Approach
Structured delivery.
Honest trade-offs.
Every engagement follows the same three-phase structure — Discovery, Design & Build, Handover. The phases scale to the size of the work, but the principles don’t change: everything in code, every decision documented, nothing handed over that can’t be maintained by your team.
01
Discovery
Day 1–3
We start by understanding your environment — what you have, where you want to be, and what's blocking you. For new builds that means translating business and regulatory requirements into architecture decisions. For existing platforms it means an honest assessment of what works, what doesn't, and what carries risk.
- Current-state architecture review
- Regulatory and compliance requirements captured
- Scope and phasing agreed in writing
02
Design & build
Weeks 1–N
Everything is Infrastructure as Code from day one. Architecture Decision Records capture the trade-offs and the reasoning — so you can understand and challenge every call we make. CI/CD pipelines are secured before code lands in any environment. Security and compliance controls are baked into the design, not retrofitted at the end.
- Terraform modules, reviewed and tested in CI
- OIDC-federated CI/CD pipelines — no long-lived secrets
- ADRs for every significant design decision
- Security scanning integrated into every pull request
03
Handover & knowledge transfer
Final sprint
No black boxes. Every engagement ends with documentation, runbooks, and architecture guides delivered alongside the code. Your team inherits something they can understand, maintain, and extend — with the reasoning intact so future decisions are made in context.
- HLD and architecture documentation
- Operational runbooks
- Terraform state and secrets handover guide
- Optional: knowledge-transfer sessions with your team
Standards we apply
Industry frameworks, not invented process.
Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)
Landing zone design, subscription structure, and migration methodology — assess, replicate, migrate, optimise.
Azure Well-Architected Framework (WAF)
Five-pillar quality assessment across Reliability, Security, Cost Optimisation, Operational Excellence, and Performance Efficiency.
CIS Azure Foundations Benchmark
Security baseline hardening to Level 1 and Level 2 controls, integrated with Defender for Cloud.
Microsoft Zero Trust security model
Verify explicitly, least-privilege access, assume breach — applied to identity, network, and workload layers.
Regulatory frameworks
FCA, DORA, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, and Lloyd's of London market requirements mapped to Azure controls.
Our commitment
No black boxes. No surprises.
Everything in code
No undocumented manual steps. If it's not in Terraform and a CI/CD pipeline, it doesn't exist.
Decisions are visible
Every significant architectural choice has an ADR — context, options considered, reasoning, consequences.
Security by default
Security controls are designed in, not added later. Findings are documented with reasoning, not silently accepted.
You own it afterwards
Handover is a first-class deliverable, not an afterthought. Your team can operate and extend everything we build.
Engagement formats
Fixed-scope project
Discovery through handover. Scoped and priced upfront. Suits landing zones, security reviews, and defined migration phases.
Ongoing retainer
Regular day-rate engagement for organisations that need senior Azure expertise without a full-time hire.
Well-Architected review
Scored assessment against Microsoft's five pillars, delivered as a written remediation roadmap. No ongoing commitment required.
Ready to start?
Tell us about your platform.
A short conversation is usually enough to scope an engagement. Drop us an email with where you are and where you want to be.