Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps
Automated pipelines, containerised workloads, and cloud-native infrastructure that let your team ship daily with confidence — not quarterly with anxiety.
Infrastructure as a Competitive Advantage
Slow deployments, brittle environments, and manual operations are costs that compound daily. Engineering time spent on deployment ceremonies, environment debugging, and incident firefighting is engineering time not building product. I treat infrastructure with the same rigour as application code: versioned, reviewed, tested, and automated.
I design CI/CD pipelines that give engineers rapid, confident feedback loops. Automated testing, staged rollouts, and health-check-triggered rollbacks mean that deploying to production becomes a low-anxiety, routine event. Feature flags and canary deployments decouple code release from feature release entirely — so you can merge continuously without waiting for a big release window.
Cloud architecture decisions are driven by workload characteristics, not vendor defaults or resume-driven engineering. Serverless Lambda for event-driven processing, ECS Fargate for stateful services, CloudFront for global static asset delivery — each component is sized appropriately and costs what it should. I also document cost models and right-sizing recommendations so you know exactly what you are paying for and why.
40%
Average reduction in deployment time after CI/CD pipeline implementation and optimisation.
99.9%
Uptime achieved through multi-AZ deployments, health checks, and automated failover.
Core Capabilities
Proven engineering solutions for complex, real-world business problems.
CI/CD Pipelines
GitHub Actions workflows with test matrices, Docker layer caching, staged deployments, manual approval gates, and automatic rollback on health check failures.
Container Orchestration
Docker containerisation and ECS Fargate / Kubernetes configurations that deliver identical environments from local development through to production at scale.
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform modules for reproducible AWS infrastructure — every resource is version-controlled, reviewable in PRs, and restorable in minutes after a disaster.
Observability & Alerting
Structured logging, distributed tracing, metric dashboards, and actionable alerts with runbooks — so incidents are detected and resolved before users notice.
Secrets & Security
AWS Secrets Manager, least-privilege IAM policies, VPC networking, WAF rules, and dependency vulnerability scanning baked into CI — security is not optional.
Serverless & Edge
Lambda functions for event-driven workloads, CloudFront distributions for global performance, and API Gateway configurations for managed, auto-scaling endpoints.
The Engagement Process
Infrastructure Audit
Assess current deployment process, identify bottlenecks, security gaps, and cost optimisation opportunities. Produce a prioritised remediation plan.
Architecture Design
Design the target cloud architecture with Terraform module structure, networking (VPC/subnets/security groups), and service topology.
CI/CD Pipeline Setup
Configure GitHub Actions with test, build, and deploy stages. Set up Docker registries, environment promotion, and rollback triggers.
Infrastructure Provisioning
Provision production and staging environments via Terraform. Configure databases, caching, CDN, and secrets management.
Observability & Handoff
Wire up logging, tracing, alerting, and dashboards. Write runbooks and conduct a knowledge transfer session with your engineering team.
Primary Technology Stack
Pricing & Investment
DevOps and cloud infrastructure engagements range from one-time setup projects to ongoing monthly retainers. The goal is always the same: a system your team can ship to confidently without infrastructure becoming a bottleneck.
Infrastructure Setup
£3,000 – £8,000
AWS environment provisioning, Docker containerisation, GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline, staging and production environments, basic monitoring, and infrastructure documentation.
Ideal for: Startups moving off Heroku, teams setting up proper CI/CD for the first time
Production Platform
£8,000 – £20,000
Terraform IaC, ECS or EKS cluster setup, RDS with automated backups, CloudFront CDN, secrets management, alerting, dashboards, and zero-downtime deployment pipelines.
Ideal for: Growing products handling real traffic, regulated industries needing audit trails
Ongoing DevOps Retainer
From £800/month
Continuous infrastructure management, cost optimisation, security patching, incident response, scaling support, and a dedicated DevOps engineer on call for your platform.
Ideal for: Companies without in-house DevOps, scale-ups with complex infrastructure needs
All infrastructure is delivered as code (Terraform or CDK) so you own the configuration and can modify it independently. AWS cost estimates are provided before provisioning — no surprise cloud bills.
Frequently Asked Questions
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