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One owner. A full bench.

CloudWarrior is an infrastructure and automation practice built as a small unit. An accountable operator owns each engagement end to end, drawn from a bench whose engineers have all carried production pagers at this scale. Brought in for a defined objective, out clean once it is met.

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  • Capacity Bench open
  • Base Remote · EU
A printer's test plate: halftone field, registration target, and rule ticks
  • Model Operator plus bench
  • Unit Small, one standard
  • Reach Remote across the EU
  • Clock UTC

Solutions

Cloud platform and Kubernetes

Production clusters, release pipelines, and the discipline around them: rollbacks, observability, cost control.

For Product teams running on cloud without a platform team of their own.

  • Kubernetes
  • Helm
  • Docker
  • AWS
  • nginx

CI/CD and infrastructure as code

Environments described in code and releases that stop being events. Repeatable delivery instead of remembered steps.

For Teams where every deploy still depends on the person who knows the sequence.

  • Terraform
  • GitHub Actions
  • Helm
  • Ansible
  • GitLab CI

Process automation and integrations

Recurring manual work moved into workflows, with people kept on the approval step instead of the boring one.

For Operations teams losing hours to copying data between systems.

  • n8n
  • webhooks
  • REST APIs
  • scheduled jobs
  • internal tooling

AI systems in production

Retrieval pipelines, agent orchestration, and language features that ship into a product rather than into a slide deck.

For Companies with a real use case and no appetite for an AI science project.

  • Claude API
  • OpenAI API
  • Qdrant
  • RAG
  • agent orchestration

Cost and reliability audit

A read of where the cloud bill actually goes, where the platform is fragile, and what to fix in which order.

For Organizations whose invoice grows faster than their traffic.

  • FinOps review
  • observability
  • capacity planning
  • incident readiness

Web and commerce delivery

Storefronts and product sites built for speed, accessibility, and conversion that can be measured rather than assumed.

For Businesses whose site is the sales channel, not a brochure.

  • Next.js
  • Astro
  • React
  • Medusa
  • PostgreSQL

The 90-Day Sprint

Flagship engagement

A closed cycle from first audit to a monitored production system. Four phases, one operator accountable for all of them, and a working platform at the end rather than a deck describing one.

Sprint timeline, four phases across twelve weeks Assess, architect, implement and observe run in sequence along a twelve week axis, and each phase boundary drops an artefact: a risk map at week three, recorded decisions at week six, live pipelines at week nine, and handover at week twelve, where the engagement ends. phase week artefact assess architect implement observe cost · failure modules · networks terraform · ci/cd dashboards · alerts modes · releases rollback per change weekly increments runbooks · cost clean exit week 00 week 03 week 06 week 09 week 12 risk map decisions pipelines live handover remediation order recorded in repo environments built runbooks · alerts Sprint timeline, four phases across twelve weeks Assess, architect, implement and observe run in sequence along a twelve week axis, and each phase boundary drops an artefact: a risk map at week three, recorded decisions at week six, live pipelines at week nine, and handover at week twelve, where the engagement ends. clean exit week 00 · 03 week 03 · 06 week 06 · 09 week 09 · 12 artefact · risk map artefact · decisions artefact · pipelines live artefact · handover assess architect implement observe

  1. Assess

    Cost drivers, failure modes, and how releases actually reach production today.

  2. Architect

    The target platform described in code before anything is built, rollback path included.

  3. Implement

    Modules and pipelines shipped weekly, so the platform is usable long before the sprint closes.

  4. Observe

    Monitoring, alerting, and runbooks written for whoever holds the pager next.

  • Terraform
  • Pulumi
  • Ansible
  • Kubernetes
  • Helm
  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI
  • Azure DevOps
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • Loki
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Google Cloud
  • Vault
  • Trivy
  • Falco
  • OPA
  • n8n
  • PostgreSQL
  • Alertmanager
  • FinOps
  • SRE

Ways to engage

Single operator

Audit or sprint

Two to six weeks

One operator takes a defined problem end to end: assessment, plan, implementation, handover. Nothing is passed sideways in the middle.

Best fit for a specific blocker with a clear finish line.

  • fixed scope
  • written findings
  • working code

Operator plus bench

Delivery squad

Scoped project

The same accountable operator, joined by specialists for the parts that need them. One point of contact throughout, and one standard everyone on the bench already works to.

Adds capacity without adding coordination overhead.

  • vetted engineers
  • single owner
  • shared repo

Ongoing

Fractional platform lead

Recurring, part time

Continuous ownership of platform decisions, release safety, and cloud cost, at a fraction of a full-time role.

For teams that need experience present, not headcount.

  • standing hours
  • on-call review
  • roadmap input

Network

Pointed somewhere better

No charge

When a problem sits outside this practice, the answer is a name from a wider network of IT specialists rather than a stretched proposal.

A fast no is worth more than a slow maybe.

  • direct introduction
  • no finder fee

Free 48-hour infrastructure audit

The form takes three answers. What comes back within 48 hours is a written read of the platform: where the spend concentrates, what fails first, and the order to fix it in. No call is required to receive it.

What comes back

  • Where the cloud spend concentrates, by service and by cause.
  • The failure modes that would bite first under load or on call.
  • A remediation order: what to fix now, what can wait, what to leave alone.
  • A straight no when the fit is wrong, with a name from the wider network instead.
Turnaround
Within 48 hours
Format
Written findings
Charge
None
Next step
Only if asked for

Request the audit

Where the findings land.

Used to place the platform in context.

Cost, reliability, release speed, on-call load. Two sentences is enough.

Answers are used to reply to this request and nothing else. No list, no sequence. Privacy.

Scripts are off, so this form cannot hand the request on. The same three answers work as plain mail: address, company, and what is going wrong right now. Write to pat@cloudwarrior.io.

Or write straight to pat@cloudwarrior.io.

Contact

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