Cloud Engineering

Cloud engineering gives you a secure cloud platform on Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud that your team can run and your finance team can understand. We build the landing zones your workloads run on, migrate those workloads in planned phases, and define the whole platform as code so every environment is repeatable.

It is part of our assessments and engineering services, the project work that designs, tests and builds your technology before it goes into day-to-day operation.

Who cloud engineering is for

Most cloud estates grow by accident: a subscription per project, networks nobody mapped and bills nobody owns. If that sounds familiar, or you are planning a first move out of your own data centre, this service is for you.

It also suits teams preparing for growth, an acquisition or an audit, where an untidy cloud estate is a risk to the deal or the certificate. For private equity backed groups, we have delivered work such as a secure, scalable technology foundation for a PE-backed group and a unified executive intelligence platform for a PE-backed insurance group.

Cloud spend your finance team can read

Every engagement starts with what you already run: what sits where, what it costs and what depends on what. That evidence shapes the migration plan, the landing zone design and the cost baseline you can measure the work against.

Because the platform arrives as code with tagging and budgets built in, your finance team can see spend per service from the start, not one invoice to argue over.

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How a cloud engineering project runs

You see a plan before anything moves, and each stage proves itself before the next one starts.

1. Estate review — We map your workloads, dependencies, licences and current costs, then agree with you what moves, what stays and what retires.
2. Landing zone build — The foundations go in first, as code: account structure, networks, identity, logging and security guardrails.
3. Pilot workload — One lower-risk workload moves first to prove the landing zone and the cutover process.
4. Migration waves — The remaining workloads move in rehearsed waves, each with a tested rollback plan.
5. Modernise and optimise — Once workloads have landed, we replatform what is worth improving and tune cost and capacity.
6. Handover — Your team, or our operations teams, take over a platform that is documented and fully defined in code.

Evidence for audits and due diligence

A platform built as code is easier to evidence. Change history, access controls, logging and network rules all sit in version control, which gives auditors a clear record for ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials and the CIS Benchmarks. Regulated firms can map the same evidence to operational resilience requirements such as DORA.

If you are buying or selling a business, the same records support technical due diligence by showing what the cloud estate contains and how it is controlled.

Services that work alongside

Cloud engineering builds the platform; other services design it, test it and keep it secure. Architecture and design sets the target state before we build, and CI/CD security protects the pipelines that deploy to it. Once it is live, cloud security manages its security posture day to day, and managed services can run the wider estate.

To test what has been built, add penetration testing or a security posture review. For the bigger picture of how these fit together, see secure cloud environments.

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