Platform engineering
Infrastructure you can reason about.
Infrastructure as code
Environments defined in code and reproducible from scratch, with reviewed changes, sound secret handling and documented operational state.
CI/CD & release engineering
Pipelines that build, test, scan and deploy without ceremony. Progressive delivery, environment parity, migration safety, and a rollback path that has actually been exercised.
Observability
Metrics, logs and traces that answer questions rather than fill dashboards, with alerting tuned to what a human should genuinely wake up for.
Containers & orchestration
Kubernetes and container platforms where they are justified, plus advice on when a simpler runtime is the better engineering decision.
Cloud & cost control
Architecture, migration and right-sizing across major cloud providers and European hosting, with cost as a first-class design constraint rather than a quarterly surprise.
Reliability & resilience
Backup and recovery design, failure-mode analysis, capacity planning, and incident procedures written before they are needed.
Software engineering
We build the applications too, not only what runs them.
Design, development, testing, documentation and maintenance of software, web and mobile applications, APIs, integrations and databases. We also review, refactor and maintain existing systems.
Every deliverable carries a 90-day conformity warranty against its specification and a documented acceptance procedure: five business days to review, a written non-conformity notice if something is wrong, remediation and re-delivery against a fresh review window.
- Backend, frontend, mobile and API development
- System integration and data pipelines
- Database design, migration and performance work
- Code review, refactoring and technical debt reduction
- Test strategy, automation and release verification
- Second- and third-line support for production systems
- Code and infrastructure audits with a written findings report
- Solution architecture and technology selection
Security in the pipeline
Security as a property of the platform.
Security work belongs in the delivery process, not only in a final review.
Secure delivery
Dependency and container scanning in the pipeline, secret detection, signed artefacts, least-privilege deployment credentials and reviewed infrastructure changes.
Assessment & hardening
Security assessments and gap analyses of infrastructure, applications and processes; penetration-test coordination; access control, backup and recovery design; and readiness for ISO/IEC 27001 and NIS 2.
Monitoring & response
Event monitoring, vulnerability scanning and log analysis with incident detection, notification and coordinated initial response. Critical 4 hours, major 8 business hours, minor 2 business days, with monthly reporting.
Taking over an existing platform
What the first ninety days look like.
Most platform work starts with systems that already exist and are only partly documented. We treat that as a normal starting point.
Audit
Infrastructure, pipeline, dependencies, access and cost reviewed against what you believe is true. Output: a written findings report ranked by risk, not by ease.
Stabilise
Fix active risks such as exposed credentials, missing backups, unreviewed deploy paths and alerting that nobody trusts.
Codify
Move environments into code, get changes reviewed, and remove the state that only exists in one person's memory.
Instrument
Observability and alerting that reflect real service behaviour, so the next decision is made from data rather than intuition.
Hand over or run
Train your engineers onto it, or keep running it on a monthly allocation with agreed response targets. Both are on the table; we have no preference.
Platform holding you back?
Start with the audit. It is a fixed-scope piece of work, it produces a document you own, and it does not commit you to anything after it.