For infrastructure that has to hold under real AWS bills, not just real traffic
Hire AWS Developers
A wide-open security group or an over-permissioned IAM role usually works fine, right up until it doesn't. These engineers are tested on catching that exact gap before it becomes an incident. They are then placed to keep your AWS account both fast and defensible.
- Profiles typically within two business days
- Replacement Assurance: If an engineer is not the right fit, a replacement from our own team starts within ten business days of your request, at no extra cost
- You interview before placement if you want to
- At least four hours a day inside your core working hours. Two hours plus a daily written handover for the US West Coast
- 14-Day Risk-Free Trial: For your first engineer on a time-and-materials engagement. Up to 14 calendar days or 80 logged working hours, whichever comes first. End within the trial and pay nothing for trial hours. Continue beyond it and those hours are billed at the agreed rate. Unpaid trial work remains ours if you stop
How we evaluate an AWS engineer
The tasks, the signals and the onboarding, walked through by the people who run them.
90 secSample frame · video pending01Published, not promised
The assessment behind every engineer we send.
The AWS bar is published, not assumed: five competencies, the exact task behind each, and the shortcut that ends a candidacy. Most interviews ask about service names. This one asks whether the account is actually defensible.
What we listen forWhether they design networks around actual risk, not just default settings.
A new team's VPC has every subnet in a single availability zone and a security group open to 0.0.0.0/0 on port 22. Walk us through your redesign.
- What strong sounds like
- Identifies both the availability and security risks precisely and proposes a multi-AZ, least-access redesign with the reasoning shown.
- What gives us pause
- Fixes the open security group without noticing or addressing the single-AZ availability risk sitting right next to it.
AWS · Terraform · CloudFormation
EC2 · Lambda · ECS/EKS
RDS · S3 · DynamoDB
CloudWatch · IAM · AWS CLI
02Who you actually meet
The bench, priced by seniority.
Three seniority tiers, priced honestly, and the engineers who fill each one today. Real names and photos take their place as soon as we can share them, and the standard stays exactly the same.
Engineer
Features scoped tightly enough to ship inside your review bar, every time.
The right first hire when your seniors already set the standard.
$2,700–3,400per month
Senior
The hard module nobody else wants to own, taken end to end.
Ownership of a surface, without adding a manager to your headcount.
$3,700–4,700per month
Lead
The workstream's decisions, made daily, so nothing waits on a meeting.
One accountable voice for a pod or initiative that can't afford to drift.
$5,000–6,200per month
AWS engineer
3 yrs · US East overlap
Redesigned a VPC after finding a security group open to the internet on an admin port
- AWS
- Terraform
- IAM
Senior AWS engineer
7 yrs · UK + EU hours
Scoped an AdministratorAccess role down to least privilege without breaking a single dependent service
- AWS
- Lambda
- CloudFormation
- VPC
Lead AWS engineer
10 yrs · EU + US split
Designed the multi-account structure a three-year-old single-account setup had outgrown
- AWS Organizations
- Architecture
- IAM
- Cost Explorer
Indicative ranges, representative profiles. Exact figures and named engineers arrive with your shortlist.
Weighing this against a freelancer, a direct hire or a marketplace? See the honest comparison
03From stated problem to first change
Four steps, each closing on evidence.
Every step here is built around your actual account, not a certification checklist. You can stop after any of them owing us nothing.
Define the infrastructure problem
We map where your AWS account's security or cost efficiency is actually under strain. The brief names that gap, not a list of AWS services to know.
A brief your leads signMatch against your account
Candidates are screened against your actual architecture, your compliance needs and your review culture. Three engineers who understand your setup beat thirty who list AWS certifications.
Three fits, not thirty CVsAssess on the real tasks
Bring your own engineers to the IAM-scoping and network-redesign exercises. Judgement about real tradeoffs is visible here, not a rehearsed certification answer.
Evaluation you can watchOnboard inside your process
Access, standards and a first bounded change to real infrastructure. Continuity cover means a departure is absorbed on our side before your roadmap feels it.
A merged change in week one
04Evidence and proof
Engineers who kept the account both fast and defensible.
AWS proof is a gap closed before it became an incident, not a service diagram. Every record here waits for written client approval before production.
Explore case studies
A public S3 bucket found and closed before a single file was accessed.
Koru Health's user-uploads bucket had been misconfigured for public read access. An embedded AWS engineer confirmed no external access had occurred and closed the gap with signed URLs the same day.
- Files accessed externally
- Zero, confirmed
- Time to close the gap
- Same day
He found an IAM role with AdministratorAccess attached that nobody could explain, sitting unused for months.
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The multi-account structure she designed finally gave us real isolation between environments.
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05Three shapes, one standard
Add an engineer, a cloud pod, or a practice.
Most teams start with one engineer working inside an existing account. Some need a pod that owns the whole cloud footprint. When the real need is a cloud platform delivered end to end, not a role filled, we point you to the practice instead.
- Team extension
One named engineer
A single AWS specialist inside your direction and your reviews. The smallest commitment, and the most common starting point.
- Delivery pods
A cloud pod
A pod with its own lead that owns your AWS footprint end to end, cost included. You set priorities while the pod carries delivery.
- Data & Cloud
The practice, not the person
When the real need is a cloud platform delivered end to end, not a role filled, data and cloud engineering takes on that accountability instead.
06Straight answers
Asked before an AWS hire is signed.
01What does an AWS engineer actually do day to day?
Designs network security and access control, tunes serverless and compute costs against real usage, and audits data storage for exposure before it becomes an incident. The unglamorous majority of the work is catching drift in an account that has grown for years.
02Do you hire for a specific AWS certification level?
Certifications are a starting signal, not the evaluation. The tasks above test judgement about your actual account, which is what a certification alone cannot show.
03Can we run our own interviews as well?
Yes, the published tasks are built to be reused directly. Several clients now run the IAM-scoping exercise themselves in later hiring rounds.
04How fast can an AWS engineer start?
A shortlist arrives within days from a bench evaluated continuously. Real start speed after that tracks your own account access and approval process.
05Who manages the engineer day to day?
Your leads set priorities and run the reviews, same as with any hire. We carry what sits behind that: continuity, payroll, replacement risk and the handoff if plans change.
06What if the engineer is not the right fit?
Raise it in the first weeks and the swap is on us. The next engineer is briefed on precisely what missed, so a second attempt rarely misses too.
07Do your AWS developers use AI tools?
Yes, openly. AI drafts Terraform modules and IAM policy scaffolding quickly; the engineer stays accountable for every access boundary, cost tradeoff and merge that reaches your account.
08How does pricing work for a hired AWS engineer?
Pricing tracks the bands above, with the shortlist confirming the exact number per engineer. No placement fee, monthly billing, and a notice period as the only exit term.