Offshore network staffing
Hire Remote Network Engineers Without a Full US Headcount
We recruit remote network engineers internationally and place them with US companies as dedicated contractors. Firewalls, routing, switching, VPN and SD-WAN, on your account only. You may need that depth without being able to justify a full US headcount, and the monthly rate is what closes the gap.
The depth problem behind a network hire
Plenty of companies cannot justify a senior network engineer at US rates, so the work gets spread around. The systems team edits firewall rules they half understand. A VAR gets called in at project prices when something breaks. Routing and switching documentation goes stale. The gap is not that the work is small. It is that the price of the seat sets the bar too high.
Recruiting internationally moves the bar. A senior or Tier 3 technical seat costs $3,500 to $4,500 a month, and that single number carries the contractor, the contracting and compliance work behind them, and the people management around the seat. It is a strong rate in the Philippines and Southeast Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe and South Africa, and it turns a network engineer from a stretch hire into a line item you can defend.
Firewalls, routing, switching and SD-WAN
Firewall policy and rule hygiene. Switching and routing changes, including the ones that need a change window. Site to site and remote access VPN. SD-WAN policy, circuits and failover testing. Monitoring that someone actually reads. Wireless. Vendor and carrier tickets chased to a close. Network documentation and diagrams kept current, which is usually the first thing to rot when nobody owns the domain.
The engineer is dedicated to your account and reports to your managers, so change control, on-call expectations and working hours are yours to set. We scope those at intake rather than assuming them. The contract sits with us, you pay one monthly invoice, and we handle the contracting and compliance side in the engineer's country.
What remote network engineers cannot do
There are no hands at the rack. Nobody is patching a physical port, swapping a failed transceiver, staging an appliance at a branch, or standing in a wiring closet at 2am. If a change needs a body in the room, you need a smart hands arrangement or a local vendor, and the remote engineer directs that work instead of doing it.
The other poor fit is occasional work. If you need six hours of design help twice a year, buy a project. A dedicated seat is built for estates where the network needs an owner every week, and it is designed for seats kept filled a year or more, because that is the horizon the investment pays back over.
Starting without a long contract
A search opens with a $500 deposit, and that deposit comes straight back off your first month's invoice once the engineer starts. When they do start, you commit to 90 days of fees. That is the entire commitment. If the fit turns out wrong inside those 90 days, we go again and waive the deposit on the replacement search.
Compare that to signing a year for a network vendor or opening a US requisition you have to defend for a quarter. Ninety days on one seat is a much easier yes. Past 90 days there is no new search to buy, because the engineer stays engaged through us and keeping the seat filled remains our responsibility.
What you get
Included in every engagement
Dedicated, not shared across clients
The engineer works your network only. No pooled queue, no ticket shared with three other companies, no context lost between accounts every time something breaks.
Five gates before you meet anyone
Identity and work history, language, role-specific skills testing, references, and the workspace and security posture they will work from. All five, every candidate.
$3,500 to $4,500 a month
The band for senior and Tier 3 technical seats, network engineering included. Quoted as one monthly figure, invoiced monthly, with no separate fee for the search itself.
Optional secure remote workstation
One add-on, not three. Your data stays on US infrastructure inside a hosted desktop, access is cut centrally the day an engagement ends, monitoring is disclosed, and endpoints are managed.
Contract to hire is on the table
Network engineering is a Tier 3 seat, so you can convert to your own payroll through contract to hire or direct placement. We offer neither for junior or administrative roles.
Screening
Five gates before you see a shortlist
- Identity & work history
- Language proficiency
- Role-specific skills testing
- Reference checks
- Workspace & security posture
Questions
Frequently asked
How is this different from outsourced network support?
An outsourced provider gives you a team that also serves other companies, and you buy tickets or hours. Here you get one named engineer who works your account only, sits in your reporting line, and takes direction from your managers. The contract sits with us, which is where the compliance work lives, but the day to day looks like your own team member.
Can an offshore network engineer have firewall access?
That is your call, and it is the reason the optional secure remote workstation exists. It puts the engineer inside a US-hosted virtual desktop, so your data and tooling stay on US infrastructure rather than a personal machine abroad. Access is controlled centrally and revoked the day an engagement ends, activity monitoring is disclosed and written into the agreement, and the endpoint is managed.
How long until you send me candidates?
We do not publish a timeline and we will not invent one for you on a call. A single firewall platform with flexible hours is a different search from a multi-vendor estate with a night change window. We are deliberately slower than firms that forward resumes, because the scoping and the five screening gates happen before you see a shortlist rather than after.
Can I add a second engineer or a whole team later?
Yes. The same arrangement scales to a dedicated team across a function, so a network engineer, a systems administrator and a security analyst can all sit under your managers on the same monthly model. Each seat is scoped and searched on its own, and each one opens with its own deposit that credits back against the first invoice.
Roles we place
Other roles we place
Tell us what your network actually runs on
Tell us the role, the hours you need covered, and what good looks like in ninety days. We will come back with a plan and a shortlist.