Infrastructure & Reliability

Cloud Architecture, DevOps Automation & Site Reliability

Infrastructure should be boring, reproducible and cheaper next quarter than this one. We codify everything in version control, automate the path from commit to production with safety nets that actually trigger, and instrument systems so you learn about problems from an alert rather than from a customer.

Ecosystem matrix

The stack we build on

Mainstream, well-supported technology chosen so your team can hire for it. We will justify any choice on this list, and we avoid exotic tools that create a dependency on us.

AWS Google Cloud Azure Terraform Kubernetes Docker GitHub Actions ArgoCD Prometheus Grafana Datadog Ansible Pulumi
Deliverable blueprint

99.99% uptime SLA, automated rollback safety nets, immutable cloud infrastructure.

Sub-services deep dive

5 specialist capabilities

Expand any capability for its core scope, architectural blueprint and typical delivery window.

Landing zones, network topology and migration sequencing designed around your compliance, latency and cost constraints β€” including regional requirements across the Gulf.

Core capabilities
  • Landing zone design with account and network segmentation
  • Migration wave planning with rollback checkpoints
  • Cost architecture: right-sizing, commitments and storage tiering
  • Data residency design for GCC and EU regulatory requirements
Architectural blueprint

Assessment and dependency mapping β†’ landing zone provisioning β†’ wave-based migration with validation gates β†’ cost and reliability optimisation.

Delivery timeline

8–20 weeks depending on estate

AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure

The path from commit to production, automated and safe enough that deploying on a Friday afternoon stops being a joke about recklessness.

Core capabilities
  • Build, test and security scanning gates on every pull request
  • Progressive delivery: canary, blue-green and feature flags
  • Automated rollback triggered by service-level objective breach
  • Ephemeral preview environments per branch
Architectural blueprint

Commit β†’ CI gates (test, scan, budget) β†’ artefact registry β†’ GitOps reconciliation β†’ canary rollout with automated SLO-based rollback.

Delivery timeline

4–8 weeks

GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD

Production Kubernetes done properly β€” or an honest recommendation that managed container services would serve you better at your current scale.

Core capabilities
  • Cluster architecture with node pool and workload isolation
  • Helm chart authoring and GitOps-driven deployment
  • Horizontal, vertical and cluster autoscaling tuned to real traffic
  • Service mesh, network policy and pod security standards
Architectural blueprint

Container build pipeline β†’ registry with vulnerability scanning β†’ GitOps reconciliation into cluster β†’ autoscaling with pod disruption budgets.

Delivery timeline

6–12 weeks

EKS, GKE, AKS, Docker, Helm

Every resource defined in version control and reviewed like application code, so environments are reproducible and configuration drift stops being a mystery.

Core capabilities
  • Reusable Terraform module library with semantic versioning
  • Remote state management with locking and workspace isolation
  • Policy-as-code guardrails preventing non-compliant resources
  • Automated drift detection with reconciliation reporting
Architectural blueprint

Module registry β†’ environment compositions β†’ plan review in CI with policy checks β†’ gated apply β†’ scheduled drift detection.

Delivery timeline

5–10 weeks

Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi

Follow-the-sun on-call coverage from our global hubs, with observability designed so alerts mean something and runbooks resolve incidents rather than describing them.

Core capabilities
  • SLO definition with error budgets that govern release pace
  • Metrics, logs and distributed tracing correlated in one place
  • Actionable alerting tuned to eliminate pager fatigue
  • Blameless post-incident review with tracked remediation
Architectural blueprint

OpenTelemetry instrumentation β†’ unified observability backend β†’ SLO-based alerting β†’ on-call rotation with runbook automation.

Delivery timeline

Ongoing, 6-week onboarding

Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, PagerDuty

How we engineer

A four-stage accelerated lifecycle

The same sequence on every engagement, whether it runs six weeks or two years. Each stage has an exit condition, so nobody discovers a disagreement in month four.

STAGE 01

Discover

We map the business outcome, constraints and existing estate before proposing anything. Discovery ends with a costed plan, not a sales deck.

1–3 weeks
STAGE 02

Architect

Rendering strategy, data model, integration contracts and the non-functional requirements are settled and documented as decision records.

2–4 weeks
STAGE 03

Execute

Fortnightly increments against a visible backlog, with working software demonstrated every cycle rather than status reported.

6–24 weeks
STAGE 04

Scale

Load testing, observability, runbooks and knowledge transfer β€” then either you take it in-house or we operate it under an SLA.

Ongoing
Featured case study

European fintech infrastructure

Before → After
We deploy forty times a week now. Two years ago it was a scheduled event with a rollback plan and a prayer.

— VP Platform Engineering, European fintech infrastructure

Deploy lead time — before
9 days
after
22 min
Cloud spend — before
$147K/mo
after
$81K/mo
Change failure rate — before
18%
after
2.1%
Mean time to recovery — before
4.2 hrs
after
11 min
Engagement tiers

Indicative pricing

Published because opaque pricing wastes everyone's time. Figures are in USD and indicative; a fixed quotation follows discovery.

Cloud Assessment
$16,000
Fixed scope Β· 3 weeks

A quantified picture of your cost, reliability and security posture with a costed remediation plan.

  • Architecture and security review
  • Cost optimisation analysis
  • Reliability and SLO gap assessment
  • Prioritised remediation roadmap
  • Executive findings presentation
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Managed SRE
Custom
Ongoing retainer

We run it: 24/7 on-call, continuous optimisation and formal reliability targets.

  • Everything in Platform Build
  • 24/7 follow-the-sun on-call
  • 99.99% uptime SLA
  • Continuous cost optimisation
  • Monthly reliability reporting
  • Quarterly disaster recovery drills
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Answers

Frequently asked technical questions

Usually substantially. Typical first-pass savings land between 25% and 45% through right-sizing, commitment purchasing, storage lifecycle policies and eliminating orphaned resources. We start with a fixed-fee assessment so the saving is quantified before you commit to the work.

Frequently not. Kubernetes earns its operational overhead when you run many services with genuinely different scaling profiles. Below that, managed container services like Fargate or Cloud Run deliver most of the benefit at a fraction of the complexity, and we will say so.

Follow-the-sun rotation across our Pakistan, UK and North America hubs, so every escalation reaches an engineer who is awake and on shift. Response time commitments are defined per severity in the SLA.

We keep the portable layer portable β€” containers, Terraform, open telemetry standards β€” while still using managed services where they genuinely outperform. Total provider neutrality is expensive and rarely worth it; we make the trade-off explicit rather than dogmatic.

That is common. We build the platform, document it thoroughly, then either run it on retainer or train the engineers you hire. Several clients use us as their platform team for two years before insourcing, which is a legitimate strategy.

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Bring us the problem, the constraints and the deadline. You will get an honest assessment, a costed plan and a named architect β€” not a generic proposal deck.

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