Hire a Cloud Solutions Architect — Cloud Architecture Consulting
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Cloud Architecture Consulting & Cloud Solutions Architects for Hire
The architecture decisions determine whether your infrastructure scales, stays secure, and stays within budget. Your engineering team can build once the decisions are made.
CimpleO provides contract cloud solutions architects for AWS, Azure, and GCP. We design cloud infrastructure, assess and fix existing environments, lead cloud migrations, and build the Infrastructure as Code that makes your setup reproducible and auditable. Engagements run from a focused 2-week architecture review to a 6-month greenfield cloud build.
What We Do
Cloud Architecture Design Greenfield infrastructure design or re-architecture of existing environments. We produce Terraform modules, AWS CDK stacks, architecture decision records, and runbooks. Every design accounts for failure modes, cost at scale, and what it costs your team to operate.
Cloud Migration Consulting Lift-and-shift is the cheapest migration and the worst long-term decision. We assess your workloads — what to rehost, what to re-platform, what to refactor, and what to retire — and build a phased migration plan with risk-ordered sequencing. We’ve migrated monoliths to ECS/EKS, on-prem databases to RDS/Aurora, and bare-metal deployments to fully IaC-managed environments.
Cost Optimisation Cloud bills compound without regular review. A typical engagement identifies 20–40% savings through instance right-sizing, Reserved Instance and Savings Plan coverage, unused resource cleanup, and data transfer cost reduction. You get a before/after cost model.
Cloud Security & Compliance IAM least-privilege audit, VPC segmentation review, encryption at rest and in transit verification, secrets management (AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault), and compliance baseline setup for GDPR, HIPAA, or SOC 2 scope. We deliver findings with severity ratings and implementation-ready remediation steps.
Infrastructure as Code Terraform, AWS CDK, and Pulumi. We write IaC that’s modular, tested, and shipped through CI/CD pipelines for plan/apply workflows. Existing Terraform that’s grown unmanageable gets refactored.
Kubernetes & Container Platforms EKS, AKS, and GKE cluster design and hardening. Multi-tenant namespace design, resource quotas, network policies, pod security standards, and GitOps workflows with ArgoCD or Flux. Autoscaling (HPA, KEDA, Karpenter) tuned to your actual load patterns.
Our Consulting Process
Week 1 — Discovery & Assessment We map your current environment: inventory of services, cost breakdown by team/product, security posture scan, reliability analysis. You get a written findings report before design work begins.
Weeks 2–4 — Architecture Design We design the target architecture around your requirements and constraints. You review and challenge it before we write a line of IaC. Architecture Decision Records document each call and why we made it.
Weeks 4–N — Implementation IaC modules, migration execution, CI/CD pipeline setup, and runbook documentation. We work in your repository with your branching conventions. Daily async updates; weekly syncs.
Handover Handover includes a live walkthrough of the architecture, runbook walkthroughs with your ops team, and a 30-day email support window.
When to Bring In a Contract Architect
- Your current cloud setup was designed for 10% of current load.
- Your cloud bill grows faster than revenue and nobody knows why.
- You’re migrating from on-premises or a legacy provider and need a credible plan.
- You need to pass a security audit or compliance certification and your current setup won’t pass.
- Your team built the infrastructure iteratively and it’s become a liability.
- A new product launch or acquisition creates a spike of architectural work that doesn’t justify a full-time hire.
Technology Stack
- Cloud Platforms: AWS (primary), Azure, Google Cloud
- IaC: Terraform, AWS CDK, Pulumi, CloudFormation
- Containers: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE), ECS Fargate
- Serverless: AWS Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge, Azure Functions
- Databases: RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Cosmos DB, Cloud Spanner, ElastiCache
- Networking: VPC/VNET design, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, PrivateLink, Service Mesh (Istio, Linkerd)
- Security: IAM, KMS, WAF, GuardDuty, Security Hub, Wiz, Lacework
- GitOps: ArgoCD, Flux, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI
Related Services
For containerisation and Docker-specific work, see our DevOps & Docker services. For full-stack application development on top of the cloud infrastructure, see Full-Stack Development.
Get a Cloud Architecture Assessment
Tell us your cloud provider, current setup, primary pain point (cost, reliability, security, migration), and timeline. We respond within one business day with an assessment of scope and whether we’re the right fit.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does a cloud solutions architect actually deliver?
Working outputs your engineering team can execute on the last day of the engagement: architecture diagrams (C4 or AWS-native), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CDK), migration runbooks, cost models, and security baseline documentation.
How much does cloud architecture consulting cost?
A focused architecture review or migration assessment runs $3,000–$8,000 depending on environment complexity. A full greenfield cloud architecture engagement (design + IaC + handover) runs $12,000–$40,000. Dedicated architect retainers start at $9,000/month. We give you a fixed quote after a discovery call.
AWS, Azure, or GCP — do you have a platform preference?
We work across all three. AWS is our highest-volume platform — most clients are there already. Azure is common for Microsoft-stack orgs and regulated industries. GCP for ML/data-heavy workloads. For greenfield, we recommend based on your team's existing skills, compliance requirements, and workload characteristics.
Can you review and fix our existing cloud architecture?
Yes. Cloud architecture reviews are one of our most common engagements. We assess your current setup against Well-Architected principles, identify cost waste, security gaps, and reliability risks, and deliver a prioritised remediation plan with implementation effort estimates.
Do you handle the migration itself, or just design it?
Both. We can design the architecture and hand off detailed runbooks to your team, or we can run the migration end-to-end — including cutover planning, rollback procedures, and post-migration optimisation. Most clients take a hybrid approach: we design and lead, their team executes under our guidance.
What about ongoing cloud infrastructure management?
We offer dedicated architect retainers for ongoing work — new services, cost reviews, security audits, incident post-mortems. We don't do 24/7 NOC-style managed services. We design the system so your ops team can run it without calling us weekly.
How do you handle compliance requirements (GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2)?
Compliance goes into the architecture from the start. We know which AWS/Azure controls map to which compliance frameworks, how to scope your environment to minimise audit surface, and which third-party tools (Wiz, Lacework, Vanta) to integrate for continuous compliance monitoring.