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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.

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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

Banking

Standing 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

Payments

Establishing 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

Banking

Designing active-passive and active-active cloud topologies for a tier-one bank requiring sub-15-minute RTO for critical payment processing systems.

Technical Stack

Google Cloud Platform / AWSTerraformKubernetes (GKE / EKS)HashiCorp VaultCloud KMSGitHub Actions / Cloud Build

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

Time

10–14 weeks

saved on cloud foundation setup

Risk & Compliance

93%+

infrastructure pattern consistency

Cost

5–8 months

of cloud rework avoided

Quality

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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