Cloud Infrastructure Design
Architecture that scales with your business, not your cloud bill
Most cloud migrations lift and shift — then wonder why the bill doubled and latency got worse. I design infrastructure that is right-sized from day one, automated end-to-end, and built to handle what comes next.
The challenge
Without a cloud strategy
- ❌ Cloud bill growing 30% year over year with no new workloads
- ❌ Lift-and-shift migrations that replicate on-prem problems at cloud prices
- ❌ No disaster recovery plan — one region outage means total downtime
- ❌ Manual infrastructure changes — no audit trail, no reproducibility
- ❌ Vendor lock-in making multi-cloud or exit impossible
With designed infrastructure
- ✓ Right-sized from day one — pay for what you use, not what you might need
- ✓ Cloud-native architecture that uses managed services where it makes sense
- ✓ Multi-region resilience with tested failover procedures
- ✓ Everything in Terraform + Ansible — reproducible, auditable, version-controlled
- ✓ Portable architecture — move workloads between clouds when business requires
How it works
A structured approach — from assessment to production-ready infrastructure.
Assess & Design
Map your current workloads, traffic patterns, data flows, and compliance requirements. Design target architecture with cost projections, security boundaries, and scaling strategy. No surprises after migration.
Build & Migrate
Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Ansible. Networking, security groups, IAM policies, Kubernetes clusters, databases, monitoring — all codified. Migration executed in phases with rollback plans at every step.
Optimize & Handoff
Post-migration optimization: right-size instances, implement spot/preemptible strategies, set up cost alerts, and tune autoscaling. Your team gets runbooks, dashboards, and the confidence to operate independently.
What you receive
Production-ready infrastructure with complete documentation.
Architecture Blueprint
Detailed architecture document with network topology, security zones, data flow diagrams, service dependencies, scaling triggers, and cost projections. The single source of truth for your infrastructure.
Terraform + Ansible Codebase
Complete Infrastructure as Code for your entire environment. Terraform modules for cloud resources, Ansible playbooks for configuration, with CI/CD pipelines for automated provisioning and drift detection.
Kubernetes Platform
Production-grade Kubernetes clusters with proper networking (Cilium/Calico), ingress (NGINX/Envoy), observability (Prometheus/Grafana), secrets management (Vault), and GitOps deployment (ArgoCD).
Cost Optimization Report
Resource right-sizing analysis, reserved instance recommendations, spot/preemptible strategy, storage tier optimization, and automated cost alerting. Typical savings: 25-40% on monthly cloud spend.
Security & Compliance Framework
Network segmentation, IAM policies (least privilege), encryption at rest and in transit, vulnerability scanning pipeline, and compliance controls mapped to your regulatory requirements (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR).
DR & Business Continuity Plan
Multi-region failover strategy, backup schedules and retention policies, RTO/RPO definitions per service, and tested recovery procedures. Your team knows exactly what to do when things go wrong.
What I design
☁️ Multi-Cloud Architecture
AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises hybrid designs. Workload placement strategy, cross-cloud networking, unified IAM, and portable application patterns.
☸️ Kubernetes Platforms
EKS, AKS, GKE, and bare-metal clusters. Multi-tenant design, GPU scheduling, network policies, service mesh, and platform engineering foundations.
🌐 Networking & Security
VPC design, transit gateways, zero-trust networking, WAF, DDoS protection, private link/endpoints, and hybrid connectivity (VPN, Direct Connect, ExpressRoute).
🗃️ Data & Storage
Database selection (RDS, Aurora, Cloud SQL), caching layers (Redis, Memcached), object storage, data lake architecture, backup and replication strategies.
📊 Observability Stack
Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Loki, Jaeger. End-to-end tracing, log aggregation, custom dashboards, SLO alerting, and cost-per-request tracking.
🤖 AI/GPU Infrastructure
GPU cluster design, NVIDIA GPU Operator, multi-tenant GPU scheduling, inference serving (vLLM, TGI), model storage and distribution, training pipelines.
Technologies I work with
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