Enterprise Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure for workloads that cannot fail.

Alman Operations L.L.C-FZ designs and builds high-end infrastructure for enterprises — from a single private cluster to a complete data centre, highly available in airgapped, hybrid and cloud environments. We stay with the build from the first capacity plan through architecture to the platform running in production.

Scope
Cluster Data centreDesign, build, migrate, hand over
Environments
AirgappedHybrid and cloud alike
Engagement
Plan BuildOne team, no hand-off gaps
Exploded view of an enterprise infrastructure stack Seven separated isometric layers: cloud and edge, platform, virtualisation, compute and high availability, storage fabric, network fabric and the data centre facility. Cloud & Edge AWS · Azure · GCP Platform Kubernetes · OpenShift Virtualisation Proxmox · KVM · VMware Compute & HA Quorum · N+1 · Fencing Storage fabric Ceph · ZFS · Replication Network fabric Spine / leaf · BGP Facility Power · Cooling · Airgap
  • Cloud & edge
  • Platform
  • Virtualisation
  • Compute & HA
  • Storage fabric
  • Network fabric
  • Facility

What we build

Four disciplines, one engineering team

Every engagement combines them differently. What stays constant is that the people who draw the architecture are the people who rack, configure and migrate it.

Private clusters

Dedicated compute platforms on your own hardware, in your own racks, under your own control plane.

  • Bare-metal Kubernetes, OpenShift, RKE2
  • Proxmox, KVM and VMware clusters
  • GPU, HPC and memory-dense node pools
  • Multi-tenant isolation and quotas

Data centres

Whole-room engineering: capacity, power, cooling, fabric and the hardware that fills the racks.

  • Site survey, capacity and growth model
  • Rack layout, power and cooling budgets
  • Structured cabling and spine/leaf fabric
  • Vendor-neutral BOM, commissioning, burn-in

High availability

Availability designed around failure domains and measured against agreed RTO and RPO targets.

  • Failure-domain and quorum design
  • Split-brain and fencing strategy
  • Synchronous and async replication
  • Backup, restore and failover drills

Platform engineering

The layer that makes infrastructure usable: automation, delivery pipelines and operational insight.

  • Infrastructure as Code end to end
  • GitOps delivery and environment promotion
  • Observability, alerting and runbooks
  • Golden images and lifecycle management

Where it runs

Airgapped, hybrid or cloud — the same engineering discipline

Most enterprises run all three at once. We design across the boundaries instead of pretending they do not exist.

Airgapped

No path to the internet

For regulated, classified and OT environments where connectivity is a compliance decision, not a convenience.

  • Offline registries and package mirrors
  • Signed artefact supply chain and import gates
  • Internal PKI, identity and time sources
  • Offline patching and lifecycle process
  • Documented change control and audit trail
Hybrid

Own capacity, public reach

Private platforms with controlled paths into public cloud — one operating model across every site.

  • Site-to-site and transit routing design
  • Identity federation across estates
  • Consistent platform API on every site
  • Workload placement and data gravity
  • Burst capacity without lock-in
Cloud

Built to be moved

Cloud footprints designed so that capacity, cost and exit remain engineering decisions.

  • Landing zones on AWS, Azure and GCP
  • Multi-AZ and multi-region topologies
  • Managed Kubernetes: EKS, AKS, GKE
  • Cost, quota and capacity governance
  • Repatriation to private capacity

How we work

From the first capacity plan to the running platform

Four phases with named deliverables. You can engage us for one of them or for all four.

Assessment & planning

We map the estate as it is: workloads, dependencies, constraints, compliance boundaries and the capacity trajectory you are actually on.

DeliverableCapacity model, risk register, target-state options

Architecture & design

Reference architecture down to rack unit, VLAN, storage pool and failure domain — reviewed against your availability and recovery targets before anything is ordered.

DeliverableHLD and LLD, network and storage design, bill of materials

Implementation & migration

We build it: hardware, fabric, storage, platform, automation and pipelines — then migrate workloads in controlled waves with a rollback path at every step.

DeliverableRunning platform, IaC repositories, migration record

Operations & handover

Monitoring, escalation paths and failover drills, followed by knowledge transfer to your team — or continued operation by ours.

