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Practice 02 — Cloud & platform
A cloud that ships
faster than it costs.
Most cloud programmes get the technology mostly right and the operating model badly wrong. We design the platform, the team that owns it, the funding model that pays for it, and the guardrails that keep developers fast and finance calm.
Outcomes
What changes for you.
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A paved-road platform that 80% of teams use willingly — because it's the easiest path.
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Lead time from commit to production measured in minutes, not weeks.
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Cloud unit economics that finance can model and engineering can defend.
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An SRE practice with error budgets, on-call humanity and meaningful reliability targets.
Capabilities
The work, spelled out.
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Platform engineering
Internal developer platforms, golden paths, service catalogues — the Spotify-Backstage idea, done in your context.
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DevOps operating model
Team topologies, cognitive load mapping, the funding and metrics that make 'you build it, you run it' real.
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Cloud landing zones
AWS, Azure or GCP foundations: networking, identity, security guardrails, multi-account/subscription strategy.
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SRE & reliability
SLOs, error budgets, blameless postmortems, on-call rotation design and the platform tooling underneath.
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FinOps
Showback and chargeback, commitment management, anomaly detection, and the conversations that change engineering behaviour.
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Migration & modernisation
Lift-and-shift, replatform or refactor — sequenced by business value, not infrastructure tidiness.
Signals from prior engagements
11 min
Median commit-to-production lead time after platform adoption.
−34%
Cloud spend reduction in year one through FinOps and right-sizing.
99.95%
SLO attainment across tier-1 services with sustainable on-call.
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