For platforms that have to work as well on-premises as they do in Azure
Hire Azure Developers
Azure gives a team enough surface area that small inconsistencies compound quietly. Portal-clicked resources, sprawling identity rules and hybrid connections can each drift on their own. These engineers are tested on catching that drift, then placed to keep your tenant coherent as it grows.
- 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 Azure 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 Azure bar is published, not assumed: five competencies, the exact task behind each, and the shortcut that ends a candidacy. Most interviews ask about certifications. This one asks whether the tenant actually holds together.
What we listen forWhether they design access rules around actual risk, not just enable MFA everywhere.
A client reports that MFA prompts are inconsistent across apps registered in Microsoft Entra ID. Diagnose why.
- What strong sounds like
- Traces the inconsistency to specific conditional-access policy gaps or app-registration differences and proposes a coherent policy set.
- What gives us pause
- Recommends enabling MFA globally without diagnosing why the existing policies were already inconsistent.
Azure · Bicep · PowerShell
AKS · App Service · Azure Functions
Entra ID · Conditional Access · RBAC
Azure Monitor · Azure DevOps · Cost Management
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
Azure engineer
3 yrs · US East overlap
Diagnosed an inconsistent MFA rollout to a specific set of conditional-access policy gaps
- Azure
- Bicep
- Entra ID
Senior Azure engineer
7 yrs · UK + EU hours
Traced a tripled Azure bill to an orphaned resource group nobody remembered creating
- Azure
- AKS
- Cost Management
- PowerShell
Lead Azure engineer
10 yrs · EU + US split
Owns the hybrid architecture connecting an on-premises core to two Azure regions
- Azure
- Architecture
- ExpressRoute
- RBAC
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.
What gets tested here is your actual tenant, not a certification badge. Each step ends in evidence, and stopping early costs you nothing.
Define the platform problem
We map where your tenant's identity rules or infrastructure discipline are actually under strain. The brief names that gap, not a list of Azure services to know.
A brief your leads signMatch against your tenant
Candidates are screened against your actual identity setup, your hybrid architecture and your review culture. Three engineers who understand your tenant beat thirty who list Azure certifications.
Three fits, not thirty CVsAssess on the real tasks
Bring your own engineers to the identity-diagnosis and platform-choice exercises. What you see is judgement under real constraints, not a memorised certification talking point.
Evaluation you can watchOnboard inside your process
Access, standards and a first bounded change to real infrastructure. If the engineer ever leaves, continuity cover keeps the transition off your plate entirely.
A merged change in week one
04Evidence and proof
Engineers who kept the tenant coherent.
Azure proof is drift caught before it becomes cost or risk, not a portal screenshot. Every record here waits for written client approval before production.
Explore case studies
A cost spike traced to a forgotten resource group, not a new workload.
Vela Ledger's Azure bill tripled without a corresponding growth in usage, and nobody could explain why. An embedded Azure engineer traced it to an orphaned resource group nobody remembered creating, still running in a dev subscription.
- Monthly cost after fix
- Cut sharply
- Time to root cause
- Under one week
He found an Entra conditional-access gap that would have let a departed contractor keep access for months.
Sample · pending client approval
The Bicep templates she wrote finally let us reproduce an environment that had only ever existed by accident.
Sample · pending client approval
05Three shapes, one standard
Add an engineer, a cloud pod, or a practice.
Most teams start with one engineer working inside an existing tenant. Some need a pod that owns the whole Azure footprint. If shipping a coherent platform matters more than filling a seat, we point you to the practice instead.
- Team extension
One named engineer
A single Azure specialist inside your direction and your reviews. The smallest commitment, and where most engagements begin.
- Delivery pods
A cloud pod
A pod with its own lead that owns your Azure footprint end to end, identity included. You set priorities while the pod carries delivery.
- Data & Cloud
The practice, not the person
If shipping a coherent platform matters more than filling a seat, data and cloud engineering carries that responsibility instead.
06Straight answers
Asked before an Azure hire is signed.
01What does an Azure engineer actually do day to day?
Designs identity and access rules, keeps infrastructure defined in code instead of clicked together, and manages hybrid connections between Azure and on-premises systems. The unglamorous majority of the work is catching drift before it becomes cost or risk.
02Do you hire for a specific Azure certification level?
Certifications are a starting signal, not the evaluation. The tasks above test judgement about your actual tenant, which is what the 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 identity-diagnosis exercise themselves in later hiring rounds.
04How fast can an Azure engineer start?
A shortlist arrives within days from a bench evaluated continuously. Real start speed after that tracks your own tenant access and approval process.
05Who manages the engineer day to day?
Direction stays with your leads, exactly as it would for any hire. We carry the overhead around that instead: continuity, payroll, replacement risk and the transitions in between.
06What if the engineer is not the right fit?
Say so early and the replacement costs you nothing. The next candidate is walked through what specifically missed, so a second miss is uncommon.
07Do your Azure developers use AI tools?
Yes, openly. AI drafts Bicep templates and pipeline scaffolding quickly; the engineer stays accountable for every identity decision, cost tradeoff and merge that reaches your tenant.
08How does pricing work for a hired Azure engineer?
Expect the range in the bands above; the shortlist fixes the specific number per engineer. Monthly billing, no fee before an interview, and a notice period at exit.