Payment Platform Engineering
Postilion and ISO 8583 switching, active-active multi-site design, SQL Server, transaction-path diagnostics, and side-by-side platform migrations with preserved rollback and no surprise downtime.
Compliance-as-a-Service
PCI-DSS delivered as an operating model, not an annual scramble: scope reduction, segmentation, approval-gated privileged access, centralised logging, and continuous evidence ready for your QSA. We work alongside independent assessors; we never act as one.
Infrastructure & Continuous Availability
Fault-tolerant production platforms, including hands-on Stratus ftServer experience since 2014, VMware and Proxmox/Ceph hyperconverged infrastructure, out-of-band management and DR that is actually tested.
Principles, Not Promises
Every change is reviewed
Infrastructure, firewall rules and access grants are code, approved by a second person before anything changes.
No standing privileged access
Admin rights exist only inside an approved, time-boxed, recorded window.
Evidence is a by-product
Diagrams, asset inventories and change records are generated by the pipeline, not assembled the week before the audit.
Rollback before rollout
Every migration keeps a known-good path back until the new platform is accepted.
Scope is engineered
The cheapest PCI control is the system that never touches card data.
Built for regulated, high-consequence environments
Our roots are in banking and payments, where downtime is measured in lost transactions and compliance is non-negotiable. The same discipline applies wherever systems must stay up, stay secure and prove it.
- Commercial and retail banks
- Building societies
- Payment switches and processors
- Mobile money and FinTech providers
- Microfinance and regulated lenders
- Merchant acquirers
- Other regulated and critical-infrastructure organisations
Selected clientsCABS — Payment infrastructure, platform modernisation and security engineering.
Local Delivery for Banking & Payments
Infinicore Systems (Pvt) Ltd is a Harare-based infrastructure, payments and compliance consultancy, founded in 2025 by Liam Hughes, who brings over 25 years in IT infrastructure, including nearly a decade engineering payment and continuous-availability platforms for Zimbabwean banks.
We sit between vendors, banks, assessors and operations teams, turning product capability into supportable local delivery.
“Infinicore brought the infrastructure discipline we'd expect from a tier-one consultancy: rigorous, well-documented and no ambiguity.”