Senior Azure consulting for businesses across the North West.
Azure Expertise for Manchester, Liverpool, Cheshire, Merseyside & Lancashire
I provide hands-on Azure engineering, troubleshooting, optimisation, and cloud improvement services to organisations across the North West. Whether you’re dealing with outages, slow performance, rising costs, or scaling issues, I help stabilise, secure, and optimise your Azure environment.
Perfect for SMEs, SaaS companies, internal IT teams, and tech leaders who need senior Azure expertise without hiring full-time.
Common Reasons Clients Call Me
- Production issues causing downtime, slow apps, or broken services
- Cost reduction — Azure bill too high or unclear
- DevOps pipeline problems slowing deployments
- Security concerns after audits, alerts, or misconfigurations
- Architecture not scaling with growth or customer load
- No in-house Azure specialist and need expert guidance
- Cloud migration challenges or uncertain best practice
Azure Services I Provide
🔍 Azure Audits & Health Checks
Identify risks, misconfigurations, and performance issues.
Includes: architecture, networking, identity, cost, resilience, monitoring.
💸 Cost Optimisation
Reduce your Azure spend without rewriting your application.
Typical savings: 20–40%.
Covers: unused resources, VM rightsizing, storage optimisation, Savings Plans, automation.
🔐 Security & Compliance
End-to-end Azure security review.
- IAM/RBAC checks
- Network security
- Storage & data protection
- MFA/logging/monitoring
- Compliance alignment (ISO/SOC2)
🏗️ Infrastructure Design & Architecture
Build Azure the right way: scalable, secure, and well-structured.
- Landing zones
- Hub/spoke networks
- High availability
- APIM / App Service / Functions
- AKS & container workloads
⚙️ DevOps & CI/CD Pipelines
Fix or build deployment pipelines reliably.
- Azure DevOps
- GitHub Actions
- Terraform/Bicep
- Release automation
- Secrets management
📈 Monitoring & Alerting Setup
Ensure your environment is protected and observable.
- Azure Monitor
- Log Analytics
- Application Insights
- Alerts & dashboards
Who I Work With
- North West SMEs
- SaaS & tech companies
- Internal IT teams
- CTOs, IT Managers, Digital Leads
- Organisations modernising or migrating to Azure
Local coverage includes:
Manchester, Liverpool, Warrington, Chester, Crewe, Birkenhead, St Helens, Wigan, Preston, Bolton, Blackburn, Stockport, Salford, and surrounding areas.
Contact chris@azure-consultant.com and get started today