Manchester, UK

Platform Engineering
& DevSecOps

Nuj Technologies is the independent practice of Ravi Ramanuj — a platform engineer and cloud architect with over a decade of experience across a range of industries and organisations.

A decade of hands-on platform and security engineering

Nujtech Ltd is the independent practice of Ravi Ramanuj, a platform engineer and DevSecOps specialist based in Manchester. The work spans cloud architecture, infrastructure, security posture, and the operational practices that tie them together.

Over ten years, Ravi has worked across a variety of companies and industries — from global enterprises to fast-moving SaaS organisations — taking full ownership of AWS estates, Kubernetes platforms, and end-to-end security and compliance programmes.

The focus is always on building things that are well-structured, secure by default, and simple to operate long-term.

What the work involves

A broad remit, covered in depth.

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Cloud Architecture (AWS)

Full ownership of AWS platforms — from initial architecture and networking through to IAM, cost, and long-term operational design.

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Kubernetes & Platform Engineering

Cluster design, workload architecture, and full lifecycle management. Including migrations from legacy infrastructure and service mesh rollouts.

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DevSecOps

Security built into the delivery pipeline from the start — not added at the end. Vulnerability gates, image hardening, SAST, and policy-as-code.

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Identity & Access Management

Zero-trust IAM design, enterprise SSO rollouts, and federated AWS access. Credential hygiene and break-glass controls included as standard.

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Observability & SRE

End-to-end visibility across infrastructure and services — logging, metrics, alerting, and SLO design. Built to be genuinely useful, not just present.

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Infrastructure as Code

Structured Terraform estates, fleet automation, and CI/CD pipeline design — with a consistent emphasis on blast-radius reduction and clear change controls.

Technologies

The tools used day-to-day, across ten years of production work.

Cloud & Platform

AWS Kubernetes Docker Helm Linkerd Terraform Ansible Packer GitLab CI

Security & Identity

Okta AWS SSO SAML / OIDC / SCIM SAST Policy-as-Code ISO 27001 Cyber Essentials+

Observability & Tooling

Prometheus Grafana OpenSearch Datadog SonarQube Puppet

Selected outcomes

A selection of measurable results from previous engagements, across security, reliability, cost, and operational maturity.

~80%
reduction in CVE exposure through hardened OCI build standards and vulnerability gates
90%+
AWS security benchmark score across FSBP, CIS v1.4 and NIST SP 800-53 frameworks
ISO
27001
& Cyber Essentials+ certification achieved as sole platform and security engineer
$10M+
in documented cost savings and productivity benefits delivered at enterprise scale

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