Product teams lose time when every new service needs a ticket to another team and a wait for infrastructure.
Hire Platform Engineers for Developer Platforms, CI/CD & Self-Service Infrastructure
Platform engineers who treat your developers as their users. They build paved paths for creating, deploying and observing services, so product teams can spend their time on the product.
- Production experience with Kubernetes, Terraform and GitOps
- Pipelines designed for fast, clear feedback
- Templates and documentation treated as part of the platform
- Meet the engineer before you sign a contract
- DaysTo a shortlist
- MonthlyContract terms
- YoursCode and IP
Teams That Build With SyntecHire
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What You Can Build With Platform Engineering
Internal Developer Platforms
A service catalogue and templates that let a team create a new service with sensible defaults already in place.
Tech Stack
- Backstage
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Helm
Outcome
A new service starts from a template, with pipeline, monitoring and ownership set up.
The CNCF Platforms White Paper recommends running an internal platform as a product, designed around the needs of the developers who use it.
Technical Expertise Our Platform Engineers Bring
Cluster upgrades, resource limits and workload isolation handled as routine, not as emergencies.
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- Kustomize
Reusable modules with clear inputs, so product teams can use them without reading the internals.
- Terraform
- OpenTofu
- Crossplane
Pipelines kept short through caching and parallel work, with shared steps maintained in one place.
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI
- Jenkins
The desired state of each environment held in Git and reconciled automatically.
- Argo CD
- Flux
A single place to find services, owners, documentation and templates.
- Backstage
- Software Templates
- TechDocs
Standard instrumentation and alert rules that come with the platform.
- OpenTelemetry
- Prometheus
- Grafana
Secrets management and policy as code, enforced in the pipeline and in the cluster.
- HashiCorp Vault
- Open Policy Agent
- Kyverno
Talking to developers, measuring where time is lost and ranking platform work by what it gives back.
- DORA Metrics
- Golden Paths
- Documentation
How Platform Engineering Has Evolved
- 2013
DockerContainers
Docker was released as open source and made container packaging practical for everyday development.
- 2014
KubernetesOrchestration
Google open-sourced Kubernetes, which became the common way to run containers at scale.
- 2014
TerraformInfrastructure as code
HashiCorp released Terraform for describing infrastructure across providers in code.
- 2015
Kubernetes 1.0CNCF
Kubernetes reached version 1.0 and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation was formed.
- 2017
GitOpsGit as source of truth
The term GitOps was introduced for managing deployments through declarative configuration held in Git.
- 2020
BackstageDeveloper portals
Spotify open-sourced Backstage, its framework for building developer portals.
When Platform Engineering Is The Right Choice
Choose Platform Engineering when
- Several teams ship servicesShared tooling pays off when the same setup work is being repeated by each team.
- Developers wait on tickets for infrastructureSelf-service with guardrails removes the queue without removing control.
- Every service is deployed differentlyA common path makes releases predictable and incidents easier to handle.
- New engineers take a long time to become productiveTemplates and a service catalogue shorten the distance from joining to shipping.
Consider something else when
- You have one team and one applicationA managed hosting platform and a simple pipeline will do. A platform would be overhead.
- Nobody has asked developers what slows them downStart with those conversations. A platform built on assumptions goes unused.
- You expect a tool to fix a process problemUnclear ownership and slow approvals will survive any new tooling.
Why CTOs Choose Us
Candidates review an existing pipeline and infrastructure repository and explain what they would improve first.
You meet the person and hear how they would approach your setup before any contract is signed.
The engineer is not shared with other clients, so they get to know your developers and what holds them up.
Everything is written in your repositories and runs in your accounts, so nothing depends on us to keep working.
Terms run month to month with no exit fee, and we replace the engineer if the fit is wrong.
How Your Developer Joins The Team
- 1Step 1
Discovery
A call about your stack, team and the work ahead.
- 2Step 2
Matching
A shortlist of people who have done similar work.
- 3Step 3
Onboarding
Access, environment setup and a first small task.
- 4Step 4
Shipping
Regular pull requests inside your review process.
AI In Delivery
Where coding assistants help, and where a person decides.
Used for speed
Boilerplate, test scaffolding and first drafts of documentation.
Always reviewed
Every change is read and approved by an engineer before it merges.
Never given secrets
Credentials and client data stay out of prompts. Your policy on AI tools applies.
Security And IP
What we enforce on every engagement.
IP assignment
All work product is assigned to you in the contract.
NDA first
Signed before anyone sees your code.
Least privilege
Access limited to what the task needs.
Clean exit
Access revoked and handover documented when work ends.
Platform Engineer Pricing Tiers
- Early career
Entry
On request
- Works on defined tasks
- Pairs with a senior reviewer
- Suited to well-scoped backlog items
- Mid level
Experienced
On request
- Owns features end to end
- Reviews others' code
- Suited to most product teams
- Senior
Expert
On request
- Leads architecture decisions
- Mentors the team
- Suited to complex or legacy systems
Rates depend on seniority, stack and team size. We quote a fixed monthly figure per developer.
What Is Included In The Rate
| SyntecHire dedicated developer | Typical freelancer | |
|---|---|---|
| Screening and onboarding | Included | Your time |
| Replacement if the fit is wrong | Included | Start again |
| Continuity and handover notes | Included | Varies |
| IP assignment and NDA | In the contract | Varies |
| Availability | Full time on your product | Shared across clients |
Is A Dedicated Developer The Right Fit?
Five quick questions.
1Is the work expected to run for three months or longer?
2Do you have someone who can set priorities each week?
3Is there an existing codebase or a clear specification?
4Do you want the developer inside your own tools and reviews?
5Would losing context between contractors hurt the project?
0 of 5 answered. Answer every question to see the result.
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Platform Engineering Hiring Questions
The skills overlap. The difference is in the goal. A platform engineer builds shared, self-service tools that product teams use on their own, and treats those teams as customers.
No. A platform is the set of paved paths your developers use. It can sit on managed container services, serverless or virtual machines. The engineer works with what you run today.
Yes, if the scope is narrow. A single engineer can fix a slow pipeline or build a service template. A full platform needs a team and a product owner over time.
Tell us your cloud, CI system and deployment tooling. We shortlist engineers who have run those in production, and you confirm the match in the interview.
An NDA is signed before any access. You create the engineer's accounts and decide their permissions, and you can remove them whenever you wish.
You do. The contract assigns all work to you, and the code is stored in your repositories.