SERVICES PROVIDED
- Project Management
- Platform Management
- Organisational Change Management
MAIN GOALS
- Establish strong technical foundations for ongoing cloud management
- Establish consistent and compliant governance practices supporting decentralised delivery
- Secure by default and modern delivery practices (DevOps, IaC, CI/CD)
DESCRIPTION
Through contingent labour services, we provided ongoing project and platform management services to a Queensland Government client leading the uplift of a cloud platforms maturity uplift including the development of a new, greenfield Azure Landing Zone architecture, Power Platform Governance Framework implementation and Cloud Governance through secure by design principles.
Leveraging resources via the client's implementation parter, we lead the development of the Azure Foundations Architecture based upon Microsoft's Well-Architected Framework and Hub and Spoke model. Ensuring that our client was set up for the future requirements of a dynamic and fast paced environment, we ensured that modern DevOps principles were leveraged including Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).
TECHNOLOGIES LEVERAGED
- Azure DevOps for Project Management planning, Git Code Repositories and CI/CD Deployment Pipelines
- Bicep for Infrastructure-as-Code language
- Microsoft Azure for the primary Cloud Platform service
GOVERNANCE
Governance was a big focus for our client, so the Azure Platform was built upon the Microsoft Security Baseline and IS18 Controls to ensure they can continue to move towards a proven, secure cloud environment for up to and including PROTECTED information.
To support a "Centralised Governance, Decentralised Delivery" direction, the ongoing operating model was very important with clear transparency, visibility and accountability between teams. We established clear boundaries and implemented several tools to support the management of the Azure cloud platform including:
- MkDocs
- AzGovViz - to support transparent and visible insight into the Azure Governance features of the Azure Platform
- Azure IPAM - to support the visibility of Azure Networks
- FinOps Toolkit - to support appropriate managing of Azure costing management
An important part of the adoption of the Azure Foundations Platform was to establish a private BICEP Module Repository specific for the clients tenant, we led the design and development and deployment of all modules utilising client's in-house staff.
Not only can we provide platform strategic direction and project management services, we partner with amazingly skilled Cloud and DevOps Engineers in addition to expert Cloud Architects to deliver cloud transformations end to end. If this project sounds similar to your needs, contact us for a free consultation.