Ryz Labs/Hire/Cloud & DevOpsHire senior cloud engineers for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud
Senior cloud engineers who design landing zones, migrate workloads and keep multi-cloud estates secure and affordable, embedded in your team on US hours.
By the Ryz Labs team · Updated October 2026
Hiring cloud engineers through Ryz gets you senior people who design, migrate and operate cloud environments on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud. They pass a vetting process that only the top 1% clear, they work as part of your team with access to your accounts and repos, and they keep hours within ±1h of US time zones.
What our cloud engineers work on
Cloud engineering covers the foundation that everything else runs on: accounts and subscriptions, identity, networks, shared services and the guardrails around them. Our cloud engineers usually take on work where a mistake is expensive and hard to reverse, so they plan carefully and automate everything they can.
- Landing zones: AWS Control Tower, Azure Landing Zones or Google Cloud organization structure, with policies, logging and identity set up before workloads arrive.
- Migrations: rehosting and replatforming from data centers or between clouds, with cutover plans and rollback.
- Hybrid connectivity: site-to-site VPN, Direct Connect, ExpressRoute or Cloud Interconnect, plus DNS across environments.
- Managed Kubernetes: EKS, AKS or GKE clusters with shared ingress, secrets and policy enforcement.
- FinOps: cost visibility, tagging standards, commitment planning and removing idle resources.
- Resilience: multi-region designs, backup policies and disaster recovery tests with measured RTO and RPO.
Skills we vet for
- Cloud depth: expert in at least one major cloud and working knowledge of another, including the differences in identity and networking models.
- Identity and access: IAM, Microsoft Entra ID and Google Cloud IAM, federation with SSO, and workload identity for services.
- Network architecture: hub-and-spoke designs, Transit Gateway or Virtual WAN, private endpoints, firewalls and IP planning.
- Infrastructure as code: Terraform or OpenTofu at scale, Bicep or CloudFormation where needed, with module versioning and CI checks.
- Policy as code: Azure Policy, AWS SCPs, GCP organization policies, OPA or Sentinel for guardrails.
- Containers and compute: Kubernetes, serverless and VM fleets, and choosing between them per workload.
- Cost management: reading billing data, reserved capacity and savings plans, and right-sizing.
- Operations: monitoring, logging pipelines, patching strategy and change management.
How we vet cloud engineers
Recruiters source cloud engineers across Latin America. Our in-house ARC system ranks the pipeline so the strongest profiles move first. Candidates complete structured NTRVSTA AI interviews focused on architecture choices and failure handling across clouds. Recruiters review every candidate before and after the interview and build a curated shortlist. AI scores are advisory, and people make the final decisions.
Sample interview topics
- Design a landing zone for a company with 40 product teams, separate prod and non-prod, and central logging. Where do you put guardrails, and what do you leave to teams?
- You are migrating a stateful application with a 2TB database from a data center with a four-hour maintenance window. Walk through the plan and the rollback.
- Two VPCs or VNets with overlapping IP ranges need to talk. What are your options, and which would you pick?
- The monthly bill grew 40% with no new launches. How do you find the cause, and what controls do you put in place afterward?
- Compare how AWS, Azure and Google Cloud handle workload identity for a service running in Kubernetes. What can go wrong in each?
Ways to hire cloud engineers
| Option | Best for | Trade-offs |
|---|
| Freelance marketplace | A narrow, well-defined task like a cost review or a single network change. | Foundation work needs continuity. Short engagements can leave undocumented changes behind. |
| Staffing or recruiting agency | Filling a cloud role when your team can judge architecture skill. | Screening may rely on certifications rather than design ability. |
| In-house recruiting | A permanent cloud center of excellence. | Long hiring cycles and tough competition for senior architects. |
| Ryz Labs staff augmentation | Adding senior cloud engineers to your platform or infrastructure team. | Custom quote, scoped per team. Built for ongoing ownership, not one-off audits. |
| Ryz Labs AI pod team | Standing up AI workloads inside your cloud, with cloud engineers in a dedicated pod beside ML and backend engineers. | A larger scoped engagement. Overkill if your need is purely infrastructure. |
If you want a board-level cloud transformation program or a strategy engagement led by management consultants, a large consultancy is a better fit. Ryz places engineers who do the hands-on work inside your team.
Why hire cloud engineers from Latin America
Cloud foundation changes are usually made in planned windows and reviewed by several people: security, networking, application owners. When your cloud engineer works within an hour of your team, those reviews happen live and changes ship during the same business day instead of waiting overnight.
Many senior cloud engineers in Latin America cut their teeth migrating regional enterprises, from retailers to telecoms to financial institutions, off data centers and onto public cloud. That gives them practical migration experience, not just greenfield setup. The engineers we place communicate clearly in English and document their decisions so your team can maintain them.
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FAQ
Do you have cloud engineers for Azure and Google Cloud, or only AWS?
All three. We match engineers to the cloud you run, and for multi-cloud estates we look for people with real experience in each platform you use.
What is the difference between a cloud engineer and a DevOps engineer?
There is overlap. Cloud engineers focus on the foundation: accounts, identity, networking and guardrails. DevOps engineers focus on how code gets built, tested and deployed. Many teams need both, and we can scope which comes first.
How do you price a cloud engineering engagement?
We give a custom quote, scoped per team. You get a plan, a price and the names of the people who would do the work before signing.
How are engineers contracted, and do they work our hours?
You sign one contract with Ryz. Our engineers work with us as independent contractors, and we handle paying them. They work within ±1h of US time zones, including New York hours.
Can they help with a cloud migration?
Yes. Migration is one of the most common reasons teams bring in our cloud engineers. They plan waves, set up the target environment, run cutovers and stay to stabilize afterward.
Questions we didn't answer? Email info@ryzlabs.com.