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Cloud, software, data, and AI engineering.

Three engineering capabilities, bought the way the work needs: a defined project, specialists and teams inside your own, or ongoing engineering once the system is live.

Cloud & Platform Engineering

Platforms your engineers can build on and your business can rely on. We design and build cloud foundations, move workloads onto them, and modernize what was lifted and shifted into something that is cheaper to run and harder to break. AWS is where our delivery experience runs deepest; on Azure we bring expert-level certification and scope engagements to the depth we can stand behind.

  • AWS and Azure architecture and implementation
  • Landing zones and platform engineering
  • Migrations and application modernization
  • DevOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code
  • Serverless and container-based architectures
  • Reliability, observability, security, and resilience
  • Cloud cost optimization
  • Architecture reviews and technical assessments

Software Engineering

Applications, not just the infrastructure under them. We build backend services and APIs, frontend applications, SaaS platforms, and the internal and enterprise systems a business actually runs on - lending platforms and ERPs among them - and we modernize legacy software without stopping the business that depends on it.

  • Backend services and APIs
  • Frontend applications
  • Integrations with cloud platforms and third-party systems
  • SaaS platforms
  • Custom business applications and internal systems
  • ERP and enterprise software
  • Legacy software modernization
  • Application architecture and end-to-end delivery

Data & AI Engineering

Most AI projects stall on the data underneath, not on the model. We build the data foundation first - ingestion, transformation, a governed analytical platform - and then put AI to work on it where it earns its place: search and retrieval, AI-assisted access to business data, and AI features inside the applications people already use. Practical engineering, not AI research and not chatbots for their own sake.

  • Data engineering, pipelines, and integration
  • Data lakes and analytical platforms
  • Analytics architecture and BI foundations
  • AI-assisted reporting and access to business data
  • AI search and retrieval systems
  • AI integration into business applications
  • Production AI architecture and implementation
  • Practical, governed automation

How to engage

Any capability, three ways to buy it.

Directly with Northkeep, or through a consultancy or integrator that owns the client relationship.

Projects

A defined outcome, delivered.

Discovery, architecture, implementation, and handover for a system you need built, modernized, or integrated - from a single platform component to a complete software product.

Fixed price or milestone-based where the scope is clear; a paid discovery phase first, or time-and-materials, where it is not.

Specialists and teams

Engineering capacity with technical leadership.

Specialist engineers, a small team, or architecture and technical leadership, working inside your project - directly for you, or behind a consultancy or integrator that owns the client relationship.

Time-and-materials or dedicated capacity, with Northkeep technical oversight. Defined work packages can be fixed price.

Ongoing engineering

The system kept healthy after launch.

Business-hours maintenance, improvements, troubleshooting, software enhancements, and architecture guidance for systems already in production - ours or someone else's.

Scoped to an agreed capacity. Not a 24/7 operations desk, and no response guarantees beyond what the agreement sets out.

Not sure where to start?

Start with a technical assessment.

When the scope is not clear enough to price an outcome, a fixed-scope assessment makes it clear. You keep the findings and the roadmap whether the next step is with Northkeep or with your own team. It is an option, not a gate - most engagements start with a conversation.

Technical assessment

Modernization and AI Readiness Assessment

Organizations running lifted-and-shifted or legacy systems that need a clear, costed view before committing to modernization or production AI.

Scope
Current-state review of architecture, resilience, cost, and data; gap analysis against a cloud-native, AI-ready target state; and a prioritized, costed roadmap.
Outcome
Not a slide deck - an evidence pack signed by the accountable architect: current state documented, gaps evidenced, and a costed roadmap you can act on with Northkeep or with your own team.

Fixed scope, priced to your estate and requirements.

Specialist capability

Regulated and sovereign cloud.

DORA, NIS2, and the EU Data Act moved parts of cloud architecture from an engineering question to a supervised one. Where that applies, we design the residency, resilience, and exit architecture that answers it, and produce evidence a supervisor, auditor, or board will accept - signed by the accountable architect, not a slide deck. EU-resident delivery is available where your obligations call for it.

Regulated cloud assessment

Sovereign Cloud Readiness Assessment

Organizations putting regulated workloads or production AI on the cloud under European rules - European enterprises, and international companies entering the EU.

Scope
Current-state review, data-residency and sovereignty gap analysis against the frameworks that actually bind you, a target-state blueprint, and a prioritized roadmap. EU-resident delivery is available where your obligations call for it.
Outcome
Not a slide deck - an evidence pack a supervisor, auditor, or board will accept: findings, gaps, target-state architecture, and a costed roadmap, signed by the accountable architect.

Fixed scope, priced to your estate and requirements.

Regulated cloud engagement

EU Cloud Resilience and Exit Strategy

Regulated organizations facing DORA, the EU Data Act, or NIS2 obligations on their cloud estate.

Scope
ICT concentration-risk analysis, cloud exit and portability architecture, resilience design, register of information support, and the target-state changes needed to satisfy the relevant obligations. Architecture and design; formal audit and attestation are scoped out and referred.
Outcome
A resilience and exit-strategy architecture, evidenced and documented, that stands up to a supervisor's questions - signed by the accountable architect.

Independence

Advice loyal to your outcome.

Northkeep takes no share of your cloud spend, no resale margin, and no vendor commission. That is the structural reason a cost review, a platform choice, or an exit strategy written here is worth reading: an engineer paid to grow your cloud bill cannot honestly design your way out of one.

Where the line is.

Stated as plainly as what is included, so nobody discovers the boundary halfway through a procurement.

No 24/7 operations desk
Ongoing engineering runs in business hours, against an agreed capacity. There is no NOC, no on-call rota, and no formal incident SLA - where you need one, we will say so and help you find it.
Partner status, exactly as stated
Northkeep is an AWS Partner Network member, and that is the whole claim. Certifications are held individually and listed by name; no Microsoft partner designation is claimed.
No inflated bench
Specialists and teams are staffed from engineers we know and supervise, including vetted subcontractors. Capacity is confirmed per engagement, not promised in advance.

Start a conversation

Tell us what you need built.

The problem, the constraints, and roughly when. We will tell you how we would approach it and which engagement model fits.