--- title: "Dedicated Cloud and DevOps Team: Outsource DevOps Engineers" description: "Cloud engineer outsourcing done as a managed, dedicated cloud and DevOps team. Hire an offshore DevOps team from USD 2,400 per specialist a month." url: "https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-cloud-and-devops-team/" --- 1. [Home](https://azendo.co/) 2. [Services](https://azendo.co/services/) 3. Cloud and DevOps # Dedicated cloud and DevOps team. Offshore DevOps, cloud, site reliability and platform engineers work only on your platform, as a dedicated cloud and DevOps team. We headhunt them for the cloud you run, then employ and coach them from our offices in Bangkok and Chiang Mai, Thailand. It's cloud engineer outsourcing where the work stays in your own account, behind the access you grant. You decide what ships and when. [Get in touch](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-cloud-and-devops-team/#contact) Try us, at zero risk. * No deposit * No upfront fee * No commitment [Get in touch](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-cloud-and-devops-team/#contact) ## What cloud engineer outsourcing with us includes, and what it costs. Outsource DevOps engineers through Azendo and they're on our payroll, in our offices, with a Talent Success manager planning their growth. The usual routes to a DevOps engineer, [offshore staffing](https://azendo.co/blog/engagement-models/offshore-staffing/) or [staff augmentation](https://azendo.co/blog/engagement-models/staff-augmentation/), hand you the person and nothing around them. A service delivery manager oversees delivery, with your score every Friday and a report every month. Price examples Junior level, full time, everything below included. Mid-level and senior levels are priced in your proposal. [All 27 things included ››](https://azendo.co/pricing/) * [DevOps engineer](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-cloud-and-devops-team/devops-engineer/) From **USD 2,400** per month * [Cloud engineer](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-cloud-and-devops-team/cloud-engineer/) From **USD 2,400** per month * [Site reliability engineer](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-cloud-and-devops-team/site-reliability-engineer/) From **USD 2,400** per month * Service We manage and develop the team * A service delivery manager who oversees operations and delivery * A 1:1 with our Head of Delivery every two weeks * Weekly delivery scoring and monthly capacity reports * A Talent Success Manager for every team member * HR We are the employer * Recruitment and technical assessment * Employment contracts * Salary and payroll * Tax and social security * Facilitation We provide the workplace * A desk in our office in Chiang Mai or Bangkok * A Workplace Experience Manager on site * Team events through the year * IT support * Equipment We supply the tools * Laptop and hardware * Software licences * LinkedIn Learning access * Device security and management ## One monthly fee for DevOps engineers and the support around them. You agree a monthly capacity in hours with us. The fee covers the DevOps engineer's salary and every layer around it: the service delivery manager who oversees delivery, training and development, the workplace, the equipment and the HR behind the employment. It is the same amount every month. * One agreement and one invoice, with no upfront fee or management surcharge * Holidays are already priced in, so April and May cost the same * A capacity report every month, so you see the hours delivered [How the monthly fee is built →](https://azendo.co/pricing/) ## Outsource DevOps engineers headhunted for the cloud you run. We assess every candidate for your offshore DevOps team ourselves, with the rigour of a specialist recruitment agency. Before we start Alignment on your needs * Roles and seniority * Stack and domain * Way of working * Capacity and time to hire [Talk to our teamBook a scoping call](https://azendo.co/book-a-meeting/) 1. 25 Week 1 Sourcing Headhunted for your brief 2. 12 Week 2 AI processing and screening Matched to your stack 3. 5 Week 3 Technical testing Pass technical testing 4. 1 Week 4 Mindset, culture and logic Proposed to you ## Offshore cloud engineers and the rest of the DevOps team. Four infrastructure roles have their own pages. Security, data and software engineers from our other ten service areas join when the platform needs them. [DevOps Engineer Pipelines, environments and automation About the role →](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-cloud-and-devops-team/devops-engineer/)[Cloud Engineer Networking, identity, cost and resilience About the role →](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-cloud-and-devops-team/cloud-engineer/)[Site Reliability Engineer Service levels and incident response About the role →](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-cloud-and-devops-team/site-reliability-engineer/)[Platform Engineer Internal tooling and self-service About the role →](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-cloud-and-devops-team/platform-engineer/) [Backend Developer· Software development](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-software-development-team/backend-developer/)[Full Stack Developer· Software