Service (02)

Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering

Design, migrate, and operate cloud platforms that scale predictably without a runaway bill.

(The problem)

Your infrastructure was assembled under deadline pressure. Nobody has a complete picture of it, costs rise faster than usage, and every change carries the risk of a surprise outage.

Infrastructure is a product, not a pile of resources

Most cloud problems are ownership problems. Resources were created to solve an immediate need, nobody documented why, and now the safest thing to do is nothing. That is not a stable position for a business.

We treat your platform as an internal product with a roadmap, a definition of done, and users — your engineers. That framing changes what gets built: fewer one-off consoles, more documented, self-service paths.

The four things we always establish

  1. A current architecture map. You cannot make sound decisions about a system nobody can describe. We produce an accurate map of services, dependencies, and failure domains.
  2. Infrastructure as code. Environments become reproducible and reviewable. A new staging environment takes minutes, not a sprint.
  3. Reliability targets. We define SLOs with your team, then instrument error budgets so reliability trade-offs are explicit.
  4. Cost visibility. Per-service cost attribution with staged, owner-assigned reductions.

Migrations without the drama

Migrations fail when they are big-bang. We break them into reversible stages: replicate, verify, shift a small percentage of traffic, observe, then ramp. Every stage has a rollback path and a defined success signal. Your customers should never notice the move.

Operate, then transfer

We run the platform we build long enough to prove it, then hand over the runbooks, dashboards, and on-call practices. Your team ends the engagement owning infrastructure they understand, not inheriting a mystery.

(Deliverables)

What you receive.

  1. 01

    Architecture map

    A complete, current picture of your systems, dependencies, and failure domains — the document you did not have.

  2. 02

    Infrastructure as code

    Every environment defined, versioned, and reviewed in the same workflow as application code.

  3. 03

    Cost model

    A per-service cost breakdown with specific, staged reductions and an owner for each.

  4. 04

    Reliability baseline

    SLOs, alerting, and runbooks that turn vague uptime promises into measured guarantees.

(Outcomes)

What this practice is measured against.

Targets are agreed with your team at the start of an engagement. These are the levers we optimise.

Cloud spend
30–45% lower
Deployment risk
near zero
Recovery time objective
< 30 min
Environment drift
eliminated

(FAQ)

Common questions about Cloud Infrastructure.

01 Can you migrate us without downtime?

In most cases yes. We design migrations around dual-running, traffic shifting, and rollback points so cutovers are reversible. For stateful systems we plan data replication and reconciliation before any traffic moves.

02 Do you do cost optimisation separately?

Cost work is bundled into every infrastructure engagement because efficiency and reliability are usually the same problem. We provide a per-service cost model and stage savings so they do not put reliability at risk.

03 Which cloud providers do you work with?

AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and Cloudflare, plus hybrid and on-prem environments. We are deliberately cloud-agnostic and will recommend the platform that fits your constraints rather than the one we prefer.

(Start here)

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