--- title: "Dedicated Platform Engineers Who Build Internal Dev Tools" description: "Platform engineers build the internal tools your in-house developers ship with, so nobody has to think about infrastructure. Hire them offshore and managed." url: "https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-cloud-and-devops-team/platform-engineer/" --- 1. [Home](https://azendo.co/) 2. [Services](https://azendo.co/services/) 3. [Cloud and DevOps](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-cloud-and-devops-team/) 4. Platform Engineer # Dedicated platform engineers for your offshore team. Offshore platform engineers in Chiang Mai and Bangkok, working full time on your product and managed by us. A platform engineer builds the internal tools your own developers use, so shipping never requires knowing how the infrastructure works underneath. The engineers work in your cloud accounts. Everything around them, from employment to training, is ours, for one fixed monthly fee. [Contact us](https://azendo.co/get-in-touch/) [See pricing](https://azendo.co/pricing/) Part of our service line [Cloud and DevOps](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-cloud-and-devops-team/) This role is part of a dedicated cloud and DevOps team. It's [staff augmentation](https://azendo.co/blog/engagement-models/staff-augmentation/), fully managed: take one role on its own, or the whole area as one delivery team. ## One Platform Engineer, assigned to your product and fully managed. We assign a Platform Engineer to your team full time and run everything around them: a service delivery manager who oversees delivery, training and coaching, the office and equipment, and HR and payroll. The price below is for a junior Platform Engineer; other levels are priced in your proposal, and [how the monthly fee is built](https://azendo.co/pricing/) explains the arithmetic. From price One junior Platform Engineer, full time, everything below included. All 27 things included ›› * Platform 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 ## What a Platform Engineer does on a dedicated cloud and DevOps team. Your own developers are their customers. They collect what slows your teams down, build self-service tooling for it and measure whether shipping got faster. ### Platform Engineer skills and technologies * [Kubernetes](https://azendo.co/skills/kubernetes/) * [Backstage](https://azendo.co/skills/backstage/) * [Crossplane](https://azendo.co/skills/crossplane/) * [ArgoCD](https://azendo.co/skills/argocd/) * [Terraform modules](https://azendo.co/skills/terraform-modules/) * [internal developer platforms](https://azendo.co/skills/internal-developer-platforms/) * [service catalogues](https://azendo.co/skills/service-catalogues/) * [GitOps](https://azendo.co/skills/gitops/) * Building golden paths and self-service tooling so teams provision without raising tickets. * Standardising build, deploy and environment patterns across services. * Developer experience work, measured in how long it takes a new engineer to ship something. * Maintaining the service catalogue so teams can find what already exists before rebuilding it. * Measuring developer experience, usually as time from first commit to first deploy. ## Platform Engineer seniority levels. Junior to lead. Platform work pays back fastest when the engineer building it has run the systems underneath, which usually means a senior. The level changes the price: see how the monthly fee is built. ## When your team needs a Platform Engineer. The right time is when several teams repeat the same infrastructure work. The platform engineer then joins the DevOps or cloud engineers in your [dedicated cloud and DevOps team](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-cloud-and-devops-team/). It pays off for companies that [hire dedicated developers](https://azendo.co/hire-a-dedicated-development-team-in-thailand/) across several teams and want them shipping the same way. ## What we look for in a dedicated Platform Engineer. We look for platform engineers who treat your own developers as their customers. They should have run Kubernetes and CI in production, and measure success in how quickly a new engineer ships. ## A remote Platform Engineer's first three months on your team. 1. Weeks 1 to 2Interviewing your own developers about where they lose time and mapping the current tooling. 2. Weeks 3 to 6Building the first self-service path for the most repeated infrastructure task. 3. Months 2 to 3Standardising build and deploy patterns and measuring time from first commit to first deploy. From USD 2,400 Per month for a junior platform engineer, fully managed 160 h Typical monthly capacity for this role Fixed The same fee every month 4 weeks Time to hire, from signing Weekly Delivery scores from you every Friday ## Other roles in cloud and DevOps. [DevOps Engineer Cloud and DevOps role](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-cloud-and-devops-team/devops-engineer/)[Cloud Engineer Cloud and DevOps role](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-cloud-and-devops-team/cloud-engineer/)[Site Reliability Engineer Cloud and DevOps role](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-cloud-and-devops-team/site-reliability-engineer/) Platform engineers at Azendo build for one group of users: your own developers. Chiang Mai and Bangkok, Thailand · UTC+7 ## Questions about adding a Platform Engineer to your team. How many teams justify a platform engineer? Usually three or more teams doing the same infrastructure work, each solving deployment, environments and monitoring in its own way. Below that, a DevOps engineer is the better fit. Above it, a platform engineer turns repeated effort into shared tools, which pays back quickly in faster, more consistent delivery. Is this the same as DevOps? They overlap. DevOps builds and runs the delivery pipeline. Platform engineering builds the internal tools your own developers use to reach it: templates, self-service environments and standard paths. The goal is that shipping a service never requires knowing how the infrastructure works underneath. ## Add remote platform engineers to your team. Tell us how many teams ship today, what they repeat and where new engineers lose their first weeks. We'll come back with the platform engineer we'd hire for it and the monthly fee. [Contact us](https://azendo.co/get-in-touch/) [How it works](https://azendo.co/how-it-works/) ## Tell us what your platform engineer would work on.