DevOps, Cloud & Security
Hire AWS Engineers for Cloud Architecture
AWS engineers design and run infrastructure on Amazon Web Services, from a simple web app deployment to multi-account production environments.
The role
What AWS engineers do
An AWS engineer chooses the right services for your workload, sets up networking and permissions, automates infrastructure with Terraform or CloudFormation, and keeps costs and security under control. Migrations from other hosts or on-premise servers are common projects.
Typical deliverables
- Architecture for your application on AWS
- VPC, IAM and security configuration
- Infrastructure as code
- Migrations to AWS
- Cost reviews and savings plans
Tools you will see
- EC2, ECS and Lambda
- RDS and S3
- IAM
- CloudFormation or Terraform
- CloudWatch
- AWS Organizations
Choosing
How to choose AWS engineers
What to look for
- Least-privilege IAM policies, not administrator access everywhere.
- Infrastructure defined in code.
- Attention to cost, with tagging and budgets.
- Relevant AWS certifications backed by real projects.
Questions to ask
- 1Which AWS services would you use for our app, and why?
- 2How would you set up IAM permissions?
- 3How do you keep AWS costs under control?
- 4How would you plan our migration with minimal downtime?
Planning
Before you post the job
Access
Give access through IAM roles or users you control, never the root account.
What drives cost
Architecture complexity, migration scope, compliance requirements and number of environments.
Hiring on Open Lance
- Posting a job and reviewing proposals are free.
- Each milestone is funded into escrow before work starts and paid when you approve it.
- Hire fixed-price, hourly, as a monthly Dedicated Hire, or buy a packaged Drop-In.
- Client fees are shown before you pay and added on top of the work.
FAQ
Questions about hiring AWS engineers
Are AWS certifications important?
They show knowledge of the services. Real projects and good judgement about costs and security matter more.
Can they lower our AWS bill?
Often, through right-sizing, removing unused resources and using savings plans.
Serverless or containers?
Serverless suits event-driven and variable workloads; containers suit steady services and existing apps.
Related
Related skills
Post a job for AWS engineers
Describe the work and compare proposals. You only fund the first milestone once you have chosen someone.