A shortlist typically within 72 hours, usually contributing inside two weeks, and 30-day replacement support if the fit is wrong (terms in your agreement).
Shortlist typically in 72 hours · 30-day replacement support · Month-to-month
Most AWS accounts start tidy. Then a proof of concept becomes production, a contractor spins up resources by hand, and a few years later there are hundreds of services, no tagging, one shared admin role and a bill nobody can fully explain.
A senior AWS engineer brings order to that: infrastructure defined in code, accounts and permissions separated properly, and architectures chosen for the workload rather than for the newest service.
Terraform, CloudFormation or CDK, with reviewed changes and no manual drift.
Least-privilege roles, short-lived credentials and guardrails.
Choosing between Lambda, containers and instances based on the workload.
VPCs, subnets, private endpoints and connectivity to on-premise systems.
Rightsizing, savings plans and cost allocation tags.
Monitoring, alerting, backups and tested recovery.
Bills that creep up. Idle instances, oversized databases, forgotten snapshots and data transfer charges are the usual culprits.
Security exposure. Broad IAM permissions, public buckets and long-lived access keys are still among the most common causes of cloud incidents.
Fragile environments. Infrastructure built by hand cannot be recreated reliably, so outages last longer and new environments take weeks.
Every engineer we put forward has at least five years of hands-on experience. Within that, here is how the levels differ.
Senior Engineer (5–8 years). Builds with Lambda, ECS or EKS, RDS, DynamoDB, S3 and API Gateway, all defined in Terraform, CloudFormation or CDK. Comfortable with IAM, VPC design and CI/CD.
Lead / Architect (8+ years). Owns multi-account structure, landing zones, networking, security baselines, disaster recovery and cost governance. Often holds Solutions Architect Professional certification.
Migrations to AWS. Rehosting or replatforming applications from on-premise or other clouds, planned wave by wave
Serverless builds. APIs and event-driven systems on Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, EventBridge and DynamoDB
Infrastructure as code. Bringing hand-built infrastructure under Terraform or CDK so environments can be recreated
Cost and security reviews. Rightsizing, savings plans, tagging, IAM clean-up and guardrails
Week one. They review your accounts, IAM, networking, infrastructure code and the top items on your bill.
Weeks two and three. First infrastructure changes delivered through code and your pipeline, plus quick security and cost wins.
Week four. A written plan covering account structure, security gaps and savings, ranked by risk and impact.
Lifting and shifting everything. Moving servers as they are often costs more in the cloud. Plan which workloads to refactor.
One account for everything. Separate accounts for production, staging and shared services limit damage and simplify billing.
Skipping tagging. Without tags, nobody can say which team or product a cost belongs to.
Rates depend on seniority, scope and engagement length. See the cost guide for market ranges, or tell us the role and we will give you a firm number.
Tell us the role and we will typically send a shortlist within 72 hours.
Tell Us the RoleTell us the role. Three to five profiles, typically within 72 hours.