Cloud platform,
built to be boring

Reliable is a feature of the boring. We architect cloud that fails gracefully, pipelines that parallelise, alerts that wake the right person, and backups that have actually been restored. Drama stays off the dashboard.

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Multi-AZ cloud topology with LB, app tier, data tier and CI pipeline cloud.topology slo 99.95 · mttr < 60m lb · app · data · ci Region · eu-west-1 Load balancer AZ-1a App · v2.4 Cache PG · primary AZ-1b App · v2.4 Cache PG · replica AZ-1c App · v2.4 Cache PG · replica CI/CD · pipeline commit build test canary prod first-commit-to-prod · 18 min

CAPABILITIES

Six disciplines under one platform contract

Cloud architecture, CI/CD, deployment, monitoring, DR, security hardening — operated as one system, not handed to six vendors.

01

Cloud architecture

Multi-AZ, multi-region where it earns its cost, managed services over custom infra. Architecture decisions captured as ADRs, reviewable by a second engineer.

02

CI/CD

Trunk-based, preview environments, parallel pipelines, artifact reuse. First-commit-to-prod under 20 minutes for healthy teams.

03

Deployment automation

Blue-green, canary, feature-flagged rollouts. Rollback faster than roll-forward; every release has a named owner and a runbook.

04

Monitoring & alerting

Golden signals, SLO-based alerting, symptom-not-cause. Pages wake the right person with actionable context, not noise.

05

Backup & DR

RTO / RPO contracts, tested restores, region-failover drills. Backups that have never been restored are rumours.

06

Security hardening

IAM least-privilege, secrets management, network segmentation, VPN / zero-trust access, patching cadence.

SLO CONTRACT

Six numbers we sign against

Platform engagements end with SLOs in writing, not a verbal "it should be fast". The table below is the default; per-service budgets are negotiated per business criticality.

MetricBudgetMeasuredOwner
Availability99.95%30-day rollingPlatform
API p95 latency< 180 msHourlyService team
API p99 latency< 700 msHourlyService team
Deploy lead time< 40 minPer deployPlatform
MTTR (sev 1)< 60 minPer incidentOn-call rota
Error rate< 0.2%5-min windowService team
Release governance

SLOs alone don't stop regressions. The QA & release governance layer is where deployment automation meets human approval.

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STACK

Cloud · orchestration · CI/CD · observability

Default toolkit across the four platform lanes. Substitutions driven by existing investments and residency, never by preferred-partner.

Cloud

  • AWS · GCP · Azure
  • Terraform · Pulumi · CDK
  • Packer · Ansible
  • Cloudflare · Fastly

Orchestration

  • Kubernetes · Nomad
  • Helm · Kustomize · Argo CD
  • Docker · distroless
  • Service mesh (Istio · Linkerd)

CI/CD

  • GitHub Actions · GitLab CI
  • CircleCI · Buildkite
  • Dagger · Earthly
  • Dependabot · Renovate

Observe

  • OpenTelemetry · Tempo
  • Grafana · Prometheus · Loki
  • Datadog · Honeycomb · New Relic
  • PagerDuty · OpsGenie

Adjacent disciplines

Where the platform connects

Release

QA & Release Governance

Automated tests, regression, release gates, human approval — the layer that makes deploy automation safe.

 Security

Cyber Security & Risk Ops

IAM, secrets, network segmentation, patching cadence and incident workflows on top of the platform.

 Code

Code & Performance Refactoring

Application-level perf repair and framework upgrades that sit on top of cloud architecture.

 ML

MLOps & Governance

Model serving, drift, canary and retraining loops built on this platform stack.
Architect · automate · operate

Boring infra, loud only when it should be

Share the current state, the traffic shape, the compliance profile. We come back with an architecture sketch, SLO draft and migration plan inside ten working days. No lift-and-shift fairy tales.

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