People & Talent
IT Staff Augmentation Vietnam
Contract engineers for cloud, development, data, security and enterprise platforms
Engineers and technical specialists on contract, screened before you see them, employed through our Vietnamese entity so there is nothing for you to incorporate and no worker classification argument waiting a year out. Your technical leads run the work. Cloud and DevOps, software engineering, cybersecurity, data engineering, and the enterprise platform specialisms around Odoo, SAP, Oracle and Salesforce.
24+ years
of group tech talent experience
2,000+ companies
Trusted across SEA
15 industries
Tech talent deployment depth
5 markets
VN · SG · MY · TH · ID
How it works
1
Define
Tech stack, seniority, project scope, and integration mode (on-site, hybrid, fully remote).
2
Match
Shortlist from our active technical contractor network - pre-vetted for skills and English communication.
3
Deploy
Onboarding with your dev team, access provisioning, and integration into your sprint cadence.
4
Sustain
Performance management, replacement coverage, and contract extension or conversion as your needs evolve.
IT staff augmentation in Vietnam, built on 24+ years
Vietnam has more software engineers than almost anywhere else in the region at the price, and that is exactly why augmenting here needs care. The market is liquid: developers change employers every two or three years, offers get counter-offered, and a contractor who is not enjoying the work will move. What separates an engagement that ships from one that churns is usually not the sourcing but the brief and the onboarding. We employ each contractor through People Profilers Services Vietnam Company Limited, carrying compulsory social, health and unemployment insurance and monthly personal income tax withholding, so you get an engineer in your standup and your code review without a Vietnamese entity, a contractor invoice chain, or the misclassification risk that comes with treating a full-time developer as a freelancer.
How our monthly engagement works
A monthly rate per contractor, set by seniority, scarcity of the skill, and the length of the engagement. Discussed at briefing, fixed in the engagement letter before deployment, and held for the term. No retainer, no placement fee on top.
Engineering & Development
- ✓Backend, Frontend, Full-stack engineers
- ✓Mobile (iOS, Android, cross-platform)
- ✓Mid to Senior seniority
- ✓Typical engagement 3–12 months
DevOps & Infrastructure
- ✓DevOps, SRE, Platform engineers
- ✓Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) specialists
- ✓Security and compliance engineers
- ✓Typical engagement 6–18 months
Product, QA & Specialist
- ✓Product Managers, Technical Project Managers
- ✓QA engineers, Automation specialists
- ✓Data engineers and analysts
- ✓Engagement length scoped to project
Term, rate, notice and replacement provisions are documented before deployment. Every contractor is a direct employee of our Vietnamese entity, with the compulsory social, health and unemployment insurance contributions already inside the rate you are quoted.
What makes augmentation work in Vietnam
Contract engineering fails in a small number of recognisable ways. Three explain most of the disappointment.
A brief written in your stack, not in job titles
Vagueness in the brief. Name the system, the outcomes for the next few sprints, and which decisions this person makes without asking. Ask for an engineer and engineers arrive; ask for the person who can do this particular thing and the shortlist changes completely.
Access sorted before day one
Holding the contractor outside the team. Standups, code review, the same definition of done as everybody else. Work built in isolation gets rebuilt, and the cost of rebuilding it dwarfs whatever rate difference was under discussion.
Engagement long enough to be worth taking
Leaving handover to the last two weeks. Decisions recorded, components with named owners, and time deliberately reserved for knowledge transfer. What survives a contract ending is only what was written down while the contractor was still there.
TECHNICAL AUGMENTATION
Engineers who join your standup, on our employment contract
Screened for stack fit before shortlist · Social, health and unemployment insurance and payroll carried by our Vietnamese entity · Scale up or down without redundancy exposure
Tech Disciplines We Augment
The specialisms below are what engineering teams here reach for when a roadmap has outrun the headcount plan. We recruit across Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi and Da Nang, and because every contractor is our employee rather than a freelancer, the classification exposure that worries finance directors does not arise.
Aerospace & Aviation
Aircraft maintenance technicians, avionics and component specialists, ground operations and aviation supply chain roles around Tan Son Nhat, Noi Bai and Long Thanh.
Automotive
Production and quality engineers, supplier development, sales and aftersales management for assemblers and the growing EV and component base.
Banking & Financial Services
Relationship managers, credit and risk analysts, compliance and AML officers and operations specialists across Vietnamese commercial banks, insurers and securities firms.
Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical
Regulatory affairs, QA and validation, medical representatives and market access roles for manufacturers, importers and distributors.
Chemical
Process and production engineers, plant supervisors, HSE officers and technical sales across the southern and central industrial zones.
Construction & Civil Engineering
Project and site managers, civil, structural and M&E engineers, quantity surveyors and safety officers on Vietnamese infrastructure and property projects.
FMCG & Retail
Brand and trade marketing managers, key account and modern trade specialists, and retail operations across a fast-growing national footprint.
Healthcare
Clinical operations, nursing leadership, medical representatives and regulatory specialists for private hospital groups and device companies.
IT & Telecommunication
Software engineers, DevOps, product managers and data specialists across the Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi and Da Nang development centres and outsourcing firms.
Logistics & Transportation
Freight forwarding, customs and import-export specialists, warehouse and distribution managers around Cat Lai, Hai Phong and the border crossings.
Marine & Offshore Engineering
Marine and subsea engineers, yard and vessel operations, project managers and HSE specialists across shipbuilding and offshore support.
Media & Publishing
Account management, content and performance marketing, creative and production roles across agencies, platforms and publishers.
Oil & Gas
Process, drilling and project engineers, HSE coordinators and commercial analysts for upstream operators, service companies and refineries.
Real Estate & Property
Development and project managers, leasing and property managers, facilities leads and investment roles for Vietnamese developers and funds.
Semiconductor
Process, test and packaging engineers, equipment and production specialists across the assembly and testing plants in the northern and southern parks.
Frequently asked questions
Who provides the augmented IT contractors?
People Profilers Services Vietnam Company Limited is the direct employer of all augmented IT contractors deployed in Vietnam. We handle employment, statutory contributions (social insurance, health insurance, and unemployment insurance), payroll, and ongoing HR administration. You manage the technical work; we manage the employment relationship.
What technology roles do you cover?
Cloud and platform engineering, DevOps and reliability, backend, frontend and mobile development, data engineering and analytics, cybersecurity across operations and governance, QA and test automation, and the enterprise platform work around Odoo, SAP, Oracle and Salesforce.
We do not pretend to cover everything. Where a requirement is genuinely rare in this market, you will get an honest estimate of what a real search looks like rather than the nearest available person.
How are your rates structured?
One monthly rate per contractor. Seniority sets most of it, scarcity moves it, and a longer committed term brings it down. The compulsory insurance contributions are inside the number, so the quote is the cost.
No placement fee and no retainer. If a contractor leaves or is not working out, the replacement provisions in the engagement letter apply, and they were agreed before deployment rather than improvised afterwards.
Can we convert an augmented contractor to a permanent hire?
Yes, and it happens regularly. Six months working alongside somebody reveals what no interview process will, so a fair number of these engagements end with the client wanting to keep the person.
Conversion terms sit in the engagement letter. The fee reduces the longer the contractor has been with you and disappears past a certain point, because we would rather you hired someone who has proved themselves than lose them to a commercial technicality.
How quickly can you deploy?
For mainstream stacks where our network is deep, candidates inside about a week, with the start date then governed mostly by notice periods rather than by the search.
Scarce specialisms take longer, and security or regulated-environment roles longer again once screening is counted. You get a timeline against your actual brief, because an average across every kind of role describes none of them.
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