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Hire cloud engineers from Latin America
Cloud is the role where a bad hire is invisible for four months and then very visible for one night. We test the night, not the certification.
Brief us on this role
Brief us Monday; we aim to send the write-ups by Friday. Search, interviews and a shortlist you decline cost nothing.
The two hours before you meet them
The candidate is given a Terraform plan that quietly destroys a stateful resource and a deploy that is already half-applied. We want to see the order they check things in, whether they reach for state before they reach for apply, and whether they can explain the blast radius out loud before touching anything.
What we fail people for
A syntax quiz proves nothing. These are the mistakes that decide a no, and they only surface once the work stops being tidy.
- Certification without incidents
- Knows the service catalog, has never been paged. The vocabulary is right and the instincts are missing.
- Clicks in the console
- Fixes production by hand and does not bring the change back into code, so the next apply undoes it.
- No cost awareness
- Provisions for a peak that never comes and has never read a bill line by line.
Stack we test
Tools change. Judgment travels. We still test in the stack your team runs, including the paths where it breaks.
They join your team, not a bench
An embedded engineer sits in your standup, your repo and your Slack from day one. We never leave the loop: the founder who vetted them still reads their code weekly or every two weeks, then sends that read in writing.
- Engineers you get to know
- You get a person with a name, a write-up and a calendar. Nobody is swapped out behind your back, and no second account manager sits between you and them.
- They work inside your process
- Your repo, your board, your standup, your review rules. We do not run a parallel delivery process or insert a project manager you did not ask for.
- We stay in the engagement
- The founder who ran the vetting reads the work weekly or every two weeks and sends you one page: what shipped, what stalled, and where we would push back on you.
- 4 to 6 hours of real overlap
- Latin American time zones mean the working day overlaps yours, so review, pairing and incident response happen live rather than on a 12-hour delay.
What cloud engineers cost
One hourly rate in USD covers their pay, our fee, the vetting, contracts and invoicing. The band comes from what they did in the pairing session, not the title on their CV.
Read every pricing term- Senior$49-$66
- 6-8 years · $USD Hourly rate
- Staff / Lead$67+
- 8+ years · $USD Hourly rate
Planning range, not a quote. Pairing performance, stack, overlap, engagement length and start date set the final rate.
Questions about hiring cloud engineers
We aim for one to three cloud engineers by the Friday after your brief, each with a written write-up from the founder who paired with them. Friday is a target, not a promise: it depends on who clears the bar.
A cloud or platform engineer through wepair.works starts at $49 an hour, all-inclusive, in USD, including contracts, IP assignment and one consolidated US invoice.
We hand the candidate a Terraform plan that quietly destroys a stateful resource and a deploy that is already half-applied. Certifications tell us nothing; the order they check things in tells us everything.
See a sample write-up
Every shortlisted candidate arrives with what we saw, where they were strong and what they got wrong. Read one before you decide whether this process is any different.
Read the sample vetting write-upTwenty minutes. You leave knowing whether we can fill the role.
Tell us the stack, the scope and the seniority. On the call you get a straight answer on whether we can fill it and what it would cost. If we take it on, a founder pairs with each candidate and you get one to three names with the write-ups attached. If nobody clears the bar, we say so instead of padding the list.
Or email . We read every single email.