Synerforte
HashiCorp Vault · Terraform · Consul

Secrets management and CI/CD, engineered to align.

Synerforte is a specialist secrets-engineering and platform-automation consultancy. We architect HashiCorp Vault, codify everything in Terraform, and wire short-lived secrets cleanly into your delivery pipelines — so security stops being the thing that slows releases down.

20+
years in engineering & architecture
HashiCorp certified — Vault & Terraform
Tier-1
banking, markets & government delivery
vault — secrets/prod

$ vault read database/creds/app

lease_id database/creds/app/8Hd2…

lease_duration 1h · renewable

username v-token-app-x7Qe

password ••••••••••••••••

$ terraform apply -auto-approve

Apply complete! Resources: 14 added, 0 changed.

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The core proposition

Two disciplines, deliberately joined up.

Most teams treat secrets management and delivery automation as separate problems. We treat them as one — because that is where the friction, and the risk, actually live.

Secrets management capability

Vault as the single control plane for every credential — dynamic database secrets, encryption-as-a-service, PKI, namespaces, fine-grained policies and pluggable auth. Static, sprawling secrets become short-lived, audited and revocable.

  • Vault cluster architecture, HA & auto-unseal
  • Dynamic secrets & database secret engines
  • PKI / certificate automation & transit encryption
  • Policies, namespaces & auth-method design

CI/CD workflow alignment

Secrets delivered to pipelines the moment they are needed and gone the moment they are not. We integrate Vault and Terraform into GitLab, Jenkins, GitHub Actions and Argo so credentials never sit in a variable store or a repo again.

  • Short-lived pipeline credentials, zero static keys
  • Terraform-driven, GitOps-aligned provisioning
  • Vault Agent / CSI injection into build & runtime
  • Policy-as-code guardrails across environments
Capabilities

The HashiCorp stack, end to end.

Deep specialism in the three technologies that matter most for secure, automated delivery — plus the CI/CD and platform engineering to tie them together.

Secrets architecture

HashiCorp Vault

End-to-end Vault design — from greenfield cluster topology and auto-unseal to secret engines, dynamic credentials, PKI and Enterprise namespaces. Built as a HashiCorp Vault Specialist on live multi-cloud estates.

Dynamic secretsPKITransitNamespacesAuto-unseal
Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

Production-grade Terraform: reusable modules, remote state and locking, drift control and provisioning engines. We've delivered Terraform pipelines that stand up entire application environments on demand.

ModulesRemote statePipelinesMulti-cloudPolicy-as-code
Service networking

Consul

Service discovery, health checking, key/value configuration and service-mesh foundations with Consul — connecting Vault and Terraform into a coherent HashiCorp platform across hybrid and Kubernetes environments.

Service discoveryService meshKV configHealth checks
Delivery automation

CI/CD & Platform

Containerised CI/CD with GitLab, Jenkins, Helm, Harbor and Argo on Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE) — with secrets and infrastructure woven in so pipelines are secure, repeatable and fast by default.

GitLab / JenkinsKubernetesHelm / ArgoGitOps
How we engage

A clear path from sprawl to control.

Pragmatic, documented and built for your team to own. No black boxes — every engagement leaves you with a platform you understand.

  1. 01

    Assess

    We map where secrets live today, how pipelines consume them and where the risk and friction sit — across cloud, hybrid and on-prem.

  2. 02

    Architect

    A Vault topology and Terraform foundation designed for your scale, compliance posture and operating model — documented, not improvised.

  3. 03

    Automate

    Secrets and infrastructure codified and wired into CI/CD, with short-lived credentials, policy-as-code and GitOps workflows.

  4. 04

    Operate

    Runbooks, observability and enablement so your team owns the platform with confidence — reliability engineering baked in.

About Synerforte

Two decades of engineering, distilled into a practice.

A boutique consultancy built on a decade of cloud and platform engineering at the regulated edge of industry.

Synerforte UK Limited is the practice of a HashiCorp-certified engineer specialising in Vault, Terraform and CI/CD. We have worked as a HashiCorp Vault Specialist — modelling secret engines, onboarding namespaces and defining bespoke secrets solutions across live, multi-cloud estates.

Since 2020 our work has centred on regulated industries — Tier-1 banking, capital markets and government — where secrets, compliance and uptime are non-negotiable. For a global bank we delivered an Application Provisioning Engine built entirely on Terraform pipelines; for a major public-sector programme, a containerised CI/CD platform on GitLab, Helm, Terraform and Harbor in Amazon EKS.

That combination — deep Vault architecture, fluent Terraform and battle-tested CI/CD — is what we bring to every client: secrets that are secure by construction, infrastructure that is reproducible by code, and delivery pipelines that move faster because security is built in, not bolted on.

Sectors served

Tier-1 BankingCapital MarketsGovernment & Public SectorProfessional Services & Consulting

Certifications & badges

  • HashiCorp Vault Certified Associate
  • HashiCorp Terraform Certified Associate
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect
  • AWS Certified Developer Associate
  • CNCF Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  • CNCF Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
  • IBM Certified SRE — Cloud v2
  • Calico Certified Operator — AWS Expert (L2)

A selection from a broader portfolio spanning AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, Kubernetes and HashiCorp tooling.

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