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Hire a Cloud Engineer

Hire a cloud engineer without paying $140K+ a year. Get pre-vetted, AI-fluent cloud engineers starting at $5K per month. We handle sourcing, vetting, payroll, and compliance so you can get your AWS bill under control, put your infrastructure in code, and stop depending on the one engineer who knows how production is wired.

Cloud Engineer ยท At a Glance
Starting pricefrom $5K/mo
Typical local cost$12Kโ€“$15K/mo
Overhead reductionup to 70%
Embedded within30 days
Experience level3โ€“7+ years
โœ“ Skills-tested for the role โœ“ AI-fluency assessed โœ“ Remote Readiness Score

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A Better Way to Hire a Cloud Engineer

Your cloud setup probably grew by hand, consoles clicked through at midnight, security groups nobody remembers creating, and a bill that climbs every month. The engineers who built it are busy shipping product, and hiring cloud expertise locally means competing with tech giants on salary. Our model closes that gap with vetted cloud engineers who bring order to your infrastructure in weeks, at a price that does not require a budget cycle.

Every candidate passes structured skills-based testing, real-world scenario evaluation including designing and debugging live cloud environments, and a hands-on AI fluency assessment. When you hire a cloud engineer through us, they are working in your AWS or GCP accounts within 30 days, and we handle the employment contract, payroll, and compliance from end to end.

What does a Cloud Engineer do?

A cloud engineer designs, builds, and maintains your infrastructure on AWS, GCP, or Azure, the foundation everything you ship runs on. A dedicated one replaces fragile, hand-built setups with systems that are documented, repeatable, and secure.

  • Convert hand-built infrastructure into Terraform, so every environment is reproducible and reviewed like code
  • Audit and tighten IAM roles, security groups, and network rules that accumulated over years of quick fixes
  • Cut cloud spend by right-sizing instances, cleaning up orphaned resources, and moving workloads to better pricing
  • Design VPCs, load balancing, and autoscaling so traffic spikes are absorbed instead of survived

When is it time to Hire a Cloud Engineer?

The moment of recognition is usually a cloud bill that jumped 40% with no obvious cause, or the realization that only one person can safely touch production.

Your AWS or GCP bill keeps growing and nobody can point to exactly what is driving it

Infrastructure changes are made by hand in the console, and no one is sure what would break in a rebuild

A security review or SOC 2 audit is coming and your cloud accounts are not ready for scrutiny

Spinning up a new environment takes days of tribal knowledge instead of one pipeline run

Ready to Hire a Cloud Engineer? Turn your cloud from tribal knowledge into reviewed, versioned code.

Hire a Cloud Engineer

When we say the best, we mean it

We only work with the top 5% of candidates when companies hire cloud engineer through us. Every candidate is skills-tested on the exact work this role does, assessed for AI fluency on real tasks, and scored with our proprietary Remote Readiness Score โ€” built from 1,000+ successful remote hires โ€” before they reach your team.

Writes infrastructure as code first, treating console changes as incidents rather than habits

Thinks in blast radius, designing IAM and networks so one mistake cannot take everything down

Tracks cost per service and treats an unexplained bill increase as a bug to fix

Documents architecture decisions so your infrastructure survives any single person leaving

Tested to get in. Trained to stay ahead.

Testing

Three tests, then a human interview

1
Role skills150+ assessments, built for the exact role they'll do for you
2
Remote readinessOur proprietary Remote Readiness Score โ€” built from 1,000+ successful hires
3
AI fluencyReal tasks with a live LLM โ€” prompting, workflows, judgment
4
Interviewed by a real humanTop scorers meet one of our recruiters before you ever see them
Only the top 5% get in See the tests โ†’
NEVER STOPS
Training

Then they keep getting better

Your hirealways in training
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How We Find You Amazing Talent in 30 Days

01

You Specify a Role

You share job description, core requirements & key skills we should screen for.

02

We Source Talent

We run skills-based testing and manual screening, then deliver 3-5 candidates.

03

We Confirm Alignment

We confirm each candidate is interested in your role & aligned with your company.

04

You Interview & Select

You interview each candidate and, if needed, run a 1-2 hour test project.

05

We Handle Onboarding

We handle identity verification, NDA, compliant contracts & full payroll setup.

06

Your Hire Starts Working

Talent is embedded into your team and works like any other team member.

How much does it cost to Hire a Cloud Engineer?

Hiring a cloud engineer locally typically costs $12,000 to $15,000 per month once you factor in salary, benefits, and overhead. With our model, you can reduce that cost by up to 70% while still getting a full-time cloud engineer working directly inside your cloud accounts, Terraform repos, and monitoring stack.

Hiring locally
$12Kโ€“$15K/mo
Salary, benefits, and overhead factored in
Through us
from $5K/mo
Employment, contracts, and HR administration handled entirely on our side

We take on employment, contracts, payroll, benefits, and HR admin, while they operate as part of your engineering team. When you hire a cloud engineer this way, the work compounds, infrastructure in code, security that tightens over time, and cloud spend that finally trends in the right direction.

Common Questions

How quickly can a cloud engineer start?
Most teams have their engineer working in their cloud accounts within 30 days of the first call. Shortlist in days, your interviews, then we handle contracts and scoped access.
How experienced are your cloud engineers?
Typically 3โ€“7+ years building and operating production infrastructure on AWS, GCP, or Azure, many holding professional-level cloud certifications on top of real operational experience.
How do you vet cloud engineers?
Structured skills-based testing, real-world scenarios like debugging a broken deployment and designing a secure VPC, and a hands-on AI fluency assessment. We test operations under pressure, not trivia.
What tools and platforms do they know?
AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, and monitoring stacks like Datadog and CloudWatch, plus Python or Bash for automation. We match candidates to your platform.
Is giving cloud access to them safe?
Yes. NDAs and contracts precede any access, and they work under scoped IAM roles you control. Most start with read-only access and earn broader permissions as trust builds.
Can they work in my time zone?
Yes. When you hire a cloud engineer through us, candidates are matched to your working hours, so deploys, incidents, and architecture reviews happen while your team is online.
How is this different from a cloud consultancy?
A consultancy delivers a migration and departs. Your engineer here is full-time and dedicated, owns your infrastructure day to day, and keeps improving it long after a consultant would have invoiced and left.

Hire a Cloud Engineer today

Serious infrastructure expertise, an audit-ready cloud, and savings that often cover the fee on the bill alone. Hire a cloud engineer and take back control of your platform.

Hire a Cloud Engineer