--- title: "IT Staff Augmentation Services, Fully Managed | Azendo" description: "Fully managed IT staff augmentation services: full-time developers, QA, DevOps, data and AI engineers, hired in four weeks. Get a proposal." url: "https://azendo.co/services/it-staff-augmentation-services/" --- 1. [Home](https://azendo.co/) 2. [Services](https://azendo.co/services/) 3. IT staff augmentation services # Fully managed IT staff augmentation services. Azendo's IT staff augmentation services add full-time developers, QA, DevOps, data and AI engineers to your team, hired in four weeks from signing. They work from our offices in Chiang Mai and Bangkok, Thailand, and we handle everything around them, from delivery management to HR and payroll. * [](https://biprocsi.co.uk/) * [](https://www.insight2profit.com/) * [NordicWorkflow](https://en.nordicworkflow.com/) * [](https://viabill.com/dk/) Trusted by teams worldwide * [](https://aigenticgroup.com/) * [](https://www.invertus.pro/) * [](https://e-fire.dk/) * [](https://alphaagency.ai/) ## Adding IT staff augmentation to your team, step by step. 1. 1 Name the gap Tell us which skills your team is missing and how many hours you need. A proposal with one monthly fee follows. 2. 2 Meet your shortlist We headhunt and assess as thoroughly as a specialist recruitment agency. You meet the shortlist first. 3. 3 They join your sprints Hired in four weeks from signing, they work in your standups, repositories and planning, full time. 4. 4 We carry the rest A service delivery manager follows up on delivery, and you score our work in a short survey every Friday. ## Try IT staff augmentation at zero risk. * No deposit * No upfront fee * No commitment ## When IT staff augmentation services go fully managed. A plain placement hands you a person and leaves the rest to you. We do [staff augmentation](https://azendo.co/blog/engagement-models/staff-augmentation/) as a full service: a [service delivery manager](https://azendo.co/how-it-works/) runs the team, and we take care of everything around the people, from the office and the coaching to HR. You get the capacity without having to run a team. > “We are 100% committed in a partnership. We go above and beyond, which is why we can say that it is truly a managed service we offer.” > > [**Mikkel Schmidt**](https://azendo.co/about/mikkel-schmidt/), CEO and founder * 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 Price examples * [**Full stack developer**from USD 2,200](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-software-development-team/full-stack-developer/) * [**QA engineer**from USD 2,100](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-qa-and-testing-team/qa-engineer/) * [**DevOps engineer**from USD 2,400](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-cloud-and-devops-team/devops-engineer/) * [**Data engineer**from USD 2,500](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-data-engineering-team/data-engineer/) * [**AI engineer**from USD 3,100](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-ai-engineering-team/ai-engineer/) * [**iOS developer**from USD 2,400](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-mobile-development-team/ios-developer/) * [**UX designer**from USD 2,200](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-ui-ux-design-team/ux-designer/) * [**Backend developer**from USD 2,200](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-software-development-team/backend-developer/) * [**Data scientist**from USD 3,000](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-data-science-team/data-scientist/) * [**Security engineer**from USD 3,100](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-cybersecurity-team/security-engineer/) * [**Android developer**from USD 2,400](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-mobile-development-team/android-developer/) * [**MLOps engineer**from USD 3,000](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-mlops-team/mlops-engineer/) * [**Frontend developer**from USD 2,200](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-software-development-team/frontend-developer/) * [**Data analyst**from USD 2,100](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-data-science-team/data-analyst/) * [**Cloud engineer**from USD 2,400](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-cloud-and-devops-team/cloud-engineer/) * [**AI automation engineer**from USD 2,400](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-ai-automation-team/ai-automation-engineer/) * [**Software architect**from USD 4,500 mid-level](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-software-development-team/software-architect/) ## IT staff augmentation that adds people, not management work. By our own estimate, managing a placed developer yourself takes four to eight hours a week per specialist. With us, that time goes back to product work. Azendo has run software teams from Thailand since 2010, and specialists stay with Azendo 3.3 years on average. You keep the roadmap, the priorities and the code. Hiring in-house An agency placement Managed by Azendo Finding the people Your own recruiters The agency Our headhunters, at no extra charge Leading them day to day Your team leads Your team leads A service delivery manager Your management time Your team leads' time Four to eight hours a week each Priorities, reviews and daily contact Coaching and reviews You run them Not part of the placement Monthly coaching, a 360 every quarter How you pay Salary, benefits and overheads A rate per person One fixed monthly fee * Managed by Azendo. Our headhunters find the people, a service delivery manager leads them and Talent Success coaches them every month. You set the priorities and review the work, for one fixed monthly fee. * An agency placement. The agency finds the people and bills a rate. Leading, coaching and reviewing them stays with your own team leads. * Hiring in-house. You recruit, employ and lead every hire yourself, and pay salary, benefits and overheads. > Azendo delivered great service. The team developed SaaS platforms that support all-in-one digital fire safety solutions, delivering the web app alongside native iOS and Android apps. The system centralizes fire plans, drawings, legal requirements, ownership mapping, and much more. Workflows were designed around how construction teams, facility managers, and technicians actually operate on-site, streamlining what was previously scattered across paper and disconnected systems. **Morten Kjærgaard Myrup**Managing director, E-fire > We were initially skeptical about the outsourcing industry, but our experience with Azendo, along with their level of competence and professionalism, has completely changed our perspective. We have successfully collaborated with Azendo on several projects over the past 2 years. **Adrian Ravn