Cloud infrastructure that scales without surprise bills
AWS, Azure, GCP architecture. Kubernetes that you can actually operate. CI/CD that catches what tests miss. Observability that finds incidents before customers do. FinOps that keeps your CFO calm.
You're probably reading this if…
- Your AWS bill doubled this quarter and nobody can explain why.
- Your Kubernetes cluster works in dev and falls over in prod, and your team is afraid to touch it.
- Your CI/CD takes 45 minutes and engineers Slack-ping each other to merge.
- Your monitoring dashboard shows green while customers tweet about the outage.
- You're migrating off a legacy DC into the cloud and the PoC architecture is starting to look permanent.
The breakage we see most
These are the patterns that show up on first calls. If you're seeing 1+ of these, an architecture audit will save you weeks.
Cloud bills with no FinOps discipline
Reserved instances expired, idle resources running, dev environments running 24/7. We typically cut bills 30-40% in the first month with proper FinOps.
Kubernetes nobody understands
Cluster set up by a contractor 18 months ago, now nobody knows the helm charts. We rebuild on managed services + GitOps so the team can actually operate it.
CI/CD that doesn't catch the bugs
Tests pass, prod breaks. We fix flaky tests, add integration tests against real services, ship contract tests for APIs, and make staging actually mirror prod.
Observability that's mostly logs
When something breaks, your team greps logs. No traces, no metrics dashboards, no alerts on the right signals. We ship OpenTelemetry tracing + structured logs + actionable alerts.
Multi-region without the failure modes thought through
You replicated everything to two regions. What happens when DNS fails over? When clocks drift? We design proper failover, not just replication.
Security as a checkbox, not architecture
Public S3 buckets, IAM policies copy-pasted from blog posts, no secret rotation. We ship least-privilege IAM, secret managers, and audit-ready cloud security baselines.
The exact deliverables on a typical engagement
Cloud architecture & migration
Greenfield architecture on AWS, Azure, or GCP. Lift-and-shift, replatform, or rearchitect — based on what your business actually needs, not the cloud vendor's preference.
Kubernetes + GitOps
EKS / AKS / GKE setup with proper RBAC, namespaces, network policies. Helm + ArgoCD for GitOps deploys. Cost-optimised with karpenter / cluster autoscaler.
CI/CD pipelines
GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins. Build caching, parallel testing, deployment automation, rollback safety, blue/green and canary deploys.
Observability stack
OpenTelemetry, Grafana / Datadog, structured logs to Loki / CloudWatch / Splunk, actionable alerts, runbook-driven incident response.
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform / Pulumi for everything. State management, drift detection, PR-based reviews. No more clicking around the cloud console.
FinOps & cost optimisation
Bill analysis, idle resource cleanup, reserved instance / savings plan strategy, right-sizing, anomaly alerting on cost.
Security baseline
IAM least-privilege, secret managers, encryption at rest + in transit, audit logging, security group hygiene, vulnerability scanning in CI.
SRE & incident response
On-call rotation setup, SLO definition, error budget tracking, post-incident reviews. Real reliability engineering, not just monitoring.
Tools we typically reach for
Questions teams ask before starting
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