Fintech infrastructure that holds up to regulators.
Indian fintech has unique infrastructure constraints — RBI guidelines, India data residency, audit-trail immutability, regulator notification timelines. Generic DevOps doesn't cover these. We build cloud architecture and DevOps practices designed for regulated environments from day one.
Fintech startups that cannot afford to retrofit compliance.
Indian fintech infrastructure built without compliance in mind always becomes the project's largest technical debt. We have inherited those rebuilds. Doing it right at week one is 10x cheaper than retrofitting after the first audit.
- Fintechs storing payment data in non-India regions because nobody mapped the data flow before shipping
- Audit logs that are not truly immutable — admins can delete them, which fails most regulator inspections
- Secrets in env vars and CI/CD configs because the team never set up Secrets Manager properly
- Production incidents handled ad-hoc because there is no on-call rotation, no PagerDuty, no runbooks
- Cloud bills creeping every quarter because nobody is running FinOps reviews
- Companies 90 days from a SOC 2 audit with no clear plan for control implementation
Compliance-first patterns for fintech infrastructure.
Everything below is what we set up week one for new fintech engagements — or retrofit for companies that built without it. Each one solves a regulatory or audit problem that becomes expensive later.
India-region cloud architecture
AWS / Azure / GCP in Indian regions (Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai). Multi-AZ baseline. India-to-India DR. Payment data never accidentally routes through non-India regions.
Immutable audit logging
CloudTrail + S3 with object lock. Or stream to Splunk/Elastic with write-only access. Tamper-evident, regulator-acceptable, with the retention period your regulator mandates.
Secrets management done right
AWS Secrets Manager / Vault / Azure Key Vault. Pre-commit hooks to block accidental commits. Quarterly rotation. Audit logging on every access.
CI/CD with security gates
Snyk / Trivy / Semgrep / tfsec all in the pipeline. Each gate fails the build hard. Manual approval gates before production. Canary rollouts with automated rollback.
Network segmentation
DMZ, application, data, payment, admin zones. Cross-zone traffic only via explicit allowlists. PCI-DSS-grade isolation for card-data systems.
SOC 2 / ISO 27001 readiness
Gap assessment, policy library, control implementation, evidence pipelines, employee training, audit liaison. Most clients audit-ready in 8–16 weeks.
Two starting points, picked by where you are.
Greenfield: week-one foundation
Pre-launch fintech: we set up the full foundation in 2 weeks — India-region cloud, network segmentation, Terraform-managed infra, CI/CD with security gates, secrets management, immutable audit logs, observability stack. You launch on infrastructure that will pass audit. We then stay on as managed SRE.
Existing fintech: gap assessment first
Live fintech with debt: we run a 1-week security and infrastructure audit. Identify the gaps that matter to regulators and the gaps that matter to operations. Prioritise by risk. Then we either remediate ourselves or hand the plan to your team.
Fintech sub-categories we have worked with.
Direct answers.
How do we satisfy RBI data residency requirements?
By default, all payment data stays in Indian regions (AWS Mumbai/Hyderabad, Azure India, GCP Mumbai). Non-payment workloads have more flexibility. Critically, we map and verify data flows so nothing routes through non-India regions unintentionally — which is where most violations happen.
What audit logging is regulator-acceptable?
Immutable, tamper-evident logs with the retention period your regulator mandates (usually 5+ years for payment data). CloudTrail to S3 with object lock is the standard pattern on AWS. SIEM aggregation on top for searchability and detection.
How long does SOC 2 / ISO 27001 readiness take?
Typically 8–16 weeks from program start to audit-ready, depending on starting point. We use compliance automation tools (Drata, Vanta, Sprinto) where they make sense, custom evidence pipelines where they don't.
Do you offer 24/7 incident response?
Yes — managed SRE retainers with 24/7 PagerDuty coverage. Defined SLAs by severity. Runbooks for top incident types. Quarterly drills. We become your effective on-call so your engineers can ship.
Can you help with RBI Cybersecurity Framework requirements?
Yes — we have worked with NBFCs and payment companies through RBI cybersecurity reviews. Practical control implementation, policy library, evidence collection, and audit liaison.
Building Indian fintech and want infrastructure that holds up to inspection?
30-minute call. We will tell you honestly where your biggest compliance gaps are and what fixing them realistically takes.