Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps

This is the core of what I do: helping teams get their cloud infrastructure into a state where it’s documented, secure, cost-effective, and not a source of constant pain.

The specifics depend on your situation, but here’s what this work typically looks like.

Infrastructure as Code

If your infrastructure isn’t defined in code, it’s a liability. Someone set things up in the console months ago, nobody remembers exactly what or why, and recreating it from scratch would take weeks of guesswork.

I set up and maintain infrastructure using tools like Terraform and Pulumi so that your environments are reproducible, version-controlled, and reviewable. This means your team can see exactly what’s deployed, propose changes through pull requests, and spin up new environments without manual configuration.

If you already have some IaC but it’s drifted out of sync or only covers part of your setup, I can bring it up to date and fill in the gaps.

CI/CD & Deployments

Deployments should be boring. If deploying is stressful, slow, or something only one person on the team knows how to do, that’s a problem worth fixing.

I build and improve CI/CD pipelines so your team can deploy confidently and frequently. This includes:

  • Automated builds, tests, and deployments
  • Environment promotion (dev to staging to production) with appropriate gates
  • Rollback capabilities so a bad deploy doesn’t become an outage
  • Branch-based or feature-flag-based workflows depending on what fits your team

Cloud Cost Optimization

Cloud bills have a way of growing faster than the business they support. Often the root causes are straightforward (over-provisioned instances, unused resources, bad storage class choices, data transfer costs nobody accounted for) but finding them requires knowing where to look.

I review your cloud spending, identify waste, and implement changes that reduce costs without sacrificing performance or reliability. In past engagements, this has ranged from simple right-sizing to restructuring how services communicate to avoid unnecessary data transfer charges.

Security

Security in the cloud isn’t a single checklist item. It touches IAM policies, network configuration, encryption, secrets management, access controls, and how your team interacts with cloud resources day-to-day.

I review your security posture and implement improvements with an emphasis on making things more secure without making your developers’ lives harder. The goal is guardrails that prevent mistakes, not bureaucracy that slows people down.

Monitoring & Alerting

If your team finds out about problems from users instead of from their monitoring, something is wrong. And if they’re drowning in noisy alerts that don’t mean anything, that’s equally bad.

I set up monitoring and alerting that’s tuned to your actual systems: dashboards that show what matters, alerts that fire when something is genuinely wrong, and enough observability that when something does break, your team can figure out why without spending hours guessing.

What This Looks Like in Practice

Most of these engagements start with an infrastructure audit to understand the current state and prioritize what to tackle first. From there, I work with your team on implementation, typically 2-6 weeks depending on scope.

I join your team’s communication channels, attend relevant standups or meetings, and work alongside your engineers. The goal is always to leave your team in a better position than I found them, with solutions they understand and can maintain.

Get in touch if this sounds like what you need, or start with a free consultation if you’re not sure yet.