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Cloud & DevOps Engineer Recruitment

Infrastructure hires carry operational risk. We look for engineers who have run systems like yours, at your scale, with your on-call reality.

Who This Helps

First platform hire

A team outgrowing ad-hoc infrastructure.

Kubernetes adoption

Moving workloads onto containers.

Reliability

Formalizing on-call, SLOs and incident response.

Security and cost

Hardening and right-sizing cloud environments.

Roles Compared

Titles overlap between companies, so we define the boundary with you first.

Cloud Engineer (AWS / Azure)

Builds and secures cloud environments. Usually not application development.

DevOps Engineer

CI/CD, automation and release workflows. Usually not deep SRE practice at scale.

Platform Engineer

Internal platforms, Kubernetes and developer experience.

Site Reliability Engineer

Reliability targets, incident response and observability. Usually not feature delivery.

Cloud Security Engineer

Identity, posture, guardrails and compliance evidence.

Environments Employers Often Ask For

Depth in your primary cloud usually matters more than a long tool list.

AWSAzureKubernetesTerraformGitHub ActionsAzure DevOpsPrometheus / GrafanaDatadogIdentity and access managementLinuxPython / Bash

Common Hiring Scenarios

First platform hire

One engineer to standardize environments, deployments and access.

Moving to Kubernetes

Experience running production clusters, not only tutorials.

Formalizing on-call and SRE

Someone who has defined SLOs and led incident reviews.

Cost and security hardening

Finding waste and closing gaps without slowing delivery.

What We Clarify Before Searching

  • On-call model and incident load
  • Infrastructure-as-code maturity
  • Compliance context, such as SOC 2 or HIPAA
  • Single-cloud depth or multi-cloud breadth
  • How platform and application teams work together

Engagement Options

  • Direct hire for permanent cloud, DevOps and SRE roles.
  • Contract for migrations and defined platform projects, with terms agreed in writing.

Cloud & DevOps Hiring Questions

DevOps engineers speed up delivery, platform engineers build shared infrastructure for developers, and SREs own reliability targets. Many roles mix them; we'll help you decide the balance.

They show study. We weight comparable production experience more.

Depth in your primary cloud usually matters more than breadth across several.

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