Engineering capabilities
- VPC and firewall design
- Compute sizing
- Managed database selection
- Workspace integration
Cloud & Virtualization
Google Cloud
GCP compute and networking for workloads that benefit from its data and container services.
Security & hardening
- IAM policy design
- Service account hygiene
- Audit logging
Google Cloud environment reference
Projects are the isolation boundary, IAM is granted on groups rather than individuals, and networking is shared rather than duplicated per team.
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Organisation & IAM
- Organisation / folders
- Projects per environment
- Groups & IAM roles
- Org policies
Access granted to groups at folder level; service accounts scoped and keyless wherever workload identity allows.
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Edge
- Cloud DNS
- Cloud Load Balancing
- Cloud Armor / CDN
Global load balancing with managed certificates and WAF rules at the edge.
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Network
- Shared VPC
- Subnets per region
- Cloud NAT
- Firewall rules
Shared VPC keeps one network model while projects retain their own resource ownership.
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Compute & data
- Compute Engine
- GKE
- Cloud Run
- Cloud SQL
- Cloud Storage
Managed services chosen where they remove operational burden; instances sized from observed utilisation.
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Operations
- Cloud Monitoring
- Cloud Logging
- Backup & DR service
- Budgets
Log sinks retained centrally, alerting on SLOs, budget notifications enabled per project.
Frequently asked questions
When does Google Cloud make more sense than AWS or Azure?
Where the estate is container-heavy, data and analytics workloads dominate, or the organisation already runs Google Workspace identity. Otherwise selection follows cost, skills and support expectations.
Do we need GKE, or is Cloud Run enough?
Cloud Run handles stateless HTTP services with far less operational overhead. GKE is warranted when you need custom networking, operators, stateful workloads or fine-grained scheduling.
How is spend controlled?
Committed use discounts for steady workloads, autoscaling and preemptible or spot nodes where interruption is acceptable, plus per-project budgets and quota limits.
Can Workspace identity be used for cloud access?
Yes. Workspace groups drive IAM bindings, with 2-step verification enforced so cloud access inherits the same identity controls as mail.
Scope the work before you commit budget
Send the environment details and get an engineered proposal with assumptions, risks and a rollback path.