This multinational oil and gas company is among the world’s largest companies out of any industry. This $381 billion company has over 86,000 employees worldwide and a presence in more than 70 countries.

CHALLENGE

Infrastructure provisioning and configuration were heavily manual, inconsistent, and difficult to scale.

Teams relied on a mix of tools and ad hoc processes to deploy environments, resulting in long setup times, limited visibility into infrastructure states, and a high risk of configuration errors.

As environments grew more complex, dependency management became increasingly fragile, slowing down deployments and introducing operational risk.

• Manual configuration and provisioning across environments
• Lack of standardization in infrastructure setup
• Time-consuming deployment cycles delaying delivery
• High risk of human error and misconfigurations
• Limited visibility into infrastructure state and dependencies
• Fragile dependency management impacting reliability

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SOLUTIONS

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Aligned Automation implemented a robust Infrastructure as Code (IaC) framework on Microsoft Azure, transforming infrastructure provisioning into a standardized, automated, and repeatable process.

Using a combination of Azure CLI, PowerShell, ARM templates, Bicep, and Terraform, the solution enabled teams to define, deploy, and manage infrastructure through code.

A parameter-driven architecture was introduced to dynamically configure environments, ensuring consistency while allowing flexibility across use cases.

Key capabilities included:

• Automated provisioning of infrastructure through IaC frameworks
• Standardized templates for consistent environment deployment
• Parameterized configurations for flexibility and scalability
• End-to-end orchestration of resources, networking, and storage
• Built-in dependency management across infrastructure components
• Integration with CI pipelines for continuous deployment and updates

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What Changed

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Infrastructure moved from manual, error-prone setup to fully automated, version-controlled deployments.

Teams gained real-time visibility into infrastructure states, reduced provisioning time significantly, and eliminated inconsistencies across environments, enabling faster, more reliable delivery at scale.