System Architecture

Platform Architecture

Sekhem deploys across three specialized nodes, each optimized for specific workloads while maintaining seamless integration, high availability, and enterprise-grade security.

3-Node Deployment Model

Each node is purpose-built for its role, enabling optimal performance, security isolation, and independent scaling.

Node 1

Command & Application Node

32+ vCPU
CPU
128GB RAM
Memory
2TB NVMe
Storage

The primary interface and orchestration layer, handling user interactions, API requests, and application logic for all platform modules.

Key Components

Command Center UI
Executive dashboards and operational interfaces
API Gateway
Central API routing and request handling
Authentication Service
User authentication and session management
Module Frontends
User interfaces for all 13 modules
Approval Engine
Workflow approval and governance controls
Reverse Proxy
Load balancing and SSL termination
Node 2

Automation & Engineering Node

32+ vCPU
CPU
128GB RAM
Memory
4TB NVMe
Storage

The automation engine handling workflow execution, AI processing, and integration with engineering toolchain systems.

Key Components

Workflow Engine
Workflow automation and orchestration
Controlled AI Provider Gateway
Secure AI routing with classification
CI/CD Integration
Pipeline execution and coordination
Agent Runtime
AI agent task execution
Integration Services
External system connectors
Background Workers
Async task processing
Node 3

Data & Intelligence Node

32+ vCPU
CPU
128-256GB RAM
Memory
8TB NVMe
Storage

The data layer managing operational data, knowledge embeddings, artifacts, and providing analytics capabilities.

Key Components

Secure Operational Data Layer
Primary relational database
Knowledge Intelligence Layer
Semantic search and embeddings
Artifact & Evidence Repository
Artifact and file storage
Cache & Queue Layer
Caching and session storage
Monitoring & Observability Layer
Metrics and visualization
Backup & Recovery
Data protection and archival

Inter-Node Communication

Node 1
TLS Encrypted
Node 2
TLS Encrypted
Node 3
Platform Layers

Architecture Layers

Sekhem is built on specialized layers that work together to provide a complete AI-assisted engineering platform.

Controlled AI Provider Gateway

Secure AI layer managing external and local approved approved AI provider layers with data classification, policy enforcement, and audit logging.

Data classification routing
Provider failover handling
Usage tracking and limits
Sensitive data filtering

Engineering Toolchain Integration

Seamless connection with source control, CI/CD pipelines, and workflow automation engines.

Repository synchronization
Pipeline orchestration
Merge request analysis
Workflow automation

Artifact & Evidence Repository

Centralized storage for release artifacts, lab evidence, documents, and binary assets with versioning.

Release artifact storage
Lab evidence archival
Document management
Backup integration

Knowledge Intelligence Layer

Semantic search and knowledge retrieval enabling AI-assisted engineering across all platform modules.

Document embeddings
Semantic search
Context retrieval
Knowledge graphs

Monitoring & Observability Layer

Comprehensive observability stack for metrics, dashboards, log aggregation, and alerting.

Metrics collection
Custom dashboards
Log aggregation
Alert routing

Security, RBAC & Audit Layer

Enterprise security controls including role-based access, audit trails, and compliance reporting.

Role-based access control
Comprehensive audit trails
Compliance reporting
Secrets management
Security Architecture

Security & Compliance

Security is built into every layer of the Sekhem architecture, from network isolation to data classification and audit logging.

Encrypted Communication

TLS encryption for all inter-service communication

Network Isolation

Private network with service mesh policies

Access Control

Role-based access control across all services

Audit Logging

Comprehensive audit trails for all operations

Secrets Management

Secure handling of credentials and keys

Data Classification

Automatic classification and handling rules

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