Service 01
Cloud and platform engineering
Build cloud platforms that are secure, scalable, observable, cost-aware, and practical to operate. We help organisations design landing zones, network models, workload migration paths, governance controls, and cloud operating patterns without locking the business into a single ecosystem.
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When this helps
Common signals that this service is needed
Useful as a short readiness assessment, a landing-zone architecture sprint, a migration roadmap, or retained architecture support during implementation.
Ideal for
- Organisations planning cloud adoption or modernisation
- Teams operating across more than one cloud or SaaS ecosystem
- Businesses that need governance, cost visibility, and resilience before scaling further
- Technology leaders needing an architecture roadmap before committing budget
What this covers
Detailed capability areas
We can shape the engagement as advisory, assessment, roadmap, implementation guidance, or retained support depending on business need.
Typical engagements
- Cloud strategy and migration roadmap
- Landing zone design and implementation plan
- Architecture health review
- Cloud cost optimisation and governance review
- Hybrid cloud network and identity design
Deliverables
- Target architecture diagrams
- Cloud migration roadmap and dependency plan
- Governance, naming, tagging, and environment standards
- Risk register and remediation backlog
- Implementation-ready work packages for engineering teams
Technologies and domains
Assessment focus
What we inspect before the recommendation
Our goal is to make the current state visible enough to support confident decisions, practical sequencing, and implementation-ready work.
01 Focus area
Account, subscription, project, tenant, and environment structure
02 Focus area
Network segmentation, connectivity, DNS, ingress, egress, and firewall patterns
03 Focus area
Identity, privileged access, policy, guardrails, and audit readiness
04 Focus area
Cost visibility, tagging, budgets, reserved capacity, and FinOps controls
05 Focus area
Backup, resilience, observability, deployment, and operating model readiness
Engagement path
A practical route from uncertainty to execution
We keep assessments, roadmaps, and delivery models connected so recommendations can actually be implemented.
01
Discover
Document current platforms, workloads, dependencies, risks, constraints, and business drivers.
02
Design
Define the cloud foundation, landing zone, governance model, security controls, and migration patterns.
03
Sequence
Group work into waves based on risk, dependency, business impact, and operational readiness.
04
Enable
Create implementation packages, standards, handover notes, and review points for engineering teams.
Decision support
Questions this engagement should answer
We design the service to create answers leadership can use and technical teams can turn into implementation work.
Frequently asked
Common questions about this service
The questions we hear most often when teams are scoping this kind of engagement.
How long does a cloud migration assessment take?
A focused assessment takes two to three weeks. The output is a discovery document, target architecture, sequenced wave plan, tooling recommendation, and risk register. The work is implementation-ready.
Are you tied to Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud?
We are vendor-neutral. We design and operate workloads across all three major platforms plus private cloud and hybrid environments. The recommendation comes from the trade-off analysis, not from a partner relationship.
What does a typical cloud landing zone include?
Network segmentation, identity integration, centralised logging and monitoring, backup policy, tagging and cost management, environment separation, and policy enforcement. We use the platform's reference landing zone as a starting point and tailor it to the operating model.
Can you help if we have already started a migration that is not going well?
Yes. Programme rescue is a common engagement shape. We assess the current state, identify what is recoverable, and reshape the path to delivery. Stopping a migration cleanly is sometimes the right answer.
What does the cloud migration cost?
Engagement cost depends on scope. A discovery and target-design assessment is typically two to three weeks of consulting time. Implementation governance and ongoing advisory scale with the size of the migration. We share an estimate after the discovery conversation.
Do you handle the migration delivery yourselves?
We provide architecture, governance, and senior advisory. Delivery sits with internal teams or specialist partners. We work alongside both.