Lara Joh Inc. — IT redefined

Building Trust w/ Zero Trust

IT redefined, for Ontario organizations

Lara Joh IT Services Inc. ("LRJ") is a Waterloo-based managed IT, cyber security and secure-AI provider for Ontario businesses and non-profits.

What we do

Five jobs, done properly

  1. 01

    Stay secure and insurable: managed IT, round-the-clock security, and backups that pass a cyber-insurance questionnaire.

  2. 02

    Meet Ontario and federal rules: privacy, accessibility, employment and defence-contract cyber requirements, explained in plain language.

  3. 03

    Adopt AI safely: private AI that runs on your own data, in Canada, under your control.

  4. 04

    Win and keep defence contracts: readiness for Canada's new Cyber Security Certification for defence suppliers (CPCSC).

  5. 05

    Pay for it smartly: fixed prices, plus help finding and applying for the government funding that can cover part of the cost.

Based in
Waterloo, Ontario
Serving
Waterloo Region (Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge and the townships) and southern Ontario, including Guelph
Partner
Microsoft Partner

Affordable & Flexible Rates

We will help you stay on budget while meeting your business goals and objectives. Fixed prices mean you know the cost before the work starts.

24/7 Monitoring and Alerting

Built on trust with Zero-Trust. Problems are caught and handled around the clock, before they cost you a day.

We are a Microsoft Partner

Give your employees the tools they need to stay connected and efficient. Ask us about our training workshops.

Technologies

What we work with

The stack we build and run every day, for our clients and ourselves.

Private Cloud on Canadian infrastructure

Our own Kubernetes platform on Canadian infrastructure, so your workloads, data and private AI can stay in Canada.

Kubernetes (kubeadm)Proxmox VEkube-vipMetalLBIstio ambient meshGateway APIcert-managerCloudNativePG (PostgreSQL)ZFSNFSiSCSISamba

Public cloud

Microsoft AzureAzure Kubernetes ServiceAzure Container RegistryAzure Cosmos DBAzure Service BusMicrosoft Entra IDWorkload identityAmazon Web ServicesGoogle Cloud

Platform & DevOps

Argo CD (GitOps)KustomizeHelmTerraformAnsibleForgejo ActionsAzure PipelinesBuildKitcraneDockerVerdaccioHashiCorp Vault

Observability & security

PrometheusGrafanaLokiTempoOpenTelemetryEnvoyTrivyGrypeSyft (SBOM)gitleaks

Backend & data

GoGinNode.jsExpressTypeScriptPythonPostgreSQLpgvectorRedisMongoDBSQLiteNATSRabbitMQStripe

Web & mobile

FlutterDartiOS (Swift)Android (Kotlin)VueNuxtReactAstroTailwind CSSVitePlaywright

Start here

Find out where you stand, at a fixed price.

A short discovery call, then a fixed-price assessment with a ranked, costed roadmap: what to fix first, what it costs, and what funding may help.