UK-hours platform ownership
Standups-friendly coverage with full overnight on-call for production across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes.
CloudLink · United Kingdom · London
Managed DevOps UK — 24/7 cloud support with a 15-minute SLA
For London and UK product teams that need senior DevOps without the 6-month hire. Emergency rescue, retainers, FinOps, security, and staff augmentation — multi-cloud, plain English, measurable SLAs.
Operating in United Kingdom
Market facts
Market facts
- Billing currency
- GBP (£)
- VAT (Value Added Tax)
- 20%
- Working week
- Monday-Friday
- Time zone
- Europe/London · UTC+0 (UTC+1 during British Summer Time)
- Business languages
- English
- Data-protection law
- UK GDPR together with the Data Protection Act 2018, as amended by the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (main data protection provisions in Part 5 commenced 5 February 2026; the Act commenced in stages from 2025)
- Regulator
- Information Commissioner's Office — accurate as of 29 July 2026; Part 6 of the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 replaces it with the "Information Commission", whose board was appointed in July 2026, with the transfer of functions expected later in 2026 (ICO)
Cloud regions in country
AWSeu-west-2London
AzureuksouthLondon (UK South)
AzureukwestCardiff (UK West)
GCPeurope-west2London
OCIuk-london-1London (UK South)
OCIuk-cardiff-1Newport, Wales (UK West)
Data residency
No general statutory requirement to host personal data in the UK. UK GDPR restricts international transfers (IDTA or the UK Addendum to EU SCCs where no adequacy applies), and the European Commission renewed its UK adequacy decisions on 19 December 2025 with a sunset in December 2031, so EEA-to-UK flows continue without additional safeguards. UK-only or adequate-country-only hosting is more often imposed by contract in public-sector and NHS agreements than by statute.
What shapes cloud procurement here
Public-sector cloud buying is heavily framework-mediated: Crown Commercial Service catalogues (G-Cloud, with G-Cloud 15 the first iteration under the Procurement Act 2023 and scheduled to run from September 2026) plus assurance expectations such as Cyber Essentials effectively gate access, so being listed matters as much as the technical fit. In financial services, FCA/PRA outsourcing and operational-resilience rules drive detailed exit-plan, sub-processor and concentration-risk questions, and since 13 July 2026 the Bank of England, PRA and FCA have overseen HM Treasury-designated critical third parties (the first designations covered AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft and Oracle entities), which pushes those questions further into contract negotiation. Delivery is in English, all three major hyperscalers plus OCI have in-country regions so residency is rarely a blocker, and engineering hiring is concentrated in London with significant secondary markets in Manchester, Edinburgh, Leeds, Bristol and Cambridge.
Sector regulators
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) — Financial services conduct
Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) — Banking and insurance prudential supervision
Bank of England (BoE) — Financial stability and financial market infrastructure; joint oversight of designated critical third parties
Office of Communications (Ofcom) — Telecommunications and online safety
National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) — Cyber security (national technical authority, part of GCHQ)
15 min
CRITICAL response
48h
Engineer shortlist
UK hours
Strong overlap
SOC 2
Security posture
What we deliver
Emergency rescue
Outages, data incidents, failed deploys — senior engineers, not L1 scripts.
Managed retainer
CI/CD, IaC, observability, patching, and capacity planning on a flat fee.
FinOps
AWS/Azure/GCP cost reduction with CFO-ready reporting and commitment planning.
Compliance
SOC 2, ISO 27001 controls, GDPR technical measures for UK/EU customers.
Staffing
Contract and C2H DevOps/SRE for scale-ups and enterprises — shortlists in 48 hours.
A better alternative to expensive London-only benches
Hire velocity in the UK is brutal. CloudLink gives you production-grade operators immediately — with nearshore economics, UK-friendly collaboration hours, and the same SLA discipline we run for Europe and MENA.
- Overlap with UK business hours + true 24/7 on-call
- No junior bait-and-switch — seniors only on retainers
- Multi-cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes
- Transparent month-to-month commercial models
- Connected to Europe, France, and Ireland landings for multi-market teams
FAQ
Do you work with UK companies only remotely?
Primarily remote with excellent UK-hours overlap. On-site workshops can be arranged for major programmes in London and major UK cities.
Can you support both UK and EU customer data?
Yes — we design residency and control planes for UK and EU regions and support GDPR technical requirements for customers on both sides.
How fast can a retainer start?
Most retainers begin active work within 48 hours of kickoff and access provisioning.
What is your emergency response SLA?
CRITICAL production incidents receive a senior engineer within 15 minutes, 24/7. If we miss the SLA on rescue, the incident is free.
Do you hire juniors onto retainers?
No bait-and-switch. Retainers are staffed with senior multi-cloud engineers. Staffing engagements can include mid-level profiles when you explicitly request them.
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