Technical staffing
Hire security engineers
Engineers who secure your cloud, your applications and your identities, and work with delivery teams rather than around them.
Roles we place
The roles in this category
Cloud security engineer
Secures cloud accounts, networks and workloads, and the policies around them.
Application security engineer
Finds and fixes weaknesses in code, dependencies and delivery pipelines.
Identity and access engineer
Designs and runs how people and systems get access, and how it is removed.
Security operations engineer
Detects and responds to threats across your environment.
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.
- Cloud security
- Identity and access management
- Threat modeling
- Secure code review
- SIEM
- Vulnerability management
- Zero trust
- Kubernetes security
- Compliance frameworks
- Incident response
When companies hire them
- Security review is slowing every release
- Cloud accounts grew faster than their controls
- An AI system needs security sign-off before launch
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 EngineerHiring options
Hire the way that fits the work
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
Other categories
More technical staffing
AI and ML engineers
Machine learning, LLM applications and MLOps, for teams building AI into their products and operations.
Roles and skillsData engineers
Pipelines, warehouses and analytics engineering, so your data is ready for reporting and AI.
Roles and skillsCloud and DevOps engineers
Cloud platforms, infrastructure as code, CI/CD and reliability, on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
Roles and skillsSoftware engineers
Backend, full-stack and integration engineers who ship production software with your team.
Roles and skillsHire FDEs
Need security 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.