Technologies
Cloud & infrastructure
Landing zones through fleet operations—multi-account governance, Kubernetes at scale, hybrid connectivity, and FinOps embedded in engineering workflows.
LZ
landing zone patterns across AWS · Azure · GCP
IaC
Terraform / OpenTofu / Pulumi at enterprise rigor
K8s
multi-cluster lifecycle & tenant isolation
FinOps
unit economics embedded in engineering rituals
Platform depth we deploy in production
Representative stacks and patterns from active programs—always tailored to your control framework and economics, never copy-pasted from a generic bill of materials.
AWS
Organizations, Control Tower, EKS, Lambda, Transit Gateway, Outposts
Microsoft Azure
AKS, Arc, Entra ID, Defender, ExpressRoute, Fabric
Google Cloud
GKE, Anthos, VPC-SC, Chronicle, Apigee, BigQuery Omni
IBM Cloud / Red Hat OpenShift
OpenShift clusters, RHEL hardening, hybrid integration
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Exadata Cloud, Dedicated Region, DR patterns
Terraform · OpenTofu · Pulumi
Modules, policy-as-code, drift detection, CI validation
Cross-cloud networking
Private connectivity, DNS strategy, egress control
Capacity & economics
Commit modeling, rightsizing, autoscaling tied to SLOs
How we work in this domain
Hyperscaler services are commodities; competitive advantage comes from how accounts, networks, identities, and economics are orchestrated as a coherent estate. This page summarizes how USTechie delivers cloud and infrastructure depth at Fortune 500 scale—with references you can trace to statements of work and architecture decisions.
Account vending and guardrails that scale past the first ten teams
Early cloud adopters often outgrow hand-provisioned accounts. We implement vending pipelines with mandatory guardrails: centralized logging, network segmentation defaults, KMS strategies, and break-glass procedures that auditors can follow.
Service Control Policies, Azure Management Groups, and organization policies are expressed as versioned code reviewed like application changes.
Network design for hybrid and multi-region reality
Transit gateways, hub-and-spoke, and DNS strategies are documented with failure modes and tested failover. Private connectivity to data centers and SaaS providers is budgeted with redundancy classes matched to workload tier.
Egress control is not an afterthought: inspected paths, domain allow lists where appropriate, and anomaly detection for unexpected destinations.
Kubernetes operations as a product
Cluster provisioning, add-on compatibility matrices, and upgrade windows are owned by a platform team with SLOs. Tenant teams receive namespaces or virtual clusters with quotas, network policies, and observability defaults pre-wired.
Progressive delivery with Argo CD or Flux includes promotion policies, signed artifacts, and rollback drills rehearsed with application owners.
Database and data store resilience on cloud
Managed relational engines, global databases, and cache tiers are sized with HA topologies appropriate to RPO/RTO. Patching windows and blue/green cutovers are coordinated with dependent applications—not imposed as opaque maintenance.
Backup encryption, cross-region copies, and restore testing produce evidence for ransomware readiness programs.
Sustainability and carbon-aware placement
Where clients commit to science-based targets, we surface carbon signals in architectural decisions: region selection, batch scheduling windows, and rightsizing that reduces idle compute.
Reporting connects engineering changes to sustainability KPIs leadership already tracks.
Outposts & hybrid
Consistent operations where latency or data gravity requires proximity.
Oracle Dedicated Region
Patterns for packaged applications with strict locality requirements.
IBM OpenShift
Enterprise Linux consistency and regulated-industry deployments.
Exit planning
Portability choices documented so multi-cloud is strategy—not accident.