Access our bench of pre-vetted, certification-verified cloud engineers — rigorously selected across 5 disciplines through a 4-stage vetting pipeline, deployed to your team within 5 business days with 96% client retention.
Engineered for growing organisations.
The talent gap in cloud engineering is real: 86% of organizations report difficulty hiring certified Kubernetes engineers, and the average time-to-fill for senior DevOps roles exceeds 6 months. Meanwhile, project timelines compress, compliance requirements multiply, and the infrastructure decisions made today compound into years of operational reality. Every month a critical role stays unfilled is a month of architectural shortcuts, deferred automation, and accumulating technical debt that your existing team absorbs on top of their own workload.
CloudForge solves this with a pre-vetted bench of cloud engineers — rigorously vetted through a 4-stage pipeline, certification-verified, deployed to your team within 5 business days. These are not contractors who cycle through your codebase and leave institutional knowledge gaps. Our strong retention rate over 12-month engagements means the engineers who join your team stay, learn your codebase, attend your ceremonies, and deliver as if they were permanent hires. They participate in architecture decisions, review pull requests, and carry on-call rotations because embedded means embedded — not adjacent.
The difference between CloudForge engineers and typical staffing agencies is verification depth. Every engineer has been through our 4-stage vetting pipeline including live architecture interviews, hands-on technical challenges in production-like environments, and independent certification verification. We do not place engineers based on keyword matching — we match based on certification depth, industry experience, team dynamics, and technical stack alignment. When an engineer arrives at your standup on day five, they have already been validated against the specific capabilities your team needs.
Common scenarios where this service delivers the highest impact.
Funded startup needs 3 Kubernetes engineers immediately but the hiring pipeline is empty and internal recruiting is delivering one hire per quarter.
Three CKA-certified engineers deployed within 10 business days, contributing to production code by end of first sprint with zero onboarding overhead on the existing team.
Team has strong frontend and backend coverage but zero Terraform or IaC expertise — infrastructure changes are manual, risky, and undocumented.
Terraform-certified engineer embedded with the team, codifying existing infrastructure, establishing IaC pipelines, and mentoring developers on infrastructure-as-code practices.
Senior platform engineer on 6-month parental leave — team cannot lose momentum on a critical Kubernetes migration.
CKA-certified engineer filling the exact role scope with full context from a structured handover, maintaining sprint velocity throughout the absence and handing back cleanly.
A 3-month cloud migration needs 5 additional engineers for execution, then the engagement ends — no long-term headcount commitment desired.
Five engineers deployed for the migration sprint with clear scope boundaries, daily standups, and a structured exit plan including knowledge transfer and documentation.
Team moving to Kubernetes but nobody has CKA-level experience — risk of misconfigured clusters, security gaps, and operational fragility.
Experienced Kubernetes engineer embedded to architect the platform, mentor the team on best practices, and transfer CKA-level operational knowledge over a 6-month engagement.
A proven methodology built for growing organisations.
Define role scope, tech stack, team dynamics, and security clearance needs
Match against our pre-vetted bench using skills, certifications, and culture fit
Two-week embedded trial with daily standups and manager check-ins
Quarterly reviews, upskilling paths, and seamless rotation if needed
Scaling engineering team from 5 to 15 engineers in 6 months to meet product roadmap commitments. Internal recruiting was delivering 1 hire per quarter — a pace that would take 2.5 years to reach the target headcount.
CloudForge deployed 4 embedded engineers (2 Kubernetes specialists, 1 Terraform expert, 1 SRE) within 10 business days. Each engineer received a structured onboarding plan aligned with the team's sprint cadence and codebase architecture.
CloudForge engineers were indistinguishable from our permanent team within two weeks. They attended every ceremony, reviewed PRs, and carried on-call rotations. We hit our roadmap targets because of them.
— VP Engineering, Series B SaaS Company
Certified administrators and application developers experienced with multi-tenant cluster operations, RBAC policy design, network policy enforcement, and GitOps-driven deployments across production environments.
IaC specialists proficient in multi-cloud provisioning, state management, module design, and drift detection. Engineers are certified at Associate and Professional levels across HashiCorp and cloud-native IaC toolchains.
Multi-cloud certified engineers with production experience across all three major providers. Certifications include AWS SAP, Azure SAE, and GCP PCA — validated through hands-on architecture challenges, not exam dumps.
CI/CD pipeline architects experienced with GitOps reconciliation loops, environment promotion strategies, canary deployments, and pipeline-as-code patterns across enterprise delivery workflows.
Observability engineers who design monitoring architectures, build SLO-driven alerting, configure dashboards for operational visibility, and implement distributed tracing across microservices estates.
Security engineering specialists experienced with secrets management, policy-as-code enforcement, zero-trust network architectures, and compliance automation for SOC2 and ISO 27001 environments.
Engineer deployed and attending your daily standups — onboarding plan active, access provisioned, codebase orientation complete.
First production contributions merged — pull requests reviewed by peers, coding standards adopted, sprint ceremonies fully integrated.
Full sprint velocity achieved — engineer delivering peer-reviewed contributions, carrying on-call rotations, and participating in architecture decisions.
Quarterly Business Review delivered — engagement metrics, contribution analysis, knowledge transfer status, and ROI assessment presented to stakeholders.
Our rigorous 4-stage vetting standard is backed by a pipeline that produces verifiable results. Stage 1 filters on certifications and experience depth. Stage 2 is a hands-on infrastructure challenge in a production-like environment. Stage 3 is a live architecture design review with our senior engineers. Stage 4 is independent certification verification with issuing authorities. The standard is the output of this process, not a target we engineered backward.
Our 5-day deploy SLA is contractual, not aspirational. It is written into every engagement agreement because we maintain a pre-vetted bench ready for deployment. We do not start sourcing candidates after you sign — the matching process begins the moment we receive your requirements brief, drawing from engineers who have already cleared every stage of our pipeline.
The strong retention rate over 12-month engagements reflects the quality of matching, not just the quality of engineers. We invest heavily in the matching process because a misplaced engineer wastes everyone's time. Our algorithm scores candidates across multiple dimensions including technical depth, communication style, timezone compatibility, and industry experience. The result is engineers who integrate seamlessly and stay.
Active certifications across our bench spanning AWS, Kubernetes, and security domains — every one independently verifiable by your team. We provide certificate IDs, issuing authority links, and expiration dates for every certification claimed. If an engineer's certification has lapsed, they are removed from the active bench until they recertify.
Let's start with a technical conversation about your specific needs.