Cloudflare specialists for your dedicated team.

When a product needs a Cloudflare expert.

Cloudflare is often switched on in an afternoon and never looked at again. DNS is proxied and the default rules are active, but the cache hit rate stays low because HTML isn't cached by default. A specialist pays off when origin bills, slow pages abroad or an attack make that default setup visible.

Security work brings a Cloudflare engineer in too. You want the admin panel behind single sign-on without a VPN, or an internal tool published through a tunnel with no open port. Or bots keep trying a login endpoint that needs rate limits.

Then there is edge code. Workers can handle redirects, A/B splits, authentication checks and small API responses close to the user, and R2 stores files without egress fees. Deciding what to move there takes someone who knows the limits of the runtime.

Typical sprint work for our Cloudflare experts.

• Cache rules Writing Cache Rules for HTML and API responses, with cache keys that ignore tracking parameters and a purge call in the deploy pipeline.
• Rule migration Moving old Page Rules to Cache Rules, Redirect Rules and Configuration Rules, the products Cloudflare now recommends.
• WAF tuning Running managed rulesets in log mode first and reading the events for false positives. Blocking is switched on after that, with exceptions for the paths that need them.
• Zero Trust access Putting staging sites and admin tools behind Cloudflare Access with your identity provider, and replacing open inbound ports with Cloudflare Tunnel.
• Workers and storage Building Workers with Wrangler for redirects, header logic or small APIs, with KV, D1 or R2 behind them, deployed from CI.
• Configuration as code Bringing zones, DNS records and rulesets under the Cloudflare Terraform provider, so every change has a pull request and a history.

The engineers we assign log in to your Cloudflare account with the roles you set up, and our managers stay out of it. Cloudflare comes with wider platform work, so it fits best inside an offshore DevOps team that also looks after the origin behind the edge.

Cloudflare mistakes that cost the most.

An exposed origin undoes the whole setup. If the server still answers on its public IP, an attacker skips Cloudflare and hits it directly. A careful engineer locks the origin to Cloudflare's IP ranges or moves it behind a tunnel. Old DNS records that still leak the address get checked too.

Flexible SSL is a quieter one. The padlock shows in the browser while traffic between Cloudflare and your server travels unencrypted. Full (strict) mode with a valid origin certificate is the setting to keep.

Caching personalised pages is the costly one. A cache rule that is too broad can serve one customer's account page to the next visitor. Cache keys, cookies and bypass rules need tests before they go live, and the cf-cache-status header shows what each route really does.

Questions about Cloudflare work.

• Do we need a full-time Cloudflare engineer? Rarely for Cloudflare alone. The work comes in bursts: a migration, a WAF rollout, a new Worker. It makes most sense inside a DevOps or cloud security role that also handles your cloud, pipelines and monitoring. We recruit for it that way.
• Can Cloudflare Workers replace our backend? Parts of it. Workers suit short, stateless work near the user: routing, authentication checks, header and image logic, light APIs. Long jobs, heavy CPU work and code that needs a private network are better left on your servers, with Workers in front.
• How is a dedicated Cloudflare engineer different from consulting? A consultant sets things up and leaves. Rules age as your product changes, so somebody has to read the firewall events and the cache analytics every week. The engineer we hire for you stays on your team and keeps doing that. Hiring that engineer takes us four weeks, counted from signing.