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What we do

Cloud & DevOps Engineering

We design and operate the infrastructure, pipelines and observability that let engineering teams deploy frequently, recover quickly and control cloud costs with confidence.

Cloud & DevOps Engineering — illustrative visual

The service

Built around the outcome, not the buzzword

Continuous delivery only works when the pipeline is treated as production infrastructure in its own right. We design CI/CD around your actual release cadence and risk profile — automated builds, testing gates, staged environments and progressive rollout strategies like canary or blue-green deployment — so shipping a change becomes a routine, low-drama event rather than a scheduled, high-stress occasion requiring a war room.

Infrastructure is defined as code using Terraform or Pulumi, not configured by hand through cloud consoles. This makes environments reproducible, changes reviewable through pull requests, and disaster recovery a matter of re-running a plan rather than remembering undocumented manual steps. For containerised workloads, we design and operate Kubernetes clusters with sensible resource limits, autoscaling and network policy rather than default, wide-open configurations.

Reliability is engineered, not hoped for. We define SLOs tied to what actually matters to users, instrument services with structured logging, metrics and distributed tracing, and build alerting that pages people for real problems instead of noise. Incident response gets a documented runbook and a blameless postmortem process, so the same failure mode doesn't recur silently three months later.

Architecture decisions — single-cloud versus multi-cloud, managed services versus self-hosted, serverless versus long-running compute — are made against your actual scale, team size and compliance constraints, not defaulted to whatever is fashionable. Cost is tracked as a first-class metric alongside performance, with regular right-sizing so infrastructure spend grows in proportion to real usage rather than accumulating by inertia.

Capabilities

What we can build together

CI/CD pipeline design and automation
Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Pulumi
Kubernetes and container orchestration
Site reliability engineering and observability
Multi-cloud architecture across AWS, Azure and GCP
Cost optimisation and capacity planning

Designed for outcomes

  • 01Deployments become routine, low-risk events instead of high-stress releases requiring manual coordination and downtime windows
  • 02Infrastructure is defined as reviewable, version-controlled code, so environments are reproducible and configuration drift stops causing surprises
  • 03Cloud spend is visible and controlled, with resources sized to actual load instead of accumulating unused capacity

What you receive

Tangible delivery, clearly documented

  • Infrastructure and delivery pipeline assessment
  • Version-controlled Infrastructure-as-Code for all environments
  • Automated CI/CD pipelines with staged rollout controls
  • Observability stack, SLOs and incident runbooks

Technology

Tools chosen for the job

We stay technology-flexible and select the stack around your existing environment, security constraints, team capability and long-term cost.

Terraform and PulumiKubernetes and DockerGitHub Actions, GitLab CI and ArgoCDPrometheus, Grafana and OpenTelemetry

Frequently asked

Questions about Cloud & DevOps

How is this different from your IT Support & Cloud service?

IT Support & Cloud covers managed helpdesk support, endpoint management and baseline cloud or backup setup for teams without internal IT. Cloud & DevOps Engineering is platform work for engineering teams already shipping software — pipeline design, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, SRE practices and multi-cloud architecture. Many clients start with one and add the other as they grow.

We already use a cloud provider's console to manage infrastructure — why move to Infrastructure as Code?

Console changes aren't reviewable, versioned or reliably repeatable, so environments drift apart and disaster recovery depends on memory. Terraform or Pulumi turn infrastructure into code that's peer-reviewed like an application, making every change auditable and every environment reproducible from the same source.

Do you support multi-cloud setups, or push everyone toward one provider?

We design for whichever combination of AWS, Azure and GCP fits your constraints — vendor risk, existing contracts, regional requirements or specific managed services. Multi-cloud adds real operational complexity, so we only recommend it when there's a concrete reason, not by default.

What does 'SRE practices' mean in practice for a smaller team?

It means defining what reliability actually means for your product through SLOs tied to user impact, instrumenting services so you see failures before customers report them, and having a documented, rehearsed response when something breaks. None of this requires a dedicated SRE headcount — we build it into how the team already operates.

Can you help reduce our existing cloud bill without a full platform rebuild?

Yes — cost work is often a standalone engagement. We audit current usage, right-size over-provisioned resources, eliminate idle infrastructure, and set up ongoing cost visibility and alerts, frequently before any architecture changes are needed.

How we work

A clear path from idea to impact

  1. STEP 1

    Assess current infrastructure and delivery bottlenecks

  2. STEP 2

    Design pipelines, environments and cloud architecture

  3. STEP 3

    Automate provisioning, deployment and orchestration

  4. STEP 4

    Operate, observe and continuously optimise

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