Compounding returns through automation

Investing in speed and scalability

Riverty needed a platform that could streamline infrastructure and security management while meeting developer expectations — all without the overhead of building everything from scratch. They found that in HashiCorp. “We felt that HashiCorp had a solid finger on the pulse of what our engineers need and like to work with,” says Kürpick. “Our engineers simply like interacting with their platforms.”

Implementation speed was also a key factor in Riverty’s decision. “We wanted to quickly implement this infrastructure platform for our engineers rather than taking significant time building and customizing it ourselves,” says Ozerov. “HashiCorp provided us much of what we needed right out of the box, allowing us to optimize our engineering time during implementation.”

With HashiCorp as its foundation, Riverty fast-tracked both its cloud migration and transition to a DevOps operating model, enabling engineers to work more independently while reducing operational risk and inefficiency. Since the company relied on a global, multi-cloud environment spanning Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes, maintaining infrastructure consistency was critical.

To address this, Riverty adopted HCP Terraform to standardize infrastructure as code and automate provisioning workflows. Instead of relying on manual processes, development teams now use reusable, self-service templates that allow them to spin up infrastructure on demand, accelerating delivery without sacrificing control.

“Developers don’t have to wait for a central team to provision the infrastructure for them, which previously took hours or sometimes days,” says Ozerov. “Now, teams use pre-configured modules and the magic happens. This greatly simplifies life from an infrastructure standpoint, and it’s made a huge difference.”

HCP Terraform also bridges provisioning skills gaps for Riverty. With reusable HCP Terraform modules, engineers can quickly deploy pre-approved standard infrastructure components or build custom templates aligned with internal policies, all reviewed through a streamlined pull request (PR) process to ensure consistency and control. This standardization supports Riverty’s business operations by reducing risk and potential downtime that can result from configuration errors, while also meeting compliance demands such as backup and recovery requirements.

“When we develop a module for an infrastructure component such as an SQL Server and database, we define the default policy for the backup,” says Ozerov. “Then, when various parameters and values are applied to that module by engineers, the backup policy isn’t forgotten. It’s inherent, which is extremely important for compliance.”

Hedging against credential risk

Expanding on its efforts to remain compliant, Riverty also adopted HashiCorp Vault to protect sensitive data and manage secrets at scale. Vault now serves as the system of record for the full lifecycle of secrets, certificates, passwords, and encryption keys. The team redesigned its security management approach to align with strict auditing and regulatory requirements such as PCI DSS, implementing role-based access controls to isolate infrastructure components and enforce least-privilege access.

Today, Riverty centrally manages over 430 secrets through Vault, including 150 dynamic secrets (primarily database and RabbitMQ credentials) and 285 static secrets. Dynamic secrets are generated on demand and expire automatically, while static secrets are stored and rotated through Vault’s secrets operator using a trigger. All of this has contributed to a significantly faster and more secure credential management process. Vault also handles certificate generation and revocation on demand, further reducing manual overhead and improving security posture.

“With Vault, we’ve addressed our big risk of secrets expiring head-on,” says Ozerov. “The more we can automate, the more secure and compliant we become, plus it makes our lives easier as engineers. In fact, since implementing Vault, I haven’t received a single notification that a secret has expired.”

Keeping the modernization momentum going

To stay ahead, Riverty also plans to implement HashiCorp Consul to standardize service networking and automate connectivity across dynamic, multi-cloud environments. With services increasingly distributed across Kubernetes clusters and cloud providers, the business needs a more flexible way to map service relationships and define clear, enforceable communication policies between internal and external systems. Consul service discovery and service mesh capabilities will play a key role in supporting that evolution.

Another big initiative underway for the team, besides modernizing the infrastructure, is infrastructure harmonization. “We’re currently working on the future setup of our infrastructure by migrating all components still located in on-premises datacenters to the cloud. We will then optimize the whole environment, not only from a technical but also from a business point of view, to deliver wider benefits to the organization, like reducing costs.”

Financial technology for a new era

With a continually improving infrastructure at its core, Riverty is now better equipped to not just deliver flexible financial solutions to customers but to drive innovation for a new era of financial technology. The HashiCorp Cloud Platform supports Riverty’s most critical applications while enabling engineers to go to market faster and more securely.

“The infrastructure as code offered by HCP Terraform is key to keeping everything secure, compliant, and structured,” says Ozerov. “Everyone knows the boundaries of responsibility; they know how things are configured, how to make a change, and how fast that change will be delivered. That’s a game changer.”