Services

Managed cloud, websites, software and AI

Based on the Gold Coast, Australia, Arcova Labs delivers managed cloud, websites, custom software and AI systems for businesses and engineering teams. We combine architectural direction with hands-on delivery.

Engage us for a focused assessment, a delivery project or embedded engineering capability. We take ownership from architecture and implementation through deployment, reliability and handover.

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Managed Cloud

Ongoing management of AWS and GCP environments, keeping infrastructure reliable, secure and cost-effective.

Best for

Businesses that need an engineering partner to manage and improve their cloud environment.

  • Cloud hosting and environment management
  • Monitoring, maintenance and operational support
  • Backups, recovery planning and access management
  • Security updates and configuration improvements
  • Cost optimisation and capacity planning

Websites & Web Applications

Design and development of business websites, customer portals and web applications, with hosting and ongoing maintenance.

Best for

Businesses launching a website, replacing an outdated site or building a digital service.

  • Responsive websites and accessible interfaces
  • Content management and third-party integrations
  • Customer portals, dashboards and booking workflows
  • Performance, technical SEO and analytics setup
  • Hosting, maintenance and ongoing improvements

Custom Software Development

Software built around your business: applications, APIs, integrations and automation, from new products to existing system improvements.

Best for

Teams that need custom functionality, connected systems or additional delivery capacity.

  • Full-stack application development
  • API design and systems integration
  • Workflow automation and internal tools
  • Existing application maintenance and modernisation
  • Testing, deployment and technical handover

Fractional Platform Lead

Senior hands-on DevOps and platform engineering leadership for teams that need cloud-native delivery capability without hiring permanently.

Best for

Startups, scale-ups, and engineering teams without mature platform ownership.

  • Platform strategy, execution planning, and technical leadership
  • AWS/GCP cloud architecture and operating models
  • Kubernetes, CI/CD, GitOps, observability, and secure delivery
  • Developer experience, golden paths, and platform operating standards
  • Hands-on implementation and documented handover

Platform Health Check

A focused assessment of your cloud, Kubernetes, CI/CD, security, reliability, and cost posture with a practical remediation roadmap.

Best for

Teams with brittle deployments, cloud sprawl, poor visibility, or unclear platform risk.

  • Cloud account, IAM, networking, and environment review
  • Kubernetes and workload configuration review
  • CI/CD pipeline and release process assessment
  • Secrets, backup, observability, and incident-readiness review
  • Prioritised 30/60/90-day action plan

Secure Cloud Foundation Sprint

Design and build a production-ready AWS or GCP foundation with environments, access controls, automation, observability, and guardrails.

Best for

Teams preparing for production, scaling beyond ad hoc cloud setup, or rebuilding a weak foundation.

  • Account/project structure and environment design
  • Terraform-based infrastructure baseline
  • SSO, IAM, least-privilege access, and auditability
  • Networking, secrets, backups, monitoring, and cost controls
  • Handover documentation and operating model

CI/CD & Supply Chain Security

Secure delivery pipelines for teams that need repeatable, auditable, and safer software releases.

Best for

Fintech, SaaS, crypto, regulated teams, and engineering teams moving fast.

  • GitHub Actions, Tekton, or existing CI/CD improvement
  • Build, test, scan, sign, promote, and deploy workflows
  • SBOMs, image signing, provenance, and policy gates
  • Environment promotion and release approval controls
  • Practical controls aligned to SLSA-style delivery maturity

Kubernetes & Cloud-Native Platforms

Kubernetes platform design, stabilisation, and delivery for teams running production workloads on EKS, GKE, or similar platforms.

Best for

Teams with growing container workloads, cluster reliability issues, or unclear platform standards.

  • EKS/GKE architecture, add-ons, ingress, DNS, and networking
  • GitOps, Helm, deployment standards, and environment patterns
  • Autoscaling, workload isolation, and operational guardrails
  • Observability, logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting
  • Security posture, runtime controls, and policy-as-code

Observability & Reliability

Improve visibility, reduce operational guesswork, and build practical reliability systems your team can actually use.

Best for

Teams with outages, weak alerts, unclear ownership, or poor production feedback loops.

  • Metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alert review
  • Service health, SLOs, and operational runbooks
  • Incident readiness and production support workflows
  • Cost-aware observability architecture
  • Actionable dashboards for engineering and leadership

AI Workflow Implementation

Practical AI systems for internal operations, support, knowledge retrieval, and workflow automation. Architecture, integration, deployment and ongoing operational improvement.

Best for

Teams building or deploying AI capabilities within their products and operations.

  • Internal knowledge assistants and retrieval-augmented generation
  • Workflow automation using function calling and tool integrations
  • Support, operations, reporting, and admin automation
  • Evaluation, guardrails, logging, and failure handling
  • Integration with existing systems and business processes

Square & Hospitality Systems

Specialist Square, ordering, menu, kiosk, and hospitality workflow integration informed by real operating experience.

Best for

Hospitality and retail operators using Square who need custom workflows or better systems.

  • Square API integrations for menus, ordering, payments, and reporting
  • Online ordering, QR, kiosk, and operational workflow concepts
  • Restaurant and retail automation
  • Website-to-POS integration patterns
  • Practical systems thinking from running a real hospitality business

Engagement models

Managed services

Ongoing cloud management, website maintenance and software improvements, with an agreed support scope and operating model.

Audit

A focused assessment with risks, priorities, and a practical remediation plan.

Sprint

Fixed-scope delivery for cloud foundations, CI/CD, security, observability, or platform improvement.

Fractional lead

Ongoing senior platform leadership and hands-on delivery without a permanent hire.