call, and we both know whether it fits.
Services
Four ways to start. Each one ends with a handover.
Pick the layer that hurts today. Every project has a defined scope, a fixed price and documentation your team can run with; the retainer covers everything in between.
Infrastructure
Virtualisation, storage, networking, identity, backups.
VMware exit
Zero-trust access for small teams
Backup, recovery and observability
Cluster
Kubernetes and OpenShift that pass an audit.
Kubernetes hardening and audit readiness
Platform migration
Pipeline
CI/CD your developers use and your auditors trust.
Golden Path CI/CD
Care
A senior platform engineer, without the hire.
Platform care
Why Mercantus
What you get that an agency can't give you.
Swiss banking standard
The same pipeline and hardening discipline we built for Swiss banking, applied to your platform. Auditors recognise it.
Fixed scope, fixed price
Every project is quoted as one number with a deliverable list and a handover. No surprises, no open-ended timesheets.
You talk to the engineers
No account manager. A direct line to the people who do the work, in German, French, Spanish or English, and an answer within 24 business hours.
References
Companies we have worked with
Employers and clients in Switzerland and abroad.
Team
The people behind Mercantus
From the first conversation to the handover you work with the engineers themselves, not with an account manager.
Co-founder & Platform Engineer
Jon Defilla
B.Sc. ZHAW in Computer Science · M.Sc. Computer Science, Georgia Tech (in progress)
Jon built the standard CI/CD pipeline in Swiss banking and, before that, infrastructure and cloud platforms at Swisscom. He owns the platform side: infrastructure, Kubernetes, pipelines and security.
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Co-founder & Full Stack Engineer
Armando Shala
B.Sc. ZHAW in Computer Science, 2024
Armando owns the application side: the internal tools, integrations and services that have to keep running while the platform underneath them changes. Full stack, from data model to user interface.
What we work with every day
- Proxmox
- ZFS
- OpenStack
- Kubernetes
- OpenShift
- GitLab CI
- Vault
- WireGuard
- Traefik
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Terraform
Pricing
Transparent from the first call.
One day rate for retainers and time-and-materials, and fixed prices for the projects most clients start with. Every number is the starting point for the scope described in the services above.
Kubernetes hardening and audit readiness
typically 12 to 15 days
fixed price from
CHF 18'000
Ask about thisVMware exit and migrations: A paid two-day discovery of your estate, then a fixed quote.
All prices excluding VAT.
Contact
Free initial consultation
Slow pipelines, a cluster nobody wants to touch, or an audit on the horizon? One call, and we both know whether it fits.
Book a free consultationReal availability, straight into your calendar.
No sales pitch. An honest conversation about whether it fits.
- [email protected]
We reply within 24 business hours.
- Address
- Mercantus SAAvenue de Collonge 5CH-1820 Territet