Every company has weather

Every cloud has its keepers.

Servers, pipelines, bills, bots. When it storms at 3 a.m., someone has to be up here. That is the CloudWarrior role.

The night it went dark

Outages are not bad luck.

They are missing design: no rollback, no runbook, one tired engineer. The work starts with the pager and ends with a quieter system.

The invoice nobody can explain

Cost is an architecture decision.

Idle machines, forgotten disks, traffic paying tolls between zones. The bill becomes a map of what to change.

The system only one person understands

Knowledge in one head is a risk.

The work is documented, put into code and handed back so your team can run it independently.

The page that takes nine seconds

Slow is a bug.

Websites, APIs, dashboards. Measure the bottleneck, remove it and ship the faster version.

The bot that talks instead of works

AI that does the work, quietly.

Not a chatbot on the homepage. Agents wired into your systems, with logs, limits and a human at the gate.

One owner. No big model.

One small unit. Whole cloud.

Enterprise contractors by day. No agency, no bench of juniors, no upsell. If your weather is bad, write. Within 24 hours you will know whether the work is a fit.

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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.

Phase 01

Assess

Cost drivers, failure modes, and how releases actually reach production today.
Phase 02

Architect

The target platform described in code before anything is built, rollback path included.
Phase 03

Implement

Modules and pipelines shipped weekly, so the platform is usable long before the sprint closes.
Phase 04

Observe

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

Read the four phases in full, including what has to land before the next one starts.

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

Who does the work, how it runs week to week, and what the stack behind it actually is.

Before an engagement

What does the free audit include?

A written assessment of cloud spend, reliability risks and a suggested order of fixes. The offer on this site is a reply within 48 hours of receiving the request; no call is required.

Is a full sprint required after the audit?

No. The audit can stand alone. Any implementation follows a separately agreed scope and duration.

What does the 90-day sprint cover?

The sprint takes work from an initial audit through implementation, monitoring and handover. Scope and duration are agreed for each engagement.

Which platforms does CloudWarrior work with?

Cloud platform work covers AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, delivery pipelines and observability. Automation work covers integrations, workflows and language features.

Who owns the work after handover?

The engagement artefacts stay in the client repository. Handover includes the context needed to operate and maintain the delivered system.

How does an engagement start?

Describe the current issue, the platform and the desired outcome through the audit form or direct email. CloudWarrior uses that context to assess fit and propose the next step.

Is this a remote service?

The practice is remote and based in the EU. Communication and working arrangements are agreed as part of the engagement.

Should the first message include access credentials?

No. Send a short description without passwords, API keys or customer data. Any access needed for agreed work is arranged separately.

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

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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