How 80% Automation Enabled A 2-Person Team To Run Enterprise-Grade FinTech Infrastructure
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How 80% Automation Enabled a 2-Person Team to Run Enterprise-Grade FinTech Infrastructure

SalarySe is a financial wellness platform helping salaried professionals build a stronger relationship with their income. By offering tailored financial solutions, SalarySe empowers employees to alleviate financial stress and achieve long-term financial freedom.

The Problem Statement

As a fintech startup, SalarySe needed to establish a secure, scalable and compliance-ready cloud foundation from day one. The objective was to build an enterprise-grade infrastructure that supports regulated financial operations, rapid application delivery and long-term growth while remaining cost-efficient and manageable by a lean team. 

Challenges

Ground-Up Infrastructure Design

Building a secure, scalable, and production-ready cloud foundation from the very beginning

Regulatory Compliance Alignment

Ensuring infrastructure design met SOC 2, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS requirements

Secure Deployment Enablement

Creating automated CI/CD pipelines supporting rapid releases with strong security and governance

EKS Modernization Strategy

Upgrading Kubernetes environments while managing OS migrations and evolving security standards

Lean Operations Management

Designing infrastructure efficiently managed by a one-to-two-person operations team

GitOps Workflow Adoption

Implementing GitOps practices to manage large-scale infrastructure with consistency and auditability

Secrets Management Implementation

Centralizing and encrypting application and infrastructure secrets across all environments

Cost and Performance Balance

Optimizing cloud costs while sustaining performance, reliability, and regulatory readiness

Solutions

Infrastructure as Code with Terraform

Managed 500+ infrastructure resources using Terraform with fully automated, GitOps-driven workflows 

Amazon EKS Implementation

Deployed a scalable and secure Kubernetes platform supporting containerized workloads and rapid application deployments 

CI/CD Pipeline Automation

Enabled automated CI/CD pipelines reducing deployment time by 85% and supporting multiple daily releases 

GitOps-Driven Operations

Adopted GitOps practices ensuring controlled infrastructure changes through versioning, approvals, and audit trails 

Security-First Architecture Design

Embedded security controls across infrastructure aligned with SOC 2, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS 

Enhanced Observability Framework

Enabled comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting for real-time visibility and proactive issue detection

Cost-Optimized Infrastructure Design

Applied rightsizing and automation strategies to balance cloud costs with performance and scalability

Outcomes

Maintained 99.9%+ uptime over 2+ years with zero infrastructure-related outages 

Supported 5× business growth using auto-scaling EKS clusters without performance degradation

Reduced deployment time by 85%, enabling multiple secure application releases every day 

Successfully supported SOC 2, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS audits with zero critical findings

Enabled a 1–2 person team to manage 500+ infrastructure resources efficiently

Optimized infrastructure costs by 30-40% while maintaining security, performance and reliability

Achieved 80%+ automation with self-healing systems, reducing manual operational interventions 

Delivered real-time visibility using 1000+ metrics and 40+ alerts across environments 

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