Cloud Architecture & Migration
Moving production estates to AWS and Azure without the drama.
25 years · enterprise infrastructure
Infrastructure that can be rebuilt, secured and proven
I design and deliver cloud and on-premises infrastructure for organisations that cannot afford it to go wrong — then automate it so it is reproducible, hardened and documented. Increasingly, that includes putting AI to work on the parts of delivery that repeat.
25years in enterprise IT
50+servers migrated to AWS on one programme
~60%less manual provisioning through automation
10TBof regulated financial data migrated securely
What I do
Five areas, all of them things I have delivered rather than read about.
Infrastructure as Code & Automation
Terraform, Ansible and Packer — environments you can rebuild, not nurse.
Security Architecture
Zero-trust access, identity, hardening and vulnerability management.
AI & Agent Automation
Applied AI in operations — including self-hosted agents on your own infrastructure.
Test Labs & Greenfield Builds
Reproducible environments for proving a design before you commit to it.
How I work
Reproducible, not hand-built
If an environment cannot be rebuilt from source control, it is a liability. Everything I build is defined as code, validated in CI and documented for whoever inherits it.
Straight answers
Sometimes the right advice is that a migration is not worth it, or that AI will not help with the problem you have. You will get that view early, not after the invoice.
Security as a default
Hardening, identity and least privilege designed in from the start. Controls engineers route around are worse than none at all.
Evidence over adjectives
Working reference implementations are published publicly so you can inspect the standard of work before you commit to anything.
Got a project in mind?
Tell me what you are trying to achieve and I will tell you honestly whether I am the right person for it. darren.pilkington@it-architect.uk or get in touch.