Secure cloud engineering & DevSecOps

Secure Cloud Engineering

We engineer and harden AWS and Azure with security and compliance built into the pipeline - not bolted on afterwards. Secure landing zones, hardened infrastructure as code, and security automated into your CI/CD. Defence-grade delivery, for the North East and the wider UK.

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The basics

What is secure cloud engineering?

Secure cloud engineering is the practice of building and hardening cloud environments with security designed into how they're delivered - through secure baselines, infrastructure as code, and automated controls in the deployment pipeline.

Rather than reviewing security after the fact, it bakes it into the build, so every environment ships secure by default.

It's the build counterpart to assessment: a cloud security assessment tells you where you're exposed; secure cloud engineering puts it right and keeps it that way.

Our services

What we do

Secure landing zones

Well-architected AWS and Azure foundations with identity, guardrails and segmentation built in.

Infrastructure as code security

Secure, reviewed Terraform / Bicep so environments are consistent and auditable, not hand-built and drifting.

CI/CD pipeline hardening

Embedding security testing (SAST/DAST, secrets and dependency scanning) into your pipelines so issues are caught before they ship.

Baseline hardening

Configuring services to CIS Benchmark standards by default.

Identity & guardrails

Least-privilege access, policy-as-code and automated guardrails that keep environments compliant as they grow.

DevSecOps

DevSecOps - security at the speed of delivery

DevSecOps means making security part of how software and infrastructure are delivered, rather than a gate at the end. We embed automated security testing and guardrails into your pipelines and workflows, so your teams ship quickly and securely - catching issues early, where they're cheapest to fix, without slowing delivery down.

The difference

Why Layer 7

Engineers and security specialists

We don't just advise - we build. Our team engineers and hardens cloud environments, with security expertise behind every decision.

Defence and government-grade delivery

We deliver cloud to defence, public-sector and regulated clients - including MOD-accredited cloud work - through G-Cloud 14, DOS 7 and CCS frameworks.

Security built in, evidenced by design

We work to Secure by Design principles, so the environments we build are secure by default and auditable - not retrofitted.

The full lifecycle, one team

Design, build, assess and test under one roof - so the cloud we engineer is informed by how systems are really attacked and reviewed.

No lock-in, your team keeps control

We hand over what we build with the documentation and knowledge to run it: secure cloud you own and operate, not a black box that ties you to us.

Certified and sustainable

ISO 27001, ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certified, with a published Carbon Reduction Plan. We're also an IASME-licensed Cyber Essentials Plus Certification Body.

Engagement

How to engage us

Secure cloud engineering is scoped to your needs - from hardening an existing environment or building a secure landing zone, to embedding DevSecOps across your delivery teams. Tell us what you're building or running and we'll propose a fixed scope.

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Regional focus

Secure cloud engineering across the North East and UK

We work with organisations throughout the North East and across the UK, remotely and on site - building and hardening cloud for public-sector teams, their suppliers, and private-sector delivery teams.

Questions

Secure cloud engineering FAQs

What's the difference between secure cloud engineering and a cloud security assessment?

An assessment reviews your cloud and tells you where you're exposed. Secure cloud engineering builds and hardens the environment - and can implement the fixes a cloud security assessment identifies.

What is DevSecOps?

Making security part of how software and infrastructure are delivered - automated into the pipeline - rather than a manual check at the end.

Which platforms do you work with?

AWS and Azure[, and Google Cloud - confirm].

Can you harden our existing cloud rather than rebuild it?

Yes. We harden existing environments as well as building new secure landing zones.

Do you work to recognised standards?

Yes - we build to CIS Benchmark baselines and Secure by Design principles.

Build cloud that ships secure by default

Whether you're building something new, hardening what you have, or embedding security into your pipelines - tell us what you're working on and we'll engineer security in.

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