XELMES

Azure and DevOps, platforms that hold up in production

XELMES is an IT consultancy specialised in the Microsoft Azure cloud: architecture, DevOps, FinOps and security. One senior consultant, documented delivery, in English, French or Dutch.

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Three people build a cloud dashboard together on a large screen

Four areas of expertise, one standard

The Microsoft Azure cloud end to end: build it, automate it, control its cost and secure it.

Azure cloud

Governed, documented Azure foundations, built to outlast the engagement.

  • Landing zones and architecture
  • Migrations to Azure
  • Hub and spoke networking, Private Endpoints
  • High availability and disaster recovery

DevOps & automation

Reproducible pipelines, infrastructure described as code and end-to-end observability.

  • CI/CD with Azure DevOps and GitLab
  • Infrastructure as Code, Bicep and Terraform
  • Monitoring, alerting and KQL
  • Automation with Logic Apps and scripting

FinOps

An Azure bill you understand, track and control, without trading away performance.

  • Cost analysis and rightsizing
  • Budgets, alerting and tagging
  • Reserved Instances and Savings Plans
  • Cost Management dashboards

Security & identity

Controlled access and protected secrets, with a zero trust and least privilege approach.

  • Entra ID, RBAC and PIM
  • Azure Policy and governance
  • Secrets and certificates, Key Vault
  • Hardening and compliance

Also available: web and mobile application development, APIs and integrations, Microsoft Teams workflows.

Our method, the same discipline everywhere

Whatever the size of the engagement, the work follows the same path, from a written scope to your teams running it on their own.

  1. Scope

    Scope, risks and success criteria set down in writing before any execution. A project without a Definition of Done is not a project.

  2. Deliver

    Short iterations, documented and reversible releases. One counterpart, a regular progress checkpoint.

  3. Hand over

    Documentation and knowledge transfer to your teams. Consultant dependency is not a business model.

  4. Stay discreet

    Standard NDA, centralised communication, white label possible. No visible presence at your end client if required.

Azure FinOps audit, complete and quantified

Know where your Azure budget goes, what can be saved and how to stay in control afterwards. With read-only access only.

Discover the audit

Working together, at your pace

One-off engagement
A precise need, a closed scope, a delivered result. Time and materials or fixed price.
Subcontracting for agencies and IT firms
Senior white-label reinforcement, integrated into your teams and tools.
Long-term collaboration
A technical partner who knows your systems, year after year.

The stack we practise, not the stack we display

The tools actually used in production over the past eight years.

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure, primary specialisation

App Service, Functions, Logic Apps, Container Apps, Storage, hub and spoke networking, Entra ID, Key Vault, Azure Monitor and Cost Management.

Azure DevOps

Azure platform

App Service, Function Apps, Logic Apps, Container Apps, Azure Storage, Microsoft Teams workflows

IaC & scripting

Bicep, Terraform, ARM Templates, Ansible, PowerShell, Python, Bash

CI/CD & DevOps

Azure DevOps (Pipelines, Repos, Artifacts), GitLab CI, Docker, Sweagle, Morpheus CMP

Identity & security

Entra ID, Active Directory, Windows Server, Azure Key Vault, HashiCorp Vault, RBAC, PIM, LDAP

Observability

Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, KQL, Logic Apps alerting, ELK, Sysdig

Networking & FinOps

VNet, hub and spoke, Private Endpoints, Application Gateway, VPN Gateway, ExpressRoute, Cost Management, budgets, tagging, Azure Policy, Management Groups

A project, an overloaded team, an audit? Let's talk.

Reply within two business days, in English, French or Dutch. NDA on request.

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