Azure & Platform Engineering Consultancy

Helping businesses design, improve and operate reliable cloud platforms — from focused technical reviews through to end-to-end delivery.

End-to-End Cloud Delivery

Design → Build → Deploy → Handover

From initial architecture through to production deployment, we can take ownership of complete Azure and platform engineering projects. Engagements can scale beyond a single engineer where additional specialist delivery capacity is required.

  • Complete platform design & architecture
  • Infrastructure as code implementation
  • CI/CD pipeline setup
  • Production deployment & operations handover

Focused Consultancy Services

Focused Review → Implementation → Ongoing Support

Azure Cost Optimisation

Identify unnecessary Azure expenditure and opportunities to redesign workloads for better cost efficiency without compromising reliability.

  • Infrastructure audit & cost analysis
  • Tagging and governance review
  • Prioritised optimisation roadmap

DevOps & Release Review

Review CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes and engineering workflows to identify bottlenecks, reliability issues and opportunities for automation.

  • CI/CD pipeline review
  • Deployment risk assessment
  • Automation & tooling recommendations

Platform Architecture Review

Independent review of Azure and platform architecture, with practical recommendations covering scalability, reliability, security, maintainability and cost.

  • System design & scalability review
  • Security & reliability assessment
  • Technical decision validation

Recent Outcomes

High-volume analytics on a tight budget

Designed and built a data analytics platform collecting over 1 million data entries per day and running for only £100 per month total costs.

Why Work With Us

SJ Telford is a specialist platform engineering consultancy led by Simon Telford, working with trusted engineers where additional delivery capacity or specialist expertise is required.

Senior Engineering Expertise

Principal-level technical leadership and engineering expertise without requiring another permanent senior hire.

Hands-On Delivery

We don't stop at architecture diagrams and recommendations. Where appropriate, we can implement, deploy and support the solution.

Scale When Required

Engagements can range from a focused technical review through to larger delivery projects, using trusted specialist engineers where additional capacity or expertise is required.

Let's discuss your platform

Whether you need an independent technical review, help solving a specific Azure problem, or a team to deliver a larger cloud project, let's discuss what you need.