Client overview
SME Bank is a fast, efficient, and fully digital bank for businesses. Understanding that every company faces unique challenges, the bank takes an individual approach to each client’s story, providing tailored financing solutions that best meet their specific needs.
The bank turned to PushOps to migrate its infrastructure to a unified automation platform that simplifies management, reduces costs, and enables developers to handle deployments independently without relying on the DevOps team.
Challenge
As SME Bank grew, infrastructure management costs started rising even faster. Maintaining compliance and scalability demanded heavy DevOps involvement, making growth unsustainable.
The bank needed a secure, automated solution that empowered developers to deploy confidently while meeting strict financial compliance.
Solution
PushOps migrated SME Bank’s cloud infrastructure to its automation platform, creating a unified environment that seamlessly handles setup, monitoring, scaling and security. The system was built around automation and visibility, allowing developers to self-serve their deployments securely while reducing operational overhead.
What PushOps delivered:
- Automated infrastructure management: fully automated provisioning, scaling and updates across environments.
- Security by default: continuous monitoring, role-based access control and audit logs aligned with banking compliance standards.
- Developer enablement: engineers gained the ability to deploy and manage their services independently through an intuitive platform.
- Cost optimization: built-in cost monitoring and resource scaling eliminated waste and replaced manual oversight.
- Seamless migration: smooth transition from legacy DevOps pipelines to PushOps, with zero downtime.
Results
The migration allowed SME Bank to replace three full-time DevOps roles with PushOps’s automation, reducing cloud management costs by 3x while increasing deployment speed and system reliability. In addition, the transformation helped the bank achieve DORA Elite Performance Benchmark, reflecting exceptional infrastructure reliability, performance, and operational excellence.
Key outcomes:
- 3x cost reduction: achieved through automation and resource efficiency.
- Empowered developers: teams now deploy and manage securely without the bottlenecks.
- Continuous compliance: built-in security and monitoring ensure adherence to financial-grade requirements.
- Faster delivery: new features and environments go live in minutes instead of days.
- Sustainable growth: scalable foundation ready for future expansion across services and regions.
- DORA Elite Performance Benchmark: bank’s software delivery performance evaluated as Elite by the DORA team.
Conclusion
“PushOps gave us full visibility and control of our cloud infrastructure while cutting operational costs drastically. Our engineers can now deploy securely and focus on building our product instead of managing the infrastructure. If you’re looking to scale efficiently, this is a platform to choose.”
– Tomas Smalakys, CIO of SME Bank
By migrating to the PushOps platform, SME Bank modernized its infrastructure, streamlined operations, and unlocked a new level of agility, proving that even highly regulated fintechs can scale faster, leaner, and more securely.
