Looking for an AWS staffing agency? Rad Hires recruits senior AWS engineers across Latin America for US startups, so you can add cloud expertise to your team without US salaries. You get a vetted shortlist, you choose, and most clients hire in 2–4 weeks for 40–60% less than a comparable US engineer.
Why hire AWS engineers from Latin America?
- On call in your time zone. Latin American engineers are 0–2 hours from US Eastern time, so deployments, incidents and architecture reviews happen during your day.
- Cloud skills at 40–60% less. Experienced AWS engineers command high US salaries. Latin America lets you hire seniority within budget.
- Dedicated to your infrastructure. We recruit full-time engineers who learn your systems, not contractors juggling other clients.
AWS roles you can hire
- AWS DevOps engineers building CI/CD, infrastructure as code and automation.
- Cloud architects who design secure, scalable and cost-efficient AWS environments.
- Backend developers on AWS building with Lambda, API Gateway, ECS and DynamoDB.
- Data engineers on AWS working with S3, Glue, Redshift and Kinesis.
How our AWS staffing agency works
- Kickoff call. We learn the AWS role, your stack, your team and your budget, and agree on what a great hire looks like.
- Sourcing and screening. Our recruiters search our Latin America network and screen candidates for skills, experience, communication and fit, so you only see people worth your time.
- Your shortlist and interviews. You interview the best candidates and choose who to hire. We coordinate scheduling and feedback.
- Offer and onboarding. We help you close the candidate and get them started.
- 90-day replacement guarantee. If the hire doesn’t work out in the first 90 days, we find you a replacement.
Want to hire the developer onto your own team? Use Direct Hire. Prefer a flexible, fully managed arrangement? Use Talent On-Demand.
What does a Latin American AWS engineer cost?
Cost depends mostly on seniority and the exact skills you need. Our clients typically pay 40–60% less than for a comparable US hire. Two real examples:
- A US startup hired a senior engineer in Argentina for $8.7k a month, about half the cost of a US equivalent, working full time in the client’s time zone.
- A US digital agency staffed several senior roles for about $40 an hour on average.
On a short consultation call, we’ll give you a realistic budget for your AWS engineer role.
What to look for in an AWS engineer
- Core services: EC2, ECS or EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, VPC networking and IAM.
- Infrastructure as code: Terraform, AWS CDK or CloudFormation, with environments managed in code.
- Security: least-privilege IAM, secrets management, encryption and account structure.
- Cost control: right-sizing, Savings Plans, and spotting waste on the AWS bill.
- Reliability: monitoring with CloudWatch or Datadog, backups, and disaster recovery.
- Communication: clear English for design reviews and incident calls.
AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer Professional are a useful signal, but hands-on production experience matters more.
Interview questions to ask an AWS engineer
- How would you set up AWS accounts and IAM for a growing startup?
- When would you choose Lambda over ECS or EKS?
- Tell me about a time you cut an AWS bill. What did you change?
- How do you manage infrastructure changes safely across staging and production?
- Walk me through how you would recover from losing an availability zone.
Frequently asked questions
Most clients hire in 2–4 weeks from the kickoff call.
Yes. Latin American developers are 0–2 hours from US Eastern time for most of the year, so working your core hours is normal.
Every hire comes with a 90-day replacement guarantee.
We recruit across Latin America, including Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Chile, Peru and Costa Rica.
Ready to hire an AWS engineer?
Tell us about the role, and we’ll show you what’s possible with a Latin American hire, including a realistic budget and timeline.