SECURE ARCHITECTURE & COMPLIANCE // 04
Phase 4 moves your organization into a proactive, continuous audit-ready state. For companies navigating high-stakes compliance frameworks like SOC 2, rapid cloud scaling, or critical perimeter isolation, I step in as your fractional technical execution partner. I translate rigid compliance requirements into secure, production-grade infrastructure configurations, ensuring your systems pass audits without bottlenecking your engineering team or slowing down your commercial momentum.
What you get
• Continuous Compliance & Audit Stewardship: Direct management of automated compliance platforms (like Vanta) and technical liaison with your external advisors or auditors. I actively remediate failing tests, maintain evidence windows, and package backend infrastructure evidence to keep you continuously audit-ready.
• Identity, Endpoint & Cloud Hardening: Architectural ownership of your identity footprint (Entra ID/Google Workspace), Intune endpoint security matrices, and multi-account cloud isolation. I ensure zero standing access, implement PIM/JIT workflows, and enforce secure SDLC standards across your engineering environment.
• Vulnerability & Incident Governance: Systematic triage of cloud and container vulnerability findings (such as Defender for Cloud or Aikido) paired with practical, automated remediation scripting. I also lead incident response tabletop simulations to stress-test your playbooks against real-world compliance windows.
Ideal client profiles
• Regulated & Fast-Growth Startups: Mid-market or VC-backed firms facing a rapid, high-stakes path to SOC 2 Type II certification, where the engineering team is too buried in the product roadmap to own the infrastructure lockdown.
• Founders Seeking to Eliminate Technical Bottlenecks: Growth-stage owners who need to step away from acting as the default infrastructure and security admin, transitioning those workflows to a seasoned operator who can execute with boardroom clarity.
• Firms Navigating Multi-Tenant & Cloud Complexities: Organizations with complex development, staging, and production environments across AWS, Azure, or GCP that require rigid network segmentation, programmatic secrets management, and centralized SSO integration.
Fractional Leadership
You get dedicated, executive-level technical oversight and boardroom clarity without the overhead of a full-time corporate hire. I act as a direct extension of your leadership team, not an outsourced agency - joining strategic reviews, answering complex vendor security questionnaires, and framing technical engineering trade-offs into the business and trust terms your clients actually demand. The cadence isn't fixed to a retainer clock; I map the commitment directly to your strategic milestones, providing on-demand execution and rapid, same-day response when critical compliance or security needs arise.
Platform Discipline
Continuous scale requires continuous infrastructure discipline. Left unmanaged, rapid product iterations lead to credential drift, shadow SaaS platforms, and failing compliance configurations. Regular, proactive governance checks catch these vulnerabilities before they turn into failed audits or security incidents, keeping your cloud footprint hardened, your tools centralized, and your delivery completely audit-ready.