Cloud & DevOps Company in Dublin

Compliance overhead is what distinguishes a routine Dublin platform build from a supervised one. A scoped cloud assessment and Well-Architected review is a two to four week engagement covering current-state architecture review, a FinOps baseline, security posture (CSPM scan via Wiz, Prisma Cloud, or native AWS Security Hub), and a prioritised remediation roadmap aligned to NIS2 and DORA where applicable. Greenfield cloud platform builds cover Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, secrets management, and infrastructure-as-code. Cloud migration engagements are driven by workload count, regulatory scope, and refactor depth. Central Bank of Ireland supervised payment workloads and Pfizer-adjacent GxP-validated workloads sit higher because of compliance overhead. Dublin sits above Cork and Galway because of the Stripe, HubSpot, and Mastercard talent premium. We give fixed-fee proposals rather than open T and M estimates, billed in EUR with Irish VAT (23 percent) applied where required.

AWS eu-west-1 (Dublin) is the most common default for Irish workloads because it was AWS's flagship EU region, has the deepest service breadth (Bedrock with Claude 3.5, full SageMaker, every regional service launches there first or near-first), and sits in the same metro as your team. Azure North Europe (Dublin) wins when Microsoft 365 integration matters, when Azure OpenAI on dedicated capacity is in scope, or when you want Microsoft EU HQ-adjacent procurement leverage. GCP europe-west2 (London) or europe-west1 (St. Ghislain, Belgium) wins on Vertex AI, BigQuery, and engineering teams who prefer GKE; europe-west1 is closer in latency from Dublin (around 14ms) than europe-west2 (around 11ms). For Central Bank of Ireland supervised payment workloads we document the choice in the DPIA and ICT third-party register under DORA Article 28.

The EU Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) has applied since 17 January 2025 to financial entities and critical ICT third-party providers serving them, with the Central Bank of Ireland as competent authority for Irish-supervised firms. For cloud architecture this means ICT risk management with documented governance, ICT-related incident reporting to the Central Bank of Ireland within DORA timelines (initial notification within 4 hours of classification), digital operational resilience testing including TLPT for significant entities under the joint ESA RTS, ICT third-party risk management with Article 30 contractual provisions covering audit rights, sub-outsourcing chains, exit strategies, and data location, plus information sharing arrangements. Our DORA engagements deliver a cloud architecture review against the joint ESA RTS, a third-party register including AWS eu-west-1, Azure North Europe, GCP, Stripe, and SaaS dependencies, contract amendments for Article 30 alignment, exit strategy documentation, and incident playbooks integrated with cloud-native observability.

Schrems II (CJEU C-311/18) invalidated Privacy Shield in 2020 following the litigation by Max Schrems against the Irish DPC, and the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF) restored adequacy in July 2023 for certified US organisations. Because the DPC is lead supervisory authority for Meta, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, and many other US big tech firms under Article 56 GDPR one-stop-shop, Dublin cloud engagements face the most experienced regulator in the EU on transfer mechanics. Every engagement using a US-headquartered provider ships with a documented Transfer Impact Assessment, Standard Contractual Clauses where DPF certification does not cover, supplementary measures (encryption with EU-held keys, BYOK or HYOK), and a DPC-aligned DPIA. For DORA-supervised workloads we keep payment data inside eu-west-1 or eu-west-2 and document any cross-border under Article 30.

Yes. Pfizer Grange Castle, MSD Ballydine, Janssen, and Takeda operate under EMA Annex 11 (computerised systems), HPRA national requirements, 21 CFR Part 11 for FDA-facing workloads, and GAMP 5 second edition lifecycle expectations. Our GxP-validated builds deliver AWS or Azure environments with full IQ, OQ, and PQ documentation, validated change control gated through ServiceNow or Veeva Vault QMS, audit trails with WORM-grade retention, electronic signature controls aligned to Part 11, and data integrity controls aligned to ALCOA+. We work with shared-responsibility matrices against AWS GxP whitepapers and Azure GxP Cloud guidelines, deliver supplier audit packs your QA team can present to FDA or EMA inspectors, and have shipped patterns including AWS Landing Zone with GxP-validated accounts, validated CI/CD with documented release evidence, and Azure Policy guardrails enforcing GxP residency.

NIS2 is being transposed into Irish law via the National Cyber Security Bill and applies to essential and important entities across energy, transport, banking, financial market infrastructure, health, drinking water, wastewater, digital infrastructure, ICT service management, public administration, and digital providers. Our NIS2 engagements deliver an entity classification assessment, ten cybersecurity risk management measures mapped to cloud controls (risk analysis, incident handling, business continuity, supply chain security, vulnerability handling and disclosure, cryptography, multi-factor authentication, secure development), incident reporting playbooks with early warning to the NCSC Ireland within 24 hours, supply chain due diligence integrated into the DORA third-party register where overlap exists, and executive management oversight documentation given that NIS2 holds management bodies personally accountable. Patterned after public posture from Eircom, ESB Networks, and Irish Water.

Dublin cloud sustainability matters for both regulatory reporting under CSRD (in phased application from 2024 for large companies) and for navigating EirGrid grid constraints, which led to a de facto moratorium on new large energy user connections in Dublin area from 2022 onward. AWS, Microsoft, and Google all report substantial renewable energy matching across Irish operations, with Microsoft's Grange Castle expansion publicly tied to renewable PPAs and Google operating Grange Castle on a renewable matching basis. For workloads that tolerate cross-border placement we can architect for GCP europe-west1 (St. Ghislain) or Microsoft Azure Sweden Central for stronger green credentials, document Scope 2 and Scope 3 implications in CSRD-aligned reporting, and pitch IDA Ireland-aware capacity planning given EirGrid's tightening posture on new datacentre grid connections.

CI/CD defaults to GitHub Actions (heavily used across Stripe and HubSpot EMEA engineering), GitLab CI, Azure DevOps for Microsoft EU HQ-adjacent estates, or CircleCI, with self-hosted runners in eu-west-1 or North Europe when secrets-handling demands it under DPC DPIA discipline. GitOps runs on ArgoCD or Flux with progressive delivery via Argo Rollouts or Flagger for blue-green and canary patterns. Image signing uses Cosign, vulnerability scanning uses Trivy or Grype, and SBOM generation uses Syft, all wired into release gates for EU Cyber Resilience Act readiness. Policy-as-code runs on OPA Conftest at the pipeline gate, plus Kyverno or Gatekeeper inside the cluster. We pattern after public engineering practice from Stripe (high-rigor release engineering) and Workday EMEA, adapted to your team's actual operational maturity rather than pitching maximalism.