01 / Cloud platform engineering
Cloud engineering for systems that have to keep moving.
Modernize the estate, give engineers a safer platform to ship on, and keep cost, recovery, and audit work under control.
8 capabilities, grouped by the operational pressure they address.
Deliver and modernize faster
Move ageing workloads, establish clear platform boundaries, and give engineers a dependable route into production.
Cloud Modernization
The need: Getting workloads off ageing infrastructure and onto a footing you can actually change. Most estates reach a point where the platform is harder to move than the product it carries.
Our approach: We work out what can move and what needs rebuilding, then migrate in waves so nobody has to take the business offline for a weekend.
- Re-platforming and migration assessment
- Wave planning and dependency mapping
- AWS and Google Cloud landing zones
- Multi-account and multi-project structure
- Zero-downtime cutover patterns
- Containerization and serverless delivery
- Network, identity, and boundary redesign
Platform Modernization and Platform Engineering
The need: The internal platform your engineers work on top of. Done well, a developer provisions what they need in minutes and it is compliant by default.
Our approach: We pave the routes people take most often and define everything as code, so environments can be recreated instead of remembered.
- Internal developer platforms and golden paths
- Kubernetes at scale: multi-cluster, service mesh, autoscaling
- Containerization and image supply chain
- Infrastructure as code: Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane
- GitOps delivery with Argo CD or Flux
- Progressive delivery: blue-green and canary release
- Day-1 infrastructure build and environment bootstrap
Multi-Tenant Cloud Architecture
The need: Serving many customers off shared infrastructure without one of them being able to affect another. It is the question underneath most SaaS scaling trouble.
Our approach: We draw the isolation boundary explicitly and enforce it in more than one place, because one misconfiguration should never be all that separates two customers.
- Tenant isolation models: silo, pool, and hybrid
- Namespace, network policy, and workload identity boundaries
- Per-tenant data partitioning and encryption
- Tenant-aware autoscaling and quota control
- Noisy-neighbor containment
- Per-tenant observability and cost attribution
- Onboarding and tenant lifecycle automation
Operate with confidence
Make recovery, observability, review, and routine platform ownership part of the system rather than emergency work.
Day-2 Operations and Observability
The need: Everything that happens after go-live. Seeing what the system is doing, getting it back when it breaks, and keeping it patched.
Our approach: We instrument around the questions people actually ask at three in the morning, test the recovery path, and take toil out instead of writing it down.
- Metrics, logs, and distributed tracing
- SLOs, error budgets, and alert design
- Incident response and on-call practice
- Backup, restore, and tested recovery
- Patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management
- Capacity planning and autoscaling policy
- Day-2 operations at scale across multiple clusters
Well-Architected Reviews
The need: A structured read of an existing estate against the published AWS and Google Cloud frameworks.
Our approach: We rank what we find by risk and effort and hand back a remediation plan, with the reasoning written down so the decisions hold up later.
- Review against the AWS and Google Cloud well-architected frameworks
- Reliability, security, performance, cost, and operational pillars
- Architecture risk mapping and single points of failure
- Prioritized remediation roadmap
- Evidence and decision record for each finding
Managed Services
The need: We run the platform instead of handing it back. Useful where a team would rather own the product than the infrastructure underneath it.
Our approach: Named specialists stay with the account on a fixed cadence, with cost and security reviews on a schedule instead of when something goes wrong.
- Dedicated DevOps engineer
- Dedicated DevSecOps engineer
- Dedicated platform engineer
- Dedicated site reliability engineer
- Continuous monitoring, patching, and upgrades
- Release support and change management
- Recurring cost and security posture reviews
Control cost and audit exposure
Make spend traceable and build readiness evidence continuously, without claiming certification or hiding the engineering tradeoffs.
Cloud Cost Management
The need: Making the bill predictable and traceable to the teams generating it. Most cost problems are architecture problems that only surface on an invoice.
Our approach: We establish who is spending what, then put limits in the deployment path so an expensive change gets caught before it ships.
- Cost allocation, tagging strategy, and showback
- Commitment and rightsizing analysis
- Cost guardrails in CI and infrastructure as code
- Storage lifecycle and data transfer optimization
- Kubernetes cost attribution per namespace and tenant
- FinOps variance review against agreed baselines
Compliance and Security Engineering
The need: Getting infrastructure into shape for PCI DSS, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and SOC 2 audits, and producing the evidence. We build toward readiness. We are not an auditor and we do not certify.
Our approach: Controls go in as code and are checked continuously, so the evidence already exists by the time an auditor asks for it.
- PCI DSS, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and SOC 2 readiness engineering
- CIS benchmark hardening
- Least-privilege IAM and scoped credentials
- Secrets management and key rotation
- Encryption in transit and at rest
- Audit logging and evidence collection
- Policy as code, drift detection, and continuous control checks
Related proof
Selected work and engineering blueprints relevant to this practice.
Architecture review, 1 to 2 weeks
Start with the estate you have, not a replacement diagram.
We review the platform, delivery path, operating risks, cost shape, and the constraints your team is working around. The result is a prioritized route forward with the reasoning recorded.
- Current-state architecture and risk map
- Prioritized modernization or remediation sequence
- Decision log, ownership boundaries, and next-step plan
Inspectable delivery
- Review packs: current state, risks, options, and accountable decisions.
- Decision logs: the chosen path, alternatives, and the reasoning behind it.
- Runbooks: operating, recovery, and handover paths for the team that owns the system.
- Checkpoint baselines: agreed signals that keep delivery progress visible.
Questions worth settling early
- Do you work with both AWS and Google Cloud? Yes. Our cloud work is focused on AWS and Google Cloud, including estates that use both. We do not present ourselves as a partner or claim certifications we do not hold.
- Can you modernize without a full rewrite? Usually. We assess dependencies and sequence work into migration or re-platforming waves. A rewrite is recommended only where the existing constraint makes incremental change less credible.
- Can you stay on to operate the platform? Yes. Work can end with a documented handover or continue as managed platform, SRE, DevOps, or DevSecOps support on an agreed cadence.