DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure
Build resilient, multi-region cloud infrastructure that never goes down — with automated CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, infrastructure-as-code, and disaster recovery across AWS, Azure, and GCP. After the 2026 UAE data center incidents, we help businesses deploy geo-redundant systems that survive regional disruptions.
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DevOps services cover how software gets built, deployed and kept running: CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, containers, monitoring and disaster recovery across cloud regions. Mantiqi sets this up for Saudi companies on AWS, Azure or Saudi-hosted cloud, starting with a resilience audit and ending with tested failover to a second region, plus policy checks that block deployments breaking your compliance rules, such as NCA's Essential Cybersecurity Controls.
Typical timeline: Resilience audit in weeks 1–2, infrastructure as code and CI/CD in weeks 3–6, multi-region and DR in weeks 6–10.
Why this matters
The 2026 UAE data-center outages reminded everyone in the region that single-region cloud is a single point of failure. If your business runs on one Azure region or one AWS availability zone, you've got a 9-hour outage waiting to happen. The fix isn't "go multi-cloud" (that's expensive and overkill for most) — it's deliberate multi-region within your primary cloud, with infrastructure as code, tested failover, and observability that tells you something's wrong before customers do. Mantiqi builds the cloud foundation Saudi businesses need to stay up through the next regional incident — without burning months of engineering on something that should take weeks.
What We Deliver
How we deliver
- 01
Resilience audit
Weeks 1–2We map your current infra, find the actual SPOFs (databases without replicas, single-region serverless, hardcoded endpoints, secrets in repos), and produce a written remediation plan ranked by blast-radius × fix-cost.
- Infrastructure-as-code baseline (Terraform import)
- SPOF inventory + blast-radius map
- Compliance gap-list (NCA ECC, SAMA cyber)
- Cost optimization opportunities
- 02
IaC + CI/CD foundation
Weeks 3–6Everything moves to Terraform / Pulumi (no more click-ops). CI/CD pipelines ship through GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps with proper environment promotion, secrets management (Key Vault / AWS Secrets Manager), and policy-as-code gates.
- Terraform modules for all infra
- CI/CD pipelines per environment
- Centralized secrets management
- Policy-as-code (OPA / Checkov)
- 03
Multi-region + DR
Weeks 6–10Critical workloads migrated to multi-region (active-active or warm-standby depending on RTO / RPO targets). Database replication, DNS-based failover, and a documented runbook tested with quarterly game-days.
- Multi-region architecture (active-active or warm-standby)
- Database replication + failover testing
- Documented DR runbook + RTO / RPO commitments
- Quarterly game-day rehearsal
- 04
Observability + ongoing
OngoingMetrics, logs, traces wired into a single pane (Datadog, Grafana, or Azure Monitor). On-call rotation set up, runbooks for the top 10 incident types, monthly cost reviews so the cloud bill doesn't quietly creep.
- Unified observability stack
- On-call rotation + paging policy
- Top-10 incident runbooks
- Monthly FinOps review
Frequently asked questions
For clients with an existing Microsoft estate, Azure — and, once it opens in November 2026, Microsoft's Saudi Arabia East region (Eastern Province) for workloads with NCA ECC / SAMA data-residency requirements. For AWS estates, AWS's first Saudi region is on track to launch in December 2026; the Bahrain region (me-south-1) has been disrupted by the regional conflict and AWS has asked customers there to migrate, so it is not a target for new workloads. STC cloud / SCK we deploy on for clients with explicit Saudi-sovereign requirements. We pick per workload, not per slogan.
Most production workloads need warm-standby in a second region (for example a pair of AWS regions or a pair of Azure regions) with database replication and DNS-based failover. True active-active is more expensive (data sync, conflict resolution, regulatory sign-off on cross-border replication) and worth it only for the workloads that genuinely can't take a 5-minute failover gap. We start with warm-standby and graduate to active-active per workload.
Yes. We've shipped NCA ECC-compliant cloud architectures and SAMA cyber-framework-aligned deployments — typically by combining in-Kingdom hosting where residency requires it, Microsoft Entra ID (identity), Sentinel (SIEM), and the right Terraform modules with policy-as-code gates that block non-compliant deploys. Auditor-ready evidence trail comes out of the CI/CD pipeline.
Honest answer: serverless first (Azure Container Apps, AWS Lambda + Fargate) for new workloads — less infra to manage, scales to zero, cheaper at low volume. Kubernetes when you have specific reasons: multi-tenant SaaS, very-high-volume services, complex networking, or existing K8s expertise in-house. We've shipped both extensively; we pick based on the workload, not the hype.
Usually, yes. Waste is common across the industry: Flexera's 2026 State of the Cloud Report puts wasted cloud spend at 29% among the organisations it surveyed. The waste we find usually sits in overprovisioned compute, idle databases, or untagged resources nobody owns. We start with an audit that quantifies your own waste, build a FinOps practice (tags, cost allocation, savings plans, right-sizing recommendations) inside the first 60 days, and report savings against your pre-audit bill.
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