Cloud Infrastructure Management & Cost Optimisation (FinOps & Operations)
Ongoing management, optimisation and FinOps-driven cost control for Azure and hybrid cloud, ensuring secure, performant and cost-efficient infrastructure.
Features
- Proactive management of Azure and hybrid resources
- Monitoring, patching and configuration management
- Performance and capacity optimisation
- Cost tagging standards and budget controls
- Regular FinOps cost reviews and reports
- Rightsizing and waste-elimination recommendations
- Governance policies for resource lifecycle
- Automation for common operational tasks
- Security baselines applied and maintained
- Stakeholder service and optimisation reviews
Benefits
- Lower, more predictable cloud spend
- Reduced risk from poorly managed resources
- Better performance and reliability for services
- Clear visibility of where cloud money is spent
- Stronger alignment of spend to business value
- Less time spent on routine infrastructure tasks
- Reduced cloud sprawl and unused services
- Improved security posture through standardisation
- Ability to scale cloud use with confidence
- Ongoing optimisation as needs evolve
Pricing
Service documents
Request an accessible format
Framework
G-Cloud 15
Service ID
9 3 8 2 3 0 6 8 7 7 1 7 5 4 9
Contact
INFRATECH SYSTEMS LIMITED
William Crawforth
Telephone: 020 3866 1180
Email: contact@infratechsystems.co.uk
About your service
- Service categories
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Cloud Support Services
Managed Cloud
Managed Public cloud
- Managed Public IaaS
- Managed Public SaaS/PaaS
Managed Hybrid Cloud
- Managed Hybrid IaaS
- Managed Hybrid SaaS/PaaS
Service scope
- Service constraints
- None.
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Yes
- Support response times
- We respond within 1 hour.
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- Yes
- Online ticketing support accessibility
- WCAG 2.2 AA
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support
- Yes
- Web chat support availability
- 24 hours, 7 days a week
- Web chat support accessibility standard
- WCAG 2.2 AA
- Web chat accessibility testing
- Screen reader compatibility, keyboard navigation to ensure the bot is fully operable without a mouse, testing that the interface supports high-contrast modes and large text resizing.
- Support levels
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Infratech Systems support teams are available Monday to Friday, 8am-8pm, with 24/7 availability to log incidents. A named technical account manager will be provided.
Service desk and email with 4 levels of support - P1 through to P4 requests are available. The costs are based on the size and scale of the implementation. Annual renewal with discounts for multiple years purchased in advance. - AI chatbot
- Yes
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- Security Clearance (SC)
Pricing
- Discount for educational organisations
- No
Architecture roles
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Trainee business architect | £450.00 | |
| Associate business architect | £750.00 | |
| Business architect | £840.00 | |
| Lead business architect | £950.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Data architect | £840.00 | |
| Senior data architect | £950.00 | |
| Chief data architect | £1,150.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Enterprise architect | £840.00 | |
| Senior enterprise architect | £950.00 | |
| Lead enterprise architect | £1,150.00 | |
| Principal enterprise architect | £1,150.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Security architect | £950.00 | |
| Lead security architect | £1,150.00 | |
| Principal security architect | £1,150.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Associate solution architect | £750.00 | |
| Solution architect | £840.00 | |
| Senior solution architect | £950.00 | |
| Lead solution architect | £950.00 | |
| Principal solution architect | £1,150.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Associate technical architect | £750.00 | |
| Technical architect | £840.00 | |
| Senior technical architect | £950.00 | |
| Lead technical architect | £1,150.00 | |
| Principal technical architect | £1,150.00 |
Chief digital and data roles
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Chief information security officer | £1,150.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Chief technology officer | £1,150.00 |
Cyber security roles
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Associate cyber security governance and risk manager | £750.00 | |
| Lead cyber security governance and risk manager | £840.00 | |
| Principal cyber security governance and risk manager | £950.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Associate cyber security monitoring | £625.00 | |
| Lead cyber security monitoring | £750.00 | |
| Principal cyber security monitoring | £840.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Associate cyber incident response | £625.00 | |
| Lead cyber security incident response | £750.00 | |
| Principal cyber security incident response | £840.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Associate cyber security vulnerability management | £750.00 | |
| Lead cyber security vulnerability management | £840.00 | |
| Principal cyber security vulnerability management | £950.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Associate cyber security secure systems architecture and design | £840.00 | |
| Lead cyber security secure systems architecture and design | £950.00 | |
| Principal cyber security secure systems architecture and design | £1,150.00 |
Data roles
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Data engineer | £750.00 | |
| Senior data engineer | £840.00 | |
| Lead data engineer | £950.00 |
IT operations roles
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Business relationship manager | £750.00 | |
| Senior business relationship manager | £840.00 | |
| Lead business relationship manager | £950.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Configuration analyst | £450.00 | |
