Cloud & Infrastructure Modernization for Capital Markets

Legacy technical debt is the primary killer of product velocity in financial services. We guide firms through the complex process of migrating from monolithic architectures to secure, governed cloud environments — focusing on incremental renovation over high-risk rewrites.

The Incremental Approach

Rewriting a core banking or trading system from scratch is rarely the answer. We modernise your stack while maintaining business continuity:

• Strangler Fig Pattern: Gradually extracting critical services into event-driven microservices without disrupting trading days or payment windows.
• API-First Transformation: Standardizing internal and external communication to improve ecosystem integration and unlock new product velocity.
• Database Refactoring: Safely migrating from legacy relational stores to modern, scalable distributed systems with full audit trail preservation.

Governed Cloud Landing Zones

We built a regulated-ready Google Cloud landing zone for a tier-one investment bank that went from slide decks to production in under six months — passing audit on first attempt with zero corrective actions. This is what we deliver:

• Organization Hierarchy & Identity: Federated workload identity, IAM design that maps to your operating model, and guardrails that satisfy risk without slowing down engineers.
• Networking & Security: Shared VPC, perimeter ingress/egress controls, private connectivity, and encryption-at-rest that meets European regulator expectations.
• Policy-as-Code: Every control becomes reusable Terraform, not a spreadsheet checklist. Infrastructure deployment cycle time reduced by 52% compared to manual approval workflows.

Kubernetes & Container Platforms

Whether you’re consolidating onto GKE, EKS, or evaluating Rancher, OpenShift, or Tanzu for your enterprise platform, we bring hands-on production experience:

• Cluster Architecture: Multi-region, multi-tenant designs with node pool isolation for regulatory workloads.
• Security Hardening: Pod Security Standards, NetworkPolicies, workload identity binding, and supply chain security for container images.
• Observability & SRE: Golden dashboards, SLOs, and alerting with Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry — designed to provide audit evidence alongside operational visibility.

FinOps Governance

Cloud spend scales differently in finance. One burst of compute for a regulatory simulation or market data replay can double your monthly bill. We implement:

• Reserved Capacity Planning: Structuring committed-use discounts around predictable batch workloads while leaving burst capacity on-demand.
• Right-Sizing by Workload: Matching instance families to actual compute profiles — memory-optimized for kdb+, compute-optimized for risk calculations, GPU-optimized for ML training.
• Chargeback Visibility: Building dashboards so each product team owns their cloud spend, with automated alerts before budgets overshoot.

Proven Impact

• Capital Markets Cloud Landing Zone: Tier-one bank went from zero to first regulated workloads live in six months, with infrastructure deployment cycle time reduced by 52%.
• Finance Crime ML Platform: Unified a global ML platform on GCP, cutting infrastructure spend by 20% while improving model training throughput by 25%.

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