Web Infrastructure & Administration

06 Infrastructure

Enterprise Grade High Security Infrastructure Ready

Secure hosting and administration for ministry web properties.

Industry: Government / IT Operations
Type: Infrastructure & DevOps
Timeline: 2025 – Present
Role: Web Administrator

Secure Deployments

AD Integrated

The Challenge

Inconsistent server configuration increased deployment risk and security exposure.

Manual IIS configuration, no deployment standards, and fragmented AD integration.

The Solution

Standardized IIS deployments, AD integration, monitoring practices, and documented runbooks.

UX: Internal admin dashboards provide at-a-glance server health for the operations team.

Business Impact

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Deployment errors

Standardized configs eliminated inconsistent server states.

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Security compliance

AD-integrated auth and hardened IIS settings across all properties.

Before & After

Before

Ad-hoc server configs

Inconsistent IIS settings, manual deployments, security gaps.

After

Standardized infrastructure

Template-based deployments, AD integration, monitored health.

Development Journey

Audit

Documented existing server configurations and gaps.

Standardization

Created deployment templates and runbooks.

Rollout

Applied standards across all ministry web properties.

Technical Breakdown

Architecture

Standardized IIS site templates
AD group-based access
Centralized logging

Security

TLS enforcement
AD authentication
Hardened IIS headers

Scalability

Load-balanced IIS farm ready for traffic growth.

Inside the Build

Runbooks save incidents

Documented procedures reduced mean time to recovery when issues occurred.

Lessons Learned

Infrastructure work is invisible until it fails—investing in standards upfront prevents costly outages.

Windows Server IIS Active Directory