DevOps consulting built for regulated banking
UK banks face a unique challenge: shipping software fast enough to compete, while meeting FCA, PRA, and NCSC standards that demand rigorous governance at every stage. We bridge that gap.
4x
Faster release cycles
99.99%
Uptime SLA achieved
70%
Reduction in manual gates
<15min
Mean time to recovery
Why DevOps in banking is different
Financial services firms operate under some of the strictest regulatory regimes in the world. Every deployment, every infrastructure change, every third-party integration carries compliance implications.
Since 31 March 2025, PRA-regulated firms must demonstrate they can stay within impact tolerances for important business services during severe disruptions. That means your deployment pipeline is not just an engineering concern - it is a regulatory obligation.
UK banks like Lloyds Banking Group are investing billions in cloud migration and platform modernisation - consolidating data centres, adopting Kubernetes and Terraform, and building cross-functional “two in a box” teams that pair platform engineers with business owners. The industry is moving. The question is whether your delivery practices can keep pace.
The regulatory landscape
FCA PS21/3
Operational resilience framework requiring impact tolerance mapping for all important business services.
PRA SS1/21
Supervisory expectations on operational resilience, including technology and third-party dependencies.
NCSC Secure by Design
Software Security Code of Practice making automated security a baseline commercial requirement.
Smarter Regulatory Framework
Staged repeal of retained EU law (UK CRR) between 2025 and 2028, replacing it with PRA-specific rules.
Compliant CI/CD, end to end
Every stage is automated, auditable, and aligned with regulatory expectations. No manual gates slowing you down - just policy-as-code doing the work.
Commit
Code pushed to protected branch with signed commits and peer review
Build & Scan
Container build, SAST, dependency audit, secrets detection
Test
Unit, integration, contract tests, and regulatory scenario validation
Policy Gate
Automated compliance checks against FCA and PRA requirements
Stage & Verify
Canary deployment to staging, synthetic monitoring, load testing
Production
Blue-green deployment with automated rollback and audit logging
Regulation mapped to engineering
We translate regulatory requirements into concrete engineering practices. Here is how each obligation maps to your delivery pipeline.
Regulation
FCA Operational Resilience (PS21/3)
What it requires
Identify important business services, set impact tolerances, and demonstrate resilience under severe disruption.
How we deliver it
Automated runbook execution, chaos engineering in staging, and real-time service dependency mapping across your entire delivery chain.
Regulation
PRA Supervisory Statement SS1/21
What it requires
Document people, processes, technology, and facilities for each important business service.
How we deliver it
Infrastructure-as-code with full audit trails. Every environment change is versioned, reviewed, and traceable to a ticket.
Regulation
NCSC Secure by Design
What it requires
Embed security into the software development lifecycle rather than bolting it on after the fact.
How we deliver it
Policy-as-code gates in your CI/CD pipeline. SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, and container image validation run on every commit.
Regulation
PRA SS2/21 - Third Party Risk
What it requires
Governance, access rights, and exit planning for material outsourcings, including cloud providers.
How we deliver it
Multi-cloud architecture with documented exit strategies. Vendor lock-in analysis and portable infrastructure patterns.
What we deliver
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform and Pulumi modules purpose-built for regulated environments. Every change versioned, reviewed, and audit-ready.
Kubernetes at Scale
Production-grade clusters with RBAC, network policies, pod security standards, and automated compliance scanning.
Observability & Incident Response
Centralised logging, distributed tracing, and SLO-driven alerting that maps directly to your impact tolerances.
Secrets & Identity Management
Vault-backed secret rotation, workload identity federation, and zero-trust network segmentation.
Multi-Cloud Strategy
Portable architectures across AWS, Azure, and GCP with documented exit strategies to satisfy PRA third-party risk requirements.
Developer Experience
Internal developer platforms, golden paths, and self-service tooling that let engineers ship without waiting on tickets.
Trusted by teams in regulated industries
We have worked with banking and financial services teams on platform modernisation, CI/CD transformation, and operational resilience programmes. We understand the constraints you operate under, because we have delivered inside them.
Our consulting engagements are hands-on. We do not hand you a slide deck and walk away. We embed with your engineering teams, build the pipelines, write the Terraform, configure the observability stack, and transfer knowledge so your team owns the result.
“They understood our regulatory constraints from day one. No wasted time explaining why we cannot just deploy to production on a Friday afternoon.”
Platform Lead, UK Retail Bank
“The compliance-as-code approach transformed our release process. What used to take two weeks of manual sign-offs now runs in under an hour.”
Head of Engineering, Financial Services
Ready to modernise your delivery pipeline?
Let us show you how to ship faster, stay compliant, and build resilience into every layer of your technology estate.