CLOUD ENGINEERING
Cloud engineering built on accreditation-grade experience — applied across defense, intelligence, and regulated commercial work.
Clever, tenacious, precise.
Advanced capabilities in expert hands
Forged by securing classified systems.
Matched to your work – owns the results
Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned
WHAT YOU END UP WITH
Built to your compliance framework from the architecture out — with automated provisioning, security architected in, and compliance documentation auto-generated against your specific framework.
Designed to satisfy your compliance framework — security controls implementation and documentation pushed all the way left in the timeline, built from the infrastructure up. The control families your framework requires — including monitoring and observability — are implementation concerns from day one.
IAM, secrets management, network segmentation, and zero-trust principles as architectural primitives — designed in, not added later.
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Helm) automatically provisions on AWS, Azure, GCP, and their government cloud variants, with Kubernetes container orchestration for containerized workloads. We specialize in building systems with open technologies with full feature parity against proprietary, vendor-locked stacks.
Infrastructure changes flow through the same automated security checks (SBOM, SAST/DAST, dependency vetting) and code review as application code — because the infrastructure is code. Security flaws in the platform get caught the same way as flaws in the app. Releases traceable and reproducible end-to-end.
ENGAGEMENT SCOPE
A cloud engineering build is a focused engineering engagement that produces compliance-capable cloud infrastructure — scoped to match your situation, from a targeted component inside your existing system to a complete platform. Below is what goes into producing it.
HOW WE DO THE WORK
Our founders built and accredited complex systems inside defense and intelligence — and that engineering discipline applies to every cloud engineering build we take on. Security and compliance are pushed all the way left in the timeline: zero-trust, IAM, secrets, and network segmentation architected in from day one, and compliance controls implemented from the infrastructure up rather than retrofitted. Everything is captured as code, reviewable and reproducible end to end.
HOW IT RUNS
Every engagement runs through the same five phases in the same order.
A discovery conversation tailors the engagement to your specific situation. You see what’s involved and roughly how long it will take before any work starts.
A Principal Investigator is matched to your engagement based on domain expertise relevant to your industry and operation. Kickoff brings the PI, your stakeholders, and the engagement plan together. The PI runs the engagement from kickoff through handoff.
Engineering build runs in milestone-driven phases. The PI directs Infrastructure as Code development (Terraform, Ansible, Helm) and Kubernetes container orchestration work, along with automated infrastructure testing, with security and compliance documentation written as the code is written. Milestone reviews bring your stakeholders into the work at agreed checkpoints, and any scope changes are flagged and priced before they happen.
The PI deploys the build and runs validation with your stakeholders. The build is verified against the originally agreed requirements; any issues are captured for resolution before final handoff.
Validation feedback is incorporated. The complete package is delivered: the IaC code (Terraform, Ansible, Helm) and Kubernetes container orchestration configuration, the compliance documentation mapped to your framework, and the operations documentation.
THE DEPTH
If you know this field, you will recognize these names. If you don’t, we’ll walk through it on the discovery call.
PUBLISHED WORK
Write-ups of actual engagements — what we were hired to do, what we actually did, and what changed.
A premium med spa needed to escape vendor lock-in, rebuild their entire web presence in three weeks, and begin building toward HIPAA compliance. One PI owned every line of effort — from the emergency rewrite through the first compliance milestone.
S5T mapped the engineering gaps in Alessa’s aging cloud infrastructure, drove the multitenant modernization plan, and built the internal capability for Alessa engineers to own and operate the architecture going forward.
QUESTIONS YOU'RE PROBABLY ASKING
Your Principal Investigator, plus cloud and infrastructure specialists from our bench where the work requires them. No junior-only teams, and no offshore handoff.
We find that we work best with clients that are looking for a full-service provider who handles technical execution and technical project management for them, so that they can focus on their core business. Said more plainly, we do not embed our technical staff with our clients', or work under our clients' technical project management.
You do. All Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Helm), all Kubernetes container orchestration configuration, all compliance documentation. Spelled out in the contract.
No. Everything we build is standard Terraform, Ansible, Helm, and Kubernetes that any competent cloud engineer can pick up. No proprietary tooling. No hidden magic. We pride ourselves on building systems that you can kick us out of when we're done building it. In the end, we earn our living on providing value, not selling licenses.
Yes. AWS GovCloud and Azure Government. We've deployed production workloads into both.
As a separate engagement, yes. The build engagement ends at handoff; if you'd like us to stay on for operations, that's scoped separately so the incentives are aligned.
Yes. A cloud audit can be part of our Digital Transformation Roadmap service, which produces a sizable bundle of systems analysis documentation, risk analyses, and prioritized recommendations. It can lead directly to a build engagement or stand on its own.
Depends on the environment. For FedRAMP, CMMC, FIPS, RMF, and HIPAA environments specifically, our engineers have direct accreditation experience.
HOW WE STAFF IT
Most retainers put a seasoned name on the pitch and a junior hand on the work. We don’t. A Principal Investigator — a working expert matched to your situation — owns the engagement from kickoff to reporting.
They have the technical depth to do the work themselves, and they command a small network of specialists who come in when needed. They are not a project manager. They are not an account manager. They are the person whose name is on the work.
Who a PI is not:
WHO WE SERVE
If you see yourself below, a discovery conversation is worth your time.
THE GROWTH-STAGE OWNER
You run a successful small business in a regulated industry— a med spa group, a legal practice, a financial services firm. You’ve outgrown the patchwork of tools and part-time vendors that got you here. Now you want seasoned expertise. Someone that has built real systems and sophisticated marketing plans. Someone who will learn how your business operates and use holistic tech and marketing approaches to support your growth.
THE COMPLIANCE-BOUND TECHNICAL BUYER
You’re a Director, VP, or CTO at a company whose software has to satisfy FedRAMP, CMMC, HIPAA, or some other complex regulation. You’ve been burned by vendors who claimed compliance fluency and couldn’t perform. You want a team whose founders actually shipped advanced accredited systems, and who can walk your auditors through the work and achieve favorable outcomes.
THE MISSION OWNER
You’re a program manager, contracting officer, or technical lead inside DoD, the IC, or other heavily compliance-bound agency. You need contractors who deliver on time, own their deliverables, and have a history of building and successfully accrediting advanced software and cloud systems. Our founders have done exactly that. Checkout our capabilities statement to learn more.
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