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Cloud & DevOps
Containerised deploys, CI/CD pipelines and monitoring on AWS and GCP — plus rescue work when a server nobody documented finally falls over. Proven on the ACADEMUN takeover.
DOCKER · NGINX · CI/CD · AWS · GCP · FFMPEG
WHAT WE BUILD
Containerised deployments
Every service ships as a Docker image built from a checked-in Dockerfile — the same artifact runs on your laptop, staging and production. No snowflake servers.
CI/CD pipelines
Push to main, watch it deploy. Pipelines run tests, build images and roll out with a documented rollback path — deploys stop being an event.
AWS & GCP infrastructure
Sized for what you actually run — not the architecture diagram a cloud vendor would sell you. Instances, networking and Nginx configured and written down.
Monitoring & alerting
Uptime checks, log aggregation and alerts that page a human before a customer emails you. Dashboards tuned to what breaks, not what looks impressive.
Server recovery & takeovers
The previous team is gone and the server is a mystery. We map it, stabilise it and rebuild deploys reproducibly — how ACADEMUN started with us.
Media & processing pipelines
Long-running jobs that can't block a request cycle — video transcodes, exports, batch work. We built ACADEMUN's FFmpeg pipeline to survive restarts and bad input.
HOW IT RUNS
01
Audit the estate
Read-only access first. We inventory servers, DNS, cron jobs and secrets, and write down what actually runs before touching anything.
02
Stabilise
Fix what's on fire: failing services, disk pressure, expired certs, missing backups. The goal is a boring baseline you can sleep on.
03
Make deploys reproducible
Everything becomes code — Dockerfiles, Nginx configs, pipeline definitions in the repo. A fresh server should come up from scratch in one run.
04
Monitor and hand over
Alerts, dashboards and runbooks go in before we step back. You get root, the docs and a team that answers when paged.
STRAIGHT ANSWERS
How do you charge for infrastructure work?
Takeovers and migrations are fixed-scope projects — we audit first, then quote. Ongoing operations run on a monthly retainer covering monitoring, patching and a response commitment. Cloud bills stay in your name and on your card; we optimise them, we don't resell them.
Can you take over infrastructure the original team abandoned?
Yes — that's how the ACADEMUN engagement began: a server that needed recovery and no repeatable way to deploy. We start read-only, map what's actually running, stabilise it, then rebuild deploys so they're reproducible. Inherited messes are the case we plan for, not the exception.
Who owns the infrastructure and accounts when we're done?
You do — cloud accounts, domains, repos and secrets live under your organisation from day one, with us added as operators. Every config we write is committed to your repo. If we part ways, you revoke our access and nothing stops working.
What does ongoing maintenance actually cover?
Monitoring and alert response, OS and dependency patching, backup verification, certificate renewals and small config changes. We test recovery, not just take backups — a backup you've never restored is a rumour. Larger changes are scoped separately so the retainer stays predictable.