Cloud & DevOps

Cloud & DevOps engineering for teams that need their infrastructure to be boring.SimplyRem builds cloud platforms, Kubernetes clusters, CI/CD pipelines, and SRE practices for product teams who would rather their infrastructure get out of the way than show off. Every engagement is led by a senior SRE who has run production systems at scale — billions of requests a year, multi-region failover, four-nines availability. No certifications-collecting juniors. No reference architectures retyped from a vendor whitepaper.What we build

• Greenfield cloud architecture — multi-account AWS / GCP / Azure landing zones, VPC design, identity, secrets management, and a written rollout plan that survives the first audit.
• Kubernetes platforms — production EKS, GKE, and AKS clusters with GitOps deploys, service mesh where it earns its keep, autoscaling that does not lie to you, and runbooks your on-call team will actually read.
• Infrastructure as code — Terraform modules, Pulumi, and policy-as-code (OPA, Checkov, tflint) that pass review on day one and stay reviewable as the team scales.
• CI/CD pipelines — GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Buildkite — with progressive delivery, blue/green and canary deploys, signed artifacts, and rollbacks that take seconds, not pages.
• Observability platforms — OpenTelemetry collection pipelines, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, and the dashboards that actually get opened during an incident.
• SRE practices & on-call — SLOs, error budgets, incident response playbooks, post-mortems, and an on-call rotation your engineers do not quietly resent.
• Cloud cost optimisation — FinOps audits that find the 30–60% of cloud spend most platforms leak: idle GPUs, oversized nodes, egress, and the slow drift of "temporary" resources.
• Cloud migrations — data centre to AWS, AWS to GCP, monolith to microservices — done in cuts you can roll back, not big-bang launches.

Why teams choose our Cloud & DevOps services

• Senior-only delivery. A staff-level SRE owns the engagement — not a delivery manager with a reference architecture and three offshore juniors.
• Boring infrastructure is good infrastructure. We pick the smallest set of moving parts that solves the problem. Kafka only when you need Kafka. Service mesh only when you need a service mesh.
• Cost-aware by default. Every architecture proposal includes a monthly cost estimate, scaling assumptions, and the line items most likely to surprise you.
• Zero-downtime as a contract, not a wish. Blue/green or canary deploys, database migrations done online, feature flags for risky rollouts, rollback playbooks for everything.
• Secure by construction. Least-privilege IAM, secrets in Vault or SSM, signed container images, SBOMs, and a security review before launch — not after the breach.
• Stay-on retainers. Most clients keep us on a monthly SRE retainer covering on-call rotation help, drift remediation, cost reviews, and the slow steady work of keeping a platform reliable as the product changes.

Kubernetes, serverless, or managed services — what should you choose?We are agnostic, and we will tell you honestly. Kubernetes is the right call when you run dozens of services, need fine-grained traffic control, or have a team big enough to operate it. Serverless (Lambda, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions) is the right call for event-driven workloads, spiky traffic, and small teams that should be writing product code, not babysitting nodes. Managed PaaS (ECS, App Runner, Fly, Render) sits in between and is often the right answer for product teams under twenty engineers. The pattern we see most often: serverless for the edges, a small Kubernetes platform for the core, managed services everywhere we can get away with it.Our Cloud & DevOps engagement process1. Audit (1–2 weeks)We read your Terraform, your Helm charts, your CI configs, your last six incidents, and your cloud bill. You receive a written report — architecture diagram, risk register, top ten cost line items, and a prioritised remediation plan — even if you choose not to hire us for the build.2. Architecture & rollout plan (1–2 weeks)Target architecture written up with cost estimates, scaling assumptions, security review, and a cut-over plan covering rollback. Reviewed with your team before a line of production code is changed.3. Engineering in fortnightly incrementsChanges ship every two weeks behind feature flags and gradual rollouts. SLOs, error budgets, and cost dashboards are reviewed at every sprint — not just at the end.4. Cutover, hardening & launchLoad testing to your peak traffic +50%, chaos engineering on the critical paths, an end-to-end security review (with our cybersecurity practice), and an on-call runbook handed to your team.5. StewardshipMost clients retain us on a monthly SRE retainer — drift remediation, cost reviews, library and Kubernetes version upgrades, on-call augmentation, and the slow steady work of pushing reliability up while cost comes down.The Cloud & DevOps stack we ship

• Cloud: AWS, GCP, Azure — depending on the workload and the team's existing footprint.
• Orchestration: Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, AKS), ECS, Cloud Run, Lambda, App Runner.
• Infrastructure as code: Terraform, Terragrunt, Pulumi, OpenTofu, Crossplane.
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Buildkite, Argo CD, Flux, Spinnaker.
• Observability: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Datadog, Honeycomb.
• Security & policy: OPA / Gatekeeper, Checkov, tflint, Trivy, Cosign, HashiCorp Vault.
• Data: PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Redis, Kafka, ScyllaDB — operated on Kubernetes or as managed services.

Who we work withOur Cloud & DevOps clients are typically Series A–D startups outgrowing their first cloud setup, product teams inside established companies migrating off legacy infrastructure, or scale-ups whose platform team needs senior bench depth without a hiring round. We do our best work when the brief is concrete — a measurable reliability target, a cost ceiling, a cut-over date — and the team on the other side cares about operability as much as we do.Engagement models & pricing

• Cloud architecture & audit — $25k–$75k, two to six weeks. Written architecture, risk register, FinOps report, prioritised remediation plan.
• Build & migration — $90k–$400k+, three to six months. Fixed scope, milestone-billed, with a documented cut-over plan.
• Embedded SRE squad — monthly retainer, one to three engineers. Best for ongoing platform evolution alongside your internal team.
• On-call augmentation — monthly retainer. Senior on-call coverage for teams that cannot yet sustain a 24/7 rotation.

We are booking new Cloud & DevOps engagements one quarter at a time. Tell us what you are running — we respond to every brief within one business day.