Guardrails & Optimize: Reliability Automation Engine

This initiative focuses on building a reusable “reliability automation engine” that plugs into CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, and observability tools. The goal is to make guardrails automatic instead of relying on tribal knowledge or one-off scripts.

The engine runs checks for configuration drift, unsafe rollout patterns, missing alerts, and other anti-patterns that typically surface only during incidents. By baking these checks into pipelines and scheduled scans, teams get rapid feedback before risky changes ever hit production.

• Drift detection across cloud resources and IaC definitions.
• CI/CD guardrails that block or warn on risky deployments (timeouts, missing alarms, unscoped permissions, etc.).
• Centralized reporting so engineering leaders see reliability health trends over time.

Over time, this engine becomes a shared reliability layer for multiple platforms and services, giving teams a consistent way to enforce standards while still moving quickly.