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Cloud, Infrastructure & Platform Engineering

Build resilient platforms for growing digital services.

The foundations that keep systems fast, secure and available: cloud-native architecture, automated delivery, storage and databases that scale, and the observability to know what is happening before your users tell you.

A platform engineer checking cabling in an open server rack, a laptop on a cart beside her.

§1The problems it addresses

The problems it addresses

  1. P1

    Releases are risky events

    Deployments are manual, infrequent and stressful, and rolling back depends on someone remembering how.

  2. P2

    Outages discovered by customers

    Little useful monitoring, alerts nobody trusts, and no clear picture of what failed or why.

  3. P3

    Growth hits the database

    Performance degrades as data grows, and the only scaling plan is a bigger server, until that stops working.

  4. P4

    Costs and dependencies out of control

    Cloud bills grow faster than usage, and critical systems depend on a single provider or a single person.

§1.1See it working

Fail a region. Watch the platform hold.

Simulate an outage in the primary region: health checks fail, traffic drains to the standby region and the services recover, with every event recorded as it happens.

Use the button in the console

Services and regions

Production · 2 regions · 5 services

ServiceRegion ARegion BErrors
api-gatewayHealthyHealthy0.02%
identityHealthyHealthy0.02%
paymentsHealthyHealthy0.02%
notificationsHealthyHealthy0.02%
searchHealthyHealthy0.02%
storageHealthyHealthy0.02%
reportingHealthyHealthy0.02%

TrafficA 50% · B 50%

Region A (primary) Region B (standby)

Release pipeline · 2026.10.16-3

  1. Build
  2. Tests
  3. Security scan
  4. Staging
  5. Production

p95 latency, api-gateway

117ms

12 min agonow

Events

  1. 09:41:02 deploy 2026.10.16-3 rolled out to 100%
  2. 09:38:47 autoscale payments 4 → 6 instances
  3. 09:35:20 certificate renewed for api.example
  4. 09:30:11 backup verified · restore test passed
  5. 09:12:05 cost report: −6% on last week

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§2What we deliver

Solutions, not slogans.

  • Automated delivery

    CI/CD pipelines with tests, security scanning, staged environments and one-step rollback.

  • Platform engineering

    Golden paths for your teams: templates, environments and self-service tooling, so new services start production-ready.

  • Storage and data infrastructure

    Object storage, database tuning, replication and partitioning designed around your growth and data-residency requirements.

  • Reliability engineering

    High availability, backups that are actually restored in tests, and disaster recovery with measured recovery times.

  • Observability

    Metrics, logs and traces tied to service-level objectives, with alerts that point towards causes.

  • Infrastructure as code

    Every environment reproducible from version control and reviewed like application code.

§3Applications

Where it applies.

  • FintechA highly available transaction platform with tested failover and audit-grade logging.
  • Public sectorHosting for national digital services that meets data-residency requirements in local or regional infrastructure.
  • Digital productsMoving a growing product from a single server to a resilient, automated platform.
  • EnterprisesReducing cloud spend by right-sizing and removing idle resources without reducing reliability.

Illustrative applications, not a list of past clients.

§4Typical deliverables

Typical deliverables and engagement

  • 01Target architecture and migration plan
  • 02Infrastructure as code
  • 03CI/CD pipelines
  • 04Observability stack and dashboards
  • 05Service-level objectives and alerting
  • 06Backup and disaster-recovery plans, with test results
  • 07Runbooks

§5How the engagement works

  1. 01

    Assess

    Review architecture, delivery, reliability, security and cost, and rank the risks.

  2. 02

    Stabilise

    Fix the urgent first: backups, monitoring, access control and deployment safety.

  3. 03

    Platform

    Automate environments and delivery, and agree service-level objectives.

  4. 04

    Run

    Operate it together, or hand over with runbooks and training.

§6See it worked through

See it in action, and the solutions it powers.

Services in this area

  • Cloud-native architectures
  • DevOps and CI/CD
  • Platform engineering
  • Distributed storage and object storage
  • Database performance and scaling
  • High availability and disaster recovery
  • Observability and reliability
  • Infrastructure automation

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Architecture & Transformation

Talk to us about cloud & platform.

Describe the problem in a few sentences. We reply with questions, a first view of the approach, and who you would work with.

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