Softobiz

CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES

Cloud infrastructure design and automation

We build cloud infrastructure as version-controlled code, with reusable landing zones, security guardrails and observability ready for your workloads.

  • Environments provisioned from version-controlled code
  • Landing zones aligned to provider architecture principles, with guardrails from day one
  • Drift detection that highlights when the estate diverges from its code
THE REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE

A sound foundation is a set of layers, each declared in code.

Each layer isolates the concern below it. This is the shape we build to, adapted to your hyperscaler and workloads. The layers are represented as parameterised, versioned modules that can be reused across environments, so configuration differences are explicit. Modernised workloads land on this foundation and ship through your DevSecOps pipeline.

Landing zoneAccounts, org structure, guardrails, identity. Multi-account topology, SSO, policy-as-code baseline.
NetworkVPCs, subnets, connectivity, ingress and egress. Segmented networks, private endpoints, controlled egress.
Compute and orchestrationContainers, nodes, serverless, autoscaling. Kubernetes clusters, managed node pools, scale-to-demand.
Data and stateManaged databases, object storage, caching. Right-tiered storage, backups, encryption by default.
Platform servicesSecrets, service mesh, ingress, observability. Mesh for mTLS and traffic, centralised logging and metrics.
DeliveryEnvironment provisioning, promotion, drift control. IaC pipelines, plan-and-apply gates, drift detection.

Each layer is a versioned module that can be reused across environments, making configuration differences visible in code rather than dependent on memory.

A foundation you can audit, roll back, and recreate, not tribal knowledge in one engineer's head.

WHAT IS INCLUDED

What our cloud infrastructure work includes.

  • Landing zone and account structure aligned to provider architecture principles, with guardrails from day one.
  • Infrastructure-as-code modules for network, compute, data, and platform services, reusable and version-controlled.
  • Kubernetes platform with autoscaling, ingress, and a service mesh where the topology warrants it.
  • Observability baseline: metrics, logs, and traces wired in before the first workload lands, aligned to your SRE practice.
  • Security and cost guardrails as policy-as-code, allowing non-compliant and untagged resources to be identified or blocked in the delivery pipeline.
  • Drift detection and remediation that highlights when the running estate diverges from the code that defines it.
OUR APPROACH

From assessment to infrastructure as code.

STEP 01

Assess

Map the current estate, target workloads, compliance constraints, and hyperscaler footprint.

STEP 02

Design

The landing zone and reference architecture, reviewed against the relevant provider architecture principles.

STEP 03

Codify

The foundation as IaC modules with a plan-and-apply pipeline and policy gates.

STEP 04

Provision

Provision environments from the same versioned modules to reduce configuration drift.

STEP 05

Harden and hand over

Wire in observability and guardrails, then transfer to your team or run it through SRE and Managed Cloud.

TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGIES

Built cloud-native on the hyperscaler you already run.

A representative stack by layer. We adopt sound existing resources into code rather than forcing a rebuild.

IaC and provisioningTerraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, CloudFormation.
OrchestrationKubernetes, EKS, AKS, GKE, Helm.
Networking and meshVPC, service mesh (Istio, Linkerd), ingress controllers.
Policy and securityOPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno, secrets managers.
ObservabilityOpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, cloud-native monitoring.
Hyperscalers[AWS](/aws), [Microsoft Azure](/microsoft), Google Cloud.

Want the capability in-house? An embedded [dedicated team](/dedicated-delivery-pod) builds the platform and hands it over.

RELATED SERVICES

The rest of the Cloud and Platform Engineering practice.

RELIABILITY

SRE and Managed Cloud

Run the foundation with SLOs, error budgets, and observability once it is live.

SECURITY

Cloud Security

Zero-trust controls and posture management that make the secure configuration the default.

DELIVERY

DevSecOps

The golden path that ships workloads onto this foundation, with guardrails enforced in-pipeline.

MODERNISATION

Application Modernisation

Move legacy systems onto cloud-native services that land on this platform.

TEAMS

Dedicated Delivery Pod

The senior pod that builds and hands over the platform with you.

PILLAR

Cloud and Platform Engineering

The parent practice this service belongs to.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What platform leaders ask us first.

Yes. We codify and harden what you already run rather than forcing a rebuild, adopting sound existing resources into IaC and remediating the rest.

The one that fits your workloads, skills, and commitments. We build cloud-native on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, and design for portability where a multi-cloud posture is warranted.

Not always. For some workloads serverless or managed services are the better foundation. We size the platform to the workload rather than defaulting to the most complex option.

BUILD A FOUNDATION YOU CAN TRUST

Let us review your current estate and show you what it looks like as code, reproducible, secure and governed.

A landing zone and reference architecture delivered as IaC, with guardrails and drift detection built in.

Talk to our cloud infrastructure team