Cloud & DevOps Company in Glasgow

A Glasgow cloud number follows control-plane scope, not team size. A scoped Glasgow cloud landing zone build runs six to twelve weeks, covering AWS Control Tower or Azure Landing Zone setup, baseline security controls, one or two CI/CD pipelines, and an ISO 27001 evidence starter pack. A production multi-account platform adds Kubernetes, GitOps, an observability stack, secrets management, policy-as-code, SRE runbooks, capacity planning, and a chaos engineering schedule. Full enterprise platform builds for defence primes (ITAR-aware), banking IFSD migrations (PRA SS2/21), or satellite ground segments (CCSDS, multi-region) extend the scope further. Glasgow rates sit below central London and Edinburgh but above Newcastle and Belfast, reflecting the defence, aerospace, and IFSD talent base. Codazz proposals are fixed-fee against scope, not open time and materials, so finance teams at BAE Govan, Spire Global, Spirit Prestwick, or Morgan Stanley IFSD can budget with certainty.

Yes. For BAE Govan and Scotstoun, Thales Glasgow, Leonardo UK, and the Tier-2 defence supply chain we run an ITAR scope assessment (which articles and technical data are USML controlled), a UK Export Control Order 2008 review (which technology is dual-use), and a UK List X site assessment where physical security is in scope. Cloud architecture follows ITAR-equivalent patterns on AWS eu-west-2 with US Person access controls, technical data segregation, and TAA-aligned restrictions. For higher classifications we deploy on AWS Outposts in UK List X sites, Azure Stack Hub, or fully on-prem OpenShift. Documentation includes a Technology Control Plan (TCP), an Empowered Official (EO) sign-off chain, a Deemed Export Control matrix mapping every engineer to their nationality and access scope, and a CUI handling addendum mirroring DFARS 7012 patterns where US contracts apply. Every change goes through an export control gate before merge.

For Spire Global, AAC Clyde Space, Alba Orbital, and Glasgow's wider space cluster we architect ground segment infrastructure that meets CCSDS (Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems) standards for telemetry, telecommand, and file delivery. Mission operations centres run from Glasgow with primary cloud hosting on AWS eu-west-2 and AWS Ground Station for managed antenna operations, with multi-region failover into eu-west-1 (Ireland) and us-east-1 (Northern Virginia) where coverage demands. Telemetry pipelines process millions of events per second through Kafka on Confluent Cloud EU, Kinesis Data Streams, or Azure Event Hubs, landing in time-series stores (TimescaleDB, InfluxDB Cloud EU, Amazon Timestream). Telecommand uplinks run through dedicated low-latency paths with full audit trails. Documentation includes UK Space Agency licensing alignment, OFCOM spectrum coordination references, and CCSDS conformance evidence. We have referenced patterns from Spire Global's public engineering blog and Glasgow's wider space cluster talks at the Glasgow Space Conference.

Yes. Morgan Stanley Glasgow, JP Morgan Glasgow, Barclays Glasgow, and the wider IFSD cluster operate under PRA SS2/21 outsourcing and third-party risk management, plus FCA PS21/3 Operational Resilience requirements. Our migration programmes include an Important Business Service (IBS) mapping, impact tolerance setting, severe-but-plausible scenario testing, third-party concentration risk assessment, and exit plan documentation. Cloud platforms run on AWS eu-west-2 with multi-AZ resilience, cross-region failover into eu-west-1 for tested DR, and full data sovereignty under DPA 2018 and UK GDPR. Documentation includes the PRA SS2/21 outsourcing register entry, the FCA SYSC 8 outsourcing assessment, the third-country transfer impact assessment where any data leaves UK borders, and the resilience scenario test results. We coordinate with internal model risk, third-party risk, and operational resilience teams so the platform clears internal audit and PRA Section 166 review without rework.

Yes. For Scottish Power, SSE plc, water utilities, and the wider Critical National Infrastructure supply chain we map cloud and DevOps controls against the NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) at the relevant profile (typically Profile 1 or 2 depending on operator status under the NIS Regulations 2018). Coverage includes the four CAF objectives (managing security risk, protecting against cyber attack, detecting cyber security events, minimising the impact of cyber security incidents) and the fourteen principles. We deliver evidence packs for each CAF Indicator of Good Practice (IGP), integrate detection into a UK-resident SIEM (Splunk UK, Microsoft Sentinel EU, Elastic Cloud UK) with logging into the NCSC Active Cyber Defence (ACD) ecosystem where eligible, and document incident response in alignment with the NIS competent authority expectations (Ofgem for energy, Ofcom for digital infrastructure, Ofwat for water). For Scottish energy clients we also align with Ofgem GD2 and ED2 price control digital obligations.

UK Export Control Order 2008 (and the UK Strategic Export Control Lists) governs the export and transfer of military, dual-use, and certain emerging technologies, including cloud workloads that touch controlled technical data. For Spirit AeroSystems Prestwick, Thales Glasgow, Leonardo UK, BAE-adjacent supply chain, and aerospace research at University of Glasgow and Strathclyde we run a Control List Classification (CLC) on the technology in scope, an Export Control Joint Unit (ECJU) licence determination, and a Standard Individual Export Licence (SIEL) or Open General Export Licence (OGEL) application where required. Cloud architecture isolates controlled technical data into UK-only environments with nationality-based access controls, encrypted artifact storage with key residency in UK regions only, and audit logging that meets ECJU inspection expectations. Cross-border collaboration (typical for Airbus or Boeing supply chain) uses TAA-aligned access patterns. Every change goes through an export control gate before merge or deployment.

Yes. We offer ongoing SRE and platform engineering as a fixed-fee monthly retainer rather than open-ended T and M. Coverage runs GMT and BST hours from our Edmonton and Chandigarh hubs at a five-hour offset, with on-call rotations integrated into PagerDuty or Opsgenie alongside your internal teams. Standard retainers include incident response with documented SLOs, monthly chaos engineering exercises (Gremlin or AWS Fault Injection Simulator), quarterly capacity reviews, security patch management against the agreed CVE response window, observability dashboard maintenance, runbook updates, and cost optimisation reviews. For ITAR-restricted workloads we adjust the on-call roster to UK Persons or US Persons as required by the TCP, with documented Empowered Official sign-off on every shift change. BAE Govan, Spirit Prestwick, and IFSD banking clients run on this pattern.

Some cloud and DevOps work qualifies for the merged UK R&D Expenditure Credit scheme (20 percent above-the-line credit), but routine cloud setup, lift-and-shift migration, and standard CI/CD pipeline build do not. Eligible activity is the portion involving algorithmic uncertainty or technological advance: novel multi-region active-active patterns under CCSDS for satellite telemetry, custom Kubernetes operators that solve previously unsolved scheduling problems, real-time event processing pipelines at scale beyond off-the-shelf capability, or cryptographic key management implementations that go beyond standard HSM use. We separate eligible R&D portions from routine platform engineering in our time logs, deliver technical narratives aligned with HMRC's CIRD guidance and the BEIS Frascati definition, and provide failed-hypothesis documentation where applicable. Glasgow space sector clients often stack Patent Box relief (10 percent effective corporation tax on qualifying IP profits) on the resulting platforms. Final eligibility sits with your R&D tax adviser and HMRC.