| Change and release analyst | £450.00 | |
| Change and release manager | £750.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Associate end user computing engineer | £450.00 | |
| End user computing engineer | £625.00 | |
| Senior end user computing engineer | £750.00 | |
| Lead end user computing engineer | £840.00 | |
| Principal end user computing engineer | £950.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| IT service analyst | £450.00 | |
| IT service manager | £750.00 | |
| Senior IT service manager | £840.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Associate infrastructure engineer | £450.00 | |
| Infrastructure engineer | £625.00 | |
| Senior infrastructure engineer | £750.00 | |
| Lead infrastructure engineer | £840.00 | |
| Principal infrastructure engineer | £950.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Associate infrastructure operations engineer | £450.00 | |
| Infrastructure operations engineer | £625.00 | |
| Senior infrastructure operations engineer | £750.00 | |
| Lead infrastructure operations engineer | £840.00 | |
| Principal infrastructure operations engineer | £950.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Service acceptance analyst | £750.00 | |
| Service readiness analyst | £750.00 | |
| Service transition manager | £840.00 | |
| Lead service transition manager | £950.00 |
Software development roles
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | £625.00 | |
| Senior developer | £750.00 | |
| Lead developer | £840.00 |
Non-mandatory Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- Accredited by ASCB. Audit conducted by Citation ISO
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- Thursday 22 May 2025
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- N/A
- ISO 28000:2022 certification
- No
- ISO 9001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO 9001 certification
- Accredited by ASCB. Audit conducted by Citation ISO
- ISO 9001 accreditation date
- Thursday 22 May 2025
- What the ISO 9001 doesn’t cover
- N/A
- Quality management systems (QMS)
- Yes
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- Yes
- Please provide your Cyber Essentials Certificate Number
- E691951c-56e4-49ba-b74b-13938b139ba5
- Cyber essentials plus
- Yes
- Please provide your Cyber Essentials Plus Certificate Number
- 6d4d78fe-eef0-4704-b87e-d1cd0ae44db7
- Other security certifications
- No
Social value
- Section B - Commitment for Future: Delivery
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Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.
Policy Outcome 1: Fair work: That offers fair wages and good working conditions. Help people get a job, stay in work, and progress in their careers, with good employment opportunities across the country. Notes: Where there is a large proportion of labour costs in the contract, commercial teams should consider MAC in Outcome 1 as a priority
- New or retained jobs on the contract workforce in the relevant area that meet the criteria set out in MAC 1b, 1c and 1d
- Providing opportunities for, and measuring and monitoring of, staff workforce conditions over time, including employee engagement, involvement in decision-making and satisfaction and adapting to any changes in the results, with clear processes for acting on issues identified
- Monitoring of employee engagement rates (by protected characteristic) and, where necessary, the development of actions to ensure all voices are heard across the diversity of the workforce
- Employment contracts that reflect actual hours worked; steps taken to ensure employees understand their contracts and have the ability to review and adjust them if actual hours regularly exceed contracted hours
- Activities that support an environment where staff are educated about, and feel empowered to, address their physical wellbeing
- Activities that support an environment where staff are educated about and feel empowered to report and address bullying and harassment
- Activities to cascade good practice on fair working conditions throughout the supply chain
- Payment of more than the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage (as appropriate) to the contract workforce
- Understanding of in-work progression issues affecting the market, industry or sector relevant to the contract, and in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key sub-contractors
- Measures to support in-work progression to help people in the contract workforce, to move into higher paid work by developing new skills relevant to the contract
- Support for the contract workforce by providing career advice, and providing opportunities for staff working on the contract with in-work progression career development into known skills shortages or high growth areas
- Support for educational attainment relevant to the contract, including training schemes that address skills gaps and result in recognised qualifications
- Volunteering opportunities for staff
- Understanding of the modern slavery risks and issues affecting the market, industry, sector or country (of origin or of source) relevant to the contract, and the workforce in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key subcontractors
- Outline policies and practices to be applied to or put in place for the contract to mitigate and manage modern slavery risks, including: Pre-employment checks, recruitment practices. Workplace conditions, safeguarding plans and processes in place and regular monitoring with relevant groups considered, which may include sampling
- How these flow down the supply chain and are monitored Illustrative examples include reporting, site visits, audits, etc.
- How to ensure business decisions re: price/cost, short lead times, payment timescales do not create modern slavery risks in the supply chain
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Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.
Policy Outcome 2: Skills for growth: Supporting growth sectors and addressing skills gaps.
