Cloud platform engineering for secure production delivery

Build and launch digital products on a production-ready cloud platform.

CloudCrafts establishes identity, governance, secure infrastructure, delivery automation, observability, and operational controls, then helps take real workloads through production launch.

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Who CloudCrafts helps

Focused enough for a first production foundation, experienced enough for standardisation and modernisation across larger estates.

Startups

For teams where production access is informal, deployments depend on one founder or engineer, infrastructure changes are manual, or a larger customer has sent a security questionnaire.

Move from founder-managed infrastructure to a production foundation that supports customer reviews, reliable releases, and the next stage of growth.

  • Prepare for SOC 2 or ISO 27001 conversations without overbuilding the platform
  • Reduce operational risk as product usage grows
  • Approach enterprise contracts with clearer access, release, and control evidence

Scale-ups

For companies whose identity model, cloud estate, and delivery process are becoming inconsistent across teams or environments.

  • Standardise environments and deployment safety
  • Introduce governed self-service where it is justified
  • Improve observability, ownership, and readiness for enterprise customers

Established and regulated organisations

For organisations modernising cloud platforms or creating controlled production environments for product teams.

  • Implement governance, access controls, and traceable delivery
  • Standardise production paths across teams and workloads
  • Align technical controls with security reviews, audits, and regulatory obligations

The delivery model

Identity comes first. The platform then creates a governed, repeatable, operable path from cloud foundation to production evidence.

  1. 01 Identity
  2. 02 Governance
  3. 03 Cloud Foundation
  4. 04 Secure Delivery
  5. 05 Production Workloads
  6. 06 Operations
  7. 07 Assurance Evidence

Identity foundation

Human and workload identity, privileged access, MFA, role design, lifecycle controls, and clear ownership.

Production path

Cloud organisation, secure infrastructure, CI/CD, policy checks, runtime environments, rollback, and readiness validation.

Operational control

Observability, alerts, runbooks, backup and restore, incident readiness, change history, access records, and control mapping.

Service offers

Defined engagement shapes with clear outcomes. Timeframes are indicative and depend on current-state complexity, workload readiness, and integration requirements.

Approximately 4-8 weeks

Cloud Foundation

For: Teams that need a secure identity and cloud baseline before production grows further.

Solves: Informal access, unclear ownership, unmanaged accounts or subscriptions, inconsistent policy, and manual infrastructure.

  • Identity and privileged-access baseline
  • Tenant, account, or subscription structure
  • Cloud governance, networking, logging, and policy
  • Reusable IaC modules and operational documentation

Primary offer - approximately 8-16 weeks

Production Launch

For: Teams with a real application or service that needs to reach production securely.

Solves: Manual releases, unclear runtime ownership, weak observability, missing rollback, and customer security-review pressure.

  • Cloud Foundation where required
  • CI/CD, secure artifact delivery, secrets, and certificates
  • Runtime environment, deployment path, and rollback
  • Production-readiness review, launch support, documentation, and handover

Phased delivery

Platform Programme

For: Larger organisations, multiple teams, or multiple workloads that need repeatable production delivery.

Solves: Fragmented platform patterns, slow onboarding, inconsistent controls, and delivery risk across teams.

  • Shared platform capabilities and golden paths
  • Repeatable workload onboarding and policy as code
  • Evidence automation, resilience, and team enablement
  • Operating-model design with specialist support where programme scope requires it

Defined entry point

Production Readiness Assessment

A focused assessment for organisations that need clarity before committing to implementation.

  • Current-state review
  • Identity and access risks
  • Cloud and network findings
  • Delivery and deployment assessment
  • Observability and operational gaps
  • Security and control gaps
  • Prioritised remediation plan
  • Target architecture and delivery phases
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Experience behind the delivery

CloudCrafts is built on hands-on experience designing, modernising, and operating cloud platforms across enterprise software, financial-services environments, and complex infrastructure estates.

Azure and AWS cloud foundations
Kubernetes and managed application platforms
Microsoft Entra ID and workload identity
Infrastructure as code and GitOps
CI/CD, security, and policy automation
Observability and platform operations
Regulated and security-sensitive environments
Platform assessments and developer enablement

Founder-led specialist delivery

Ivo, Founder and Principal Platform Engineer

Ivo is the founder and principal platform engineer at CloudCrafts Engineering Ltd. He has more than eight years of experience building and operating cloud and platform capabilities across Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, secure delivery, and regulated enterprise environments.

Clients work directly with the senior engineer responsible for architecture and delivery. Trusted specialists may support larger programmes, while ownership, documentation, and handover remain part of every engagement.

Core areas include cloud governance, identity and access, CI/CD, observability, secure software delivery, platform leadership, and reusable delivery patterns.

Assurance and technical controls

CloudCrafts implements technical controls, delivery processes, and evidence trails that support security reviews, customer assurance, audits, and regulatory obligations.

Compliance also depends on legal, procedural, organisational, and business controls outside the platform. CloudCrafts does not issue certifications or provide legal advice; the work supports and aligns technical controls with applicable requirements.

Identity lifecycle
Privileged access
Segregation of duties
Controlled production changes
Deployment traceability
Vulnerability scanning
Secrets and certificate management
Audit logging
Backup and restore
Incident readiness
Service ownership
Documented exceptions

Relevant contexts can include SOC 2 preparation, ISO 27001-aligned controls, financial-services requirements, healthcare and data-protection obligations, and enterprise customer security assessments.

Delivery process

CloudCrafts works remotely with international teams in the United States, European Union, United Kingdom, and remote-first organisations, with on-site delivery arranged where programme needs justify it.

1. Discovery
Risk assessment and current-state review.
2. Target architecture
Delivery plan and control priorities.
3. Foundation
Identity, governance, infrastructure, and controls.
4. Workload onboarding
Application patterns and environment provisioning.
5. Readiness
Validation, rollback, runbooks, and evidence.
6. Launch
Production release and stabilisation.
7. Handover
Documentation, enablement, and ownership transfer.
8. Support
Managed platform support or ongoing improvement where useful.

Technology stays subordinate to the operating need

The right platform is the smallest architecture that safely supports the product, organisation, and control requirements.

CloudCrafts commonly works with Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft 365, Azure, AWS, managed services, serverless and managed application platforms, container platforms, Kubernetes, GitOps, GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, and cloud-native observability and security tooling. Complexity is introduced only when justified.

Discuss your platform

Talk through a production launch, cloud and identity foundation, platform modernisation, production-readiness assessment, multi-team platform programme, or ongoing managed platform support.

Get in touch by email or phone, or book a time to discuss the delivery goal, current platform risk, and the next sensible step.

Useful starting points

Request a Production Readiness Assessment when the risks and delivery sequence need to be made clear first.

Plan a Production Launch when there is a real workload that must reach production securely.

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