Nielsen**Managing director, NordicWorkflow NordicWorkflow ## Try IT staff augmentation at zero risk. * No deposit * No upfront fee * No commitment ## Choosing an IT staff augmentation company. Picking an IT staff augmentation company decides more than who sends the CVs. It decides who carries the work that starts once a person joins: the first weeks, the performance conversations, the replacement if it doesn't work out, and the daily rhythm with your own engineers. ### When IT staff augmentation makes sense. It suits a product with more work planned than the current team can ship. Typical triggers are a roadmap that keeps growing, a skill the team lacks, such as DevOps, data or AI, and a local hiring market that takes too long to fill a seat. It suits a one-off project with a fixed end date less well, and there a project vendor is the simpler choice. A useful test is to list the work you would start tomorrow if you had two more engineers. If that list is long and stable, added capacity pays off. If it changes every week, fix the backlog first. ### Before you talk to IT staff augmentation companies. Four things to have clear on your side first: * **The roles and the level.** Which skills the work needs now, and which can wait. * **Who sets priorities.** One person on your side who owns the backlog for the new people. * **Access and tools.** The repositories, tickets and chat channels a new specialist needs on day one. * **How you will judge it.** What a good first quarter looks like, in shipped work. Put these five questions to every IT staff augmentation company you speak to: * Who is the legal employer, and who pays salary, tax and benefits? * Who notices first when someone struggles, and what happens next? * What exactly does the monthly price include, and what is billed on top? * How are replacements and handovers handled if someone leaves? * Who holds access to your systems, and how is it removed? Our pricing page shows [how the monthly fee is built](https://azendo.co/pricing/), so you can hold every quote up against it. ### What a staff augmentation agency leaves on your desk. Project outsourcing hands a scope and a deadline to a vendor, who builds it and hands it back. A placement agency puts people in your team and leaves the managing with you. A managed team sits between the two: the people work on your roadmap in your tools, and the provider carries the employment, the coaching and the delivery follow-up. Our guide to [software development outsourcing](https://azendo.co/blog/engagement-models/software-development-outsourcing/) covers the project route, and [staff augmentation vs managed services](https://azendo.co/blog/engagement-models/staff-augmentation-vs-managed-services/) compares the other two. If you are weighing other engagement models, see [offshore IT staffing](https://azendo.co/services/offshore-it-staffing/) and [IT outstaffing services](https://azendo.co/services/it-outstaffing-services/). The right choice comes down to who has time to lead. If your engineering leads are already stretched, adding people who still need managing makes the stretch worse. ### Your first quarter with IT staff augmentation services. The new specialists join your standups, your sprint planning and your code reviews like any other engineer. What changes is what lands on your desk: questions about the product and its priorities. Leave, laptops and contracts stay with us, and our [Talent Success and Academy](https://azendo.co/talent-success-academy/) programme keeps every specialist coached and AI trained. In the first month they should ship small changes on their own and stop asking where things live. A month later they own a part of the product and help plan it, and by the end of the quarter you can point to work that wouldn't have shipped without them. If something slips, say so early: a mismatch in skills, pace or communication is cheapest to fix while it's small. A short weekly note on what shipped and what got in the way is enough follow-up, with a bigger look once a month at what the new people own and the skills you'll need next. ## Common questions about IT staff augmentation services. What are IT staff augmentation services? IT staff augmentation services add skilled engineers to the team you already have, so you gain capacity without having to hire locally. With Azendo, our offshore specialists are dedicated full time to your product. They work remotely from Chiang Mai and Bangkok, and we manage everything around them. How much do IT staff augmentation services cost? From USD 2,100 a month for a junior QA engineer and USD 2,200 for a junior developer, full time and fully managed. Each role is part of one fixed monthly fee for an agreed number of hours, and we quote mid-level and senior people in the proposal. Will the new specialists fit into our existing team? They work the way your own engineers do: your standups, your sprint planning, your code reviews and your repositories. Each one is assigned to you full time and works on your product only. Who decides what the specialists work on? You do. Your product owner or team lead sets the priorities, and the specialists pick up work from your backlog like everyone else on the team. How do the working hours line up with ours? Our team works on Thai time, UTC+7\. A Northern European morning lands in their afternoon, five hours apart in summer and six in winter, and Sydney starts its day three to four hours earlier, so both get shared working hours every day. Which technologies can you cover? Almost any. We don't keep developers on a bench, so we hire for your stack when you need it and assess every candidate on it. Can we start with one specialist? Yes. Adding one skill first, such as DevOps or QA, is a good way to start, and the next role can join later. Who coaches and reviews the specialists? Their Talent Success manager. Every specialist has a development plan, coaching every month, a well-being check-in every two weeks and a 360-degree review every quarter. What if a specialist isn't the right fit? Then we find the one who is, and we take care of the handover with your team lead so the sprint plan keeps its shape. How is this different from an agency placement? An agency places people and leaves the leading to you. We also employ them, seat them in our own offices and put a service delivery manager in charge of what the team ships. ## Get your IT staff augmentation proposal. Say which skills your team is missing, and we come back with the roles, the monthly fee and a start date. * No deposit and no upfront fee * No commitment until the right people are on your team * If we can't find them inside the agreed window, you walk away at no cost Mikkel Schmidt and John Mark, the people you would talk to. No slides, no sales script. [Prefer a call? Book one](https://azendo.co/book-a-meeting/)