DevOps, cloud and software consultancy in Athens

Your CTO and your DevOps team, without the full‑time hires.

LL Cloud builds and runs infrastructure on AWS, GCP, Azure and Kubernetes, writes the software that runs on it, and acts as your CTO until you have one. We work with startups and scale-ups in Greece and across the EU.

We reply within 24 hours, in English or Greek.

Projects delivered
50+
Uptime SLA
99.9%
On-call coverage
24/7
Incident response
<15 min

Most teams call us at one of these moments.

If one of these sounds familiar, we have handled it before.

  • Your only DevOps engineer just gave notice.

    We take over operations, write down what lived in their head, and help you hire the replacement.

  • The cloud bill keeps growing and nobody can say why.

    We trace every large line item to a service and an owner, then cut what isn't earning its keep.

  • Deploys depend on one person and a checklist.

    We build pipelines that ship the same artifact to staging and production in minutes, with rollbacks that work.

  • A customer or investor asked about SOC 2, ISO 27001 or GDPR.

    We close the gaps in IAM, logging and data residency, and make the audit trail part of the platform.

  • You're building a product without a senior technical lead.

    We make the architecture, vendor and hiring calls with you, so early decisions don't become expensive rewrites.

  • Production went down and it took hours to find out why.

    We set up metrics, logs and alerts that point at the user-facing problem, plus runbooks and an on-call rotation.

Four ways to work with us.

Most clients start with the audit. Some go straight to a build. We quote each engagement on its scope, so email us a few lines and we'll come back with a proposal.

Cloud & DevOps audit

One week, fixed scope

We go through your cloud accounts, repositories, pipelines, on-call setup and last quarter's incidents. We score security, cost, infrastructure as code, observability and recovery. On Friday you get one page: what's red, what's amber, and what we'd fix first.

Good fit if you inherited a setup, are about to raise or scale, or want a second opinion before a big decision.

Fractional CTO

Part-time, monthly

A senior technical lead for companies that don't have one yet, or are between hires. We own the technical roadmap, review architecture before big decisions, choose cloud providers and vendors, help you hire engineers, and answer technical questions from investors and customers.

Good fit if you're a founder without a technical co-founder, or your team has outgrown its first engineers but a full-time CTO isn't the right move yet.

Build & migrate

Project, 1 to 6 months

Cloud foundations on AWS, GCP or Azure, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes platforms, migrations off legacy hosting, and the application code that runs on them in Go, Node.js and Python. Everything lives in Terraform and is documented and handed over to your team.

Good fit if you're starting from scratch, leaving a hosting setup you've outgrown, or need a product built and shipped.

Run & support

Monthly retainer

We operate production with you: monitoring, alerts that mean something, a 24/7 on-call rotation with response in under 15 minutes, patching and regular cost reviews. Backed by a 99.9% uptime SLA.

Good fit if you have no one in-house for operations, or your ops team needs a second line at night and on weekends.

What we work on.

The same small team designs the platform, writes the code and carries the pager, so nothing gets lost between build and run.

Cloud infrastructure

Multi-account foundations on AWS, GCP and Azure, built in Terraform and set up for GDPR from the start. Greenfield or migrating off a legacy setup.

AWS Organizations, VPC and networking, Terraform, Pulumi

CI/CD and automation

Pipelines that run in minutes. One artifact promoted from staging to production, and feature flags instead of long-lived branches.

GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Argo CD, Flux

Kubernetes platforms

Production EKS, GKE and AKS with ingress, autoscaling, observability and image policy solved, plus self-service deploys for your developers.

Karpenter, network policies, pod security, golden paths

Software development

APIs, backends, event systems and web applications. We still ship application code, so the platform we hand you is one we'd deploy our own services to.

Go, Node.js, Python, React, PostgreSQL

Security and compliance

Least-privilege IAM, no long-lived keys, encryption everywhere and org-wide guardrails. Evidence for SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR comes from the system itself.

SCPs, Identity Center, GuardDuty, Security Hub, EU data residency

Observability and on-call

Golden-signal metrics, alerts on user-visible problems, documented SLOs, and runbooks that exist before the incident, not after.

Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Datadog

How an engagement runs.

You'll know the scope, the timeline and the price before any work starts.

  1. You write to us

    A few lines on what you run today and what's bothering you. We reply within 24 hours.

  2. Intro call

    We ask about your stack, team and deadlines. If we're not the right fit, we'll tell you and point you elsewhere.

  3. Assessment and proposal

    Usually the one-week audit. Then a written proposal with deliverables, timeline and price.

  4. Delivery and handover

    Short sprints with regular check-ins. Code, Terraform and runbooks are yours, documented so your team can run them without us.

What clients say.

LL Cloud transformed our deployment pipeline and reduced our release cycle from weeks to hours. Their deep understanding of security requirements in our industry made them the ideal partner for our infrastructure.

Jean Yves CTO, CyberPass

LL Cloud helped us architect a monitoring platform that scales with our growth. Their pragmatic approach to DevOps and clear communication made the entire process seamless from day one.

Nick Nikiforakis Co-founder, LinkSentry

Questions we get asked.

Something else on your mind? Email [email protected].

What does a fractional CTO from LL Cloud do?

We act as your senior technical lead for part of the week. That usually means owning the technical roadmap, reviewing architecture before big decisions, choosing cloud providers and vendors, helping you hire engineers, and answering technical questions from investors and customers.

How much does it cost?

It depends on scope, so we quote each engagement. Email [email protected] with a few lines about your setup and what you need, and we'll reply within 24 hours. The audit is fixed in scope, so you know the cost before we start.

Can you work with our existing infrastructure and team?

Yes. Most engagements start with an audit of what's already there, and we build the roadmap around your current stack. We work alongside your engineers and document everything so your team can run it without us.

Do you work with companies outside Greece?

Yes. We work remotely with teams across the EU. Athens is one hour ahead of Central European Time, so our working day overlaps fully with most of Europe. We work in English and Greek, and default to EU regions for data residency.

Do you only do infrastructure, or also software development?

Both. We build APIs, backends and web applications in Go, Node.js, Python and React, and deploy them on infrastructure we build and run.

What happens when the project ends?

You get the code, the Terraform, the runbooks and a handover session. Many clients keep us on a Run & support retainer for on-call and ongoing operations; others take it fully in-house.

What types of companies do you work with?

Startups, scale-ups and established companies in cybersecurity, logistics, fintech and SaaS, from 5-person teams to 500-person organisations.

Which technologies do you work with?

AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, Pulumi, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Argo CD, Prometheus, Grafana and Datadog, plus Go, Node.js, Python and React for application work. We pick what fits the project.

Tell us what you're working on.

A few lines are enough: what you run today, what's bothering you, and any deadline.

  1. We reply within 24 hours, in English or Greek.
  2. We set up a short call to understand your setup.
  3. You get a written proposal with scope, timeline and price.

Prefer email? Write to [email protected]
LL Cloud, Athens, Greece