UpTech Solution

Background

A global pharmaceutical company overseeing critical drug research recently brought its independent R&D division under centralized control. This shift required a complex infrastructure consolidation—migrating core applications and data from the R&D environment into the company’s primary IT infrastructure.

With in-house engineering resources already at capacity, the company partnered with UpTech Solution to strengthen the migration team. A senior Middleware Engineer was deployed through UpTech’s Talent On Demand model, working alongside platform and operations teams to ensure a smooth, efficient transition.

Challenges

The consolidation presented several organizational and technical hurdles:

• Two independently managed environments with conflicting configurations
• Legacy applications with no formal support, increasing operational risk
• Approval delays due to fragmented ownership across teams
• Limited visibility into infrastructure health and performance
• No internal bandwidth to lead migration design and execution

Results & Impact

Operational Continuity
✓ Achieved 100% uptime throughout the migration period
✓ Ensured uninterrupted access to research platforms and services

Efficiency Gains
✓ 30% of routine operational tasks automated, reducing manual workload by an estimated 10–15 hours per week
✓ Reduced average issue resolution time by 40% due to improved monitoring and centralized visibility

Cost and Risk Reduction
✓ Retired or upgraded 12+ legacy applications, eliminating support and security risks
✓ Reduced infrastructure maintenance effort by 25%, freeing internal teams for higher-value work

Strategic Enablement
✓ Enabled faster onboarding of future tools and workloads by building a scalable foundation
✓ Improved compliance alignment and audit readiness through secure credential management with HashiCorp Vault

Background

A global biotechnology company, known for its innovation in therapeutic research, relies on high-performing cloud infrastructure to support its R&D initiatives. Over time, the organization encountered growing inefficiencies within its AWS environment. Unused or underutilized resources, outdated operating systems, and a lack of ownership tracking had led to increasing costs and compliance concerns.

To regain control over cloud spending and streamline operations, the company partnered with UpTech Solution. A Senior DevOps Engineer was deployed through UpTech’s Talent On Demand model to assess, optimize, and govern the AWS infrastructure more effectively.

Challenges

The AWS environment presented several operational and financial issues:

• Thousands of resources with no clear ownership tracking
• Legacy operating systems leading to performance and security gaps
• High memory and CPU allocations on idle or low-demand workloads
• Cloud sprawl due to lack of automated governance
• Compliance tool bugs going unreported due to internal blind spots

Results & Impact

 Cost Reduction

• Immediate annual savings of $75,000 through termination of obsolete resources and downgrading over-provisioned instances

• Projected savings of up to $200,000/year with ongoing enforcement and governance

• Reduced AWS spend by an estimated 35% across key accounts

 Governance and Visibility

• 100% resource ownership traceability via automated tagging and policy enforcement

• 100% of new AWS resources now require ownership tags before deployment

• 12 child accounts integrated into AWS Control Tower for unified oversight

 Operational Efficiency

• Over 2,000 cloud assets audited, optimized, or decommissioned

• Weekly automation reduced manual audit time by 40+ hours/month

• Identified and reported 5 critical bugs in compliance tooling, improving platform reliability

• Migrated 20% of IaC from CloudFormation to Terraform, improving deployment speed and maintainability

Background

A global management consulting firm required a scalable and secure Identity and Access Management (IAM) framework to support their growing digital ecosystem. With numerous in-house and cloud-based applications, the firm faced security vulnerabilities and operational inefficiencies due to delayed integration of Single Sign-On (SSO), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), and inconsistent administrative rights management.
UpTech Solution was engaged to address these pressing challenges and modernize the firm’s identity management infrastructure using Okta as the central IAM platform.

Challenges

Upon engagement, the client was facing:

• A backlog of application integrations, preventing unified authentication across platforms.

• Lack of IAM support for multiple applications, creating security and access control gaps.

• Unmanaged administrative rights, posing critical security risks due to excessive user privileges.

Results & Impact

 Enhanced Security

Implemented MFA across 100% of critical applications, reducing unauthorized access incidents by 60%.

Enabled SSO for over 200 internal and cloud-based apps, improving authentication consistency.

Reduced privilege-related vulnerabilities by 70% through rights audit and cleanup.

 Cost Savings

 Improved Operational Efficiency

• Lowered IT support costs by 25% through reduced manual interventions.

• Avoided $250K+ in projected infrastructure upgrades by leveraging Okta’s cloud-native model.

• Established scalable IAM architecture, reducing future onboarding costs by 20%.

• Reduced manual IAM tasks by 50%, freeing IT staff for higher-value work.

• Centralized access controls improved audit readiness and compliance scores by 35%.

• Cut access provisioning time by 40% through automation.