Will your team work in our timezone?
Yes — integrally. Portugal runs on WET (UTC+0/+1), the same clock as London year-round. There is no offset to manage: stand-ups, incident calls, and Slack all happen in shared working hours.
Cloud, Kubernetes & DevSecOps
Consulting for UK Companies
Senior, EU-based engineers for UK scale-ups, mid-market, and integrators — same working hours as London, English as a working language, dual EU/UK GDPR.
50+ production clusters · CKA/CKS certified · 99.95% uptime SLA · UK timezone overlap
Trusted across Europe
Industries we serve.
Engineering teams in regulated, mission-critical industries — every engagement audited, documented, and production-graded.
Banking & Payments
FinTech
PCI-DSS compliant payments and core banking infrastructure — sub-100ms p99 latency, end-to-end audit trail, and tokenization at the edge.
PCI-DSS · ISO 27001
Patient Data
Healthcare
HIPAA-aware patient data pipelines
HIPAA · SOC2
5G & Networks
Telecom
5G core network observability at scale
NFV · ETSI MANO
Retail & Marketplaces
E-Commerce
99.99% uptime during peak traffic events
PCI-DSS · GDPR
Sovereign & Public
Government
Sovereign cloud with full audit trails
eIDAS · FIPS 140-2
Fleet & IoT
Logistics
Real-time fleet tracking & IoT ingestion
MQTT · OPC-UA
UTC+0/+1Same clock as London
CKA/CKSSenior-only engineers
EU/UK GDPRDual-aligned compliance
2-6 engRight-sized engagements
What we deliver for UK clients
Cloud & DevSecOps for UK teams
Kubernetes, cloud security, SRE, and embedded delivery for UK scale-ups, mid-market, and integrators.
EKS, AKS, GKE, and bare-metal Kubernetes. Production cluster design, hardening to CIS Benchmark, GitOps with ArgoCD, multi-cluster governance, and zero-downtime upgrade pipelines.
50+ clusters · 99.95% uptimeCloud security assessments, policy-as-code (Terraform, OPA/Kyverno), supply-chain security (Sigstore, SBOM, signed images), and SOC 2 / ISO 27001 audit support on cloud-native platforms.
audit-ready · 0 critical findingsWeb application, cloud infrastructure, and network penetration testing with a letter of authorisation and clear, prioritised reporting your auditors and board can act on.
LoA · prioritised reportSLO/SLI design, error-budget policies, observability rollout (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo), incident-response playbooks, and on-call automation.
SLOs · faster MTTREmbedded squads of CKA/CKS-certified engineers operating as an extension of your platform team — two-week ramp-up, no recruitment lead time, full UK timezone overlap.
2-week ramp · senior-onlyWorkload migration to AWS, Azure, and GCP with cost governance built in — right-sizing, autoscaling, and FinOps practices that keep the bill aligned with usage.
↓ 30-50% cloud spendFree assessment
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Our engineers review your current setup and deliver a prioritized roadmap — no strings attached.
The three questions UK prospects ask
The questions every UK buyer asks first
Honest answers to the three objections a UK technical decision-maker has about a European consultancy.
What about GDPR and UK data residency?
We operate under EU GDPR, substantively aligned with UK GDPR. For UK data-residency requirements we deploy to UK cloud regions (eu-west-2, UK South, europe-west2) and document data flow against ICO guidance.
Are you the right size for us?
If you are Series A to ~£100M revenue, or a UK integrator needing senior cloud capability — yes. We deliver focused 2-6 engineer engagements, not 50-person programmes. If we are not the right fit, we say so on the first call.
UK FinTech
Hardened EKS rollout for a UK FinTech
01 / 02
A Series C UK fintech needed a production-grade, audit-ready EKS platform across multiple regions, fast, without growing its platform team.
Tech stack
EKSArgoCDOPATerraform
A small platform group needed a hardened, multi-region EKS rollout to an audit standard, with no spare senior capacity to deliver it.
An embedded Privum squad integrated within a week, delivered CIS-hardened EKS with GitOps via ArgoCD, OPA policy enforcement, and Terraform-managed infrastructure.
Four production regions live in 11 weeks, audit-ready security posture, and the internal team upskilled on the platform.
Why a European consultancy
Senior delivery, without London tier-1 rates
The UK mid-market is underserved: tier-1 consultancies price for FTSE budgets, while lone contractors lack the bench for production platform work and 24/7 operations. Privum sits in the middle — a senior-only specialist team at EU day rates.
Business outcomes
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Senior-only delivery
Every engineer on a UK engagement is CKA/CKS or cloud-certified with production experience — no junior pyramid billed at senior rates.
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Built for the engagement size the market ignores
Focused engagements of 2-6 engineers for 8 weeks to 18 months — too small for the Big Four, too senior for a lone contractor.
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EU value, UK-aligned compliance
EU day rates with dual EU/UK GDPR alignment and UK-region deployments when data residency requires it.
How we implement
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Discovery call
A 30-minute call with an engineering lead — no slides. We diagnose where you are and what the highest-leverage engagement is.
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Assessment & roadmap
A focused 2-3 week assessment producing a written architecture/security report, risk assessment, and a prioritised roadmap.
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Deliver & operate
We execute the build or hardening in phases, then optionally move to managed operations with 24/7 cover and on-call.
Engagement model
How we work
From first call to production — a proven 4-step engagement model that keeps the conversation transparent and the velocity honest.
- 01
Discovery
We audit your current stack, identify gaps, and align on business goals.
- 02
Assessment
A detailed roadmap with priorities, effort estimates, and quick wins.
- 03
Delivery
Our engineers embed with your team and execute sprint by sprint.
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Support
Ongoing monitoring, optimization, and knowledge transfer to your team.
Related disciplines
Related services
Adjacent practices that pair well with this one — most engagements blend two or three.
Common questions
Frequently asked questions
Practical answers about scope, timelines, and how engagements with our UK Cloud Consulting team usually look.
Yes. Portugal shares the WET timezone, which is the same clock as London year-round, so there is no morning/evening offset to manage — stand-ups, incident calls, and Slack all happen in shared working hours. All engineers work in fluent English, and Privum operates under EU GDPR, which is substantively aligned with UK GDPR.
For UK-specific data residency requirements we deploy infrastructure in UK cloud regions (AWS eu-west-2, Azure UK South, GCP europe-west2) and document data flow against ICO guidance. For regulated clients we can structure engagements so all production data stays in UK regions while only code review happens elsewhere.
Probably yes if you are between Series A and roughly £100M revenue, or a UK integrator needing senior cloud capability on a specific project. We are built for focused engagements of 2-6 engineers running 8 weeks to 18 months — not 50-person transformation programmes. If you need a large systems integrator, we will tell you on the first call.
Privum is a senior-only engineering team — every engineer on a Kubernetes or security engagement is certified with hands-on production experience. We do not pyramid junior consultants under one architect, and our day rates sit in the EU range rather than London tier-1 rates.
We invoice in GBP or EUR. Contracts can be governed by English law on request. We will confirm the exact VAT treatment for your entity during contracting.
Most clients start with a fixed-scope assessment (2-3 weeks) or a discovery call. From there we move into a security-hardening project, a platform build, an embedded squad, or managed operations — priced by scope, not by hour.
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