Cloud · Security · DevSecOps · Agentic AI

Infrastructure
built to last.

Proxima Consulting helps growing businesses build secure, automated, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure — without the enterprise price tag.

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20+
Years Experience
10+
Industries Served
3wk
Avg. Time to Value
Trusted across
Federal Government
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State Government
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Financial Services
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Insurance
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Retail & E-commerce
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Airlines & Logistics
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Technology
NSW Government · Approved ICT Supplier · SCM0020
What We Do

Four focused services.
Real outcomes.

We don't do everything. We do four things exceptionally well — and we deliver them in weeks, not quarters.

01 / 04
🔒

Cloud Security Health Check

A structured assessment of your cloud environment against security best practices. We identify gaps, misconfigurations, and vulnerabilities — then hand you a prioritised action plan you can actually execute.

Prioritised remediation roadmap
Risk Identification Access Review Threat Modelling Compliance
02 / 04
⚙️

Automated Delivery Pipelines

We modernise the entire delivery loop — spec to production to incident response. AI-augmented authoring, security and quality gates wired in at every stage, and agentic feedback that closes back into the next change. Not just pipelines — an end-to-end delivery system.

End-to-end delivery system, modernised
Any Source Control Any Cloud Infrastructure as Code AI-Augmented Quality & Security Gates
03 / 04
📉

Cloud Cost Optimisation

Most SMBs overspend on cloud by 30–40% without realising it. We audit your spend, identify waste, and implement savings — often paying for the engagement within the first month.

Measurable cost reduction
Spend Analysis Right-sizing Compute Strategy FinOps
04 / 04
🧠

Agentic AI Foundations

We help businesses move from AI experimentation to production. Agent platform setup, guardrails, identity, observability, and cost controls — so your AI doesn't end up an unmanaged risk or a runaway bill.

Production-ready agent platform
Agent Platforms Guardrails & Policy Agent Identity AI FinOps
Security Expertise

Security is not a checklist.
It's a discipline.

We bring deep, cross-domain security knowledge to every engagement — across the full spectrum of modern application and infrastructure risk.

Application Security

Static analysis (SAST), dynamic testing (DAST), and software composition analysis (SCA) integrated into your delivery pipeline. Vulnerabilities caught before they reach production.

Threat Modelling

Structured identification of attack surfaces, trust boundaries, and risk scenarios before a line of code is written. Security designed in, not bolted on.

Identity & Access Governance

Zero trust architecture, least privilege enforcement, and privileged access controls. We eliminate over-permissioned identities and establish clear access boundaries across your environment.

Cloud Security Posture

Continuous misconfiguration detection, compliance drift alerting, and automated remediation. Your cloud environment stays secure as it evolves — not just at the point of setup.

Supply Chain Security

Third-party dependency risk, container base image integrity, and software bill of materials (SBOM). Modern attacks target the supply chain — we make sure yours is hardened.

Network Security

Perimeter controls, network segmentation, east-west traffic inspection, and DDoS mitigation strategies. We design networks that limit blast radius when — not if — something gets through.

Data Security & Classification

Encryption at rest and in transit, data residency controls, and classification frameworks. We ensure sensitive data is identified, protected, and governed appropriately.

Incident Response

Detection playbooks, containment procedures, and recovery runbooks your team can actually execute under pressure. We build the muscle before the incident, not during it.

Compliance Frameworks

Practical alignment to ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, and the Essential Eight. We translate compliance obligations into engineering controls — not just paperwork.

AI Workload Security

Prompt injection defence, workload identity for agents, OAuth token brokering, action policies, and PII protection in memory and vector stores. Every layer of the agent stack covered, not just the model call.

AI Governance & Evals

Eval pipelines that catch regressions before users do. Guardrails, audit trails, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints designed to stand up to a security or regulator review.

AI FinOps & Observability

Token, model, and agent-level spend telemetry. OpenTelemetry traces across reasoning, tool calls, and memory operations. Cost controls that hold up when your AI workloads scale.

Why Proxima

Senior expertise.
SMB economics.

01

You get the senior, not the junior

Every engagement is delivered by a practitioner with 20+ years of hands-on experience across enterprise, government, and SMB environments — not delegated to a graduate once the contract is signed. What you see is what you get.

02

Fixed scope. No bill shock.

Our services are packaged and priced upfront. You know exactly what you're getting, what it costs, and when it ends. No hourly billing surprises, no scope creep, no ambiguity.

03

Outcomes, not outputs

We measure success by what changes in your business — reduced risk, faster deployments, lower bills — not by the volume of documents we produce. Every engagement has a defined, measurable outcome.

04

Built for your scale, ready for the next

We design solutions that are right-sized for where you are today, but architected to grow with you. No over-engineering. No technical debt handed back to you after we leave.

05

Approved NSW Government ICT Supplier

Proxima is an approved supplier on the NSW Government ICT Services Scheme (SCM0020) — enabling direct engagement by NSW agencies without a full tender process. We understand government procurement, timelines, and compliance requirements.

The enterprise gap is real — and it's costing you.

Large consultancies ignore businesses your size. Junior freelancers lack the depth to handle production environments. That leaves most SMBs making expensive cloud decisions without access to the expertise they need.

Proxima exists to close that gap. Senior-level cloud and security expertise, packaged for businesses that move fast and spend carefully — and ready for the agentic AI shift with the same engineering discipline.

