In-house feel, nearshore
Azure Developers
A large share of British business runs on Microsoft, which keeps Azure skills permanently in demand and rarely on the market. We embed Azure developers who work across .NET services, App Services and infrastructure automation, on your hours, at 50 to 75% less than a comparable UK hire once salary, employer national insurance and recruitment fees are totted up.
- Fluent from application code down to Azure infrastructure
- Pipelines and infrastructure as code with ARM or Bicep
- On British hours as our full-time employee, not your contractor
CI/CD & DevOpsCloud Infra AutomationMonitoring & InsightsScalable Architecture
Our Service
Engineers who know Azure as a platform, not a portal
Azure rewards engineers who understand identity, networking and governance as deeply as the services themselves, because that is where enterprise projects stall. Ours pass CTO-led vetting with live pair programming, and we check they use AI tooling well, since generated code that ignores your tenancy's constraints is a liability, not a saving.
- App Services, Functions and Logic Apps in production use
- Identity done properly with Azure AD and managed identities
- Deployments defined in code and repeatable across environments
Infrastructure as Code with ARM or Bicep
Depth across the services your Microsoft stack leans on
- Web and backend apps deployed via App Services and Azure Functions.
- CI/CD & DevOpsPipelines built on Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions with secure deployment.
- Cloud Infra AutomationInfrastructure provisioned using ARM, Bicep, or Terraform for Azure.
- Monitoring & InsightsApp Insights, Log Analytics, and performance dashboards built-in.
- Secure Identity IntegrationAzure AD, RBAC, and OAuth integrations for modern security layers.
- Scalable ArchitectureEvent-driven microservices, queues, and distributed cloud design.
The alternative
Get speed, fit and in-house feel without the hiring grind.
Solid lime = yes · outline lime = partial · grey dash = no
Vetting
You see two people - not 200 CVs.
Engineers vet engineers
A senior engineer runs a live technical conversation on the candidate's real stack, not a recruiter working from a keyword list.
Live coding, not take-homes
Real problems solved in front of an assessor, with anti-cheating checks. You see how they actually work, not what they submitted overnight.
A full profile, not a CV
Every candidate arrives with a CV, interview summary, coding-test breakdown and rate in pounds. You decide on evidence.
Every tab is a stage a candidate has to clear. Six of them, all run by our own internal engineers at Cloud Employee, before you see a name.
- Overview
- CV
- Tech interview
- Coding test
- Psychometric
- Soft skills
Scored by people. We use AI to cross-check our own consistency - never to decide who reaches your shortlist.
✓Luka M.
VettedSenior Cloud Engineer · Azure · Terraform · Kubernetes · 6 yrs · Zagreb, Croatia (GMT+1)
Assessment
Six years in production Python, the last three on LLM systems - retrieval pipelines, eval suites, and agent tooling for UK fintech. Owns delivery end to end.
AI in practiceShips with Copilot and Claude Code daily, and rewrote 40% of the generated code in his observed task - the judgement is his, the tooling only makes him faster.
Career history
Senior AI Engineer
UK payments platform · 40-person product team
Built the retrieval assistant now resolving 30% of tier-1 tickets; owns its eval suite and guardrails.
Backend Engineer, Python
Travel booking SaaS · Zagreb
Moved fraud scoring onto a real-time feature pipeline; cut false declines by 18%.
Data Engineer
Agency · Python, Postgres, AWS
- Python
- FastAPI
- LangGraph
- pgvector
- Evals & tracing
- AWS
- Docker
Technical interview
Assessed by Marco R., Principal Engineer
12 Jun 2026
55 min · live call
"Walked me through an assistant that was quietly hallucinating refund policy, how he caught it in evals, and what he got wrong on the first fix. Hire-ready for a senior seat."
Live coding test
Repair a broken deployment pipeline
88
score
retrieval.py · submitted diff
- hits = index.query(q, k=50)+ hits = index.query(rewrite(q), k=50, filter=tenant)+ hits = rerank(hits, q)[:8] # recall 0.62 -> 0.91+ assert_context_budget(hits, max_tokens=6000)
Psychometric · technical thinking
How he reasons under a real deadline - not a personality quiz.
Top 9%of engineers
we test
A 45-minute reasoning test, scored against the 4,000+ engineers we have already placed. Our assessors do the marking - AI only flags where our own scoring looks inconsistent.
Soft skills · working with your team
"He raised the payment edge case nobody else had spotted, in writing, two days before release."
This is what you receive - not a CV.
Ask our AI anythingWhy Cloud Employee?
Enterprise-grade hiring without the enterprise timeline
UK recruitment for Azure roles is slow, and day-rate contractors bring IR35 exposure most firms would rather avoid. We are the employer of record, so that question disappears, and the engagement is one monthly fee on a rolling contract with 30 days notice. Matched candidates are in interviews within 7 working days and embedded in about two weeks, with a two-week money-back guarantee behind the match.
- Vetted on delivered Azure work, not certification lists
- 97% of our engineers stay beyond two years
- Supported by our talent teams and a UK-based success manager
Not Just Developers - A Whole Operation
Our embedded delivery engine keeps your Microsoft stack moving
Fully supported
We handle the rest so your engineers can focus on building.
Performance reviews
Payroll & complianceEquipment
WorkspaceIn-house, without the friction
No upfront fees. No lock-in contracts.
- No placement or upfront fees
- Rolling 30-day contract, cancel anytime
- One monthly rate, everything included
What role are you hiring for?
Pick one to start - you'll see matching engineers at the end.
- 300+ teams built
- 97% stay 2+ years
- Replace if it isn't working
Got questions?
The questions CTOs and founders ask.
Yes. Most of our clients are in the UK, the US and Australia. Your developer works your hours, and a UK-based client success manager is your point of contact throughout.
Cloud Employee is the employer of record, so your developer is our full-time employee rather than a contractor you engage directly. We handle their payroll, benefits and HR in their own country.
Typically 50-75% less than a comparable UK hire once salary, employer costs and overheads are counted. Rates run from roughly £28 to £63 an hour ($35-80, depending on seniority), billed as one monthly fee with no placement charges.
Vetting is CTO-led and covers a technical assessment, a live pair programming session and cultural fit screening, all run by senior engineers rather than recruiters. You interview a shortlist of two matched candidates.
You are typically interviewing matched candidates within 7 working days of a requirements call, and developers are often embedded and pushing code within about two weeks.
There is a two-week money-back guarantee, and if you want to continue we replace the developer free of charge.
Your developer's working hours are aligned to yours, so stand-ups and pairing happen through the UK day, and we keep cover available outside standard hours for anything critical.
There are no placement fees and you pay nothing to interview. Vetting is run by our in-house CTO with peer review from senior engineers, and after the hire we stay responsible for HR, payroll and retention rather than disappearing once the invoice clears.
Yes, always. Your developer sits in your Slack, email and daily channels as a full member of your team, and can even list your company on their LinkedIn if you prefer.
Yes, clients are welcome at our offices, which are set up for exactly that. Hire four or more developers and we cover the flights and accommodation for a visit.
You are typically interviewing matched candidates within 7 working days of a requirements call, and developers are often embedded and pushing code within about two weeks. From there it is a rolling monthly contract with 30 days' notice, one monthly fee, and no placement charges. You can scale up or down as the work changes, and you pay nothing to interview.
Proof, not promises
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