efio built a cloud platform on AWS using IaC, Infrastructure-as-Code for Novo Nordisk. Our client, Novo Nordisk A/S is a Danish multinational pharmaceutical company developing innovative medicine and delivering systems to improve the daily life of millions of people. Novo Nordisk supplies about 50% of the world’s insulin and provides over 32 million people with their daily diabetes care products.

The project

efio worked together with the Novo Research Application Platform (NRAP), which is used within the R&D. It is put together by off-the-shelf products for data integration and management of inventory and science data. The platform consists of both classic 3-tier and cloud-native applications.

efio was part of the NRAP project from the beginning and helped develop it into a service now consisting of 20+ servers, containers, autoscaling groups, and load balancers, with the platform fully automated on AWS through infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines.

A special focus area within life sciences with the need to meet extremely high standards of compliance to achieve a license to operate (eg. FDA compliance for selling in the USA). efio helped meet these needs while still developing faster time-to-market infrastructure using compliance-as-code.

As the project was new to Amazon Web Services (AWS), efio advised the team on AWS best practices to optimize the usage of cloud infrastructure on AWS.

Responsibilities and accomplishments:

• Creating 3-tier application infrastructure on AWS
• Advising on AWS best practices
• Implementing compliance-as-code
• Security assessments of NRAP components
• Designing and deploying CI/CD pipelines for NRAP
• Coaching off-shore team members in AWS best practices (Reverse offshoring /in shoring)
• Well architected

efio’s role

efio’s consultant joined a development team of 5 engineers. efio contributed to the roles of Cloud architect and DevOps engineer.

Tools and techniques used:

Amazon Web Service (AWS), CloudFormation, Azure DevOps, cfn-lint, cfn-nag, Continous Integration & Delivery CI/CD, AWS Config, Turbot, Cloud Native, Kubernetes, Active Directory (AD), Serverless, PowerShell, Docker, RDS, AWS Well Architected Framework, Big Data, Data analysis, IoT