development](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-software-development-team/full-stack-developer/)[iOS Developer· Mobile development](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-mobile-development-team/ios-developer/)[React Native 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Tell us what you need →](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-cloud-and-devops-team/#contact) ## What a dedicated cloud and DevOps team runs for you. When companies outsource DevOps, the platform usually moves to an outside operator. Ours works the other way: the engineers we assign join your team, build pipelines and infrastructure as code alongside your own developers. * **CI/CD pipelines**Build, test and deploy pipelines that run on every merge. * **Infrastructure as code**Terraform or Pulumi for every environment, reviewed like application code. * **Containers and Kubernetes**Clusters, images and deployments kept current and patched. * **Observability**Metrics, logs, traces and alerts that show what broke and where. * **Release and rollback**Release steps the whole team can repeat, and a way back when something goes wrong. * **Cloud cost control**Tagging, rightsizing and budget alerts, so the bill follows real usage. ### Stacks we work in We hire for the cloud and tooling you run. We keep no bench, so the search starts from your setup. Infrastructure and provisioning * Terraform * Kubernetes * Docker * Ansible * Pulumi CI/CD * GitHub Actions * Jenkins * ArgoCD * CircleCI * Bitbucket Pipelines Cloud platforms * AWS * GCP * Azure * DigitalOcean * Cloudflare ## What a dedicated cloud and DevOps team is. A dedicated cloud and DevOps team is a group of engineers who build and run one company's infrastructure, pipelines and monitoring, full time. Azendo employs and manages them, and a service delivery manager meets you every two weeks to hear how the work is going. ### Where it pays off most It pays off when the platform has outgrown the people who built it: releases wait on manual steps, incidents land on product engineers, or cloud costs grow faster than usage. The same engineers stay with your infrastructure, so what they automate and document stays looked after. ### Who is on the team * **DevOps engineer**Pipelines, environments and automation * **Cloud engineer**Networking, identity, cost and resilience * **Site reliability engineer**Service levels and incident response * **Platform engineer**Internal tooling and self-service * **Service delivery manager**Oversees delivery on our side and reviews it with you every two weeks * **Talent Success manager**For every specialist: a quarterly development plan and coaching tailored to it * **Your product owner**Sets the priorities and accepts the work ## Other ways to build a cloud and DevOps team, compared. __Dedicated cloud and DevOps team compared with staff augmentation and project outsourcing__ | | Dedicated team, Azendo | Staff augmentation | Project outsourcing | | ------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- | | What you buy | Agreed monthly capacity from people who work only on your product | A person's hours, billed by the hour or the month | A defined scope, at a fixed price or on time and materials | | Who manages the team | Azendo, day to day, with you setting the priorities | You do, day to day: Azendo's estimate is four to eight hours a week per specialist | The vendor's project manager | | Who answers for delivery | Azendo, scored by you every Friday | You do | The vendor, against the agreed scope | | How long people stay | On your product, and with Azendo for 3.3 years on average | Until the contract ends | Until the project is handed over | | Best fit | A platform that has to stay reliable while the product keeps changing | A short gap in a team you already run | One project with a clear end | ## Try us, at zero risk. * No deposit * No upfront fee * No commitment We agree a time to hire with you. If we can't find the right people for your team within it, you walk away with no commitment and nothing to pay. [Get in touch](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-cloud-and-devops-team/#contact) "Knowing your platform is the part of DevOps you can't hire in a week. That's why I want the engineers we assign to you to stay with it for years." **Mikkel Schmidt**, CEO and founder ## How your cloud and DevOps team runs with Azendo. ## Decide what you hand over to your cloud and DevOps team With cloud engineer outsourcing through Azendo, you hand over the daily platform work and keep the architecture calls with your product owner, who sets the priorities and accepts every change. When you outsource DevOps engineers this way, they take work from your backlog like anyone else on the team, and the decisions that shape the platform stay where they were. ## How an offshore DevOps team works from Thailand's time zone Chiang Mai and Bangkok sit at UTC+7, five hours ahead of Copenhagen or Berlin in summer and six in winter. A change built and tested in the Thai morning is ready for review when your day starts, and the Thai afternoon overlaps your morning for anything you want to do together. Sydney is the reverse: Thailand sits three to four hours behind, and the Thai morning lands in your afternoon. Your offshore DevOps