IT Infrastructure Services for Fintech and Payments

• To design secure, scalable, and high-performing infrastructures, we leverage future-proof technologies and infrastructure best practices that make the most sense for the domain (e.g., the Financial Services Industry Lens for the AWS Well-Architected Framework).
• Our clients’ in-house IT teams receive comprehensive documentation and structured training, ensuring smooth knowledge transfer and easy future maintenance of IT infrastructures.

• We introduce Infrastructure as Code (IaC), containerization, configuration management, and other infrastructure automation practices so that our clients can reduce deployment errors, minimize manual efforts, and cut IT infrastructure management costs by over 10%.
• Our DevOps engineers build continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines with security scanning to automate infrastructure provisioning and development workflows. This allows our clients to improve code security, reduce lead time for deployment, and keep the deployment failure rate below 5%.

• Our team, which includes certified SIEM/SOAR/XDR specialists, deploys and configures resilient security infrastructures with APT defense, DDoS protection, data encryption, IDS/IPS, firewalls, and other essential security mechanisms.
• Equipped with OWASP and NIST best practices, ScienceSoft’s pentesting engineers and Certified Ethical Hackers can conduct comprehensive security testing of your IT infrastructure. We examine all possible attack vectors, simulate non-obvious attack scenarios, and suggest actionable security fixes.

ScienceSoft has practical experience establishing IT compliance with GLBA, SEC, SOX, PCI DSS, PSD2, NYDFS, SAMA, and other financial regulations and standards.

• ScienceSoft’s consultants with 5–20 years of experience assess the compliance of payment and fintech IT infrastructures, analyze and prioritize the identified compliance gaps, and draw up remediation plans.
• We can implement our suggested remediation measures and design a comprehensive compliance management framework.

• We design, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructures that show 99.98% cloud app and service availability. Our clients save up to 40% of cloud costs thanks to cloud resource optimization.
• When performing cloud migrations, we carefully design migration schedules to avoid interrupting critical operations. We set up real-time infrastructure monitoring tools to ensure optimal VM and container operation, data consistency and integrity, and timely response to failures. We draw up robust rollback plans to minimize potential disruptions.

• Our engineers design and set up networks for fintech and payments providers. We define physical and logical network topology based on business and technical requirements, plan IP addressing, and deploy and test networks.
• When monitoring networks, we pay attention to metrics that are most crucial to the performance of fintech systems. For example, we track packet loss and jitter to maintain maximum data integrity and catch failed transactions; we monitor traffic volume and load on payment processing servers to ensure timely resource provision during traffic spikes (e.g., on Black Fridays).
• We continuously optimize network configurations to improve their performance.

To ensure business continuity, our experts can implement tailored disaster recovery mechanisms. We will:

• Develop a comprehensive disaster recovery plan (including a cloud-based disaster recovery strategy) with clear recovery time and recovery point objectives (RTO and RPO).
• Configure data replication and automated backups to prevent the loss of sensitive financial data.
• Respond to incidents and conduct post-incident reviews to assess response effectiveness and identify areas for improvement.

• We can evaluate your existing IT infrastructure, including its code, to spot improvement opportunities, such as optimization of transaction processing resources, strengthening security controls, implementing failover and recovery strategies, and automating repetitive tasks.
• Based on your performance and compliance needs and cost requirements, we can implement the suggested improvements, such as fine-tuning continuous monitoring and alerting, integrating the necessary linters and analyzers, refactoring Dockerfiles and Terraform templates, and more.

Our support engineers:

• Investigate and resolve infrastructure issues, respond to incidents, and analyze root causes to prevent repeat issues.
• Proactively propose infrastructure and help desk process improvements backed by clear arguments and expected outcomes for the clients.
• Monitor and check the health of systems and solutions.
• Install security updates and software patches as soon as they are released from official providers.
• Regularly submit transparent service-level reports.

ScienceSoft can take over the entire infrastructure management process, including:

• Planning, designing, and building new infrastructure components.
• Monitoring your infrastructure on a 24/7 basis and preventing incidents.
• Developing a disaster recovery plan, responding to incidents, and restoring the data and infrastructure operation.
• Delivering IT security services, including setting up robust security monitoring, conducting regular vulnerability testing, providing compliance assessments, and more.
• Optimizing infrastructure performance and costs.