Sinara Lift: Containerisation & Cloud Architecture

Take your in-house systems to the cloud, properly

You have a system that works — but it’s tied to on-premise or ageing infrastructure, and you want the scalability, resilience and economics of the cloud.

Sinara takes on the whole move: containerising your application, architecting the cloud environment, deploying it, and running it for you if you want us to.

Cloud-Ready Trading Systems

From in-house to cloud, without the risk

Moving a working system to the cloud is one of those projects that’s easy to underestimate. 

The system does its job today — the worry is everything that could go wrong in the move, and everything the cloud demands that on-premise never did. 

Sinara takes that on end to end: we containerise the application, design the right cloud architecture around it, carry out the migration, and support it once it’s live.

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Why Sinara

The whole journey to the cloud, handled

Move your in-house system to the cloud

We take an existing, working system and get it running in the cloud — intact and improved, not rebuilt from scratch and not left half-migrated.   

Containerisation done right

We package your application into containers — Docker, Kubernetes and the surrounding tooling — for portability, consistency across environments, and the ability to scale on demand.

Cloud architecture, designed for you

The cloud gives you countless ways to deploy, most of them wrong for your workload. We design the target environment properly: networking, security, scaling, resilience and cost, matched to how your system actually runs.

We do the deployment

Not a design on paper handed back to your team — we set up the environment, deploy the system, and prove it works under real conditions.                                                                                                                                      

Minimal disruption

We plan the move as a phased, low-risk migration that keeps the business running throughout, with a clear path back if it’s ever needed.             

Secure and resilient by design

Built to the security, resilience and availability standards institutional trading demands — not a lift-and-shift that leaves the hard parts for later.

Right-sized and cost-aware

Cloud done carelessly gets expensive fast. We architect for performance and cost together, so you’re not paying for capacity you don’t use.                 

Engineers who understand the markets

We know the resilience, latency and data demands of trading systems, so the architecture fits the workload rather than treating it like any other application.

We do this for our own products

Sinara’s own product suites run in the cloud, fully containerised. We do this work every day for the platforms we build and operate — so you get a team that has done it many times over, not one learning on your system.

Managed for you, long-term

Once it’s live, we can run and manage your cloud environment around the clock — monitoring, patching, scaling and cost optimisation — or hand it over whenever you’re ready.                                                                                     

The Whole Journey to the Cloud

We handle every stage

One partner accountable from first assessment to a live, managed cloud environment.

Assessment & Design

  • Assessment of your existing system and infrastructure
  • Cloud readiness and migration strategy
  • Target architecture design
  • Security, resilience and compliance planning
  • Cost modelling and right-sizing

Containerisation & Build

  • Application containerisation (Docker)
  • Kubernetes and orchestration
  • Infrastructure-as-code and repeatable environments
  • CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment
  • Environment configuration and hardening

Deployment & Cloud Setup

  • Cloud environment setup (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Networking, identity and access
  • Phased, low-risk migration and cutover
  • Testing, validation and performance tuning
  • On-premise, cloud or hybrid deployment

Management, Monitoring & Run

  • 24/7 monitoring and alerting
  • Patching, updates and maintenance
  • Scaling and ongoing cost optimisation
  • Backup, resilience and disaster recovery
  • Long-term support and enhancement

Built for the Long Term

Migrated, managed, and kept running

The cloud isn’t set-and-forget. Sinara can operate your environment for the life of the system — monitoring, patching, scaling and optimising cost — or hand it over cleanly whenever you’re ready.

Managed cloud operations

  • 24/7 monitoring and support from London-based engineers 
  • Proactive patching, updates and maintenance
  • Scaling and continuous cost optimisation
  • Backup, resilience and disaster-recovery management
  • Direct access to the specialists who built your environment

Your cloud or ours

  • Sinara hosts and runs it — dedicated cloud, fully managed and monitored
  • Your cloud account, our support — we run it in your own cloud, with Sinara providing third-line support 
  • Full handover — take complete ownership, with documentation and knowledge transfer
  • Switch models as your needs change — no lock-in
  • Clear, flexible commercial arrangements