What we do
Azure Platform Architecture
We design the Azure platform, check that it holds under its own governance, and hand it to your team with the controls already deployed.
- Frameworks
- CAF: Govern, Manage · Well-Architected: Operational Excellence, Reliability
- Good first step
- Microsoft CAF Readiness Assessment, a baseline in 3–4 weeks
The problem
Most Azure estates are built by a project team and then inherited by people who weren't involved in the design. Over the following months policy drifts, exemptions build up and the subscription topology loses its owner. Because of this, the first real audit tends to find all of it at once, and by then fixing it takes a programme of work.
You probably need this if
- The subscription topology was designed by someone who has since left
- Exemptions were granted during the build and none of them carry an expiry date
- Policy compliance shows green, and the people reading the report doubt the number
- New teams are onboarded by copying whatever the last team did
What the service covers
- 1Landing zone design: management group hierarchy, subscription vending, and naming and tagging enforced by Azure Policy
- 2Azure Policy lifecycle: authoring, assignment, exemption review with an expiry date on every exemption, and drift reporting against the agreed baseline
- 3Entra ID governance: Conditional Access baselines, PIM for privileged roles, and access reviews on a fixed cadence
- 4Patch and update strategy through Azure Update Manager, with maintenance windows sized so your teams can keep to them
- 5Backup and recovery verification, with test restores run and recorded alongside the backup job reports
- 6A written control set with an owner and a review date against every item, so the estate has a baseline to be measured against
Other areas we work in
All 8 areasCloud Security Architecture
We design the detection, tune it to your estate, and hand your team a backlog they can work through.
Governance & Compliance
We set up Cloud Adoption Framework governance as working controls in Azure, with the evidence to show an auditor when they ask.
Cloud Migration
We plan the move, build the landing zone it arrives into, and migrate workloads in waves your change board can approve.
Where platform work usually begins
For a new build, the usual first step is the Azure Landing Zone Accelerator, which takes four to six weeks. For an estate that is already running, we start by mapping how it's organised, which policies and exemptions are in place and how much of it is written down, then agree with your team what to fix first.