Hire me to secure, ship and govern your cloud

5 business days

A fixed-scope review of one cloud environment: network exposure, IAM, encryption, logging, and organisation policies, with a prioritised fix list your team can act on.

• —Risk-scored findings report
• —Network and firewall exposure map
• —Prioritised remediation plan with exact configuration changes
• —60-minute findings walkthrough with your engineers

Limited-access default: Default access is read-only and time-bound. For sensitive systems, I can work from exported evidence or a guided screen share. No production write access or destructive testing without explicit written scope.

Before you build or migrate, I review the design: trust boundaries, service perimeters, key management, tenancy and blast radius. I write the design decisions down so future engineers inherit reasoning, not guesswork.

• —Architecture review document
• —Threat model
• —Reference diagrams
• —Decision log

I replace VPNs and flat network trust with identity-aware access: IAP and BeyondCorp-style policies, VPC Service Controls perimeters, workload identity federation so nobody ships service-account keys again.

• —Access policy rollout
• —Service perimeters
• —Keyless workload identity
• —Break-glass runbook

I audit every binding, strip standing privilege, replace it with just-in-time elevation and group-based roles, and leave you a review process that keeps permissions from creeping back.

• —Permission inventory
• —Least-privilege role design
• —Stale key and account removal
• —Quarterly review process

I build the detection layer — log pipelines, SIEM rules, alert routing — and write the runbooks your team follows at 3am. If something already happened, I help you scope it, contain it and document it.

• —Log and SIEM pipeline
• —Detection rules
• —On-call runbooks
• —Post-incident report

Targeted testing of your cloud workloads and web applications, plus the boring part that actually reduces risk: a scanning and patch workflow that keeps findings from piling up.

• —Test findings with proof
• —Severity triage
• —Patch workflow
• —Retest after fixes

Commit-to-production pipelines with tests, image scanning, signing and progressive delivery built in. Canary or blue-green rollouts, and a rollback that works when you need it.

• —Pipeline as code
• —Scanning and signing gates
• —Progressive delivery
• —Rollback drill

I harden GKE, AKS or EKS: private control planes, workload identity, admission policy, network policy, runtime detection — then I show your team how to keep it that way.

• —Hardening baseline
• —Policy-as-code admission rules
• —Network policies
• —Runtime detection

Moving workloads onto Kubernetes without a six-month detour, or fixing a cluster that costs more than it should — right-sizing, autoscaling, node strategy and quotas.

• —Migration plan
• —Manifests and Helm charts
• —Autoscaling and right-sizing
• —Cost report

I turn hand-built environments into reviewed, reusable modules with state management, drift detection and a plan-and-approve workflow — so environments stop drifting apart.

• —Terraform modules
• —Remote state and locking
• —Policy checks in CI
• —Drift monitoring

SBOMs, dependency and container scanning, provenance and binary authorization so only builds from your pipeline reach production.

• —SBOM generation
• —Provenance and signing
• —Admission enforcement
• —Dependency policy

Metrics, logs, traces, dashboards and alerts that map to how users actually experience the product, with SLOs and error budgets your team agrees on.

• —Dashboards
• —SLOs and alerts
• —Trace instrumentation
• —On-call handbook

Lift-and-shift or re-platform, run as a sequenced plan with rollback at every step — plus the disaster-recovery test that proves the new environment survives failure.

• —Migration waves
• —Cutover plan
• —DR and backup verification
• —Post-migration review

I find where the money goes, cut the waste, and set up commitments, budgets and per-team showback so spend stays visible after I leave.

• —Spend breakdown
• —Savings actions
• —Commitment plan
• —Budget alerts and showback

I map your environment to the controls an auditor will ask about, close the technical gaps, and automate evidence collection so the next audit is a report, not a scramble.

• —Control gap analysis
• —Remediation build-out
• —Automated evidence pipeline
• —Auditor-ready documentation

Annex A controls translated into real cloud configuration — access control, logging, cryptography, backup, change management — with the artefacts your certification body expects.

• —Control mapping
• —Configuration changes
• —Evidence artefacts
• —Internal audit prep

For health platforms: encryption, audit controls, access management, retention and BAA-scoped architecture, implemented and documented against the security rule.

• —Safeguard implementation
• —Audit log integrity
• —Retention and backup controls
• —Scope documentation

Data mapping, residency, minimisation, DSAR handling and deletion that actually deletes — built into the system rather than promised in a policy document.

• —Data inventory and flows
• —Residency controls
• —DSAR and deletion workflows
• —Processor documentation

Guardrails at the organisation level: landing zones, org policies, tagging, budget and access baselines enforced automatically for every new project or subscription.

• —Landing zone design
• —Org policy baseline
• —Tagging and naming standards
• —Automated guardrails

A technical review of the vendors handling your data — what they access, how they authenticate, what happens when they are breached — plus the questionnaire answers you keep re-writing.

• —Vendor inventory
• —Access and integration review
• —Risk ratings
• —Reusable questionnaire responses

Model inventory, risk classification, bias and drift monitoring, human-review checkpoints and documentation aligned to emerging AI risk frameworks — the work I do with risk teams today.

• —Model and use-case inventory
• —Risk classification
• —Monitoring and review controls
• —Governance documentation

Live, hands-on sessions for your engineers and support staff on cloud security, Kubernetes, Intune, RHEL, GDPR or secure delivery — the format I run for banks and enterprises.

• —Tailored curriculum
• —Live workshop
• —Lab exercises
• —Recording and handbook

I take a concept to a working, deployed product with authentication, payments and analytics wired in — built on infrastructure that will not need replacing at your first hundred customers.

• —Scoped build plan
• —Deployed application
• —Auth, payments, analytics
• —Handover documentation

Retrieval, document intelligence, assistants and automation added to an existing product — with guardrails, evaluation and cost controls, not a demo that breaks in production.

• —Integration architecture
• —Prompt and retrieval pipeline
• —Evaluation harness
• —Cost and safety guardrails

Event schema, tracking, funnels and dashboards so you can see where users drop off — and a weekly view your team will actually open.

• —Event taxonomy
• —Instrumentation
• —Funnel dashboards
• —Reporting cadence

Warehouse modelling, ingestion pipelines and reporting layers that turn scattered operational data into something the business can query.

• —Warehouse schema
• —Ingestion pipelines
• —Transformation jobs
• —Reporting layer

A candid read on an engineering estate — architecture, security, delivery, key-person risk — for investors or founders, or ongoing advisory a few hours a week.

• —Diligence report
• —Risk register
• —Prioritised roadmap
• —Advisory sessions

Getting a product through store review and into a repeatable release cycle: signing, metadata, privacy declarations, staged rollout and crash monitoring.

• —Store listings
• —Signing and release pipeline
• —Privacy declarations
• —Crash and release monitoring