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# meinMPP runs its platform without an internal DevOps team.

meinMPP runs its employee PC program on enum Kubernetes Engine. enum handles operations, from CI/CD to 24/7 on-call, in Frankfurt under German jurisdiction.


### Stats

- **< 15 min**: Incident response (down from up to 12h)
- **0**: internal DevOps team
- **End to end**: operations by enum
- **Enterprise**: ready for HR data

### The company

meinMPP runs the Employee PC Program (MPP), a state-supported tech benefit for employers. Employees lease private tech of their choice through salary sacrifice, roughly 30% cheaper than buying it outright, including full protection. For employers, the program is free and mostly automated. Employers from startups to enterprise companies offer it to their teams. The product includes a public-facing shop with 2,000+ products, self-managed employee budgets, automated payroll exports, and HR integrations.

### The challenge

- Operations sat with an agency and external providers. During incidents, meinMPP sometimes waited up to 12 hours for a response.
- Enterprise customers ask for German hosting, clear contracting parties, and solid GDPR paperwork.
- The public-facing shop has to absorb traffic peaks when large customers roll out the program across their organizations.
- Payroll exports and HR integrations have to be right because mistakes flow straight into payroll.
- The team was stuck in incidents instead of building the product and platform.

### Why enum

- **Full operation instead of an internal team**: enum handles CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, and 24/7 on-call with an SLA. meinMPP gets the operating model of an internal DevOps team without building one.
- **One accountable partner**: Before, the agency, operations, and external providers were split apart. During incidents, that led to finger-pointing and waiting. With enum, the platform, operations, and 24/7 on-call sit with one partner under one SLA.
- **Direct access to the engineers who run it**: meinMPP talks directly to the engineers operating the platform, not a first-level queue. That is why response time went from hours to minutes.
- **Frankfurt, German jurisdiction**: HR and compliance teams ask about data location, contracting party, and legal jurisdiction. enum gives meinMPP Frankfurt, a German GmbH, and GDPR-native infrastructure. That makes enterprise sales conversations easier.
- **Built for payroll-critical workloads**: Payroll exports feed real salary runs. Errors are expensive. enum monitors the platform and catches issues before they reach payroll.
- **Fire-and-forget scaling**: Traffic peaks happen when large customers roll out the program across their organizations. For meinMPP, scaling is fire and forget: the team scales the product and software, enum scales the platform and plans capacity ahead of demand.

### Operations: DevOps as a Service

enum runs the platform end to end, like an internal DevOps team:

- Development environment and CI/CD pipelines
- Platform operations on enum Kubernetes Engine
- Observability and monitoring
- Alerting and 24/7 on-call with SLA
- Incident response under 15 minutes
- Auto-scaling for traffic peaks during enterprise rollouts
- Updates, patching, and security
- Backups

### Architecture

What runs on enum and how the parts work together.

- **enum Kubernetes Engine**: One cluster in Frankfurt for the platform backend and online shop.
- **enum Object Storage (S3)**: Product images, customer documents, and artifacts.
- **enum Networking**: Ingress and load balancing in Frankfurt.
- **GitOps**: Declarative deployments via standard Kubernetes tooling.

### Results

- Incident response reduced from up to 12 hours to under 15 minutes.
- 24/7 on-call with SLA, operated by enum.
- Traffic peaks during enterprise rollouts are absorbed automatically.
- Employees order tech through the public-facing shop, whether they work at startups or enterprise companies.
- HR teams get automated payroll exports instead of manual follow-up.
- All data stays in Frankfurt, under German jurisdiction and without US dependencies.
- meinMPP runs the platform without an internal DevOps team.

> enum gave us a platform team without us having to hire one. We focus on our product, not Kubernetes. - Dominik Albers, Founder, meinMPP

### Sovereignty as an enabler

Enterprise customers want verifiable German hosting. enum provides Frankfurt, German jurisdiction, and GDPR-native infrastructure. For meinMPP, that is not a checkbox. It is a sales argument with HR and compliance teams.

### What's next

meinMPP is adding new product categories and HR integrations. enum remains the technical base.