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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.

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

About

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

Services

Cloud Expertise

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

Cloud Platforms

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

DevOps & Automation

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

Security & AI/ML

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

Clients

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

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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