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Hire AWS developers who build cloud you can explain
Services, infrastructure as code, access control and the cost of every resource. A dedicated AWS developer from Latin America who works your hours and builds on AWS with infrastructure your team can review and reproduce.
TRUSTED BY TEAMS WHOSE CLOUDTASK HIRES HAVE STAYED 5 TO 8 YEARS
How it works
How do I hire an AWS developer?
You do one thing: interview. We handle everything else.
Post the role
5 minutes. The role, the motion, the tools, the comp band. That is all we need to start.
Review your matches
3 to 5 matches in 48 hours.
Interview and hire
We coordinate interviews. On Managed Staffing, we also handle payroll and compliance across LATAM.
WHY TEAMS TRUST CLOUDTASK
What you get with every hire
Dedicated to your codebase
One AWS developer who learns your code, your conventions and your roadmap. Not a freelancer who closes a ticket and moves on.
Same hours as your team
Latin America and the Caribbean overlap the US working day, so code review, standups and production issues get handled live.
Searched against your stack
AWS services, infrastructure tools, languages and the accounts you run come from your brief, and each profile is checked against them before you see it.
Replacement guarantee
24 months on Managed Staffing, 6 months on Direct Hire. If the fit is wrong, the guarantee covers the replacement search.
WHY CLOUDTASK
Staffing with numbers behind it
10,000+
hires placed
since 2016
85%
still in seat
past 90 days
24 months
replacement guarantee
on Managed Staffing
12
countries
across Latin America and the Caribbean
TECH STACK
The AWS stack we screen for
Compute and application
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Lambda and API Gateway
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ECS, Fargate and EKS
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EC2 and Auto Scaling
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SQS, SNS and EventBridge
Data and storage
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S3
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RDS and Aurora
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DynamoDB
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ElastiCache
Infrastructure as code
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Terraform
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AWS CloudFormation
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AWS CDK
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CI/CD with GitHub Actions or CodePipeline
Security and operations
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IAM roles and policies
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VPC networking
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CloudWatch logs, metrics and alarms
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Cost Explorer and budgets
PRICING MODEL
Managed Staffing.
Managed Staffing is open to every role we place. We find the person, handle payments and compliance, and stay involved after the hire with check-ins, visibility, and escalation when something is off. You get the person. We keep the machine running. For roles that create demand, outbound SDRs, BDRs, demand generation and full-cycle AEs, Managed Staffing runs on a six-month minimum term.
Pay
One all-in monthly rate
Per person. That is the number, and there is nothing added to it.
In the monthly rate
- Sourcing from the CloudTask staffing and recruiting company
- Screening and vetting
- Matching coordination
- Worker payments
- Compliance and employment administration
- Onboarding support at day 0, 7, 30 and 60
- Ongoing check-ins with the hire and with you
- Time and activity tracking, on by default
- Performance escalation
- 24-month replacement guarantee. Replacements not capped.
- Health benefits available on request
- Equipment benefits available on request
Stays with you
- The work itself
- Priorities and direction
- Who you hire
$299 to start your search. One time, not a subscription. It applies to your buyout or toward your first placement.
Start your searchPRICING MODEL
Direct Hire.
Direct Hire is open to every role we place. We find the person, vet them, and hand them over. You employ them, you manage them, you own the relationship from day one. Roles that create demand usually land here, because live call feedback and daily coaching work best coming straight from your sales leader, and there is no minimum term.
Pay
20% to 30%
Of first-year base salary. One time, quoted per role, paid when they accept.
In the fee
- Sourcing from the CloudTask staffing and recruiting company
- Screening and vetting
- Shortlist of matched candidates
- Interview coordination
- Offer support
- 6-month replacement guarantee. One replacement, same job description.
Yours when they accept
- Employment and payroll
- Compliance and employment administration
- Ongoing management
- Time and activity tracking
- Health benefits and equipment benefits
$299 to start your search. One time, not a subscription. It applies to your buyout or toward your first placement.
Start your searchHow CloudTask compares
Run the numbers. We did.
The same role, three ways to fill it.
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| US Direct Hire | Staffing Agency | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to First Interview | 48 hours | 3 to 6 weeks | 2 to 4 weeks |
| Payroll & Compliance | Included on Managed Staffing | You manage | Included in rate |
| Vetting Process | Human + AI verified | You screen | Recruiter screened |
| Candidate spam | Screened out before you see a profile | Common | Low |
| Tool Verification | Verified per candidate | Self-reported | Rarely verified |
| Free Replacements | 24 months on Managed Staffing, 6 months on Direct Hire | None | Variable |
Testimonials
Trusted by teams that hire with us
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LATAM has been a gold mine for talent. Our CloudTask hires understand our company culture and mission, and they connect with our customers in a way that drives high NPS and CX scores.
David Barrett CEO, Expensify -
At first we were an SF-based team only. Then I met Amir Reiter back in 2018. After visiting Medellín, I knew LATAM would be key to our growth and success.
Tim Zheng CEO, Apollo.io -
After meeting my CX and CS team in Medellín, we immediately loved the culture and the work ethic. As a European-HQ company, we found LATAM to be perfect to service our American clients.
Carl Carell CRO and Co-founder, GetAccept
SKILLS
Top skills to look for in an AWS developer
Clicking through the console is the entry ticket. These are the skills that decide whether your AWS setup stays secure, reproducible and affordable.
