Case Study
Building an Enterprise Cloud Center of Excellence
Industry: Energy & InfrastructurePlatform: Azure, AWS, OCIScope: Enterprise CCoE Design & GovernanceDuration: 2025 - Ongoing
The Challenge
Quanta Services, a Fortune 500 infrastructure holding company with 40+ semi-autonomous operating companies, needed a Cloud Center of Excellence to govern workloads across Azure, AWS, and OCI. Business units operated independently with no unified governance, creating inconsistent architecture standards, fragmented documentation across SharePoint and shared drives, and uncontrolled cost exposure.
Approach
✓ Governance assessment across 40+ operating companies to establish maturity baseline, delivering across 27 sprints and 20+ release cycles
✓ Designed federated CCoE operating model with 3 Lines of Defense framework
✓ Built enterprise policy definitions for Azure and AWS with Terraform pipeline
✓ Created interactive assessment tools for self-service cloud adoption
Solution Delivered
✓ 287 published artifacts across 7 governance domains under quarterly review audit, CHANGELOG discipline, and mandatory domain owner sign-off
✓ 90+ interactive assessment and decision-support tools on Azure Static Web Apps with Entra ID authentication
✓ Knowledge Base as a Service: productized documentation operating model with 8-state artifact lifecycle, 8-dimension quality model, and 7 defined accountability roles
✓ Enterprise multi-cloud network architecture standard covering hub-and-spoke topology across Azure Virtual WAN, AWS Transit Gateway, and OCI DRG with SD-WAN interconnect and default-deny segmentation
CCoE DesignGovernanceAzure CAFFinOpsPolicy-as-CodeTerraformMulti-Cloud3LoD FrameworkKBaaS
Eliminated Review Delays
Replaced fragmented SharePoint and shared-drive stores with a single authoritative source across 287 published artifacts.
Unified Governance
Enterprise multi-cloud network architecture and security governance standards adopted across 40+ operating companies.
Self-Service Adoption
90+ interactive tools on Azure Static Web Apps enabled self-service cloud adoption with Entra ID authentication.
"This engagement transformed how Quanta approaches cloud governance, moving from reactive troubleshooting to proactive, standards-driven platform management."
Engagement summary