Vetted cloud and AI engineers. Matched in 72 hours.
Send a brief. Get a shortlist of engineers whose last three projects looked exactly like yours. One contract, a named delivery lead, and zero platform fees.
No platform fee. No subscription. No six-week search.
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CloudOps Network is a vetted network of independent cloud and AI engineers, run as a managed delivery network. Companies send a brief and receive a matched shortlist, typically within 72 hours, then hire under one contract with named delivery oversight and no platform fee. Engineers join through an invite-only partner platform.
Why teams hire here
A managed network, not a marketplace.
Vetted before you meet them
Every engineer clears project-history review, a technical interview and reference checks before they can be shortlisted.
- Certified on the major clouds
- Screened on real delivery, not puzzles
- Re-reviewed after every engagement
Matched, contracted, overseen
One statement of work with CloudOps Network, a named delivery lead, and progress reviews through to handover.
- Shortlist in about 72 hours
- Contract, embedded or project delivery
- No platform fee to you
What companies use us for
Most briefs land in one of these five shapes.
Cloud migration
Moving workloads off a data centre, off another cloud, or off a platform that has stopped paying its way.
Migration engineersAI implementation
Getting an assistant, agent or model pipeline past the demo and into something your customers can use.
AI engineersCost optimisation
Bringing a bill back under control without freezing the roadmap or degrading reliability.
FinOps engineersEmbedded teams
Two to six engineers who sit inside your team, use your tools, and ship on your board.
Embedded teamsPlatform and reliability
Build the platform layer, cut the incident count, and hand back something your own team can run.
Platform engineersForward deployment
An engineer who sits with your customer, ships integrations, and turns pilots into renewals.
Forward deployed engineersHow a match happens
Four steps, run by people who have delivered the work themselves.
You send a brief
Scope, stack, timeline, region and how you like to work. Five minutes of writing is enough to start.
We read it and ask two questions
Usually about constraints you did not think to mention: compliance boundaries, a legacy dependency, who signs off.
You get a shortlist
Two to four engineers with relevant project history, availability, rate, and a note on why each one fits. You interview whoever you want.
We contract and stay on the hook
One statement of work with CloudOps Network. A delivery lead reviews progress against it for the life of the engagement.
Why this is not a directory of profiles
Talent marketplaces hand you a search box and a risk. Every profile is self-reported, every rate is a negotiation, and when delivery slips there is nobody on the other side of the contract.
CloudOps Network works the other way round. Engineers are invited, reference-checked and certification-verified before they appear on any shortlist. CloudOps Network signs the statement of work, and a delivery lead reviews the engagement against it.
Invited, not listed
Engineers come in through referral and direct sourcing, then pass a technical and reference screen.
Certification verified
We check credentials at the source, not from a PDF in an email.
One contract
You sign with CloudOps Network. Subcontracting, compliance and payment sit on our side of the line.
Oversight that is real
A named delivery lead reviews milestones. If the work is off track you hear it from us first.
Delivery spans generative and agentic AI, DevOps, data and migration work. The funded programmes behind member benefits run through accredited partner structures; programme detail is shared with members and clients under NDA, not published here.
Roles we match most often
Cloud engineers
Infrastructure, networking, landing zones, Terraform.
View roleDevOps and SRE
Pipelines, observability, on-call, reliability targets.
View roleAI engineers
GenAI, agentic systems, ML, AI infrastructure.
View roleForward deployed
Engineers who sit with your customers and ship.
View roleData engineers
Pipelines, lakehouses, contracts, quality.
View roleFinOps engineers
Bill analysis, commitment strategy, unit economics.
View roleML engineers
Training, serving, evaluation, drift.
View roleAll roles
Ten specialisations across cloud, data and AI.
Browse rolesQuestions people ask first
What does CloudOps Network do?
CloudOps Network matches companies with vetted, certified cloud and AI engineers, and gives independent engineers access to work and to provider-funded benefits they cannot reach on their own. Every engagement sits under CloudOps Network as a real delivery partner with a named lead, rather than a job board.
How fast can I get engineers?
Most briefs receive a shortlist within about 72 hours. Interviews usually happen inside a week, and engineers can typically start within two weeks of a signed statement of work.
Is this a staffing agency or a marketplace?
Neither, exactly. Engineers are vetted and invited rather than self-listed, and CloudOps Network sits as the contracting party with delivery oversight on every engagement. You get one contract and one point of accountability, not a directory of profiles.
What does it cost a company to hire through CloudOps Network?
You pay an agreed rate or fixed project price for the engineering work. There is no separate platform fee, subscription or placement fee on top.
What does it cost an engineer to join?
Nothing. Engineers are never charged to join the network, to be matched, or to receive benefits on qualifying projects.
Which clouds and regions are covered?
The network is strongest on AWS, with working coverage on Azure and Google Cloud. Engineers are available across North America, the UK and EU, the Middle East, India, Singapore and Australia, in local and overlapping time zones.
Tell us what you are building
Describe the work in a few lines. We come back with a shortlist of engineers who have done it before, their availability, and a rate range. No account, no platform fee, no obligation to hire.
Most briefs get a shortlist within three business days.