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Infrastructure as code
Defines resources in Terraform, CloudFormation or CDK, reviewed like application code, so any environment can be rebuilt.
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Least-privilege IAM
Writes narrow roles and policies, avoids long-lived keys and never solves an access error by granting everything.
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Networking basics done right
Understands VPCs, subnets, security groups and routing well enough to keep private things private.
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The right service for the job
Chooses between Lambda, containers and instances based on the workload, and can explain the trade-off in cost and operations.
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Cost awareness
Tags resources, watches the bill and removes what nobody uses, instead of discovering it at the end of the month.
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Observability
Sets up logs, metrics and alarms that say what broke and where, so an incident takes minutes to diagnose.
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Resilient design
Uses queues, retries and multiple availability zones so one failure does not take the whole product down.
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AI output, reviewed
Uses assistants to draft templates and scripts, and reviews every policy and resource before it is applied.
HIRING GUIDE
How to hire AWS developers
AWS covers hundreds of services, so experience with one part of it says little about the rest. This guide covers what an AWS developer does, how to scope the role, what to test, the red flags and when a dedicated AWS developer is the wrong hire.
What does an AWS developer do?
Builds applications and the infrastructure they run on in AWS: serverless functions, containers, databases, queues and storage, defined as code and deployed through pipelines.
Day to day that means writing application and infrastructure code, reviewing changes, managing access, watching cost and fixing what breaks in production.
AWS developer, cloud engineer or DevOps engineer?
Hire an AWS developer when the work is building on AWS: application code that uses managed services, plus the infrastructure around it. Hire a cloud engineer when the work is the platform itself: accounts, networking and shared infrastructure. Hire a DevOps engineer when the bottleneck is delivery: pipelines, environments and releases.
The roles overlap a lot. Write down which part of the work matters most before you brief anyone.
Which services does your role need?
Nobody knows all of AWS. List the services you run, such as Lambda, ECS, RDS, DynamoDB or S3, plus the infrastructure tool and the language, and hire for those.
A serverless background and a containers background are different, and both are different from running large fleets of instances.
Security and cost: where most AWS accounts go wrong
Access grows by accident: broad policies added to fix an error, keys that never expire, buckets opened for a test. Costs grow the same way, with resources nobody remembers creating.
A strong candidate can explain how they scope IAM policies, how they find unused resources and how they would tag and budget an account so spend is visible.
What to test in an AWS developer interview
Give a small task close to your real work: an API that stores data and sends a message to a queue, defined as infrastructure code. Read the IAM permissions, the error handling and how easy it is to tear down and recreate.
Then ask about an outage or a surprise bill they handled. You want to hear how they found the cause and what they changed so it would not happen again.
Red flags in AWS developer candidates
Console only. A candidate who builds everything by clicking in the console, with no infrastructure as code, leaves you with environments nobody can reproduce.
Admin access as the fix. Granting full access to get past a permission error is a habit that turns into a security incident.
Keys in the code. Access keys in repositories, config files or environment variables that never rotate are a serious risk.
No view on cost. If tagging, budgets and unused resources never come up, the bill will grow faster than the product.
No alarms. A candidate who cannot say how they would know a service is failing will find out from your customers.
When should you not hire a dedicated AWS developer?
When your product runs comfortably on a managed platform or a simple hosting service and nobody on your team needs to touch infrastructure. A full-time AWS developer will not have enough to do.
It is also the wrong hire when you run mainly on another cloud. Hire for the provider you use, and say so in the brief.
How much does it cost to hire an AWS developer?
It depends on seniority, the scope of the work and the country the person works from, and any single number describes one scenario and calls it a price.
What is worth understanding is the shape. On Managed Staffing it is one all-in monthly rate per person, with payments, compliance and replacement cover inside it. On Direct Hire it is a one-time fee of 20% to 30% of first-year base salary and the person goes on your payroll. We quote your number before you interview anyone.
Why hire an AWS developer in Latin America?
Overlap. Development runs on code review, standups and incidents, and Latin America and the Caribbean share most of the US working day, so those happen in real time instead of overnight.
The second reason is communication. Your developer writes pull request descriptions, technical notes and status updates in English, and we screen English live on a call.
How does CloudTask hire for this role?
You send the AWS services and infrastructure tools you use, the language your applications are written in, the kind of work and the hours you need covered. We source against that brief and come back with 3 to 5 matched profiles within 48 hours, each one screened on a live call and checked against the stack you named.
You interview and choose. On Managed Staffing we handle payments, compliance and onboarding and stay involved with check-ins. On Direct Hire the person joins your payroll from day one. Both carry a replacement guarantee: 24 months on Managed Staffing, 6 months on Direct Hire.
FAQ
The fine print, in plain terms.
Is an AWS developer the same as a cloud engineer?
Which infrastructure as code tools can they use?
Can an AWS developer help reduce our AWS bill?
How fast can an AWS developer start?
What is the $299 for?
Why is there no number on the monthly rate?
Who is the legal employer?
How does tracking work, and can I turn it off?
What happens if the person does not work out?
Is there a platform or subscription fee?
Ready to hire?
3 to 5 matches in 48 hours. Start with a quick role brief to get your shortlist.