DeliverableRunbooks, dashboards, trained operators

99.99%

Availability targets engineered around failure domains — not around a single well-behaved server.

N+1

Minimum redundancy we design for across power, network paths and node capacity.

0

External dependencies required to operate an airgapped platform we deliver.

65

Clients served and handed over.

30

Years of experience gathered.

85

Projects completed successfully.

Engineering stack

Vendor-neutral by default

We select technology against your constraints — licensing, support model, skills in house and exit cost — not against a partner agreement.

Orchestration

  • Kubernetes
  • Red Hat OpenShift
  • Rancher / RKE2
  • Helm, Kustomize
  • Fleet

Virtualisation

  • Proxmox VE
  • KVM / libvirt
  • VMware vSphere
  • Hyper-V
  • Live migration design

Storage

  • Ceph: RBD, CephFS, RGW
  • ZFS
  • NFS and iSCSI
  • S3-compatible object
  • Replication and backup

Network

  • Spine / leaf fabric
  • BGP, EVPN / VXLAN
  • VLAN segmentation
  • HAProxy, MetalLB, Keepalived
  • WireGuard, IPsec

Infrastructure as Code

  • Terraform / OpenTofu
  • Ansible
  • Packer, cloud-init
  • Python tooling
  • Policy as code

CI/CD & GitOps

  • GitLab CI
  • GitHub Actions
  • Jenkins
  • Argo CD
  • Artefact promotion

Observability

  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Loki
  • Alertmanager and on-call
  • Distributed tracing

Security & compliance

  • Internal PKI
  • SSO: Keycloak, Active Directory
  • CIS hardening baselines
  • Secrets management
  • Audit and change control

The company

Alman Operations L.L.C-FZ

We are a small, senior team of infrastructure engineers based in Dubai, working for enterprises that treat their platform as a production asset rather than an expense line. Our work covers the full range between a first private cluster and a fully commissioned data centre.

Every engagement is run by the engineers who will build the result. That removes the gap where architecture documents usually lose contact with what is technically true in the racks.

Our background spans infrastructure as code, automation, DevOps practice, CI/CD and software development — which is why our platforms arrive with the pipelines, runbooks and observability needed to operate them, not just with hardware that boots.

We work vendor-neutral, document what we build and hand over environments your own team can run. Where you prefer, we stay on and operate them with you.

Questions

Before the first call

Can you deliver into a fully airgapped environment?

Yes. We build the offline supply chain that makes it sustainable: mirrored registries and repositories, signed artefacts with a defined import gate, internal PKI, identity and time sources, plus a patch and lifecycle process that works without any outbound connectivity. The platform is designed so that no operational task silently requires the internet.

Do we have to replace our existing environment?

Rarely. Most engagements start with an assessment of what is already running, and the target architecture keeps whatever is sound. Where hardware or a platform genuinely has to be replaced, we say so with the capacity and risk numbers behind the recommendation, and migration runs in waves with a rollback path at each step.

Which hardware vendors do you work with?

We are vendor-neutral and specify against your requirements: performance and capacity model, support and spare-part terms, lead times, power envelope and total cost over the expected lifetime. We work with the usual server, storage and networking vendors and can build a comparable bill of materials for each option.

How long does a typical engagement take?

An assessment and target architecture usually takes two to six weeks depending on the size of the estate. A private cluster can be in production within weeks of the hardware arriving; a data centre build-out is measured in months and is driven by procurement and site work rather than by engineering time. Timelines are agreed per phase, not as one number.

What happens after go-live?

You receive the environment with its Infrastructure as Code repositories, runbooks, dashboards and alerting in place, and we train your operators on it. Where a team prefers not to run the platform themselves, we continue to operate it under an agreed support model with defined response times and regular failover drills.

Do you work alongside our internal teams?

That is the normal case. We work with your infrastructure, security and application teams, adopt your change process and leave the design decisions documented and reviewable. Knowledge transfer is part of the engagement, not an optional extra at the end.

Contact

Tell us about your environment

Send the shape of the problem — sites, workloads, availability targets, constraints. We reply with an honest assessment of what it takes.

Alman Operations L.L.C-FZ

Enterprise infrastructure engineering — private clusters, data centres and high availability.

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