Most cloud programmes that disappoint either run too fast (workloads landed on shaky foundations) or too slow (a year of architecture review before anything moves). Our job is to design the foundations and the operating model so the rest of the company can move at a rate the business plan actually depends on.
We are platform-agnostic but not opinion-free. The right cloud is the one that fits the workload, the regulatory environment and the team's existing skills — and we are willing to recommend hybrid or repatriation when the numbers say so.
Where we work
Landing zones and foundations
Multi-account organisation, identity, network, logging, controls and policy guardrails. Built to a reference architecture the audit and security teams can sign off in days rather than months.
The landing zone is the most important thing nobody talks about. Get it right and everything that follows is faster; get it wrong and the company spends years working around it.
Migration
Waves planned around business capability, not lift-and-shift convenience. Each wave includes the operating-model changes and the FinOps work the application will need once it lands.
We have run migrations of dozens of applications at a time. The technical work is the easy part; the operating-model and run-cost discipline is the part that determines whether the cloud bill is a win or a problem.
FinOps
Tagging, attribution, forecasting and the cultural changes that make cloud bills predictable. We have rarely seen a cloud cost problem that was actually a pricing problem — usually it is a visibility and ownership problem.
Cloud cost only becomes manageable when the engineers who cause it see it. We build the FinOps tooling that puts cost in front of the people who control it, and the management practices that make doing nothing more expensive than doing something.
Platform engineering
A paved-road platform so application teams do not each invent their own way to deploy, monitor and roll back. Linked to our broader platform-engineering practice when it warrants it.
The platform team is a product team. Treating it as a SRE or DevOps function staffed by infrastructure operators is one of the most common reasons cloud programmes fail to deliver the developer-velocity gains they promised.
Security and compliance
Identity, network, data and workload security built into the landing zone, with the evidence pack auditors and regulators expect. We design for the regulators you will eventually face, not the ones you can ignore today.
Hyperscalers
- Amazon Web Services
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud
- Specialist clouds where sovereignty or compliance demands them