Overview
Mphasis Stelligent is the AWS-native DevOps practice of Mphasis Limited, the Bengaluru-headquartered IT services firm reporting trailing twelve-month revenue of approximately US$1.76 billion as of December 2025 and roughly 46,700 employees as of March 2026. Mphasis is publicly listed on the BSE and NSE in India and majority-owned by funds managed by Blackstone. Stelligent was founded in 2007 in Reston, Virginia and acquired by Mphasis on 8 November 2018, becoming the anchor of Mphasis's AWS DevOps practice.
Within DevOps and SRE, the practice focuses on infrastructure-as-code, continuous delivery pipelines, container orchestration on Amazon EKS, observability tooling, and platform engineering for AWS-centric estates. Stelligent operates as an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner with DevOps Competency status and contributes regularly to open-source projects including CodePipeline reference implementations. Most engagements are structured around AWS-managed services such as CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, EKS, and AWS Control Tower.
The practice fits buyers running production workloads predominantly on AWS who want offshore engineering scale through Mphasis combined with US-based DevOps architecture leadership. It fits less well for Azure- or Google Cloud-heavy estates, where dedicated specialists offer deeper hyperscaler-specific tooling expertise.
Services Offered
- CI/CD pipeline design and implementation on AWS CodePipeline and Jenkins
- Infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, AWS CDK, and CloudFormation
- Kubernetes and Amazon EKS platform engineering
- AWS landing zone and Control Tower deployment
- DevSecOps integration with SAST, SCA, and IaC scanning
- Application containerisation and microservices refactoring
- SRE managed services for production AWS workloads
- Cloud cost optimisation and FinOps automation
- Data pipeline orchestration and observability
Typical Engagement
| Engagement Type | Model | Typical Range |
|---|---|---|
| DevOps maturity assessment | Fixed-fee project | $50K–$200K (4–8 weeks) |
| Platform build and pipeline rollout | Time & materials | $500K–$5M (4–12 months) |
| SRE-led managed services | Monthly retainer | $60K–$400K per month |
| Multi-year DevOps transformation | Outcome-based contract | $3M–$15M (2–4 years) |
| Staff augmentation (DevOps engineer) | Hourly bill rate | $55–$160/hour blended |
Pricing verified May 2026 from public procurement data and reference checks; ranges vary by region and engagement structure.
Strengths
- Deep AWS Premier Tier specialisation with DevOps Competency and Migration Competency status
- Engineering-led culture inherited from Stelligent, with public open-source contributions and conference presence
- Offshore Mphasis bench provides cost-effective scaling for long-running platform engineering programmes
- Mature reference architectures for landing zone, multi-account governance, and pipeline templating
- Track record on regulated workloads in financial services and insurance, including HIPAA and PCI-DSS estates
- Backed by Blackstone, providing financial stability and ongoing investment capacity
Limitations
- AWS-centric — limited credentials and reference customers for Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud DevOps engagements
- Senior architect bench in the United States is thin relative to demand; complex engagements may queue for staffing
- Brand recognition outside financial services and insurance verticals is modest, limiting comparative win rates
- Geographic concentration in India and the eastern United States; European delivery capacity is smaller than tier-1 competitors
- Heavy reliance on Mphasis offshore model can create timezone friction for engagements requiring overlapping working hours