team talks directly with your in-house developers on Slack or Teams, usually every day. ## How quality stays steady in a dedicated cloud and DevOps team Each change is reviewed in your own tools, where your in-house engineers see the work as it lands. Talent Success runs a check-in every two weeks with you, the engineer and their peers, and the service delivery manager joins, often in the same meeting. When a check-in or a score shows the slightest dip, they look closely at that engineer's work, and anything you rate below four on a Friday gets a response from us. If an engineer isn't the right fit, we find the one who is and handle the handover. Our [Academy](https://azendo.co/talent-success-academy/) trains every engineer in AI, so their work on your platform is AI enabled. ## Who stands behind your offshore DevOps team Danish founder [Mikkel Schmidt](https://azendo.co/about/mikkel-schmidt/) started the company in Thailand in 2010 as VSI GROUP, and it's been Azendo since 2022\. It is BOI-registered, with around a hundred people between the Chiang Mai headquarters and the Bangkok office, and we keep it that size on purpose: small enough for our Head of Delivery to meet every client every two weeks. Today one of our DevOps engineers works full time with BI:PROCSI. ## Questions about a dedicated cloud and DevOps team. What does a dedicated cloud and DevOps team do? A dedicated cloud and DevOps team builds and runs the delivery side of your platform full time: CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, monitoring, releases and cloud costs. With Azendo the engineers are ours, managed from Chiang Mai and Bangkok, and they work in your sprints. Do the engineers need access to our cloud account? The engineers on your team work in your cloud accounts with the roles you grant them, and you can see and revoke that access at any time. They work on managed devices, and from home only through a secure VPN. Our managers stay out of your accounts and follow delivery through the hours in your monthly capacity report. Is this cloud engineer outsourcing or a managed service? Both: cloud engineer outsourcing, run as a managed service. The engineers we assign stay on your platform full time, and we headhunt, employ, coach and manage them, with a [service delivery manager](https://azendo.co/how-it-works/) who knows your field. How much does a dedicated DevOps team cost? DevOps, cloud, site reliability and platform engineers start from USD 2,400 per month at junior level, full time. Delivery management, a Talent Success Manager, training, office space, equipment, HR and payroll come with every engineer at no extra cost. See how the monthly fee is built. Which clouds and tools do you work with? We hire for your setup: AWS, Google Cloud (GCP), Azure or another provider, with Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker and CI tools from GitHub Actions to Jenkins and ArgoCD. The engineers extend what you have before proposing anything new. Can the team take over an existing platform? Yes. The engineers start by mapping what runs where, document it and fix the riskiest gaps first, such as missing backups, manual deploys or alerts that reach the wrong person. Then they move the rest into code at a pace your releases can absorb. Who owns the pipelines and the infrastructure code? You do. Pipelines, Terraform modules, dashboards and runbooks live in your repositories and your accounts. Every change goes through review in your tools, so the platform stays documented and yours, whoever works on it next. Do the DevOps engineers work remotely? Yes. They're remote to you and work as an offshore DevOps team from our Bangkok and Chiang Mai offices, on Azendo's payroll and full time on your platform. Most can work from home two days a week, always through a secure VPN. ## Service areas that join an offshore DevOps team. Each role joins under the same agreement, works in the same sprints and reports to the same service delivery manager. You add one when your product calls for it. Cloud and DevOps team DevOps Engineer, Cloud Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineer. The core of the team. On the team [Software development Web platforms, APIs and integrations Add to the team →](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-software-development-team/)[MLOps engineering Deploying and monitoring models in production Add to the team →](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-mlops-team/)[Data engineering Pipelines, warehouses and reporting models Add to the team →](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-data-engineering-team/)[Cybersecurity Application, pipeline and cloud security Add to the team →](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-cybersecurity-team/) ## Let's scope your cloud and DevOps team. Thirty minutes with a service delivery manager. You leave with a clear picture of the team you would need, what it would deliver and how we would hire it in four weeks. * No deposit and no upfront fee * No commitment until the right people are on your team * If we can't find them inside the agreed window, you walk away at no cost Mikkel Schmidt and John Mark, the people you would talk to. No slides, no sales script. [Book a discovery call](https://azendo.co/book-a-meeting/)