Vetted Azure cloud engineers
Hire Azure engineers who build with Bicep, not the portal
Azure cloud engineers design, deploy, and run workloads on Microsoft Azure: App Service and AKS, Azure Functions, networking with VNets and private endpoints, identity through Entra ID, and cost control. Grape5 gives US teams pre-vetted, dedicated Azure engineers, India-based, with at least 4 hours of daily US overlap, typically starting in 2 to 3 weeks.
In short
Azure cloud engineers design, deploy, and run workloads on Microsoft Azure: App Service and AKS, Azure Functions, networking with VNets and private endpoints, identity through Entra ID, and cost control.
Grape5 gives US teams pre-vetted, dedicated Azure engineers, India-based, with at least 4 hours of daily US overlap, typically starting in 2 to 3 weeks.
When to hire Azure engineers
- You are already a Microsoft shop on Entra ID and Office 365, and you need to migrate an on-prem or AWS workload onto Azure App Service and Azure SQL without breaking existing auth.
- You are moving a containerized app to AKS and need node pool sizing, workload identity, Application Gateway ingress, and cluster autoscaling set up so it survives real traffic.
- You need a Cloud Adoption Framework landing zone: hub-and-spoke VNets, private endpoints, Key Vault, and Azure Policy guardrails ahead of a SOC 2 or HIPAA audit.
- Your Azure bill jumped and nobody knows why, so you need someone to right-size App Service plans, buy reservations, kill orphaned disks and public IPs, and wire up cost alerts.
How we vet Azure engineers
Every engineer we put forward is screened by a senior Grape5 engineer before you meet them. For Azure engineers, we look specifically at:
- We have them provision real infrastructure in Bicep or Terraform's azurerm provider, then ask how they handle state, drift, and what-if previews instead of clicking through the portal.
- We check identity done right: managed identities over stored credentials, Key Vault references in app settings, and RBAC scoped to least privilege instead of Owner on everything.
- We probe networking: private endpoints versus service endpoints, NSG and hub-and-spoke design, and why a PaaS database should not sit on a public endpoint.
- We have them write KQL against Log Analytics and instrument Application Insights, including sampling and alerts that catch real incidents instead of noise.
- We test cost instincts: right-sizing App Service plans, reservations versus savings plans, and Cosmos DB partition key and RU/s decisions that keep the bill sane.
Grape5 vs a freelancer marketplace
Grape5
- Who the engineer works for
- Vetted, dedicated, and backed by Grape5 for your engagement.
- Vetting
- Screened by our own senior engineers, code, system design and communication, before you ever meet them.
- Timezone
- 4+ hours of daily overlap with your US working hours, in your tools and standups.
- If it isn't working
- We replace them from the bench, usually within days, at no extra cost.
- Continuity
- The same team, retained and growing with your product.
A freelancer marketplace
- Who the engineer works for
- An independent contractor juggling several clients at once.
- Vetting
- Self-reported skills, a résumé and a star rating.
- Timezone
- Whatever hours the contractor decides to keep.
- If it isn't working
- You re-post the role and start the search from scratch.
- Continuity
- Churn between contracts, the context leaves when they do.
| Grape5 | A freelancer marketplace | |
|---|---|---|
| Who the engineer works for | Vetted, dedicated, and backed by Grape5 for your engagement. | An independent contractor juggling several clients at once. |
| Vetting | Screened by our own senior engineers, code, system design and communication, before you ever meet them. | Self-reported skills, a résumé and a star rating. |
| Timezone | 4+ hours of daily overlap with your US working hours, in your tools and standups. | Whatever hours the contractor decides to keep. |
| If it isn't working | We replace them from the bench, usually within days, at no extra cost. | You re-post the role and start the search from scratch. |
| Continuity | The same team, retained and growing with your product. | Churn between contracts, the context leaves when they do. |
Related roles you can hire
Pre-vetted engineers across adjacent skills, dedicated to your product and your US working hours.
Frequently asked questions
Some do, but we treat certs as a signal, not proof. Grape5 vets by having each engineer design and build live Azure infrastructure and reason through tradeoffs, so you are judging real work, not a badge.
Many Azure engineers have cross-cloud and hybrid experience, which matters during a migration. We match candidates to your actual stack and the specific migration path, and the scope is set per role and engagement.
You own the tenant and subscription. You grant scoped RBAC and keep secrets in Key Vault, and the engineer works under your access policies. They are dedicated to your product, and Grape5 manages and backs them throughout.
Every engineer gives at least 4 hours of daily overlap with US working hours for standups, reviews, and live debugging. On-call and incident coverage beyond that is scoped per engagement, so set expectations up front.
You get a free replacement if the fit is wrong. Grape5 vets, dedicates, manages, and backs the engineer, so if a match is not working you are not stuck on your own to fix it.
Tell us the role. Get vetted profiles.
Send us the seniority and stack you need. We’ll come back with a shortlist of vetted Azure engineers who’ve shipped it, and a plan to start in 2 to 3 weeks.