Cloud Architecture & Advisory

Cloud Architecture
& DevOps Excellence

Strategic consulting for enterprise-scale digital transformation. We architect, migrate, and optimise AWS and GCP infrastructure that scales with your ambitions.

10+
Years Experience
41+
Certifications
50+
Repositories
5
Sectors

Driving Transformation with Proven Expertise

Over a decade of hands-on experience building resilient, scalable cloud infrastructure for enterprise clients.

Deep Technical Expertise

41+ verified certifications from Linux Foundation, AWS, Google Cloud, and HashiCorp. Battle-tested knowledge on every engagement.

Strategic Vision

We align technical solutions with business objectives, ensuring cloud investments deliver measurable ROI and competitive advantage.

Results-Driven

40% reduction in MTTR, zero-downtime migrations, and automated CI/CD pipelines that accelerate delivery and reduce costs.

We specialise in architecting high-availability systems on AWS and GCP. From Kubernetes clusters to zero-downtime migrations, we deliver solutions that reduce costs and accelerate innovation.

Our approach combines deep technical expertise with strategic vision, ensuring every solution aligns with your business objectives while maintaining the highest standards of security and reliability.

Trusted by leading organisations including Lendscape, Santander, HSBC, Richemont, and The Economist to deliver mission-critical cloud infrastructure.

Credentials - 41+ Verified Badges

Linux Foundation AWS Google Cloud HashiCorp Isovalent Codefresh

Cloud Expertise

Comprehensive cloud solutions for enterprise-scale digital transformation, delivered with precision.

Enterprise Cloud Platforms

End-to-end design and ownership of secure, scalable AWS/GCP estates - multi-account, multi-region, with the network spine and golden-image supply chain that join them.

Multi-Account IaC Kubernetes Golden AMI Serverless

Cloud Migration & Modernisation

Seamless legacy system transition to the cloud with optimised architecture and proactive cost management strategies.

Lift & Shift Refactoring Cost Analysis Re-platforming

Cloud-Native DevOps

Enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation for agile, reliable delivery at scale.

GitHub Actions GitLab CI ArgoCD Terraform Terragrunt Packer Vault

Kubernetes Orchestration

Expert deployment, scaling, and management of Kubernetes clusters across cloud, on-premise, and edge environments.

GKE EKS AKS On-Prem

Managed Cloud Operations

Platform management, proactive monitoring, CVE remediation to SLA, and Kubernetes right-sizing that turns cost telemetry into savings.

SRE FinOps Right-Sizing Observability DR & Backup

Cloud Security & Compliance

Comprehensive security frameworks, threat modelling, and compliance automation for cloud-native environments.

Cloud Security CVE Remediation WAF Cilium eBPF Zero Trust

Cloud Innovation & AI/ML

Design and deploy MCP servers, RAG and agentic workflows, and LLM observability - production AI platforms on Bedrock and Kubernetes, shipped as infrastructure as code.

MCP Agentic AI RAG AWS Bedrock Langfuse Anthropic OpenAI Vector Search

Sectors Served

Leading organisations across diverse sectors trust us with mission-critical cloud infrastructure.

Finance & Banking

Lendscape, Santander, HSBC

Secure, compliant multi-account AWS estates for banking and lending software, with 99.99% uptime SLA.

Retail & Luxury

Richemont, Bloom & Wild

Scalable e-commerce platforms handling peak traffic with auto-scaling Kubernetes clusters.

Food Delivery

DeliveryHero, HungerStation

Real-time order processing with sub-100ms latency across global regions.

Media & Publishing

The Economist, Telegraph

Content delivery networks serving millions of daily readers.

AI & Platform Consulting

Container Solutions, Deloitte UK

RAG and agentic AI platforms on Bedrock and EKS, delivered as Terraform with observability from day one.

Portfolio & Contributions

Active contributor to the cloud engineering community with production-ready tools and frameworks.

GitHub Portfolio

Languages

Python Go Node.js TypeScript Bash

Tools & Frameworks

Terraform ArgoCD Kubernetes Prometheus MCP Kafka Kinesis NiFi OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes & Observability

Production-ready K8s configs including the full LGTM observability stack: Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, Tempo, Mimir, and Pyroscope.

Data & Streaming Platforms

Apache NiFi clustered on Kubernetes as StatefulSets for large-scale dataflow, plus a containerised AWS Kinesis emulator for developing and testing streaming pipelines locally.

Terraform Modules

Reusable IaC modules for AWS and GCP OIDC identity federation, Terraform Cloud workspaces, and multi-cloud IAM - published to Terraform Registry.

GitOps & CI/CD

ArgoCD ApplicationSets for automatic GitOps deployments from open pull requests, plus OpenTelemetry tracing wrappers and CI pipeline templates.

AI for GitOps

An ArgoCD UI extension answering natural-language questions about live Kubernetes resources, enriching each query with manifests, events and logs, backed by any OpenAI-compatible model and MCP tool servers.

MCP & Agentic AI

Model Context Protocol server for automated GitHub PR and issue analysis, plus agentic AI workflows using smolagents and Streamlit.

ML Models & APIs

ML-powered news classification via REST API using scikit-learn, plus applied machine learning notebooks and models on HuggingFace.

Let's Build Something Great

Whether you're planning a cloud migration, need Kubernetes expertise, or want to implement DevOps best practices, we're here to help.

Email

solutions@saidsef.co.uk

Location

London, UK - serving clients globally

Response

Within 24 hours

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