Cloud architecture
Well-architected designs on AWS, GCP or Azure with clear boundaries, failure domains and cost attribution per service.
DevOps & Architecture
DevOps & Architecture. Ship daily. Sleep nightly.
Cloud architecture, infrastructure as code, CI/CD and observability that turn releases into a non-event.
Overview
Slow, scary releases are an architecture problem. We rebuild the path from commit to production: reproducible infrastructure, automated pipelines, sensible environments and monitoring that tells you what broke before your customers do. Then we cut the cloud bill that grew while nobody was measuring.
Typical outcomes
12min
Commit to production
99.99%
Achieved availability target
-70%
Mean time to recovery
-43% — Average cloud spend reduction
Capabilities
What devops & architecture covers with us.
Pick the parts you need. We will tell you honestly which ones you do not.
Infrastructure as code
Terraform and Pulumi modules so every environment is reproducible, reviewable and recoverable.
CI/CD & release engineering
Pipelines with automated tests, preview environments, blue-green and canary deploys, and instant rollback.
Kubernetes & containers
Right-sized clusters, autoscaling, service mesh where justified — and a straight answer when you do not need Kubernetes.
Observability & SRE
Metrics, logs and traces unified, with SLOs, error budgets, actionable alerts and incident runbooks.
Cost & reliability engineering
Rightsizing, commitment planning, storage lifecycle rules and load testing to find the ceiling before your users do.
Deliverables
Exactly what lands in your hands.
Every engagement ends with artefacts your team can use without us in the room.
- Architecture review with prioritised risk register
- Infrastructure-as-code repository
- CI/CD pipelines with preview environments
- Monitoring dashboards, SLOs and alert policies
- Disaster recovery plan with a tested restore
- Cost optimisation report and ongoing guardrails
Technology we use
Cloud
AWSGoogle CloudAzureCloudflareDigitalOcean
IaC & config
TerraformPulumiAnsibleHelmCrossplane
Pipelines
GitHub ActionsGitLab CIArgoCDJenkinsBuildkite
Observability
DatadogGrafanaPrometheusOpenTelemetryLokiSentry
Process
How a typical engagement runs.
Timelines vary with scope, but the sequence and the checkpoints do not.
Assess
Infrastructure, pipeline and incident-history review producing a ranked list of risks and quick wins.
Stabilise
Fix the things that wake people up: backups, alerts, secrets, single points of failure.
Codify
Move infrastructure into code, environment by environment, with no manual console changes left.
Accelerate
Pipeline rework to get deploys measured in minutes and rollbacks in seconds.
Optimise
Cost and performance tuning, then knowledge transfer so your team runs it confidently.
FAQ
DevOps & Architecture questions.
Do we have to move to Kubernetes?
Usually not. Most teams are better served by managed containers or serverless. We recommend Kubernetes only when your scale, multi-tenancy or portability requirements genuinely justify the operational cost.
Can you do this without pausing feature work?
Yes. Platform work runs in parallel with product delivery, and we sequence changes so each one is independently shippable and reversible.
Will you stay on to operate it?
We offer on-call retainers with defined response times, or we train your team and hand over the runbooks. Both are common.
Pairs well with
Services teams usually combine with this.
Next step
Need devops & architecture? Let us scope it.
Send a short brief and a senior specialist will reply within one business day with questions, an approach and an honest cost range.