- Understanding of employment and relevant skills issues, and of the education and training issues relating to the contract. Illustrative examples: demographics, skills shortages, new opportunities in high growth sectors, geographic/local community and skills/employment challenges
- Support for educational attainment relevant to the contract, including training schemes that address skills gaps and result in recognised qualifications
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Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.
Policy Outcome 3: Resilient, innovative and flexible supply chains: Support economic growth through enabling resilient businesses, opportunities for small businesses and voluntary, community and social enterprises
- Understanding of the types of businesses in the market and the level of participation by new businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, VCSEs and mutuals
- Activities to identify opportunities to open up sub-contracts under the prime contract to a diverse range of businesses, including new businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, VCSEs and mutuals
- Plans for engaging a diverse range of businesses in engagement activities prior to appointing subcontractors (including activities prior to award of the main contract and during the contract term)
- Activities that demonstrate a collaborative way to work with a diverse range of businesses as part of the supply chain
- Advertising of supply chain opportunities openly and to ensure they are accessible to a diverse range of businesses, including advertising all subcontracting opportunities on Contracts Finder
- Ensuring accessibility to contracting and subcontracting opportunities for disabled business owners and employees
- Structuring of the supply chain selection process to ensure fairness (e.g. anti-corruption) and encourages participation by a diverse range of businesses, including with regard to new businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, VCSEs and mutual
- Understanding of local demographics, needs and opportunities for the co-design of the goods, services and works to be delivered under the contract
- Methods for engaging with different parts of the community (including the education system and charities representing the community) and how communities come together to inform decisions, strategy and projects to leave a positive legacy for future generations
- Measures for making facilities used in the delivery of the contract available for community groups, education or training
- Collaborating with anchor institutions and community groups to make facilities available for education, training or community events
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Mission: Make Britain a clean energy superpower: To cut bills, create jobs and deliver security with cheaper, zero-carbon electricity by 2030, accelerating to net zero
Policy Outcome 4: Sustainable procurement practices: Reducing carbon footprints, minimising waste, and promoting the use of clean energy and green technologies.
- Understanding of opportunities for additional environmental benefits delivery in the performance of the contract, including working towards net zero carbon emissions and use of clean energy and green technologies
- Collaborative ways of working with the supply chain to deliver additional environmental benefits in the performance of the contract, including working towards net zero carbon emissions and use of clean energy and green technologies
- Delivery of additional environmental benefits through the performance of the contract, including working towards net zero carbon emissions and use of clean energy and green technologies
- Understanding of how to influence staff, suppliers, customers, communities and/or any other appropriate stakeholders through the delivery of the contract to support climate and nature protection and improvement
- Activities to reconnect people with the environment and increase awareness of ways to protect and enhance it
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Mission: Break down barriers to opportunity: By reforming our childcare and education systems, to make sure there is no class ceiling on the ambitions of young people in Britain
Policy Outcome 6: Employment and training: For those who face barriers to employment
- Understanding of employment and skills issues, and of the skills and employment shortages of high growth sectors relating to the contract
- Creation of employment opportunities particularly for those who face barriers to employment, such as prison leavers, care leavers and/or who are located in deprived areas, and for people in industries with known skills shortages or in high growth sectors
- Understanding of the issues affecting the representation of disabled people in the workforce in the market, industry or sector relevant to the contract, and in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key sub-contractors
- Working conditions which promote an inclusive working environment and promote retention and progression
- Other measures to provide equality of opportunity for disabled people and those with health conditions into employment, including becoming a Disability Confident employer and inclusion of supported businesses in the contract supply chain
- Understanding of the issues affecting inequality in employment, skills and pay in the market, industry or sector relevant to the contract, and in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key sub-contractors. Measures to tackle inequality in employment, skills and pay in the contract workforce
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Mission: Break down barriers to opportunity: By reforming our childcare and education systems, to make sure there is no class ceiling on the ambitions of young people in Britain
Policy Outcome 7: Creating a pipeline of opportunities: For the contract workforce, reducing barriers to entry for under-represented groups.
- Understanding of the issues affecting the development of new skills by target cohort
- Other measures to offer development opportunities for the target cohort(s) in the contract workforce
- Understanding of issues relating to entering the contract workforce
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Mission: Build an NHS fit for the future: That is there when people need it; with fewer lives lost to the biggest killers; in a fairer Britain, where everyone lives well for longer.
Policy Outcome 8: Increasing productivity through physical and mental wellbeing: In the supply chain and communities in the relevant area.
- Understanding of issues relating to health and wellbeing, including physical and mental health, in the contract workforce
- Understanding barriers to access to health and social care services or employment opportunities e.g. digital inclusion
- Actions to invest in the physical and mental health and wellbeing of the contract workforce
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