Cloud & DevOps consultancy

Ship reliable infrastructure,
not workarounds.

We help startups and SMEs build production-grade cloud platforms, streamline CI/CD pipelines, and establish the operational clarity your team needs to move fast without breaking things.

Services built for teams that ship

Practical cloud and DevOps consulting, scoped around your team, your stack, and your release cadence. No one-size-fits-all playbooks.

Cloud Consulting

Architecture reviews, migration planning, and cost optimization across AWS, GCP, and Azure. We help you choose what fits, not what’s trending.

AWS GCP Azure Cost Review

DevOps Enablement

CI/CD pipeline design, release strategy, and developer experience improvements. We standardise your delivery flow so shipping becomes routine, not risky.

CI/CD GitOps GitHub Actions

Platform Engineering

Internal developer platforms, Kubernetes clusters, and Infrastructure as Code. We build the foundation your engineering team stands on.

Kubernetes Terraform IaC

Managed Operations

Ongoing infrastructure management, incident triage, and operational runbooks. We keep things running so your team can focus on product.

SLA Management Runbooks On-call

Observability

Logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting, set up properly from the start. We establish baselines and dashboards that actually get used.

Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry

Security Review

Infrastructure security posture assessments, secret management audits, and hardening recommendations. Pragmatic security scoped to your threat model.

IAM Secrets Mgmt Hardening

A clear path from assessment to handover

Every engagement follows a structured process. No ambiguity about deliverables, no surprises on scope.

01

Discover

Understand your current state: infrastructure, team structure, pain points, and business goals. No assumptions.

02

Assess

Audit existing systems, identify risks, and document trade-offs. Deliver a clear assessment with prioritised recommendations.

03

Plan

Define scope, milestones, and success criteria. You know exactly what will be delivered and when.

04

Implement

Build incrementally with regular check-ins. Every change is documented, tested, and reviewed before going live.

05

Handover

Transfer knowledge with documentation, runbooks, and walkthroughs. Your team owns and understands everything we built.

06

Support

Optional ongoing support for questions, incident review, and iterative improvements. We stay available if you need us.

Real engagements, anonymised for privacy

We don't publish client logos or fabricate metrics. Here's the shape of work we do and the outcomes we focus on.

SaaS / Series A

CI/CD standardisation and release confidence

A growing SaaS team had fragmented build pipelines across multiple services. Deployments were manual, slow, and unpredictable. We standardised their CI/CD, introduced GitOps workflows, and established deployment gates.

Key outcomes
  • Unified pipeline across all services
  • Automated rollback and deployment gates
  • Team-owned runbooks for release process
E-commerce / SME

Cloud migration planning and cost visibility

An e-commerce company needed to migrate from on-premise servers with no clear view of running costs. We assessed their workloads, planned a phased migration, and set up cost monitoring dashboards.

Key outcomes
  • Phased migration plan with risk assessment
  • Per-service cost attribution dashboards
  • Documentation for internal team hand-off
Fintech / Startup

Observability baseline and incident response

A fintech startup had no structured logging, no alerting, and investigated incidents reactively. We established an observability baseline with structured logging, tracing, and on-call processes.

Key outcomes
  • OpenTelemetry-based tracing across services
  • Alert policies tied to SLI/SLO definitions
  • Incident response playbooks and post-mortem process

Clarity over complexity

Illusio Solution was built on a simple observation: most infrastructure problems aren't caused by the wrong tools. they're caused by unclear decisions, undocumented trade-offs, and rushed implementations.

We focus on making systems understandable, maintainable, and well-documented. Everything we build comes with the context your team needs to own it independently.

✓ What we focus on

  • Clear documentation and knowledge transfer
  • Incremental, reversible changes
  • Right-sized solutions for your actual scale
  • Reproducible infrastructure with version control
  • Honest scoping with defined trade-offs

✕ What we don't do

  • Overpromise timelines or guarantees
  • Push vendor lock-in as a default
  • Build systems only we can maintain
  • Use buzzwords in place of specifics
  • Skip handover documentation

What teams say about working with us

They didn't just set up our pipelines. They made sure every engineer on the team understood how to maintain them. The documentation alone was worth the engagement.
Engineering Lead
SaaS Company, London
Illusio helped us move off legacy infrastructure without a single production incident. The phased approach meant we never had to freeze feature work.
CTO
E-commerce Startup, Manchester
We went from zero observability to having actionable alerts in under a month. The incident response playbooks they left us are still in use every week.
Platform Engineer
Fintech, Edinburgh

Let's talk about your infrastructure

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What to expect

We'll review your enquiry and follow up to schedule a brief scoping call. No automated responses, no sales funnel. Just a conversation.

Our address

30 N Gould St Ste R
Sheridan, WY 82801

We aim to respond within a few business days.