Audit-Ready, Built for Speed: Secure Cloud at Scale
At a glance
CLIENT
European pension administration provider
SERVICE
- Cloud Foundation, Security & Governance, Migration Enablement
INDUSTRY
- Financial Services / Public Sector
The organization needed to move regulated workloads to public cloud while proving resilience and compliance up front. Targets were explicit: demonstrate RPO ≤ 15 minutes / RTO ≤ 60 minutes for tier-1 systems, enforce least-privilege by default, and eliminate “snowflake” environments. Baseline infra changes took 10–14 days, environments were hand-built, and security checks happened late—slowing every release. LeanCoded was engaged to design a secure landing zone and operating model that auditors could trust and product teams could actually use.
We delivered a reproducible foundation and a governed path to production using cloud migration services, preapproved patterns, and automated controls. Teams now provision compliant project environments in <45 minutes, pass security reviews with 0 critical findings, and run recovery drills that meet the RPO/RTO objectives—all while keeping feature delivery on schedule. The platform bakes in identity boundaries, network segmentation, and continuous monitoring rather than treating them as afterthoughts.
From Tickets and Manual Setups to Push-Button, Compliant Environments
We codified organizations, projects, networks, KMS, logging, and budgets as policy-enforced templates. A staged cloud security assessment baseline (configs, encryption, keys, retention) runs in CI before any environment goes live; non-compliant resources are blocked at deploy time. For regulated data, we aligned backup tiers and cross-region replication to stated RPO/RTO and embedded evidence collection so audit artifacts are generated by the pipeline—not by spreadsheets.
Identity and permissions were rebuilt around cloud infrastructure entitlement management to prevent over-privilege and drift. Short-lived credentials, workload identities, and scoped roles are issued automatically; access reviews come from code. Delivery speed comes from cloud devops patterns and a standardized devops service catalog (IaC modules, blue/green lanes, quality gates). Result: repeatable environments, fewer escalations, and predictable lead time.
Security That Ships with Every Release
We treated security as a product capability. Pipelines sign and scan artifacts; posture checks run continuously using cloud security assessments; drift is flagged with owners and SLAs. Network controls enforce private service access and egress policy; data stores are encrypted by default with automated key rotation. LeanCoded acted as a managed cybersecurity service provider during the cutover, while the client’s security team took over day-to-day operations under a clear RACI.
Compliant environments in under 45 minutes
Identity and least-privilege by default
Recovery you can time, not hope for
Security as a guardrail, not a roadblock
Built with the right expertise
Measurable Outcomes, Not Just Diagrams
Post-implementation, infra change lead time dropped from 10–14 days to 1–2 days. Environments are created on demand in <45 minutes with zero hand crafting. The first independent review closed with 0 critical / 0 high findings. During migration waves, LeanCoded provided managed cyber security coverage and coordinated on-premise to cloud migration steps so product teams kept shipping features. The runway for services expansion is now policy-driven, not ticket-driven.
- Speed — Env provisioning <45 min; infra lead time –85%
- Safety — 0 critical findings; policies block non-compliance
- Resilience — RPO ≤15m, RTO ≤60m (drills)
- Control — Access managed via entitlements; drift auto-flagged
- Focus — Devs ship features; guardrails run in the background
What’s Next: FinOps Discipline and Continuous Hardening
Next steps expand budget policies, anomaly alerts, and reserved-capacity planning under the same cloud devops model. We’ll add data discovery and tokenization to sensitive domains, and schedule recurring cloud security assessments to keep posture current. Where needed, targeted aws consulting services will speed adoption of managed services, while the landing zone evolves through pull requests rather than rebuilds.