Azure, AWS, or GCP? What to Look for in a Contract Cloud Engineer
Most job specs for a "cloud engineer" list a platform — Azure, AWS, or GCP — as if that's the qualifying detail. It isn't, really.
Platform fluency isn't the same as platform depth
Someone can hold an Azure certification and still have only touched a handful of services in a training sandbox. What matters more is whether they've operated a production environment.
Infrastructure-as-code, not just clicking through a console
A cloud engineer who can only configure resources by hand in the portal is going to be a bottleneck the moment your infrastructure grows past a handful of services.
Security is not a separate person's job
Ask how a candidate would lock down a new environment by default — the answer tells you a lot.
Multi-cloud isn't always the goal
Most teams need genuine depth in whichever platform they've already committed to, not shallow breadth across all three.
Contract vs. permanent changes what "good" looks like
A contractor needs to be productive within days, not months — that's the filter we vet candidates against.
If you're trying to fill an Azure, AWS, or GCP role and want it vetted against your actual stack rather than a keyword match, get in touch.