Cloud Engineering
Cloud-native systems built secure and automated
Engineering of cloud-native systems: services, serverless, data platforms, and the automation around them.
Built for every buyer we serve
Teams building on cloud platforms.
Why this costs you money
These are the failure modes we see most often in Cloud & Infrastructure.
Cloud-native done badly is more expensive than a server.
Security must be built in, not added.
Automation is what makes cloud economical.
Everything included, in writing
Scope is written down before work starts, and changed only in writing. Nothing is added or dropped without a written change order.
- 01Design
- 02Build
- 03Security integration
- 04Automation
- 05Documentation
All 5 are written into the scope document before work starts. What you actually need is settled on the call, after the Assess read.
From first call to live
3 phases, each ending in something written. Exact dates are set at the Assess step, once the scope is known.
- 01Phase 01
Week 1
Design
- 02Phase 02
Sprints
Build
- 03Phase 03
Release
Handoff
What makes this different
These are specific to Cloud & Infrastructure, and they are in the scope document rather than only on this page.
Availability is a requirement, not a preference
Segmentation, identity, encryption, backup, and observability are in the target architecture from day one.
Zero-downtime cutovers where the workload allows
Phased migration with a written rollback plan for every wave, rehearsed before it runs.
The monthly bill is a design constraint
Quarterly rightsizing, reserved capacity planning, and FinOps reporting, not a surprise at renewal.
Run in accounts you own
Monitoring, incident response, and patching under a managed agreement, inside your own cloud accounts.
What clients say
We publish no client names. These describe the shape of real engagements in Cloud & Infrastructure.
See the engagementsEvery number in the weekly report traces back to a record we can open ourselves. After three agencies, that alone was worth the engagement.
We had been quoted eighteen months and seven figures to register as a PayFac. Midcore mapped the alternative in two weeks and told us plainly that our volume did not justify it yet. That conversation saved us a year.
Our agents were spending half their week on paperwork. The desk took the boarding queue, the disputes, and the residual reconciliation. Same headcount on the sales side, materially more selling.
- Written scopeAgreed before work starts, changed only in writing.
- Reporting from your dataEvery number opens to a record you can check.
- Scoped, logged accessRevocable by you at any time.
What the work looks like
Anonymised engagements from across the six core services.
All case studiesHosting had become the constraint on both uptime commitments and margin, and the team could not sustain round-the-clock coverage.
Payment platform running production workloads A vertical SaaS platform moved from referral to PayFac economicsA platform earning a thin referral share on customer processing wanted the margin that sat with its processor, without the registration, capital, and compliance headcount a full PayFac requires.
Field-services SaaS platform An ISO gave its agents their selling week backAgents were spending roughly half their time on statement analysis, applications, and chasing processors. The fix was not more headcount on the sales side.
Independent sales organizationWritten by people who have done the work
The arguments we would make in the room.
All insightsSponsor bank diligence stalls on illegible packages far more often than weak products. Here's what reviewers are asking.
9 min read Business Operations Audit: What It Finds in an ISO's BooksA business operations audit usually finds the same three things: records that cannot prove what they claim, unrevoked access, and an untracked cost.
10 min read IT Staff Augmentation vs Outsourcing: What Actually DiffersIT staff augmentation and outsourcing differ on who directs the work day to day, and that one fact decides who owns what gets built and who bears legal risk.
10 min readStraight answers
The questions that come up on almost every Cloud Engineering call, answered before you have to ask them.
Do you work with our team?
How does an engagement start?
What does Cloud Engineering cost?
Can we stop after the Assess?
How long does Cloud Engineering take?
Who actually does the work?
Do you work inside our systems?
Still not sure Cloud Engineering is what you need?
That is what the Assess is for. Book a 30-minute call and we will tell you which service fits, whether you need one at all, and what the first engagement would cost. We will also tell you when the answer is no.
Ready to talk about Cloud Engineering?
Tell us what is happening. We will tell you whether this service fits, and whether you need it at all.
- 01Within 1 business dayA US-based practice lead replies and books a 30 minute call.
- 02On the callWe map the problem, the volume, the partners, and the constraints.
- 03After the callYou get a written read of one to three pages, yours to keep.
- Handled under NDA
- Written, not a slide deck
- No obligation to continue