Cloud, platform and DevOps recruitment
A platform engineer isn’t a DevOps engineer with a new job title. We know which one your team needs, and where to find them.
Roles we fill
Mid-level to head of department, contract and permanent, across the UK.
Cloud engineers
Design and run your infrastructure on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
Platform engineers
Build the internal platform your developers ship on.
DevOps engineers
Automate builds, releases and environments so teams ship safely.
Site reliability engineers
Keep production up, measured and improving.
Infrastructure engineers
Run the servers, storage and data centres behind it all.
Network engineers
Design and secure the networks your systems talk over.
Where cloud and platform hires go wrong
We see the same mistakes again and again. If your brief is heading for one, we’ll tell you.
One title for three jobs
Many “DevOps engineer” specs describe a platform engineer, an SRE and a sysadmin at once. Nobody is all three. We help you pick the one you need.
Certificates over experience
A cloud certificate shows someone passed an exam. Running production on that cloud is what you’re hiring for. We ask about the outages.
Forgetting on-call
If the role carries on-call, say so up front, with how it’s paid. Candidates find out anyway, and late surprises lose offers.
How we test for it
Before you meet anyone, we’ve asked the questions a generalist wouldn’t. Here are three we ask in every cloud and platform search.
- “Tell me about the worst outage you’ve worked on. What did you change afterwards?”
- “What would you automate first in a team that deploys by hand?”
- “How do you decide what not to put on the platform?”
You’ll work with the founders. Every time.
No hand-offs to a junior team. The person you speak to first knows the market, knows your brief and stays with you until the hire is made.
Jay Despojo, Kenan Zarif and Luke Pentney
Questions hiring managers ask
Which clouds do you recruit for?
AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, plus the hybrid and on-premises set-ups that many banks and insurers still run.
Do you recruit contract and permanent?
Yes, both. Migrations and platform builds often start with contractors, then move to a permanent team to run them.
Can you help us work out which role we need?
Yes. That’s usually our first conversation. Tell us what’s slowing your team down and we’ll suggest the role that fixes it.
Get in touch
Hiring, or looking for your next role? Send us a message.
What happens next
- We read every message ourselves.
- One of the founders gets back to you.
- If we’re not the right fit, we’ll say so.