PA Squared Solutions is a UK-based boutique IT consultancy specializing in Cloud Platform Engineering, Kubernetes Systems, and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch Architecture.

Led by a Principal Cloud Architect with 17+ years of enterprise experience across Elastic, Cloudera, Oracle, and Lloyds Bank, we deliver high-stakes infrastructure transformations, multi-cloud deployments, and distributed systems optimization for enterprise clients.

Core Practice Capabilities

1. Elasticsearch & OpenSearch Architecture: Expert-level diagnosis, cluster health optimization, observability pipeline design, multi-node scaling, and search performance tuning directly backed by 5 years as a Lead Platform Consultant at Elastic.
2. Cloud Infrastructure & IaC: Enterprise AWS, Azure, and GCP environment design utilizing modular HashiCorp Terraform, automated state management, and custom multi-AZ network topologies.
3. Kubernetes & Container Orchestration: Production-grade EKS/K8s delivery focusing on storage persistent volumes, network security policies, and cluster stability.
4. Cloud Cost Optimization: Creators of specialized cost-reduction frameworks (e.g., "The Zero Project"), enabling enterprise clients to run stateful application clusters (Elasticsearch/K8s) safely on AWS Spot Instances—achieving up to 80% compute cost reduction.