Case study · Cloud & DevOps
Moved hand-managed servers to containers with infrastructure as code, CI/CD and full observability, while cutting cloud spend.
- Client
- A payments startup preparing for a security audit
- Industry
- Fintech
- Region
- United Kingdom
- Duration
- 12 weeks
- Team
- 2 DevOps engineers
Deploys were manual and risky, environments drifted, nobody could explain the cloud bill, and an upcoming audit needed evidence of change control.
−38%
monthly AWS spend
20+ / week
deploys, up from one risky release a fortnight
Passed
security audit with no infrastructure findings
Step 001
Assessment
Reviewed infrastructure, costs and incident history and agreed a target architecture.
Step 002
Infrastructure as code
Rebuilt every environment in Terraform with peer-reviewed changes.
Step 003
Pipelines
GitHub Actions with tests, security scans and one-click rollbacks to EKS.
Step 004
Observability
Grafana, Prometheus and Sentry with alerts tied to customer-facing symptoms.
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Docker
- GitHub Actions
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- Sentry
- Vault
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