Cloud Native Foundation
Production-grade cloud infrastructure foundations designed for regulated financial services from day one.
The Cloud Native Foundation blueprint provides a delivery-informed reference implementation for establishing secure, auditable cloud infrastructure in regulated environments. It covers landing zone design, network topology, identity and access management, secrets management and CI/CD pipeline architecture — all tuned for the compliance and operational resilience expectations of financial services.
Key Features
Landing Zone Architecture
Multi-account or multi-project structure with environment isolation, network segmentation and centralised logging that satisfies PRA and FCA operational resilience expectations.
Identity and Access Baseline
Workload identity, least-privilege IAM policies and federated authentication patterns that eliminate long-lived credentials and support segregation of duties.
Encryption and Secrets Strategy
KMS hierarchy design, envelope encryption patterns and secrets injection mechanisms that meet data-at-rest and data-in-transit requirements for sensitive financial data.
Infrastructure-as-Code Pipeline
GitOps-driven infrastructure delivery with plan-review-apply workflows, drift detection and automated compliance scanning before any change reaches production.
Use Cases
Greenfield Digital Bank on GCP
BankingStanding up the complete cloud foundation for a new digital bank, from organisation hierarchy and VPC design through to production-ready Kubernetes clusters with workload identity.
Cloud Migration for Payments Processor
PaymentsEstablishing the target cloud foundation to receive workloads migrating from on-premises data centres, with hybrid connectivity and phased cutover support.
Multi-Region Disaster Recovery Foundation
BankingDesigning active-passive and active-active cloud topologies for a tier-one bank requiring sub-15-minute RTO for critical payment processing systems.
Technical Stack
Deliverables
- →Cloud Foundation Architecture Document(Architecture document)
- →Landing Zone Terraform Modules(Code repository)
- →Security Baseline Configuration(Policy-as-code repository)
- →Operational Runbooks(Runbook)
Expected Programme Outcomes
10–14 weeks
saved on cloud foundation setup
93%+
infrastructure pattern consistency
5–8 months
of cloud rework avoided
Zero drift
across all cloud environments
Prerequisites
- →Cloud provider account or organisation established
- →Network connectivity requirements documented (VPN, interconnect, peering)
- →Information security policies available for translation to technical controls
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