Cloud & DevOps Company in Brisbane

Application count and rationalisation appetite drive a Brisbane platform engagement more than the target cloud does: a scoped AWS or Azure landing zone with Control Tower or Azure Landing Zones, Terraform modules, and a paved-road CI and CD pipeline over eight to fourteen weeks, a migration from on-premises or NextDC managed hosting to AWS or Azure scaled by application count and rationalisation depth, a Kubernetes platform with EKS or AKS, Argo CD GitOps, Karpenter, Istio or Linkerd, and an internal developer portal, or an SRE engagement with SLOs, runbooks, and a six-month embedded on-call rotation. Brisbane rates sit below Sydney thanks to our Chandigarh delivery model and our fixed-fee engagement structure.

APRA Prudential Standards CPS 230 (operational risk management, effective July 2025) and CPS 234 (information security) apply to Suncorp Group, Bank of Queensland, insurers, super funds, and ADIs operating from Brisbane. Our discovery maps critical operations, material service providers, and tolerance levels per CPS 230, with documented incident management plans and business continuity tests. For CPS 234 we deliver an information security capability uplift, a register of information assets classified by criticality and sensitivity, a security control attestation aligned with the ISM, and the annual independent testing evidence APRA expects. Hosting is constrained to Australian regions or sovereign clouds, secrets sit in Azure Key Vault or AWS Secrets Manager, and audit logs feed the client's SIEM. The package is something internal audit and the prudential supervisor can read without follow-up.

Yes. The 2032 Brisbane Olympics will drive load across hospitality, transit, ticketing, broadcast, and government services on a scale Brisbane has not seen before. We help Olympics delivery partners and Tier 1 suppliers stand up scalable AWS and Azure landing zones now, run chaos engineering and load testing simulations against expected Games-time traffic, design multi-region failover into ap-southeast-2 and ap-southeast-4 with Sydney as primary and Melbourne as DR, and produce an Olympic surge runbook. We have shipped similar peak-load preparation for Virgin Australia and Flight Centre school holiday campaigns and have visibility into the patterns London 2012 and Tokyo 2020 cloud teams used. Engagements are fixed-fee against measurable SLO targets, not open-ended consulting.

Yes. RAAF Amberley is one of Australia's largest air force bases and Boeing Defence Australia has substantial Brisbane operations, generating a long tail of defence suppliers. Our discovery includes a DISP membership status check, a Defence Industry Security Office referral when membership is required, and a Defence Trade Controls Act review when the workload is export-controlled. For DISP-cleared estates we constrain hosting to Azure Australia Central 1 and 2 in Canberra (the only IRAP PROTECTED and SECRET regions), Vault Cloud, or AUCloud, deliver IRAP-ready system security plans, and produce an evidence pack the IRAP assessor can review without rework. We will tell you up front when a project requires DISP clearance we cannot pre-emptively hold.

A typical migration of a Brisbane mid-market estate (twenty to eighty workloads, mix of Windows and Linux, some Oracle or SQL Server, often hosted in NextDC B1 or B2 or in a Suncorp-style legacy data centre) takes nine to eighteen months end-to-end. Phase one (six to ten weeks) is discovery and rationalisation using the AWS or Azure Cloud Adoption Framework. Phase two (three to six months) is foundation, landing zone, identity, and pilot wave. Phase three (six to twelve months) is wave-by-wave migration in two-week sprints. Phase four (one to three months) is hypercare and decommission. We co-deliver with the client's internal platform team rather than running parallel projects, and we hand over Terraform estates the team can extend without us.

Mining, rail, energy, water, and ports are all designated critical infrastructure under the SOCI Act, which captures Aurizon, Queensland Rail, the BHP Mitsubishi Alliance, Rio Tinto Coal, and Santos GLNG-adjacent suppliers operating from Brisbane. Our discovery includes a SOCI Act asset classification, a risk management program scope per Part 2A of the Act, and a cyber incident reporting playbook aligned with the Australian Cyber Security Centre. Hosting is constrained to Australian regions, OT and SCADA segmentation follows the IEC 62443 framework, and we deliver enhanced cyber security obligations evidence (annual reporting, incident response plans, vulnerability assessments) when the client is classified as a Systems of National Significance. The package goes to the Cyber and Infrastructure Security Centre when required.

Default to AWS ap-southeast-2 (Sydney) or Azure Australia East (Sydney) for most Brisbane public-facing workloads. Latency from Brisbane to Sydney sits at twelve to eighteen milliseconds over Telstra, Optus, and TPG, well inside acceptable user experience. For DR pair to ap-southeast-4 (Melbourne) or Azure Australia Southeast (Melbourne). For IRAP PROTECTED or SECRET workloads (defence, sensitive government, critical infrastructure with national security exposure) go to Azure Australia Central 1 and 2 in Canberra. For fully sovereign Australian-owned hosting use Vault Cloud or AUCloud. We document the residency choice in the system security plan and the operational resilience register so APRA, ACSC, and SOCI auditors have a clear answer.

Some cloud platform work qualifies for the Research and Development Tax Incentive (R&DTI), specifically systematic experimentation with technical uncertainty — novel autoscaling strategies, custom Kubernetes operators, cross-region failover designs that go beyond reference architectures. The R&DTI delivers 43.5 percent refundable offset for companies with aggregated turnover under AUD $20M and 38.5 percent non-refundable above that. Routine landing zone implementation, vendor configuration, and standard migrations are generally not eligible. We deliver time-tracked sprint logs, technical narratives, and experiment registers aligned with AusIndustry guidance so your R&DTI consultant can build a defensible registration. Final eligibility sits with the consultant and AusIndustry, not with us.