Capability 01
Cloud & Infrastructure
Cloud architecture as a foundation, not a fashion statement. Cipherer designs the multi-region, multi-account cloud estate your business actually runs on, with security, observability and compliance treated as load-bearing structure.
What this discipline means at Cipherer
Cloud and infrastructure work, in our practice, means the foundational decisions that shape every system above them: which cloud, which regions, which accounts, which networks, which boundaries. Wrong here and every project pays the cost. Right here and the next ten years of delivery move faster, safer and cheaper. We work at the architecture and engineering layer where these decisions are made and the operational layer where they are proven.
Approach
Landing zones as governance
We design AWS, GCP and Azure landing zones as governance instruments, not just isolation patterns. Account boundaries, organisational units, baseline guardrails and shared services are shaped by the regulatory and operational reality of the business, not by a vendor template.
Multi-region by default for what matters
For platforms that cannot afford regional failure (financial services, public infrastructure, global Web3) we design active-active or active-warm patterns from day one. Disaster recovery is a tested capability, not a slide deck.
Zero-trust networking
Network architecture follows least-privilege, identity-aware patterns: private connectivity, service mesh where it earns its place, and explicit allow lists rather than wide flat networks.
Container and orchestration depth
Kubernetes where it solves a real problem, not as a default. We design clusters with operational ergonomics in mind: clear blast-radius boundaries, sensible autoscaling, and platform interfaces engineering teams actually want to use.
Tools and frameworks
- AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure
- Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Google GKE, Azure AKS
- Terraform and Terragrunt for infrastructure as code
- AWS CloudWAN, Transit Gateway and global network architectures
- Service mesh (Istio, Linkerd) where appropriate
- Validator orchestration for blockchain workloads