Expert Cloud & SRE Consulting

🏗️ Did your infrastructure outgrow your practices?

You shipped fast, moved quick, and it worked — until it didn't. Now you're running a mix of manual configs and partial automation in production, and nobody wants to touch it for fear of what breaks.

🔍 Do you actually know what's deployed?

No single source of truth. Kubernetes versions drifting. EOL components lurking. IAM roles nobody remembers creating. You're not sure what's in prod until something pages you at 2am.

🚀 Is deployment still a manual, nerve-wracking ritual?

CI/CD exists in theory, but in practice there are manual steps, tribal knowledge, and a specific person who has to be online when you ship. Deploys happen less often than they should.

📈 Is growth exposing cracks in your reliability?

The platform held up at your current scale. But you've got more traffic coming, a compliance audit on the horizon, or new customers with uptime SLAs — and you're not confident it'll hold.

💸 Is your cloud bill growing faster than your users?

Resources provisioned for a spike that ended months ago. No tagging strategy. No rightsizing. Every quarter you pay more, but it's never clear exactly why.

🧠 Do you need senior SRE judgment — but not a full-time hire?

The problems are real, but hiring a principal-level infrastructure engineer takes months and costs more than you can justify right now. You need the expertise without the overhead.

Cloud Architecture & Fractional CTO

Design and implementation of scalable cloud solutions on AWS, Azure, and GCP. We create architectures that grow with your business — and can step in as a fractional CTO to own technical strategy, vendor decisions, and engineering leadership when you need senior judgment without a full-time hire.

Site Reliability Engineering

Establish SRE practices before the 2am outage — not after. We design monitoring, alerting, and on-call workflows that surface real problems without alert fatigue, and build runbooks and incident response processes that reduce MTTR and keep your team from burning out.

DevOps & CI/CD

Modernize your delivery pipeline with GitOps — infrastructure and application state declared in git, reconciled automatically. We set up branch-based promotion, automated testing gates, and deployment pipelines that let your team ship confidently multiple times a day.

Infrastructure as Code

Replace manual, undocumented cloud changes with Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi. Every resource is versioned, reviewed, and reproducible — so spinning up a new environment or recovering from an incident is a matter of minutes, not days.

Cloud Migration

Move legacy applications to the cloud without the big-bang risk. We assess your workloads, sequence the migration to minimize downtime, and re-platform where it makes sense — so you capture cloud benefits without rewriting everything at once.

Cost Optimization

Identify and eliminate cloud waste across compute, storage, and data transfer. We right-size resources, implement tagging and budget alerts, and build cost governance into your provisioning workflow — typically reducing cloud spend by 30–50%.

Security Hardening

Systematically reduce your attack surface across cloud accounts, Kubernetes clusters, and CI/CD pipelines. We audit IAM policies, enforce least-privilege, harden network boundaries, and implement automated vulnerability scanning — so security is built in, not bolted on.

SOC 2 Compliance

Navigate the path to SOC 2 Type I and Type II certification without derailing your engineering team. We map your controls to the Trust Services Criteria, close gaps in logging, access management, and change control, and work directly with your auditor to keep the process moving.

Production Platform at an Early-Stage AI Cybersecurity Startup

Context: A small engineering team building an enterprise AI cybersecurity product for MSPs and SMEs needed a production-grade platform fast — without a dedicated infrastructure function.

What we did: Architected a multi-tenant EKS cluster with namespace isolation, RBAC, and network policies. Built end-to-end GitOps using FluxCD and GitHub Actions with branch protections and security scanning. Standardised Helm chart templates across 20+ microservices and authored all infrastructure-as-code in Terraform.

Outcomes:

• Deployment time cut 67% — from 45 min to 15 min
• Per-service configuration effort down 90% — from 2 days to 4 hours
• API P99 latency improved 40% through infrastructure tuning
• Production readiness framework prevented 8+ potential incidents before they reached users

SRE Transformation & SOC 2 at a B2B SaaS Company

Context: A ~200-person B2B SaaS company processing $500M+ in annual partner transactions had grown past its informal ops practices. Reliability was inconsistent, cloud costs were climbing, and enterprise customers were asking for SOC 2.

What we did: Built and led a 7-person SRE team from scratch. Migrated 200+ instances to Terraform across AWS and GCP. Implemented automated failover, on-call rotations, 40+ incident runbooks, quarterly DR drills, and OpsGenie alerting. Drove SOC 2 Type II certification end-to-end.

Outcomes:

• Infrastructure budget reduced 42% — $1.2M to $700K annually
• Uptime improved from 99.7% to 99.95%; customer-impacting incidents down 83%
• MTTR cut 60% — from 90 min to 35 min; RPO 15 min, RTO 1 hour
• Deployment errors reduced 85% after IaC migration
• SOC 2 Type II achieved with zero audit findings, unlocking 30+ enterprise customers

Cloud Platform & Edge Orchestration for an IoT Company

Context: A global IoT platform needed to scale from 50 to 150+ enterprise customers while maintaining tight deployment velocity and hardening security across a large microservices footprint.

What we did: Architected the full cloud platform and edge orchestration layer. Authored all infrastructure-as-code using Terragrunt and Ansible. Deployed Datadog APM across 25 microservices. Implemented HashiCorp Vault for secrets management and engineered automated disaster recovery. Developed Go microservices handling high-concurrency IoT device connections.

Outcomes:

• Scaled infrastructure 300% (50 → 150+ enterprise customers) with sub-5-minute deployment velocity maintained throughout
• RTO reduced 88% — from 6 hours to 45 min — via DR automation with 99.9% successful recovery rate
• Credential-related security incidents eliminated — 6/year to zero after Vault rollout
• Unplanned downtime reduced 65% through Datadog APM proactive alerting
• Operational toil cut 80% — weekly per-engineer burden down from 20 hours to 4 hours