Network engineering
Routing and switching at carrier depth: BGP, MPLS, VXLAN/EVPN fabrics, data centre and campus refresh, WAN strategy, and the migrations nobody wants to run at 2 a.m.
Network · Security · Cloud · Automation · AI
The expertise costs the same to deliver. It doesn't cost the same to buy.
Z-Networks is a Latin American engineering practice built around double-CCIE design authority. We run the same fabrics, firewalls and clouds your North American vendors run — in your time zone, at a fraction of the bill rate.
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0–2 hUS time offset
25+ yrsCarrier depth
2×CCIE certified
$ traceroute --metric usd_per_hour expertise.senior
The evidence
North America vs LATAM, role by role
Blended client bill rates in USD per hour — what a company actually pays a firm, not local salaries. Filter by discipline, then export the whole table for your own business case.
Bill rate benchmark
North America average
Z-Networks LATAM average
Saving vs North America
Full table
| Role | NA range | NA avg | LATAM range | LATAM avg | Saving / h | Saving % |
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Your numbers
What would your team cost from LATAM?
Set the shape of the team you already pay for. The saving updates as you move.
Annual saving
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Current annual spend
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With Z-Networks
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Saving over 3 years
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Same scope, same seniority
Or reinvest it as
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extra engineers, at no increase in budget
Cumulative saving, years 1–3
Applied to global companies
Three shapes this takes in practice
Each example is a team we could staff today, priced from the benchmark table above. Figures are annual, at 40 hours a week over 46 billable weeks.
How to apply this inside a global company
Split the work by rate sensitivity, not by geography
Design authority, audit and vendor negotiation stay where they are. Change execution, policy hygiene, migrations, monitoring and automation move to LATAM. Most organisations find 60–75% of network engineering hours are in that second bucket.
Start with one region, usually the Americas
LATAM sites are the easiest first win: local language, local business hours, and no overnight handoff. Prove the model on a regional SD-WAN or firewall refresh before extending it to EMEA and APAC coverage windows.
Buy outcomes for projects, capacity for run
Fixed-scope pricing for migrations and refreshes; a monthly retained block of hours for run-state and escalation. That keeps the saving predictable enough to put in a budget line.
Spend part of the saving on automation and training
The saving is a discount only once. Put a slice of it into config pipelines, agentic runbooks and upskilling your own staff, and the hours themselves start to fall.
What we take on
Services for businesses of any size
From a single branch to a multi-region fabric. Same engineers, scoped to fit.
Cybersecurity & SASE
Palo Alto and Panorama, Fortinet, Zscaler ZIA/ZPA. Rule-base rationalisation, segmentation, and NIST-aligned Zero Trust rollouts that survive an audit.
Cloud & hybrid connectivity
Azure, AWS and GCP landing-zone networking: transit hubs, peering, private endpoints, hybrid routing and egress cost control across all three at once.
Automation & NetDevOps
Ansible, Python and n8n pipelines for config, compliance and reporting. Version-controlled network state, pre-change validation, and the end of copy-paste CLI.
AI for operations
LLM-assisted triage, agentic runbooks and anomaly detection wired into the tooling you already own — built by engineers who understand the network underneath.
IT training
CCNA to CCNP-level instruction, security and automation upskilling, and technical English for engineering teams. Delivered live, in English or Portuguese.
The bench
Who you actually get
Certified, senior, and priced from the same table you just downloaded.
Rates shown are Z-Networks LATAM averages in USD per hour. Volume and multi-month retainers price below the range.
Next step
Send us the scope. We'll send back a number.
Tell us the sites, the platforms and the window. You get a fixed-scope quote or a retained-hours proposal, benchmarked against the rate card on this page — usually within two business days.
Conversations in English, Portuguese or Spanish.