Broadlight

Azure Bicep, ARM and Terraform IAC Engineering ​

We have some common best practices we apply to all engagements, that will benefit from cross-skilling during the engagement. Our objective is to leave a legacy of improvement to our clients from this engagement buy utilising a range of Iac tools for Azure

Features

• Build IaC to the same expected standards as product code
• Review your current approach to IaC
• Build immutable infrastructure
• Build automated environments
• Build scalable services

Benefits

• Improved reusability of infrastructure assets
• Improved change velocity
• Improved scalability
• Improved cloud security
• Improved engineer satisfaction

£380 to £1,500 a unit a day

• Education pricing available

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at rob.hesketh@broadlight.io. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

661968375360397

Contact

Rob Hesketh
07860613049
rob.hesketh@broadlight.io

Planning

• Planning service: Yes
• How the planning service works: Broadlight has a flexible and experienced approach to planning work for our services. Most typically we adopt an inclusive Agile approach where work is initially analysed in a discovery activity to reduce cost and truly align the team and understand the challenge and order of magnitude. Following on from a Sprint 0 or discovery phase, we will typically work using either our own tooling such as Jira and Azure DevOps or, if required, using any bespoke tools our clients wish to use. We believe in regular feedback loops, using show and tell or product/service demonstrations frequently and transparently to build stakeholder and customer confidence, whilst allowing us to shape every engagement quickly, maintaining quality whilst still able to take on unexpected challenges or changes in requirements without a drastic replanning exercise. Adopting Agile and DevOps principles to the majority of our work, we believe in measurement, observability, frequent feedback cycles and using diverse teams in a high-performing atmosphere of psychological safety. We are familiar with the vast majority of project and service management methodologies and typically adapt to the working practices of our customers so that the expected management information, reporting, risk management and usual toolbox items are applied.
• Planning service works with specific services: No

Training

• Training service provided: Yes
• How the training service works: Broadlight has and continues to ensure throughout its engagements that it coaches and mentors through knowledge transfer the skills and processes used to its varied clients. We have successfully completed KT with client permanent staff coupled with ensuring all our Statements of Work have mandatory KT delivered through workshops and by proxy learning such as peer reviews etc. We also capture and record minor training needs analysis during stand-ups, retrospectives, and quality assurance gates. Our company ethos is to help upskill your permanent team providing additional value whilst enhancing their skill repository and improving their working environment.
• Training is tied to specific services: No

Setup and migration

• Setup or migration service available: Yes
• How the setup or migration service works: Broadlight have relevant experience in migrating complex applications to the Cloud. We have delivered many application migrations from on premise to cloud / Hybrid Cloud scenarios and have developed a robust end to end process, managing workload migration using sophisticated IaC pipelines. Working alongside your internal teams with our experienced Architects, we will help design and build your target service platform building in security and ensuring fit for the future.
• Setup or migration service is for specific cloud services: No

Quality assurance and performance testing

• Quality assurance and performance testing service: Yes
• How the quality assurance and performance testing works: Broadlight delivers a range of QA and performance testing services are delivered by our experienced testing professionals. Services include: Agile test strategy, Test tooling optimisation, Automation test strategy and implementation. Broadlight delivers our work through sophisticated pipelines with associated expert ways of working. This includes DoD and Acceptance criteria in stories, high levels of automated Unit and integration tests, automated pen-testing, end to end testing and mechanisms for testing production and feature flag releases. For IaC engineering our guiding principle is that IaC should be viewed as any other software development activity. Where possible we implement relevant testing processes to validate the IaC. The importance here is to build in quality at source and early in the process, as recommended with any code project. We strongly recommended building a Test Driven Development (TDD) approach which provides greater quality and maintainability of IaC from the outset. As with good software development techniques, we would apply a 4 eyes principle: decisions or transactions MUST be approved by at least two people. The controlling mechanism is used to facilitate delegation of authority and increase transparency facilitated by electronic approvals and workflows in a CI\CD system.

Security testing

• Security services: Yes
• Security services type:
  • Security strategy
  • Security risk management
  • Security design
  • Cyber security consultancy
  • Security testing
  • Security incident management
  • Security audit services
• Certified security testers: Yes
• Security testing certifications:
  • GBEST
  • CHECK
  • CREST

Ongoing support

• Ongoing support service: No

Service scope

• Service constraints: None

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: No
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
• Web chat support: Web chat
• Web chat support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support accessibility standard: None or don’t know
• How the web chat support is accessible: Slack, MS Teams
• Web chat accessibility testing: None
• Support levels: Technical Account Manager, DevOps Engineers

Resellers

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Conforms to BS7858:2019
• Government security clearance: Up to Developed Vetting (DV)

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: No
• ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Cyber essentials plus: Yes
• Other security certifications: No

Social Value

• Social Value:

  Social Value

  Equal opportunity

  Equal opportunity

  Broadlight is committed to promoting equal opportunity for all and we actively support diversity and equality in the workplace.

Pricing

• Price: £380 to £1,500 a unit a day
• Discount for educational organisations: Yes

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at rob.hesketh@broadlight.io. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.