Hire AWS Developers
An AWS account is easy to start and hard to keep tidy. Resources get created by hand in the console, permissions widen because something had to work by Friday, and the bill grows by lines nobody can explain. Most of the AWS work worth paying for is putting that back under control without taking the application down.
The AWS engineer we provide works inside your account through a role you grant, keeps infrastructure code in your repository, and reports to you. We employ the engineer and arrange equipment and cover.
AWS work we are asked to take over
Cloud requests vary, but six themes account for the bulk of them. Tell us if yours is different.
Infrastructure as code
Describing the account in Terraform or the AWS CDK, importing resources that were made by hand, storing state safely, and making every later change through a reviewed pull request with a plan attached.
Containers and serverless
Running services on ECS with Fargate, on EKS where Kubernetes is already the standard, or as Lambda functions behind API Gateway. We size tasks from measured load and set scaling rules that have been tested.
Deployment pipelines
Builds and releases from GitHub Actions or CodePipeline, authenticated by OIDC roles instead of stored access keys. Deployments roll out gradually and roll back automatically when health checks fail.
Bill reduction
Tagging resources so costs can be attributed, then working down the list in Cost Explorer: NAT gateway traffic, idle load balancers, unattached volumes, old snapshots, oversized instances, S3 data with no lifecycle rule. Savings Plans come last, once usage is steady.
IAM and account security
Removing root and long-lived user keys, moving people to IAM Identity Center, narrowing policies to what is used, closing public buckets and security groups, and switching on CloudTrail and GuardDuty across every region.
Migrations into AWS
Moving an application and its database from a VPS or another provider. Data is replicated ahead of time, the cutover is rehearsed on a copy, and the old system stays available until the new one has proved itself.
Services and tools an AWS engineer uses
AWS has hundreds of services. In practice a few dozen carry nearly every workload, and these are the ones to know thoroughly.
- Compute
- EC2ECSFargateEKSLambda
- Data
- RDSAuroraDynamoDBElastiCacheS3
- Networking
- VPCRoute 53CloudFrontAPI GatewayApplication Load Balancer
- Messaging
- SQSSNSEventBridgeStep Functions
- Security
- IAMIAM Identity CenterKMSSecrets ManagerGuardDutyAWS WAF
- Code & observability
- TerraformAWS CDKCloudFormationCloudWatchCloudTrailGitHub Actions
AWS experience levels and when each is enough
In cloud work a mistake can delete data or expose it. The level you need depends on how much production access the person will hold.
Junior
Writes Terraform modules to a pattern, adds alarms and dashboards, updates pipeline steps, and works mainly in non-production accounts. Changes are reviewed before they are applied.
Choose when: you have a cloud lead who approves plans and holds production access.
Mid-level
Runs the day-to-day platform: deployments, scaling, certificate and secret rotation, patching, cost reports. Investigates incidents and writes up what happened.
Choose when: the architecture is sound and you need it operated and improved steadily.
Senior
Designs the account structure, network and permission model, plans migrations and recovery, and can defend each choice in terms of cost, risk and effort.
Choose when: you are moving to AWS, restructuring an untidy account, or carrying regulated data.
How work on your AWS account gets under way
Describe the estate
Which services you run, roughly what the monthly bill is, whether any infrastructure code exists, and what is hurting. A read-only role lets us look before we answer.
Speak to the named engineer
We introduce one person and you interview them. Should you want a different profile, we suggest another engineer.
A first task with limits
Typical openers are a cost review, one service brought under Terraform, or a pipeline for a single application. Access is scoped to that task.
Steady operation
Changes are raised as pull requests in your repository and tracked in your tools. A summary arrives weekly, covering changes made, cost movement and open risks, and the invoice is monthly.
AWS engineer rates
Our rates are published. Pick the role and move the sliders for an indicative budget.
Rate card
| Role | Hourly | Monthly* |
|---|---|---|
| Frontend / WordPress | $30 | $4,800 |
| Backend / API | $32 | $5,120 |
| Full-stack | $35 | $5,600 |
| Mobile (React Native / Flutter) | $35 | $5,600 |
| DevOps / Cloud | $40 | $6,400 |
| AI / Automation engineer | $45 | $7,200 |
| QA / Test engineer | $25 | $4,000 |
| UI / UX design | $28 | $4,480 |
*160 hrs/month full-time. Rates are indicative for planning, in USD (other currencies are converted at an indicative rate), and depend on seniority, contract length and timezone overlap. Longer engagements and multi-role teams are discounted — ask.
Is this a sensible way to staff your AWS work?
We are a good choice when
- Your developers deploy to AWS but nobody owns the platform itself.
- The bill keeps rising and you cannot say why.
- You want infrastructure changes reviewed and recorded, not clicked in the console.
- You are an agency hosting client systems on AWS and need an engineer behind them.
Look elsewhere when
- You want a single question answered; AWS Support or the documentation will be faster.
- You need someone physically present in a data centre or office.
- You need an on-call rota covering every hour; one engineer cannot provide that.
- Your compliance rules bar access from outside your own country.
What cloud teams ask us about AWS
What access does the engineer need?
A role in your account, assumed through IAM Identity Center with multi-factor sign-in, limited to the services in scope. No shared passwords and no root access. You can revoke the role at any moment, and CloudTrail records what was done with it.
Terraform, CDK or CloudFormation?
We continue with whatever your repository already uses. For a fresh start, Terraform is the usual choice when more than one provider is involved, and CDK suits teams who would prefer to write TypeScript or Python.
Can you lower our bill?
Often, but we will not quote a figure before seeing the account. The first step is a review that lists each saving with its estimated monthly value and its risk, so you decide which to apply.
Lambda or containers?
Lambda fits short, event-driven work with uneven traffic. Containers fit long-running services, steady load and anything needing more than fifteen minutes per run. Many systems sensibly use both.
Who owns the infrastructure code and the resources?
You do. The code is committed to your repository and every resource is created in your AWS account and billed to you directly. Ownership terms are recorded in the agreement.
How is the arrangement ended?
It is month to month. Tell us before a new month begins; the engineer hands over documentation and you remove the access role.
Describe your AWS setup
List the main services in use, mention whether infrastructure code exists, and say what you want improved. We reply within one business day.