Cloud & DevOps Company in Ottawa

Ottawa cloud engagements land in one of two places. The first is a focused PBMM-ready Landing Zone on AWS or Azure: multi-account or multi-subscription baseline, ITSG-33 control mapping, bilingual runbooks, and CCCS Cloud Usage Profile alignment. The second is a full federal-grade platform migration with workload modernisation, an observability stack, CI/CD with SLSA Level 3 supply-chain controls, and an incident response runbook aligned with the SSC security stack. Private sector Kanata engagements (Shopify, Mitel, Solace patterns without federal procurement artefacts) typically come in 20 to 30 percent below federal rates because the documentation overhead is lighter. Ottawa rates sit roughly in line with Toronto for federal work because of bilingual delivery and clearance considerations.

PBMM stands for Protected B Medium Integrity Medium Availability, the Government of Canada sensitivity profile applied to most personal information held by federal departments and many Crown corporations. Both AWS and Microsoft publish PBMM service eligibility lists for their Canadian regions, refreshed regularly, and we constrain Landing Zone designs to those eligible services. ITSG-33 (Information Technology Security Risk Management, the federal control catalogue based on NIST SP 800-53) defines the control selection, and we map our Landing Zone guardrails, encryption, logging, identity, and network controls to specific ITSG-33 control identifiers. CCCS publishes the Cloud Usage Profile that ties it all together. We deliver the control narrative, the evidence catalogue, and the residual risk register your departmental security authority needs to grant Authority to Operate.

Yes. Most federal cloud consumption flows through SSC, which operates as the cloud broker for the Government of Canada and procures AWS, Azure, and GCP capacity on behalf of departments through the SSC Cloud Brokering Services arrangement. Our deliverables (statements of work, technical proposals, architecture artefacts, runbooks, training plans) land in formats SSC and departmental procurement teams accept. We have built to the SSC enterprise architecture patterns, the Government of Canada Cloud Adoption Strategy, the Government of Canada Cloud Operationalization Framework, and the Standard on Service and Digital. We do not hold a clearance in-house by default and we are direct about that, partnering with cleared prime contractors where the contract requires personnel security screening.

The Official Languages Act and the Official Languages (Communications with and Services to the Public) Regulations require federal institutions to deliver internal services, public-facing services, and digital interfaces in both English and French to an equal standard. For cloud and DevOps that means bilingual operational runbooks, bilingual incident response playbooks, bilingual monitoring dashboards where they are user-facing, bilingual error messages and CLI output for internal tools, and bilingual technical documentation. Our team delivers in fluent French and English and we work with certified federal translation partners for content that must pass Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages review. Bilingual delivery is built into the sprint plan, not retrofitted at the end.

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security publishes the Government of Canada Cloud Usage Profile, which sets out the security and risk management framework for federal departments adopting cloud services. It builds on ITSG-33 control selection, ITSG-22 network security zoning, and the Treasury Board Policy on Government Security. Our Landing Zones default to the Cloud Usage Profile baseline: tagged accounts and subscriptions, centralised logging to a security log archive, mandatory encryption at rest and in transit, identity federation with the departmental directory, network segmentation aligned to ITSG-22 zoning, and continuous control monitoring. We deliver the alignment statement, the control evidence package, and the residual risk register the departmental Chief Security Officer signs off.

AWS ca-central-1 (Montreal) and Azure Canada Central (Toronto) plus Canada East (Quebec City) provide Canadian data residency for the data plane and have published PBMM-eligible service catalogues. GCP northamerica-northeast1 (Montreal) and northamerica-northeast2 (Toronto) are options. For higher-sensitivity workloads above PBMM that need air-gapped or sovereign hosting, we use the SSC Enterprise Data Centre programme or sovereign Canadian cloud providers. We document residency precisely in the architecture description (which services, which regions, which control plane endpoints, where backups land) so the departmental authority can grant Authority to Operate without follow-up questions. Cross-border control plane traffic, where it exists, is disclosed up front.

Yes. Private sector engineering teams in the Kanata cluster operate at hyperscale or close to it, and we have built the migration patterns to match. For Shopify-pattern Ruby on Rails and Go workloads we ship blue-green migration plans on AWS ca-central-1 with EKS and Aurora. For Mitel-pattern unified communications we work through SBC and SIP migration alongside the customer voice engineering team. For Solace-pattern event broker workloads we plan around Solace PubSub+ topology on Kubernetes. For Kinaxis-pattern supply chain SaaS we focus on multi-tenant data plane integrity during migration. Private sector engagements drop the federal procurement artefacts but keep the production-grade observability, runbooks, and incident response plans.

Yes. SLSA Level 3 supply-chain controls are increasingly expected on federal CI/CD pipelines following the Treasury Board direction on software supply chain risk and CCCS guidance on third-party software. Our CI/CD designs on GitHub Enterprise Cloud, GitLab Self-Managed, and Azure DevOps include signed commits, signed artefacts via Sigstore, SBOM generation in SPDX or CycloneDX, dependency review on every pull request, hermetic builds where feasible, and provenance attestations stored in a tamper-resistant log. We map the pipeline to ITSG-33 control identifiers and deliver an evidence catalogue suitable for departmental security review. Private sector clients get the same pipeline without the federal documentation overhead.