Cloud · Azure platform engineering
Azure infrastructure, built as an operating system.
We design the platform your teams will operate: landing zones, AKS, networking, identity, IaC, observability, and FinOps, with handover and audit requirements defined from the start.
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Nine practices. One Azure foundation.
Everything we ship is wired into the same Azure foundation — identity, policy, observability, and audit are not separate workstreams.
Landing zones & subscription design
CAF-aligned foundation for management groups, identity, networking, policy, governance, and cost structure.
- Management group hierarchy
- Network topology
- Policy & guardrails
- Cost & tagging model
AKS & containers
Production AKS with the platform plumbing — Ingress, mTLS, secrets, GitOps, scaling policies, and runtime observability.
- Cluster baselines & multi-tenant patterns
- GitOps with Flux/Argo
- Cilium / service mesh
- Cluster autoscaling & node pools
Networking & hybrid
Hub-spoke, VWAN, ExpressRoute, Private Endpoints, Front Door — designed for security posture and predictable cost.
- Hub-spoke / VWAN
- Private Endpoints
- Firewall & WAF
- Routing & DNS
Identity & security baseline
Entra ID architecture, PIM, Conditional Access, RBAC, and Defender for Cloud wired into the platform — not bolted on.
- Entra ID & PIM
- Conditional Access
- Defender posture
- Key Vault & secrets
IaC & platform engineering
Bicep or Terraform modules, policy-enforcing pipelines, and a developer self-service layer with clear ownership boundaries.
- Bicep / Terraform modules
- Policy-as-code
- Developer platform
- GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps
Data platform
Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB, Synapse, Fabric — production-grade designs with backup, DR, and observability built in.
- SQL & PostgreSQL
- Cosmos DB
- Synapse / Fabric
- Backup & DR drills
Observability & SRE
Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, App Insights, and Grafana connected to SLO dashboards, incident workflows, and runbooks.
- SLOs & error budgets
- Alert routing
- Runbooks
- Postmortem rituals
FinOps & managed platform
Cost visibility, RI/SP strategy, AHUB, anomaly detection, and operating reviews that connect spend to owners and actions.
- Reserved/SP strategy
- AHUB & licensing
- Anomaly detection
- Monthly review
Compliance & audit
Audit-ready change trails: who changed what, why, and with whose approval. Built for ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA, and regulator review.
- Audit-grade change logs
- Policy reporting
- Tenant boundary enforcement
- Vulnerability mgmt
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$ swaves cloud baseline --tenant prodlanding-zone graph syncedpolicy assignment compliantprivate endpoint drift reviewedcost anomaly window routedhandover bundle exportedOperating model
Landing zone, policy, cost, and support records stay in one story.
The best Azure programs feel less like a one-time migration and more like a controlled product release. We make the branch, gate, review, and handover path explicit so every future workload inherits the same standard.
Start with the current Azure pictureEngagement
How a cloud engagement runs.
PHASE 01
Two-week discovery
We review the current Azure estate, platform code, delivery model, and risks. The output is a written assessment and an architecture decision record.
PHASE 02
Azure foundation first
Landing zones, IaC, identity, networking, policy, and observability before the first workload moves.
PHASE 03
Controlled cutover
Each cutover has an owner, acceptance criteria, rollback path, monitoring plan, and documented support window.
PHASE 04
Handover or operate
Customers can take over with documentation and drills, or retain Swaves for managed-platform operations.
Microsoft alignment
CAF-aligned. Well-Architected by default.
The Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework and the Azure Well-Architected Framework shape the foundation. We complement Microsoft-native tools — Defender, Sentinel, Entra, Cost Management — not replace them.
Reliability
DR drills, SLOs, failure-domain planning, and blast-radius controls.
Security
Identity, network, data, and DevOps security baked into the landing zone.
Cost
Tagging model, RI/SP strategy, anomaly detection, and monthly cost reviews.
Operational excellence
Runbooks, automation, on-call rituals, postmortem culture.
Performance efficiency
Right-sized resources, scaling profiles, perf budgets, capacity planning.
Governance
Policy-as-code, audit-grade change logs, tenant boundary enforcement.
Deliverables
A platform you can operate with confidence.
The output includes deployed infrastructure plus the artifacts your team needs to operate, audit, and improve the platform after the build.
Delivery packFoundation handover bundle
Every non-trivial platform choice is captured with owner, date, tradeoff, and acceptance criteria.
Bicep or Terraform modules are versioned, reviewed, and mapped to the foundation standard.
Purpose, dependencies, alerts, recovery paths, escalation, and support ownership are explicit.
Spend movement, RI/SP strategy, AHUB, anomalies, and owner actions are ready for monthly review.
Managed operations
Keep the cloud service accountable after launch.
The cloud practice is not only build work. We can stay with the platform after launch through managed operations, cost review, security posture, reliability practice, and controlled change.
Managed platform rhythm
Monthly platform reviews, change calendars, health checks, alert tuning, incident response, and operational reporting.
Controlled change
IaC pull requests, deployment windows, rollback paths, approval rules, and release notes for the platform baseline.
Security and cost posture
Defender posture, policy compliance, identity review, backup checks, cost anomalies, and capacity pressure tracked together.
Bring the current Azure picture.
Share an architecture diagram, export, or read-only view. We will identify the operating questions before proposing a build path.