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Infrastructure Review
Senior engineers assess Azure, hybrid, network, identity, security, resilience, cost and operations, and write the transformation plan.
Managed cloud and security engineering
Brisbane, AustraliaRun complex infrastructure without building a bigger infrastructure team.
North Ark modernises, secures and operates Azure, hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Senior engineers do the work, and automation and AI take the repetitive parts.
Cloud, security, infrastructure and AI from one engineering partner, for organisations whose environments have outgrown their team.
You already run serious infrastructure. Hiring a specialist for every domain is not the answer.
Cloud, networking, identity, security and platform engineering each need depth. A team large enough to cover all of them is slow and expensive to build, and the people you can hire are rarely the ones who have seen these failures before.
North Ark supplies that engineering capability directly. We take ownership of defined parts of the environment, change them through code and review, and keep them healthy.
How it works
Start with a review.
End with an environment you no longer worry about.
North Ark is for organisations with real infrastructure and a capable internal team that cannot staff every specialist domain. We take on defined parts of the estate and run them, with automation doing the repetitive work.
Built for organisations in industrial, manufacturing, logistics, mining services, construction, professional services, healthcare, financial services and retail, and for multi-site businesses.
How North Ark operates02
Transformation Engineering
The plan is built as code: landing zones, migrations, network and security uplift, with tested rollback and handover.
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Managed Engineering
North Ark keeps ownership of defined parts of the environment and keeps improving them.
Cloud. Security. Infrastructure. AI.
One engineering partner.
The same engineers who assess an environment design the change, build it and run it afterwards. Security findings do not wait for another vendor to fix them.
Modernise it.
Azure landing zones, migrations off ageing platforms, Azure Local, network redesign, Citrix to AVD.
ModerniseSecure it.
Entra ID and Conditional Access, Intune, Defender, Sentinel, privileged access and posture work that gets closed.
SecureOperate it.
Monitoring, patching, platform change, cost, backup and DR, and governance, owned continuously by senior engineers.
OperateAutomate it.
Infrastructure as code, runbooks, pipelines and AI-assisted operations, so each fix becomes a repeatable pattern.
Automate
Common starting points
Start with the problem in front of you.
Each of these has a fixed-scope first step, so you get a clear answer before committing to anything larger.
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A VMware renewal is coming
Place every workload and plan the move before the renewal date.
02Someone is asking for an Essential Eight level
Measure maturity against evidence, then reach the level you need.
03An acquisition, merger or divestiture
Day 1 planned, then tenants, identities and devices moved on the deal's timetable.
04Nobody is sure how secure Microsoft 365 is
An evidence-based review of the tenant and a ranked plan.
05Changing IT provider
Take control of access and risk before the handover date.
06Something is wrong right now
Incident response, day or night.
Recent work
Delivered at scale, on a deadline.
Virtual desktops for thousands of users, a Microsoft Dynamics ERP and security controls across a large estate.
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Several hundred virtual desktops moved from VMware to Azure Local in three months
Designed, built and migrated by North Ark's founder, David Goulding, for a multinational industrial machinery company.
02Microsoft Dynamics ERP delivered through Azure Virtual Desktop in three months
Designed, built and migrated by North Ark's founder, David Goulding, for a multinational industrial machinery company.
03Audit findings and Essential Eight gaps closed across around 14,000 users and devices
Remediation and change control by North Ark's founder, David Goulding, for a multinational industrial machinery company.
Engineering-led operations
More infrastructure under management without a matching headcount.
Every deployment becomes infrastructure as code. Every incident becomes a diagnostic pattern. Every repeated task becomes automation. That is how senior engineers can look after a large environment properly.
Managed EngineeringHybrid environment
DatacentreCloud platformsRemote sites
Engineering across the whole systemConnectivity + Identity + SecurityBuilt once, reused everywhere.
ApplicationsData & AIOperations
Engineering notes
How we think about the hard parts.
Azure Landing Zones: what they need
What belongs in an Azure landing zone that an operations team can run, and what to leave out of the first release.
Read articleVMware vs Azure Local for Australian IT teams
How to compare VMware on-premises, Azure Local, and public Azure when licence, skills, latency and data residency matter.
Read articleTroubleshooting hybrid Azure network problems
A method for hybrid Azure network incidents: DNS, routing, NSGs, firewalls and ExpressRoute, in the order that finds the fault.
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