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IK CLOUD SOLUTIONS

Cloud, DevOps and FinOps services

Six areas of consultancy work from a Glenrothes-based consultancy, plus a managed AI receptionist for UK businesses.

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Multi-cloud DevOps and GitOps automation

Repeatable delivery across AWS, Azure, GCP and Oracle Cloud

Automate infrastructure and container delivery with Terraform, ArgoCD GitOps and production-grade Kubernetes.

  • ArgoCD declarative GitOps workflows with rollback
  • Terraform modules for infrastructure as code
  • Kubernetes on EKS, AKS and GKE with autoscaling
  • Pipeline security checks with tools such as Trivy, SonarQube and Cosign

Agentic AI and digital engineering

AI agents and cloud applications built to be maintained

Design and build AI agents, retrieval pipelines and cloud-native applications, with monitoring and clear limits on what an agent may do.

  • AI agents for cloud monitoring and remediation tasks
  • Vector database and retrieval (RAG) pipelines
  • Full-stack web and mobile application engineering
  • Event-driven streaming with Apache Kafka

Cloud migration and architecture modernisation

Planned moves from legacy workloads to cloud-native designs

Move legacy workloads to resilient, elastic architectures using containers, serverless components and hybrid connectivity where it fits.

  • Well-Architected Framework reviews for AWS, Azure and GCP
  • Migration planning for databases and containerised workloads
  • Disaster recovery and multi-region design
  • Service decomposition guided by domain-driven design

FinOps and cloud cost optimisation

Understand your cloud bill, then bring it under control

Get visibility of cloud spend and act on it with rightsizing, commitment planning and clear ownership of cost.

  • Rightsizing compute and removing idle resources
  • Reserved instance and savings plan review
  • Kubernetes cost allocation with tools such as Kubecost
  • Budget dashboards and threshold alerts

DevSecOps and cloud governance

Security checks built into the delivery pipeline

Shift security left with automated scanning, policy-as-code, secrets management and least-privilege access.

  • Container vulnerability scanning that can block a pull request
  • Least-privilege IAM roles and short-lived credentials
  • Evidence collection and policy-as-code to support frameworks such as ISO 27001 and SOC 2
  • Secrets lifecycle with HashiCorp Vault and cloud key management

Cloud squads and senior engineering support

Experienced engineers alongside your own team

Extend your team with senior DevOps engineers, Kubernetes specialists and cloud architects on flexible B2B contracts.

  • Senior cloud architects, DevOps and SRE engineers
  • Project-based work or team extension
  • Onboarding agreed up front
  • Knowledge transfer to your team as part of the work

Estimate a possible cloud saving

Choose a monthly cloud spend and the saving you want to test. The output is an illustration based on your own assumption.
Cloud provider
Current architecture

Illustration

At 20% of £25,000 a month on AWS:

£5,000 a month

£60,000 over twelve months

Where we would usually look first: Rightsizing, commitment planning and storage tiers.

An illustration based on the saving percentage you choose. It is not a quote or a benchmark, and nothing here is promised.

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