Practice 06
Cloud, platform and DevSecOps
Nobody buys a platform. They buy the release that goes out on a Thursday afternoon without anyone holding their breath.
At a glance
We build the landing zones, pipelines, controls and observability that make delivery repeatable, then hand over the keys.
Tools we use most
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- ArgoCD
- GitLab CI
- GitHub Actions
- Jenkins
- SonarQube
- Trivy
- Fortify
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- OpenTelemetry
Related work
Discuss thisWhat we get called in for
- Deployments happen at midnight because that is when someone can watch them.
- A cloud bill growing faster than usage, with no owner per line item.
- A security review that requires SAST, SCA, secret scanning and evidence you can show an auditor.
- A source control migration — SVN or TFS to Git — with history and access controls intact.
- Alerts that page three people and tell none of them what broke.
How we build it
Baseline the current state
Deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate and restore time. Improvement claims need a starting number.
Codify the landing zone
Accounts, networks, identity, logging and guardrails as Terraform modules with policy checks. Environments become reproducible instead of remembered.
Make the pipeline the control point
Build, test, SAST, SCA, secret and container scanning, signing and promotion in one path. Security stops being a gate at the end and becomes a step in the middle.
Instrument for the 3 a.m. question
Structured logs, traces and RED/USE dashboards, with alerts that map to a runbook and an owner.
Attach cost to teams
Tagging, budgets, anomaly alerts and a monthly review that names the top three drivers.
What you get
- DORA baseline and target with a measurement method
- Terraform landing zone: accounts, network, identity, logging, guardrails
- CI/CD pipelines with integrated security scanning and artefact signing
- Observability stack, SLOs, alert routing and runbooks
- Cost allocation model, budgets and anomaly alerting
- Migration plan and cutover runbook where applicable
Further reading
Next step
Tell us what you're trying to ship.
Send the brief, the RFP, or three messy sentences about the problem. You get a written point of view from an architect within two working days — not a sales deck.