There is zero chance these customers would let an engineer SSH into a production environment either when they have compliance requirements. Either it'll be some just-in-time access via a jumphost, or production changes need to be scripted separately. I would think about some kind of internal tools API offering. You deploy that onsite and all of these tools work through it. You then start more lock-in. If your current tools just hit internal APIs that exist anyway then your tool is easily replaced.