Cloud platforms that ship on a steady cadence.
Cloud Cadence is the engineering consultancy of a senior cloud & platform engineer with 10+ years across AWS and Azure — building platforms, pipelines and identity systems for banks, regulators, insurers and high-growth product companies.
Senior hands-on engineering, four ways.
One experienced engineer embedded in your team — not a bench of juniors behind an account manager.
Cloud & platform engineering
aws · azure · terraformDesigning and building cloud platforms end to end: account and subscription provisioning with security guardrails baked in, infrastructure as code with Terraform and CloudFormation, serverless and container workloads, and API design with OpenAPI specs your other teams can actually build against.
SRE & reliability
observability · scaling · zero-downtimeMaking platforms boring in the best way: monitoring and alerting that reflects what users feel, load testing before launch rather than after the incident, zero-downtime migrations, and breaking monoliths into services without breaking the business.
DevOps & CI/CD
github actions · azure devopsMulti-stage pipelines that standardise build, test and deploy across services — so releases go from a monthly event to a non-event. GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, and the delivery culture to go with them.
Identity & access
auth0 · oidc · fine-grained authzAuthentication and authorisation done properly from day one: OAuth 2.0 and OIDC flows, SSO, Auth0 and Auth0 FGA for fine-grained, resource-level access control, and least-privilege IAM across cloud estates — increasingly relevant as agentic AI raises the stakes on who (and what) can access what.
Trusted in regulated, high-stakes environments.
Modernised a core regulatory data-collection platform for a major UK financial regulator — decomposing a monolith into Python microservices with strict access controls and a zero-downtime migration.
Industrialised cloud onboarding for a global insurance group: automated AWS account and Azure subscription provisioning with enforced least-privilege IAM policies and security guardrails, cutting manual lead times dramatically.
Implemented authentication and authorisation for a high-traffic online research platform — SSO and OIDC login flows with Auth0, plus load testing to keep the platform steady under real-world demand.
Shipped features and CI/CD automation for a cloud-migration acceleration product, deploying to AWS ECS, EKS and Lambda with GitHub Actions pipelines and continuous performance monitoring.
Client names and detailed case studies available on request.
Tools chosen for the job, not the CV.
Cloud
Infrastructure & delivery
Identity & code
Shaped around your project, not a playbook.
Flexible engagements
From a few weeks of focused delivery to multi-month platform builds. Remote or on-site in London, outside or inside IR35 - whatever the project actually needs.
Embedded, not bolted on
Your repos, your tools, your ways of working. Comfortable owning a workstream end to end or slotting into an existing team as a senior pair of hands.
Senior and accountable
You work directly with the engineer doing the work. Clear communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and documentation that outlives the contract.
Have a platform to build or a pipeline to fix?
Outside IR35 and inside IR35 engagements considered.
llyubenov@cloudcadence.co.ukOr find me on LinkedIn.