MICROSOFT AZURE ENGINEERING
Move to the Cloud with Confidence
Microsoft Azure is the cloud platform of choice for Australian businesses that want enterprise-grade security, data residency in Australia, and deep integration with the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. It eliminates the capital expenditure and operational burden of on-premises infrastructure while providing better availability, security, and scalability than most businesses can achieve in their own server rooms. But Azure is a vast platform — and without the right expertise, organisations overspend, leave security gaps, or end up with environments that are difficult to manage.
ELECTRICLATTE's Azure engineers design, build, and manage Azure environments that are cost-efficient, secure, and fit for purpose. Whether you're planning your first migration from on-premises infrastructure, need to take control of an Azure tenancy that's grown without governance, or want an ongoing managed service partner for your cloud environment — we bring the technical depth and the commercial transparency you need to get the most from your Azure investment.
CLOUD MIGRATION
Lift-and-shift or re-architect — we plan and execute Azure migrations that minimise risk and production downtime.
INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE
Repeatable, auditable Azure environments using Bicep, ARM templates, and Terraform for consistent, documented deployments.
MANAGED AZURE
Ongoing monitoring, security management, patching, and cost optimisation of your Azure environment.
What Our Azure Engineering Practice Covers
Our Azure practice spans the full range of services you'd expect from a specialist cloud partner — from initial migration through to long-term managed operations. Here's what we deliver in each area.
Azure Cloud Migration
We plan and execute migrations from on-premises infrastructure to Azure, following a structured approach: discovery and assessment, migration strategy selection (lift-and-shift, re-platform, or re-architect depending on the workload), test migration in a non-production environment, validation, and final cutover with a tested rollback plan. We use Azure Migrate for server assessment and migration, Database Migration Service for SQL workloads, and Azure Site Recovery for business continuity during migration. Migrations can be staged over weeks or months — there's no requirement to move everything at once, and phased approaches often reduce risk significantly.
Azure Architecture & Infrastructure Design
A well-designed Azure environment is the foundation everything else depends on. We design resource group hierarchies, subscription structures, virtual network topologies, security boundaries, and naming conventions that make environments manageable as they grow. All infrastructure is documented and, where practical, defined as code using Bicep or Terraform — so environments can be reproduced, audited, and peer-reviewed rather than existing only as a collection of manually configured resources. We follow Microsoft's Azure Well-Architected Framework across all five pillars: reliability, security, cost optimisation, operational excellence, and performance efficiency.
Azure DevOps & CI/CD Pipelines
Azure DevOps provides a complete platform for software delivery — source control, work-item tracking, automated build and release pipelines, test management, and package feeds. We design CI/CD pipeline architectures that enforce branch policies, run automated tests on every pull request, deploy to staging environments, and require approval gates before production promotion. This gives development teams confidence to ship frequently while maintaining quality. We also integrate Azure DevOps with GitHub Actions for teams that prefer that workflow, and set up deployment environments across dev, test, and production with appropriate RBAC controls.
Azure Identity & Security
Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) is the identity backbone of the Microsoft cloud. We configure single sign-on (SSO) across your SaaS applications, implement phishing-resistant MFA, design Conditional Access policies based on user location, device compliance, and risk signals, and set up Privileged Identity Management (PIM) for just-in-time admin access. On the infrastructure security side, we enable Microsoft Defender for Cloud, configure Azure Policy guardrails, implement network security groups and Private Link, and establish audit logging through Azure Monitor and Microsoft Sentinel where required.
Managed Azure Services
After your Azure environment is in place, ongoing management is what keeps it secure, performant, and cost-efficient over time. Our managed service covers monitoring and alerting (Azure Monitor, Application Insights), security posture management (Defender for Cloud recommendations), OS and application patching on Azure VMs, incident response, cost review and optimisation, and capacity planning. We report monthly on environment health, security posture, and cost trends — giving your leadership team visibility without needing to engage directly with Azure tooling. Many clients find this model costs less than a part-time in-house Azure specialist while providing broader expertise.
Azure Cost Optimisation
Uncontrolled Azure costs are one of the most common problems we encounter in new client environments. Common sources of waste include over-provisioned virtual machines and databases, resources left running in dev and test environments outside business hours, storage accounts with no lifecycle management, and premium service tiers applied to workloads that don't need them. We conduct Azure cost reviews using Cost Management and Advisor recommendations, implement Reserved Instance commitments for predictable workloads (typically 30–50% savings over pay-as-you-go), and deploy auto-shutdown and scaling policies to reduce idle spend. Cost optimisation is included in our managed service as standard.
Working With ELECTRICLATTE on Azure
Every Azure engagement begins with an assessment — we want to understand your current environment (or plans, if you're starting fresh), your workloads, your team's Azure experience, and your commercial constraints before proposing a solution. This assessment is conducted at no charge for qualified opportunities.
From there, engagements typically take one of four forms: a project to build or migrate a specific workload; a managed service for ongoing environment operations; a Well-Architected Review to assess and improve an existing environment; or staff augmentation where we embed an Azure engineer in your team. We're transparent about cost — all managed service engagements are monthly fixed-price, not variable billing that surprises you at month end.
For more detail on the Azure services and technologies underpinning our engineering practice, see our Microsoft Azure technology page.
Azure Engagement Types
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Migration Project: Plan and execute a specific workload migration to Azure with a defined scope, timeline, and cost.
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Managed Service: Monthly fixed-price management of your Azure environment — monitoring, security, patching, and optimisation.
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Well-Architected Review: Assessment of an existing Azure environment against Microsoft's WAF pillars, with a prioritised remediation plan.
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Staff Augmentation: Embed an Azure engineer in your team on a fixed or ongoing basis.
Azure Engineering — Frequently Asked Questions
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