How to work with me

Defined scope. Defined end. Named deliverables.

Architecture Review, Fixed-Scope Build, Fractional Platform Lead, and Team-Scale Delivery with Cloudlit. Duration, pricing basis and deliverables for each.

Engagement models

Four ways to buy. All with named deliverables.

01 / Assess

Architecture Review

2 weeks · fixed price

A current-state assessment of your cloud, network, identity and Kubernetes estate, with a ranked list of risks and a sequenced roadmap to a target architecture.

  • Current-state assessment across cloud, network, IAM and Kubernetes
  • Written findings with risk ranking
  • Target architecture and a sequenced roadmap
  • Read-out session with your engineering leads

Best fit: Teams about to commit budget to a platform change and wanting an independent view first.

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02 / Build

Fixed-Scope Build

4–8 weeks · fixed scope

A landing zone, platform or control implemented in your environment, as code, in your repositories, with the runbooks and hand-over your team needs to run it without me.

  • Landing zone, platform or control implemented in your environment
  • Infrastructure as code in your repositories
  • Runbooks, diagrams and a recorded hand-over session
  • 30 days post-delivery support

Best fit: Teams that know what they need built and want it done properly, once.

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03 / Lead

Fractional Platform Lead

Monthly retainer · capped days

Ongoing architecture ownership for a team that has engineers but not a platform lead: design reviews, standards, vendor escalation and a quarterly roadmap.

  • Architecture ownership and design reviews
  • Team mentoring and platform standards
  • Vendor and cloud-provider escalation
  • Quarterly platform roadmap

Best fit: Engineering teams of 5 to 30 without a senior platform architect on staff.

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04 / Scale

Team-Scale Delivery

With Cloudlit

When the work needs a team, 24×7 operations or SLAs, it is delivered with Cloudlit: forward-deployed engineers under Cloudlit's brand and contract.

  • 30+ engineers, forward-deployed
  • 24×7 managed operations and SLAs
  • Multi-team, multi-region programmes
  • Delivered under Cloudlit's brand and contract

Best fit: Banks, government and enterprises running multi-team programmes with operational SLAs.

Talk to Cloudlit

Every engagement states its duration and pricing basis up front. Hourly rates are not quoted; scope is agreed in a statement of work before any build starts.

How every engagement runs

Three steps, whatever the size.

01

Scope

A 30-minute call, then a written statement of work: scope, deliverables, duration, price basis, and what "done" means. Nothing starts until it is signed.

02

Deliver

Work happens in your environment and your repositories. Weekly written status; architecture decisions recorded as they are made.

03

Hand over

Runbooks, diagrams, and a recorded walkthrough. Your team operates it; I stay available for 30 days.

Next step

Bring me the platform decision you have to get right.

A 30-minute architecture review call. You leave with a written view of the risk and the next step, whether or not we work together.

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