Technical staffing

Hire cloud and devops engineers

Engineers who build and run the platforms your software depends on: cloud infrastructure, automation, delivery pipelines and reliability.

Roles we place

The roles in this category

Cloud engineer

Builds and manages infrastructure on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.

DevOps and platform engineer

Automates build, test and release, and runs the internal platform.

Site reliability engineer

Keeps services up: monitoring, incident response and capacity.

Cloud architect

Designs environments for security, cost and scale, including migrations.

Skills we match on

The skills behind the title

We match on what an engineer has used in production, not on a keyword list. Your brief decides which of these matter.

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Google Cloud
  • Terraform
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI
  • Linux
  • Networking
  • Observability
  • FinOps

When companies hire them

  • A cloud migration with a deadline
  • Releases that are slow, manual or risky
  • Incidents and cloud costs that keep climbing

Related role

Need someone who works with customers too?

If the work happens in a customer's environment, or needs someone who can sit with users as well as build, consider a forward deployed infrastructure engineer instead.

About the Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer

Hiring options

Hire the way that fits the work

Compare options

Contract

An FDE embedded in your team for the length of the work. Best when you have a defined program and need the skills now, without adding headcount.

  • You direct the work day to day
  • Billed for time worked
  • Extend or end as the work changes

Contract to hire

Start on contract, then hire the engineer onto your team. Best when you want a permanent forward deployed capability and want to see the fit first.

  • Work together before committing
  • Conversion terms agreed up front
  • Keeps the knowledge in house

Direct hire

We find the engineer. You employ them from day one. Best when you are building an FDE team of your own and need help finding the people.

  • Your employee from the first day
  • One placement fee
  • We run the search and first screens

FDE hub

A deployment strategist and a small team of engineers. Best when the work needs business and engineering skills at once, with one point of accountability.

  • Strategist plus two or more engineers
  • Sized to the problem
  • One team, one plan

Hire FDEs

Need cloud and devops engineers?

Someone who understands forward deployed work reads every brief and replies with a view on the engineers you need, how many, and the hiring option that fits.