Our client is one of the world’s largest financial services institutions, offering financial products and services to individual and institutional customers. With operations in the US, Asia, Europe, and Latin America, the client is recognized as a trusted brand and one of the world’s most admired companies.
The Challenge
The client operated multiple AWS container clusters across applications that required its developers to attain niche container administrator competencies to manage, maintain, and operate. Since different teams were handling cluster administration, these containers were not standardized and had different governance protocols for security and compliance. This led to discrepancies and observability issues, resulting in cost and effort overhead, requiring three days to provision under-the-hood infrastructure for developers.
The Solution
Persistent adopted a platform engineering approach to provide the client with a centralized developer portal for streamlining infrastructure provisioning, embedded with standardized protocols to ensure all environments adhere to the same security, observability, and compliance benchmarks.
The portal offered the client’s developers a self-service option to spin up, manage, and operate container clusters configured to their unique requirements — all at the click of a button. This eliminated the need for developers to manage under-the-hood infrastructure or maintain cluster administrator competencies, freeing up bandwidth and improving productivity.
Our platform provides an intuitive user experience with persona-driven infrastructure provisioning, backed by in-built Infrastructure as Code (IaC) pipelines.
The Outcome
By orchestrating cluster management with a centralized platform offering a single-pane view, the client:
- Reduced infrastructure provisioning time from three days to one hour with a single click.
- Improved developer productivity by 40%, leading to faster turnaround times.
- Implemented standardization in security and compliance across container clusters.
- Saved 15% in operational costs with automated infrastructure management.
