Cloud StaffAugmentation

Cloud staff augmentation means adding skilled cloud professionals from an outside provider to your own team for as long as you need them. The provider finds, hires and employs them, and your team directs their day-to-day work.

It focuses on cloud roles such as cloud engineers, cloud architects, DevOps engineers and cloud security specialists, who work on platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.

Companies use it when they need cloud skills quickly for a migration, a new project or ongoing operations, without the time and cost of hiring permanent staff in a market where experienced cloud professionals are hard to find.

There is no single price that makes sense for every engagement.

Cost depends on the role, seniority, platform, certifications, where the professional is based and how long you need them. Providers usually charge a monthly, daily or hourly rate for each person.

Cloud roles usually cost more than general IT roles. Experienced cloud engineers and architects are in high demand, their certifications take time and money to earn, and mistakes in a live cloud environment can be expensive, so companies pay for proven skill. Compared with a full-time hire, you still avoid recruitment costs and long-term commitments, and you only pay while you need the person. We would rather understand the roles you need first and quote for them clearly.

The most common roles are cloud engineers, who build and run cloud infrastructure, and DevOps engineers, who automate how software gets built, tested and released.

Companies also bring in cloud architects to design environments, cloud security engineers to protect them, and site reliability engineers to keep critical systems stable and available. Specialist roles include migration engineers, platform engineers who manage tools like Kubernetes, and cloud cost specialists who keep spending under control.

The right mix depends on your stage. A company planning its move to the cloud usually needs an architect first, while a company already running in the cloud often needs engineers to build, automate and operate.

Yes. Many companies use more than one cloud platform, and staff augmentation can cover all of them.

There are two ways to do it. You can bring in engineers who each specialise in one platform, which gives you depth where you need it. Or you can bring in engineers with experience across several platforms, which works well for smaller teams managing a mixed environment.

Most organisations run one main platform and use others for specific workloads. In that case, the best approach is usually deep expertise in your main platform, with cross-platform skills to cover the rest.

It includes both. We provide DevOps engineers alongside cloud infrastructure engineers.

Our DevOps engineers build and maintain continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, which automate how your code gets built, tested and released. They work with tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps and AWS CodePipeline. They also manage infrastructure as code with tools such as Terraform, and containers with Docker and Kubernetes.

When you tell us what you need, we match engineers to your actual tools and stack, not just the job title.

Yes. Migration is one of the most common reasons companies bring in cloud professionals, because it needs skills most internal teams don't use every day.

We can add migration engineers and cloud architects to your team to plan the move, set up the target environment, migrate workloads and data, and stabilise everything afterwards. Your team stays in control of the project and learns from working alongside them.

If you'd rather hand over the whole migration, we also run migrations as a complete service. We can help you decide which model suits your project, team and timeline.

Yes. We provide cloud security engineers, identity and access management specialists and compliance specialists, alongside infrastructure and DevOps roles.

Cloud security is where we're strongest. Procain is an ISO 27001 certified cybersecurity and IT infrastructure company, a Microsoft Solutions Partner for Security, and the company behind SOCRoom, our managed security operations center. Our security professionals bring that experience to your team.

They can secure your cloud configurations, manage access controls, prepare you for audits and help you meet requirements such as ISO 27001 and India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act.

Both. We support short engagements for specific projects and long-term engagements for ongoing work.

Short engagements suit migrations, audit preparation, security reviews, new platform launches or covering a gap while you hire permanently. Long-term engagements suit companies that need ongoing cloud operations, DevOps support or specialist skills that don't justify a full-time hire.

We agree the length, any minimum term and the notice period with you before the engagement starts, so you can plan with confidence.

A staffing agency finds a candidate for you, and the person joins your payroll as your employee. You pay the agency a one-time fee, and after that the agency's involvement usually ends.

With staff augmentation, the provider employs the professional throughout the engagement. You direct their work, but the provider handles payroll, benefits, compliance and HR, and stays accountable for the person's performance. If someone isn't working out, the provider replaces them.

Staffing suits permanent roles you want to fill for the long term. Staff augmentation suits roles you need for a project, a defined period or while your needs are still changing.

With cloud staff augmentation, you add cloud professionals to your own team. You direct their work, set priorities and keep responsibility for how your cloud environment runs.

With a managed cloud services provider, you hand over the running of your cloud environment. The provider monitors, maintains, secures and supports it, and takes responsibility for agreed outcomes under a service level agreement.

Staff augmentation suits companies with cloud leadership in place that need more hands or specific skills. Managed cloud services suit companies that would rather not run the environment themselves. Some companies use both, with a managed service running the environment and augmented engineers working on new projects.

A cloud architect designs your cloud environment. They make the big decisions, such as which services to use, how to structure accounts and networks, how to secure the environment and how it will grow.

A cloud engineer builds and runs what the architect designs. They set up resources, automate deployments, fix problems and keep the environment running day to day.

For staff augmentation, you often need an architect for a shorter period at the start of a project, followed by engineers for the longer build and operation phase. If your team already has a clear design, you may only need engineers. If you're starting fresh, an architect's early decisions can save you from expensive rework later.

We work to prevent this from the start. Before we shortlist anyone, we learn about your environment: which platforms, tools and older systems it includes, and where the complexity lies. We then put forward engineers who have worked in environments like yours, not just engineers with the right certifications.

If an engineer still isn't the right fit, we replace them. We first talk it through with you to understand where the gap is, whether it's experience with a specific older system, a tool or the scale of the environment. We then use that to find a better match.

Where possible, the outgoing and incoming engineers overlap for a handover, so your project keeps moving.

Yes. Certifications show that an engineer knows a platform. Production experience shows they can work safely in a live environment, and we check both.

We verify each engineer's certifications through AWS's and Microsoft's own verification systems. We also test real skills through hands-on exercises in cloud environments and technical interviews with our senior cloud engineers. And we check each engineer's experience running production workloads, including the scale of environments they've worked in and the problems they've solved.

Procain is an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner and a Microsoft Solutions Partner for Infrastructure (Azure), so our own cloud team knows what good cloud engineering looks like.

The same engineer stays on your project. We don't rotate staff between clients, because an engineer who knows your environment is far more valuable than one learning it from scratch.

If your engineer needs to leave, for example because they move on from Procain, we tell you as early as possible and arrange a replacement. Where possible, the two engineers overlap so knowledge passes on properly.

We also ask our engineers to document their work in your environment as they go. That way, knowledge about your systems stays with your organisation, not just with one person.

Our engineers can usually start within days. How quickly they work in your live environment depends partly on your own access and security processes.

We prepare before day one, so there's no delay on our side. Once you set up their accounts and access, the engineer spends the first days learning your environment, your architecture, your tools and how your team makes changes. During this period, they typically work with read-only access or in non-production environments.

Once they understand your setup and your change process, they move into production work. This short learning period is what keeps your live environment safe.