Case Study: Cloud Patterns and DevSecOps in Product Development
Client context
Our client is a specialist supplier of secure call-recording, interview and media-management solutions to finance and public-sector customers. Their products handle evidential content subject to strict regulatory, evidential and security requirements.
Over several years, their core applications had grown in complexity. They needed to:
- Improve the consistency and predictability of design, build, test and deployment.
- Increase delivery velocity without compromising quality or compliance.
- Prepare for cloud and hybrid deployments across multiple regulated environments.
What we did
Working with the CTO and engineering leadership, we reviewed architecture, tooling, cloud adoption and service maturity across the product portfolio and delivery teams.
We helped to:
- Modernise the application architecture – introducing clearer separation of concerns, reusable patterns and options for containerisation and cloud hosting.
- Adopt DevSecOps practices – integrating security into design, backlog, build and deployment processes rather than treating it as a late-stage activity.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines – automating build, test, packaging and deployment into controlled environments.
- Strengthen test and quality engineering – expanding automated testing (unit, integration, regression and security) and improving environments and data management.
- Align delivery and operations – joining up product teams, service operations and customer-facing functions through shared metrics and feedback loops.
Example improvements
- CI/CD pipelines created repeatable builds and deployments for on-premise and cloud targets.
- Security scanning and dependency management were embedded into the pipeline.
- Delivery teams adopted clearer backlog structures (epics, features, stories) linked to customer and regulatory outcomes.
- Environments were rationalised, with clearer promotion paths from development through to production.
Outcomes
The client achieved:
- Higher release quality and reduced regressions.
- Shorter release cycles, allowing features and fixes to reach customers faster.
- Improved security posture through integrated DevSecOps practices.
- Better transparency of delivery status and risk for both product and leadership teams.
For organisations with complex, long-lived products, this case shows how DevSecOps and cloud-ready patterns can be introduced pragmatically to improve both speed and assurance.