~35%
Avg. cloud overspend in SMBs
3 wks
Typical time to first outcome
10+
Industries delivered across
100%
Senior-delivered work
50%
GenAI projects abandoned after POC — Gartner, 2025

A layered path to maturity.

We meet you where you are — and build a clear path forward. Each engagement is designed to stand alone or stack into the next, so you grow at your own pace without starting over.

Level 1 · Essentials

Security Foundations

For businesses with no formal cloud security posture

  • Cloud environment assessment against industry security benchmarks
  • Identity and access review — roles, policies, access patterns
  • Storage exposure and data classification
  • Network perimeter and segmentation review
  • Prioritised findings report with remediation steps
  • 30-day check-in to review progress
You leave with
A clear picture of your risk, and a ranked action plan you can execute yourself or with us.
Fixed engagement · 2 weeks
Level 2 · Hardening

Active Controls & Monitoring

For businesses ready to move from assessment to action

  • Remediation of Level 1 findings
  • Automated compliance rule enforcement and drift detection
  • Audit logging, threat detection and tuning
  • Security alerting and incident response runbooks
  • Static code analysis integrated into existing pipelines
  • Centralised secrets management and rotation
You leave with
Active detective controls, automated compliance, and a team that knows how to respond when something happens.
Fixed engagement · 4–5 weeks
Level 3 · Advanced

DevSecOps Integration

For businesses embedding security into their delivery lifecycle

  • Static, dynamic and dependency analysis embedded in pipelines
  • Container and workload security scanning
  • Policy-as-code enforced across infrastructure provisioning
  • Hardened base image pipelines with compliance enforcement
  • Ongoing security advisory retainer available
  • Security KPI dashboard and monthly reporting
You leave with
Security baked into every deployment, not bolted on after. A mature, auditable posture that scales with your team.
Fixed engagement + optional retainer · 6–8 weeks
Level 1 · Essentials

Automated Deployments

For teams still deploying manually or with basic scripts

  • Assessment of current deployment process
  • Source control review and branch strategy
  • Basic CI pipeline setup (build, test, deploy)
  • Containerisation of existing applications
  • Deployment to your cloud environment of choice
  • Team walkthrough and handover documentation
You leave with
Deployments that happen automatically on every commit — no more manual steps, no more broken production on a Friday.
Fixed engagement · 2–3 weeks
Level 2 · Hardening

Reliable & Observable Pipelines

For teams who have pipelines but can't fully trust them

  • Multi-environment pipeline (dev / staging / prod)
  • Infrastructure as Code — reproducible, version-controlled environments
  • Automated code review and quality checks on every PR
  • Rollback strategy and deployment safety nets
  • Centralised monitoring, alerting and observability
  • Pipeline failure runbooks for the team
You leave with
A pipeline your team actually trusts — with visibility into every deployment and a safety net when things go wrong.
Fixed engagement · 4–5 weeks
Level 3 · Advanced

Modern Delivery Engineering

For teams modernising the whole loop — spec to ship to incident

  • Spec-driven development — specs as first-class artefacts alongside code
  • AI-augmented code authoring and review integrated into PRs
  • Security, quality, and eval gates at every stage
  • GitOps and policy-as-code across infrastructure
  • Agentic incident investigation feeding fixes back into specs
  • Cost-aware compute strategy and ongoing delivery advisory retainer
You leave with
A delivery system end-to-end — humans on judgement, agents on routine, with quality and security baked in from spec to production.
Fixed engagement + optional retainer · 6–8 weeks
Level 1 · Essentials

AI Readiness Assessment

For teams exploring AI but not yet in production

  • Use case discovery — what's worth building, what isn't
  • Foundation model evaluation against your data and constraints
  • Data readiness review — PII, residency, classification
  • Governance baseline — guardrails, policies, escalation paths
  • Cost projection per use case before any code is written
  • Recommended sequencing — first agent, second agent, what to defer
You leave with
A clear-eyed picture of which AI bets are worth making, what they'll cost, and what to put in place before you start.
Fixed engagement · 2–3 weeks
Level 2 · Hardening

First Production Agent

For teams taking one AI use case from pilot to production

  • One use case delivered end-to-end — concept to production
  • Agent platform setup — runtime, gateway, memory, and tool registration
  • Guardrails and action policies tuned for your data and risk profile
  • Workload identity, OAuth flows, and least-privilege agent roles
  • Observability with OpenTelemetry traces across reasoning and tool calls
  • Eval suite tied to your acceptance criteria
You leave with
One agent running in production with guardrails, observability, and cost controls — and a repeatable pattern for the next.
Fixed engagement · 4–6 weeks
Level 3 · Advanced

Agentic Platform at Scale

For teams operating multiple agents across the business

  • Multi-agent orchestration and A2A integration patterns
  • Cross-tenant isolation and shared platform primitives
  • Continuous eval pipeline integrated into CI/CD
  • AI FinOps — per-agent, per-model, per-tenant spend telemetry
  • Audit trail and compliance posture across the agent estate
  • Ongoing AI advisory retainer available
You leave with
A platform where new agents are days of work, not months — with security, cost, and quality controls baked in from day one.
Fixed engagement + optional retainer · 6–8 weeks
Each level builds on the last — start anywhere, grow at your pace

Ready to build something solid?

Start with a free 30-minute discovery call. We'll understand where you are, identify the highest-value starting point, and give you a clear proposal — no obligation.

Phone
0432 403 720
Email
info@proxima-consulting.com.au
Location
Sydney, Australia
Response time
Within 1 business day