Cloud transformation,
engineered end to end.
Landing zones, Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD, SRE, internal platforms, migration and FinOps, engineered as one integrated system that lands real workloads in weeks and compounds.
Cloud transformation is not a migration project. It is an operating-model change with a technology substrate attached. Programmes that land treat both with equal seriousness.
Foundation
Landing zone, IaC, CI/CD, observability, security and a paved-road platform stood up as a working spine, with a first service running end-to-end.
Multi-account or subscription landing zones with guardrails and reference patterns. Terraform-first infrastructure. CI/CD, observability and security baselines that application teams don't have to reinvent.
A working spine before scale. That's how the rest compounds.
The paved road you build first is the paved road that determines what your teams ship next.
Migrate & modernise
Workloads migrated and modernised in rolling waves. New services onboard onto the paved road.
Per-workload dispositions. Rolling cutovers with parallel-run and reconciliation. Nothing rides on a big-bang weekend.
Modernisation happens alongside migration where it changes economics, not as a wishful separate programme.
Platform engineering
Internal developer platform as a product, golden paths, self-service environments, service catalogues.
The platform is judged on how much application teams ship without opening a ticket. That's the measure that matters.
Platform users are customers, not tenants.
Operate & optimise
SLOs, incidents, cost and security posture monitored as ongoing engineering. FinOps as an operational discipline.
SRE practice with error budgets. Incidents triaged and post-mortemed. Cost attributed and tuned continuously.
The cloud that compounds is the cloud that's operated.
Toolkit
Framework, platform and vendor selection is driven by the shape of the work and the team who'll own it, not by whichever ecosystem is loudest this year. The list below is representative, not prescriptive.
- Cloud
- AWS · Azure · GCP
- IaC
- Terraform · OpenTofu · Pulumi
- Containers
- Kubernetes · EKS · AKS · GKE
- Delivery
- ArgoCD · Flux · GitHub Actions
- Observability
- Prometheus · Grafana · Datadog · OpenTelemetry
Selected work
What clients ask us first
01AWS, Azure, GCP or multi-cloud?
By workloads, skills, data gravity and economics, not by allegiance. Most organisations are best served by a primary cloud with well-chosen exceptions. We design so components can move if the economics or compliance story shifts.
02How much Kubernetes is worth it?
As much as workload count, team size and deployment frequency justify. Managed control planes, opinionated defaults, a small paved-road platform layer. Not a full-time hobby.
03What is platform engineering really?
Building the internal developer platform as a product, with paved road, self-service environments, golden templates and SLAs. Judged on how much application teams ship without a ticket.
04How do you approach FinOps?
As engineering, measured and attributed. Tags, allocation, right-sizing, autoscaling, savings plans. Cost curves that are defensible to finance instead of surprises at the invoice.
Let's discuss your cloud programme.
Share a brief overview of workloads, current estate and outcomes, we'll arrange an introductory conversation with the relevant practice leadership.