Cloud Governance

Policy baselines and landing zone foundations.

I design the management group hierarchy, enforce Azure Policy at scale, wire Entra ID into RBAC, set cost alerts, and hand back a governance framework your team can operate without me.

Scope a project.

What Ungoverned Looks Like

Azure environments that grew subscription-by-subscription accumulate risk faster than features.

Most tenants I assess share the same three patterns.

No tagging, no attribution: Resources exist with no owner, no cost center, and no way to trace spend back to a team or project.
Overprivileged identities: Global admin handed out like a shared password. Service principals with Contributor on the root management group.
No policy inheritance: Each subscription is a kingdom. Security configurations vary by whoever built it and when.

I audit the tenant, design the management group topology, apply CIS and NIST policy baselines, and enforce tagging and naming conventions from the top down.

Deliverables

Management Group Hierarchy

A structured landing zone topology covering platform, workload, and sandbox tiers. Subscription placement rules and policy scoping defined before the first resource deploys.

Azure Policy Baseline

CIS and NIST initiative assignments, plus custom policies for allowed regions, SKU restrictions, and mandatory tagging. Audit mode first, then deny.

Cost Management Framework

Budgets per subscription and resource group. Anomaly alerts routed to the right owner. Monthly spend attribution by tag.

RBAC and Entra ID Integration

Least-privilege role assignments scoped to management groups. PIM for elevated access. Service principal hygiene and credential rotation schedules documented.

What affects scope.

Complexity Factors

Number of Subscriptions↑ Increases

Legacy Resource Dependencies↑ Increases

Regulatory Compliance Needs↑ Increases

Centralized Identity↓ Decreases

Field Evidence

From the Field

Real governance work from previous engagements.

Azure Foundations: The Governance Baseline: The five non-negotiable checklist items that prevent Azure environments from rotting into ClickOps chaos.
The Idempotency Audit: When Scripts Run Twice: Why check-then-act automation logic is fragile, and how declarative state enforcement prevents race conditions and duplicate resources in production.
When Time Breaks Identity: How clock drift across trust boundaries creates intermittent authentication failures that trace back to NTP hygiene.

Start with a scope call.

I review your tenant size, identify the governance boundary, and send a fixed-price proposal within 48 hours.

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