Cloud & DevOps Company in Houston

How many waves the migration breaks into is the number that matters in Houston, and proposals are fixed-fee rather than published bands. A scoped cloud migration assessment is a four to eight week engagement covering current-state inventory, target-state design, and a prioritised migration wave plan. A multi-account AWS landing zone or Azure landing zone build is driven by the number of subscriptions or accounts, the regulatory overlay (HITRUST CSF, NERC CIP, CMMC 2.0), and the depth of the Terraform module library. A Kubernetes platform on EKS, AKS, or GKE adds GitOps, observability, and a developer portal. A full energy-sector cloud migration covering SAP S/4HANA, Maximo, and a Pi System integration is a multi-year program scoped in waves. Managed platform retainers are scoped against coverage hours and named-SRE counts. Houston runs in line with Dallas, slightly below Austin, and meaningfully below the Bay Area, with fixed-fee proposals.

AVEVA PI System (formerly OSIsoft PI) is the dominant operational historian across Houston upstream, midstream, and downstream operators, and any honest cloud migration starts by accepting that the on-premises PI footprint is not moving overnight. We deliver PI to Cloud architectures using PI Integrator for Business Analytics, PI Cloud Connect, the AVEVA Data Hub, or Kafka-based custom integrations that respect the IEC 62443 zone boundaries already in place. SCADA telemetry frequently lands in a Kafka or Kinesis stream with schema enforcement, then into a time-series store (TimescaleDB, InfluxDB, or AWS Timestream) for analytics, with the original PI estate remaining the operational system of record. We coordinate with operations technology, process safety, and the TSA pipeline directive compliance team so OT data egress respects the control set rather than working around it.

Yes. TMC engagements are HIPAA-critical by default and most member institutions require HITRUST CSF certification on hosting and SaaS partners, with a signed Business Associate Agreement covering every subprocessor. We deploy in AWS us-east-1 and us-east-2 with HITRUST inheritance through the AWS HITRUST CSF certification, Azure South Central US under the Azure HITRUST shared-responsibility model, or GCP us-south1 with HITRUST controls extended through our deployment templates. Epic, Cerner, AWS HealthLake, Azure Health Data Services, and Google Cloud Healthcare API integrations are scoped with end-to-end encryption, key management via AWS KMS or Azure Key Vault with HSM backing for high-tier workloads, audit logs that are tamper-evident, and de-identification via HIPAA Safe Harbor or Expert Determination where research workloads need it. HHS OCR audit posture is treated as a design input.

Multi-cloud is the operational reality at every Houston supermajor and service prime, not an aspirational slide. ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, SLB, Halliburton, and Baker Hughes typically anchor SAP S/4HANA and Microsoft 365 on Azure, analytics and seismic workloads on AWS, select ML and BigQuery workloads on GCP, and retain significant on-premises HPC for reservoir simulation and seismic processing that cloud economics still do not match. We build Terraform module libraries that target all three hyperscalers, deliver landing zone designs that respect a consistent identity backbone (typically Entra ID with AWS IAM Identity Center and GCP Workload Identity Federation), and ship GitOps pipelines that survive an air-gapped environment where GitLab self-hosted (still dominant in oil and gas because of network isolation requirements) is the only acceptable CI option. FinOps practices are scoped from day one because the cost surface across three hyperscalers gets expensive fast.

TSA Pipeline Cybersecurity Directives 2021-01, 2021-02, the 2022 SD02C revision, and the 2023 SD02D revision introduced concrete control objectives for pipeline owners and operators including network segmentation, access control, continuous monitoring, patch management, and an annual Cybersecurity Assessment Plan. For cloud platform builds in this sector we deliver landing zones with explicit segmentation between IT and OT data paths, immutable audit logs that satisfy the directive's continuous monitoring obligations, patch management programs through AWS Systems Manager or Azure Update Manager, and integration with the existing OT visibility platforms (Claroty, Nozomi Networks, Dragos) so the cloud platform is not a new blind spot. The Implementation Plan and Cybersecurity Assessment Plan documents that go to TSA include the cloud architecture diagrams, evidence packages, and the control mapping.

Yes. Generation, transmission, and balancing authority entities interconnected to ERCOT fall under NERC CIP-002 through CIP-014 and the cloud usage rules are evolving. We deliver landing zones with explicit CIP-005 electronic security perimeter alignment, CIP-007 system security management baselines, CIP-010 configuration change management via Terraform Cloud and GitOps approvals, CIP-011 information protection with encryption in transit and at rest, and CIP-013 supply chain risk management evidence for cloud vendors. Evidence packages are structured for an audit by Texas Reliability Entity (TRE), the regional entity covering ERCOT, and we coordinate with operations technology teams so CIP boundaries align with IEC 62443 zones already in place for downstream or upstream assets.

Energy-sector cloud spend at supermajor scale runs into hundreds of millions per year and a CFO at ExxonMobil or Chevron has no patience for a FinOps program that produces dashboards but not decisions. We build FinOps practices aligned with the FinOps Foundation framework, deliver showback and chargeback to business units (upstream, midstream, downstream, trading, corporate), run monthly cost reviews with named platform and finance partners in the same meeting, and produce decisions on Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Azure Reservations, GCP Committed Use Discounts, and Spot or Preemptible usage policies. We tag every Terraform-deployed resource with cost-centre and project metadata so chargeback is not a quarter-end fire drill. For seismic and reservoir simulation workloads we model on-demand versus reserved versus on-premises HPC economics explicitly so the migration decision survives a procurement review.

A multi-account AWS landing zone or Azure landing zone with Terraform module library, GitOps via Argo CD or Flux, observability via Datadog or Splunk Observability, and a developer portal typically takes sixteen to twenty-eight weeks from kickoff to general availability, depending on regulatory overlay. Week 1 to 4 is discovery and target-state design. Week 5 to 14 is build, including Control Tower or Azure Landing Zone deployment, Terraform module authoring, Kubernetes cluster bootstrap, and observability instrumentation. Week 15 to 22 is application onboarding, FinOps practice rollout, and audit evidence packaging. Week 23 onward is gradual platform team handover. HITRUST CSF, CMMC 2.0, or NERC CIP overlays add four to twelve weeks of evidence preparation and external assessor coordination. We have shipped to this cadence inside Texas enterprise stacks repeatedly.