How can fintech companies modernize cloud operations without slowing product development?
Azati helped a UK fintech company incrementally modernize the cloud infrastructure supporting its payment orchestration platform, which validates payment participants before transactions are processed through banking and compliance partners. By taking ownership of cloud platform operations, deployment pipelines, and infrastructure management, Azati freed the client's engineering leadership to focus on platform architecture, payment services, and product innovation instead of day-to-day operational support.
Platform operations delegated
Payment orchestration platform
Refocused on product architecture
Engineering leaders often become the default owners of infrastructure when specialist platform engineering capacity is unavailable. As cloud environments grow, this operational burden reduces the time available for architecture, new product development, and strategic technical planning.
The client operated a payment orchestration platform that validates both senders and recipients before transactions are processed through integrated banking, payment, and compliance providers. The platform serves as a trusted intermediary for secure financial transactions, integrating with organizations such as Mastercard, ClearBank, and Moody's.
With a lean internal engineering organization responsible for platform development, cloud infrastructure, and operational support, infrastructure maintenance increasingly diverted senior engineering resources away from strategic initiatives. After several months of unsuccessful recruitment for an experienced DevOps engineer, the client engaged Azati to strengthen cloud operations and platform engineering capacity.
The organization was simultaneously modernizing legacy services, expanding payment capabilities, and maintaining production infrastructure with a small engineering team. Routine infrastructure operations, deployment support, and CI/CD maintenance reduced engineering productivity by consuming valuable time that could otherwise be invested in platform architecture and new product development.
Maintaining infrastructure reliability was particularly important because deployment issues could affect the continuous evolution of the client's payment orchestration platform, disrupting critical payment operations and delaying delivery of new payment capabilities.
Infrastructure changes needed to be implemented without disrupting payment processing or slowing feature delivery.
The client required consistent deployment automation and infrastructure management across AWS while supporting evolving engineering workflows.
Developers frequently required infrastructure assistance, increasing operational overhead for senior engineering leadership.
After several months of unsuccessful recruitment for a senior DevOps engineer, the client expanded engineering capacity by integrating Azati directly into its delivery organization without delaying platform modernization, eliminating further hiring delays.
Azati helped strengthen cloud platform engineering operations through Infrastructure as Code, automation, and platform engineering practices supporting long-term scalability.
The engagement enabled the client to quickly address a critical infrastructure skills gap after an extended recruitment effort, avoiding further delays to platform development.
The solution combined AWS infrastructure automation, CI/CD optimization, operational reliability for payment platforms, and developer enablement within an operational fintech environment.
Azati helps fintech companies accelerate delivery, automate platform operations, and improve engineering productivity while maintaining business continuity.
Discuss my platform modernizationRather than introducing disruptive architectural changes, Azati incrementally modernized the cloud infrastructure supporting the client's payment orchestration platform. This strengthened the underlying payment infrastructure while preserving production stability and enabling continued platform growth.
Beyond fintech payment infrastructure modernization and DevOps automation, the engagement also provided ongoing developer support, allowing internal platform leadership to dedicate more time to architecture, product strategy, and long-term platform evolution.
Infrastructure management was expanded through Infrastructure as Code using Pulumi and cloud automation, improving deployment consistency. This allowed product engineers to spend less time on operational support and more time developing customer-facing payment capabilities.
Azati maintained and standardized deployment pipelines supporting continuous delivery across cloud environments.
The engagement included ongoing support for developers working across multiple platform services, increasing engineering capacity by reducing infrastructure-related delivery bottlenecks for engineering teams, modernizing legacy components, and continuously evolving the client's payment platform.
Cloud operations supported the reliable delivery of payment operations, maintaining observability, secure networking, infrastructure consistency, and operational resilience across the client's payment infrastructure.
Infrastructure changes were implemented within the client's existing security model.
| Area | Contribution |
|---|---|
| Infrastructure | Expanded Infrastructure as Code using Pulumi |
| Cloud | Automated AWS resource management |
| CI/CD | Maintained and enhanced deployment pipelines |
| Platform Engineering | Supported internal engineering platform teams |
| Developer Productivity | Reduced infrastructure support overhead |
| Cloud Operations | Maintained production infrastructure reliability |
| Monitoring | Worked with Datadog and Grafana |
| Delivery | Collaborated within an iterative engineering process |
Infrastructure reliability improvements required the team to cautiously balance platform modernization with continuous delivery. Azati integrated into a six-person engineering organization without disrupting existing ownership or production processes.
The engagement required assuming operational ownership of infrastructure management and deployment processes, allowing engineering leadership to redirect attention toward platform architecture, payment services, and long-term product strategy.
Cloud infrastructure continued evolving alongside product development, requiring continuous adaptation of automation and deployment processes.
Whether you're modernizing payment infrastructure, improving deployment automation, evolving a payment orchestration platform, or scaling cloud platform engineering, Azati helps fintech companies strengthen operational platforms without interrupting product delivery.
Modernize my operational platform| Area | Outcome |
|---|---|
| Engagement | Ongoing |
| Cloud infrastructure | Modernized |
| Infrastructure automation | Expanded |
| CI/CD | Improved |
| Developer support | Increased |
| Cloud platform engineering | Standardized |
Azati assumed responsibility for infrastructure operations, deployment support, and developer enablement, allowing technical leadership to focus on payment architecture and new platform capabilities. Engineering capacity increased without expanding permanent infrastructure headcount.
Infrastructure requests no longer competed with product development priorities, allowing engineering teams to spend more time delivering customer-facing payment functionality. Improved developer experience reduced infrastructure-related interruptions.
Infrastructure automation and standardized deployments improved release consistency and ensured sustainable operations. Infrastructure became easier to evolve as payment services continued to grow.
Rather than delaying modernization while recruiting scarce cloud engineering talent, the client strengthened platform engineering capabilities through embedded cloud expertise.
This helped reduce delivery risk, increased engineering capacity, and improved platform reliability. Azati also supported the continued modernization of the client's payment orchestration platform and strengthened the engineering foundation for future payment infrastructure evolution.
Embedded cloud expertise eliminated the uncertainty of prolonged recruitment while maintaining platform development momentum.
Internal leadership redirected attention toward platform architecture, payment services, and long-term product strategy.
The engagement established a sustainable platform engineering model supporting continued modernization of payment infrastructure.
Azati joined the client's organization as an embedded platform engineering partner, collaborating with internal platform developers, DevOps, and technical leadership. Working within an iterative delivery process, the engagement combined payment infrastructure modernization, operational support, and continuous improvement without disrupting production payment operations.
This enabled the client to scale engineering delivery without increasing permanent infrastructure staffing.
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