Cloud migration & landing zones
Move to, from or between clouds with a clear target architecture, a safe migration path and controls that stand up to scrutiny.
Cloud · Platform · Delivery
Senior cloud and DevOps expertise, embedded in your team.
Pre-Emptive is an independent consultancy that helps organisations migrate, modernise and operate their platforms. We bring experienced engineers into your team to deliver the work — and leave you with the knowledge to run it.
- Est. 2006
- Cloud-agnostic
- Contract engagements
Engagement blueprint
PE / 2026
Platform
delivery
Cloud
CI / CD
Observe
Secure
AssessCurrent estate
BuildWith your team
Hand overRunnable by you
Documented as we go
Runbooks, diagrams and handover
Platforms & tools
- AWS
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Linux
- GitLab
- Prometheus
Capabilities
Senior capability, without the permanent overhead.
From a single specialist to a full delivery team, we cover the architecture, engineering and operational work that keeps platforms moving. Every engagement is shaped around your estate, your constraints and your people.
Platform engineering & DevOps
CI/CD, infrastructure as code, developer platforms and automation that make delivery faster and far more predictable.
Architecture & technical strategy
Independent advice on cloud strategy, multi-cloud operations, resilience and the technical decisions that matter most.
SRE, observability & operations
Monitoring, alerting, incident response and runbooks that give your team genuine confidence in production.
Security, compliance & resilience
IAM, network security, backup and disaster recovery designed in from the start — not bolted on afterwards.
Embedded specialists
Senior engineers who join your team for a project or an interim period, adding capability without permanent headcount.
How we work
Good consultancy should make itself unnecessary.
We are not here to create dependency. We work alongside your engineers, share the decisions and make sure the runbooks, diagrams and knowledge stay with you when the engagement ends.
More about Pre-Emptive-
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Understand the estate
We start with the systems, constraints and people you already have. No generic playbooks, no architecture in a vacuum.
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Design for delivery
Architecture and migration plans are shaped around what your team can build, operate and afford — now and next year.
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Embed with your team
We work as part of your team, pairing, reviewing and documenting as we go. Knowledge transfer is part of the work, not an afterthought.
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Leave it better
Runbooks, diagrams, automation and a clean handover are part of the deliverable. You keep the capability.
20+
years delivering
6+
cloud platforms
100%
knowledge transfer
0
long-term lock-in
Field notes
What we have learned, written down.
Practical write-ups from real engagements: cloud migrations, automation, monitoring, security and the occasional problem that does not fit a category.
Air-Gapped Packer Builds
Using Packer to make AMIs in an air-gapped or firewalled environment
Monitoring Versus Observability
What are the differences and similarities between monitoring and observability?
Machine Images and /etc/machine-id
Ensuring you get a unique machine-id when making custom machine images (AMIs)
Next step
Need a specialist for your next project?
Tell us what you are working on. We will come back with a straight answer on whether we can help — and how we would approach it.