Cloud Engineering

Secure Cloud Infrastructure, Built for Production

Cloud platforms on GCP, AWS, and Azure that meet compliance requirements without grinding development to a halt.

The Problem

Compliance and velocity should not be a tradeoff.

Most cloud environments end up in one of two failure modes. Either they ship fast and accumulate security debt that becomes an audit problem, or they bolt on compliance late and slow the team down for a quarter while everyone fights the controls.

Federal and regulated industry teams know this pattern. NIST 800-53, FISMA Moderate, FedRAMP-aligned controls, and SOC 2 cycles add real engineering work that has to be designed in, not retrofitted. When the deadline pressure comes, the team that did not plan for compliance pays the bill.

Our Approach

Compliance designed in, not bolted on.

We design cloud environments where the controls are part of the architecture from week one. Identity and access boundaries, network segmentation, encryption posture, audit logging, and the deployment pipeline all line up with the framework you have to meet, whether that is NIST 800-53 rev 5, FISMA Moderate, or a private-sector equivalent.

The result is an environment your team can ship into without a security checkpoint stopping every deploy. Audits go faster because the evidence is already there. New environments come up reproducibly because the infrastructure is code, not console clicks.

Compliance-aligned cloud platform reference pattern Layered reference pattern for a compliance-aligned cloud platform. A compliance boundary contains identity and access, network, compute, data, and observability layers. A reviewed CI/CD pipeline operated by the engineering team provisions every layer through tests and policy gates. The pattern adapts to GCP, AWS, or Azure depending on existing footprint and applicable controls (NIST 800-53, FISMA, HIPAA, SOC 2). COMPLIANCE BOUNDARY · NIST · FISMA · HIPAA · SOC 2 IDENTITY & ACCESS Federated identity SSO · OIDC · SAML IAM · least privilege Boundary policies · roles Service-to-service Workload identities NETWORK Authenticated edge TLS · WAF · rate limit Private VPC Segmented subnets Egress controls Service-controls perimeter COMPUTE API services Synchronous request path Async workers Background processing Scheduled jobs Reporting · maintenance DATA Operational DB Encrypted at rest · CMEK Object storage Versioned · access-logged Event bus Topics · DLQ on failure OBSERVABILITY Centralized audit log Long retention · WORM Metrics · SLOs · alerts Page-on-call routing Secrets vault Rotated · access-logged REVIEWED CI/CD PIPELINE Engineering team CI · tests · policy gates Reviewed deploy → provisions every layer
Reference pattern, not a specific deployment. We adapt the layers to your existing footprint and compliance framework. The shape stays the same. The specific services swap to GCP, AWS, or Azure based on what fits.
What We Deliver

Concrete outcomes, not slide decks.

Cloud architecture aligned to NIST 800-53 rev 5, FISMA Moderate, or your specific compliance framework

Infrastructure as code in Terraform with reproducible environments and reviewed changes

Automated deployment pipelines with environment parity and a real rollback story

Identity, access, and network segmentation designed for least privilege and auditable boundaries

Observability and alerting covering logs, metrics, and traces with runbooks for the failures you can predict

Cost monitoring and rightsizing so the cloud bill does not become a quarterly surprise

Compliance documentation that maps controls to evidence so audits do not start from zero

Knowledge transfer so your team owns the environment after we step back

Technologies We Use

Tools that hold up in production.

We are platform-agnostic but opinionated. Most engagements use a subset of the following.

Cloud Platforms

Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform, Cloud Deployment Manager, CloudFormation

Containers & Orchestration

Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Run, ECS, Fargate

CI/CD

GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, GitLab CI, Jenkins

Observability

Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog

Security & Compliance

NIST 800-53 rev 5, FISMA Moderate, FedRAMP-aligned controls, IAM hardening, secrets management

Related Case Study
Federal Health Research · GCP

NIST and FISMA cloud environment delivered without grinding development to a halt.

A federal health research agency needed a secure, compliant cloud platform to support a large-scale research initiative. We delivered a cloud-native architecture on Google Cloud Platform with serverless infrastructure, automated deployment pipelines, and DevSecOps practices embedded across the lifecycle. The environment met NIST 800-53 rev 5 and FISMA Moderate, scaled reliably, and supported continuous development without disrupting production.

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