--- title: "Dedicated Platform Engineers | Managed DevOps Team | Azendo" description: "Hire dedicated offshore platform engineers who work full time on your roadmap. A remote team from Thailand, managed by Azendo, for one fixed monthly fee." url: "https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-cloud-and-devops-team/platform-engineer/" --- 1. [Home](https://azendo.co/) 2. [Services](https://azendo.co/services/) 3. [Cloud and DevOps](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-cloud-and-devops-team/) 4. Platform Engineer # Dedicated platform engineers for your offshore team. Offshore platform engineers in Chiang Mai and Bangkok, working full time on your roadmap and managed by us. A platform engineer builds the internal tools your developers use, so shipping never requires knowing how the infrastructure works underneath. One agreement and one fixed monthly fee, with a service delivery manager in Thailand who runs your team day to day. [Contact us](https://azendo.co/get-in-touch/) [See pricing](https://azendo.co/pricing/) Part of our service line [Cloud and DevOps](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-cloud-and-devops-team/) This role is part of a dedicated cloud and DevOps team. It's [staff augmentation](https://azendo.co/blog/engagement-models/staff-augmentation/), fully managed: take one role on its own, or the whole discipline as one delivery team. ## One Platform Engineer, assigned to your product and fully managed. We assign a Platform Engineer to your team full time and run everything around them: a service delivery manager who answers for the work, training and coaching, the office and equipment, and HR and payroll. The price below is for a mid-level Platform Engineer; junior and senior levels are priced in your proposal, and [how the monthly fee is built](https://azendo.co/pricing/) explains the arithmetic. ### From price One mid-level Platform Engineer, full time, everything below included. All 27 things included ›› * Platform engineer From **USD 3,900** per month * ### Service We manage and develop the team * A service delivery manager who runs the team and answers for delivery * A 1:1 with our Head of Delivery every two weeks * Weekly delivery scoring and monthly capacity reports * A Talent Success Manager for every specialist * ### HR We are the employer * Recruitment and technical assessment * Employment contracts * Salary and payroll * Tax and social security * ### Facilitation We provide the workplace * A desk in our own office in Chiang Mai or Bangkok * A Workplace Experience Manager on site * Team events through the year * IT support * ### Equipment We supply the tools * Laptop and hardware * Software licences * LinkedIn Learning access * Device security and management ## What a Platform Engineer does on a managed DevOps team. Your developers are their customers. They collect what slows your teams down, build self-service tooling for it and measure whether shipping got faster. ### Platform Engineer skills and technologies * [Kubernetes](https://azendo.co/skills/kubernetes/) * [Backstage](https://azendo.co/skills/backstage/) * [Crossplane](https://azendo.co/skills/crossplane/) * [ArgoCD](https://azendo.co/skills/argocd/) * [Terraform modules](https://azendo.co/skills/terraform-modules/) * [internal developer platforms](https://azendo.co/skills/internal-developer-platforms/) * [service catalogues](https://azendo.co/skills/service-catalogues/) * [GitOps](https://azendo.co/skills/gitops/) * Building golden paths and self-service tooling so teams provision without raising tickets. * Standardising build, deploy and environment patterns across services. * Developer experience work, measured in how long it takes a new engineer to ship something. * Maintaining the service catalogue so teams can find what already exists before rebuilding it. * Measuring developer experience, usually as time from first commit to first deploy. ## Platform Engineer seniority levels. Senior. Platform work pays back when the engineer building it has run the systems underneath. Seniority is one of the inputs into how the monthly fee is built. ## When your team needs a Platform Engineer. Worth adding once several teams are repeating the same infrastructure work, alongside a DevOps or cloud engineer. Platform engineers join as part of a [managed DevOps team](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-cloud-and-devops-team/). ## What we look for in a dedicated Platform Engineer. We look for platform engineers who treat your developers as their customers. They should have run Kubernetes and CI in production, and measure success in how quickly a new engineer ships. ## Your remote Platform Engineer's first three months. 1. Weeks 1 to 2Interviewing your developers about where they lose time and mapping the current tooling. 2. Weeks 3 to 6Building the first self-service path for the most repeated infrastructure task. 3. Months 2 to 3Standardising build and deploy patterns and measuring time from first commit to first deploy. From USD 3,900 Per month for a mid-level platform engineer, fully managed 160 h Typical monthly capacity for this role Fixed The same fee every month 4 to 6 weeks From signing to our specialist starting Monthly Add or reduce hours at each cycle ## Other roles in cloud and DevOps. [DevOps Engineer Cloud and DevOps role](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-cloud-and-devops-team/devops-engineer/)[Cloud Engineer Cloud and DevOps role](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-cloud-and-devops-team/cloud-engineer/)[Site Reliability Engineer Cloud and DevOps role](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-cloud-and-devops-team/site-reliability-engineer/) The same team, on your product, month after month. Chiang Mai and Bangkok, Thailand · UTC+7 ## Questions about adding a Platform Engineer to your team. How many teams justify a platform engineer? Usually three or more doing the same infrastructure work. Below that, a DevOps engineer is the better fit. Is this the same as DevOps? They overlap. DevOps builds the pipeline, and platform engineering builds the tools your developers use to reach it. ## Add remote platform engineers to your team. Tell us your roadmap and your stack, and we'll come back with the right profile, the capacity and a start date. You can also [talk to a service delivery manager](https://azendo.co/get-in-touch/) first. [Contact us](https://azendo.co/get-in-touch/) [How it works](https://azendo.co/how-it-works/) ## Add platform engineers to your remote team.