What we do
Azure Platform Architecture
We design the platform, prove it holds under its own governance, and hand it to your team with the controls already deployed.
- CAF: Govern, Manage
- WAF: Operational Excellence, Reliability
The problem
Most Azure estates are built once by a project team and then inherited by people who did not design them. Policy drifts, exemptions pile up, nobody owns the subscription topology, and the first real audit finds all of it at once. By then the fix is a programme rather than a change.
You probably need this if
- The subscription topology made sense to somebody who has since left
- Exemptions were granted during the build and none of them carry an expiry date
- Policy compliance shows green and nobody in the room trusts the number
- New teams are onboarded by copying whatever the last team did
Recognise more than one of those? A CAF readiness assessment gives you a baseline in three to four weeks, before you commit to anything longer.
What the service covers
- Landing zone ownership: management group hierarchy, subscription vending, naming and tagging enforced by policy rather than documentation
- Azure Policy lifecycle: authoring, assignment, exemption review with expiry dates, and drift reporting against the agreed baseline
- Entra ID governance: Conditional Access baselines, PIM for privileged roles, access reviews on a fixed cadence
- Patch and update strategy via Azure Update Manager, with maintenance windows your teams can actually hold to
- Backup and recovery verification: we test restores rather than accepting that backups completed
- A control set written down, with an owner and a review date against every item, so the estate has somewhere to be measured against
Other areas we work in
All seven areasCloud Security Architecture
Design the detection, tune it to your estate, and hand your team a backlog they can actually work through.
Governance & Compliance
Cloud Adoption Framework governance made operational, with evidence that survives an audit.
Platform Engineering
Terraform and Bicep infrastructure as code, with the governance to keep it from drifting.
Could your team rebuild the platform from what is written down?
If the answer is no, that is the risk, not the architecture. Book a 30-minute call and we will work out how far the documentation is from the estate.