Cloud Operations for Fintech
We help fintech teams build and operate cloud infrastructure that meets PCI-DSS and SOC 2 requirements, keeps transactions running at scale, and ships without creating compliance debt — without the overhead of managing it all manually.
Senior engineers. Compliance controls enforced in code. Ship faster without accumulating security debt.
Where fintech teams get stuck
Common problems we resolve for AWS and Azure fintech environments:
CDE isolation gaps that expand your PCI scope unnecessarily
→PCI or SOC 2 audit prep with gaps in evidence and controls
→Payment and transaction reliability without runbooks or failover
→Cloud costs growing faster than revenue from compute and data
→Fast-moving teams creating infrastructure drift and compliance risk
We fix root causes and leave behind controls your team can maintain and present to auditors.
Unnecessary PCI scope is expensive to audit and hard to secure. We help you isolate your cardholder data environment, tighten the controls that matter, and reduce your audit surface — enforced at the infrastructure level.
Typical finding
Fintech teams commonly have a CDE that's grown beyond its original boundary — flat networks, overpermissioned roles touching payment services, and logging gaps that QSAs flag immediately.
How we approach it
We scope your CDE, find the control gaps, tighten network segmentation and access controls first, then encode the security baseline in Terraform so it holds as the environment grows.
What we leave behind
A remediated CDE, network segmentation in IaC, access logging in place, and a written security baseline your team can present to auditors and maintain going forward.
PCI-DSS & SOC 2 readiness
Compliance lives in your controls and evidence, not your policies. We implement the technical requirements in your infrastructure and ensure you have the documentation and audit trail your assessors expect.
Typical finding
Most fintech teams approaching their first PCI or SOC 2 audit find gaps in logging coverage, change control evidence, and network segmentation documentation — all flagged in the first QSA walkthrough.
How we approach it
We run a gap assessment against your target compliance framework, remediate the infrastructure gaps, then encode the controls in your IaC pipeline so they stay in place through future changes.
What we leave behind
Documented infrastructure controls, an evidence trail your auditors can follow, and guardrails in CI/CD that flag compliance drift before it becomes an audit finding.
Payment failures and downtime cost real money in fintech. We design for failure, tune your infrastructure for traffic spikes, and make sure your team has clear runbooks before the next incident — not after.
Typical finding
Fintech teams often discover gaps during high-traffic events or outages — untested failover, no auto-scaling policy, and on-call runbooks that don't cover payment path failures specifically.
How we approach it
We review your payment architecture for failure modes, validate recovery procedures, tune auto-scaling for your traffic patterns, and build runbooks your team can execute under pressure.
What we leave behind
Tested recovery procedures, documented failure modes, payment-path runbooks, and architecture improvements that reduce the blast radius of future incidents.
Cloud cost governance
Fintech infrastructure costs scale fast — high-frequency transaction processing, data pipeline compute, and compliance tooling all add up. We find the waste and implement controls that keep unit economics predictable as you grow.
Typical finding
Fintech teams commonly find significant spend tied to oversized database instances, always-on dev and staging environments, and unoptimized data transfer between services and regions.
How we approach it
We start with a spend audit, identify the highest-impact reductions, then implement governance — spend alerts, tagging standards, and budget gates — so costs stay predictable as transaction volume grows.
What we leave behind
Rightsized resources, a reserved capacity strategy, spend alerts, and a cost allocation structure that maps cloud spend to the products and teams that drive it.
Fast-moving fintech teams accumulate infrastructure drift and compliance gaps when there are no guardrails in the deployment pipeline. We build IaC with compliance defaults enforced and AI-accelerated workflows with human controls that keep pace with your team.
Typical finding
Fintech teams moving quickly often mix IaC and manual changes, have no compliance checks in CI/CD, and discover drift during audits rather than before them.
How we approach it
We baseline current state, bring manual resources into Terraform, add compliance policy checks to the pipeline, and implement drift detection across regulated workloads — including AI-assisted workflows where they'll have the most impact.
What we leave behind
Modular IaC with compliance defaults, a CI/CD pipeline with enforcement guardrails, and a change management trail auditors can follow for every infrastructure modification.
How we engage
Most fintech engagements start with a free cloud audit — a scorecard across cost, security, PCI/SOC 2 alignment, and reliability with prioritized quick wins. From there we can work on a specific problem, embed on your team, or take on ongoing operations.
Free Cloud Audit
A scored report across cost, CDE security, PCI/SOC 2 control gaps, and reliability — with prioritized quick wins. No access required to start.
Project Engagement
Fix a specific problem end-to-end — PCI remediation, CDE isolation, reliability improvements, or IaC buildout. We scope, execute, and hand off with documentation.
Embedded Experts
Add senior cloud engineers to your team for builds, payment infrastructure migrations, or ongoing operational support — without slowing down product delivery.
Both. We work across general security hardening and PCI-DSS technical requirements specifically — network segmentation, CDE isolation, logging requirements, and change control evidence. We also support SOC 2 readiness across the security, availability, and confidentiality trust service criteria.
Yes. Reducing scope — through network segmentation, tokenization, and removing unnecessary CDE touchpoints — is often the highest-impact thing a fintech team can do before an audit. We assess your current architecture and implement the network and access controls that minimize your scope.
Yes. We work across both platforms and the full infrastructure tooling stack — Terraform, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Ansible, and more. We meet you where your environment already is.
Done right, it shouldn't. We implement compliance controls in your IaC pipeline so engineers keep shipping at normal pace — the guardrails enforce standards automatically rather than blocking on manual review. Our AI Ops approach is specifically designed to maintain delivery speed while enforcing controls.
The free cloud audit is the fastest path — we assess your environment across cost, CDE security, compliance controls, and reliability, then deliver a prioritized report within 48–72 hours. No commitment required.