Technical Depth
Our consultants come from cloud, DevOps and platform backgrounds. We engage on the substance of a brief - architecture choices, delivery model, on-call posture - rather than the surface of a job spec.
A specialist cloud and tech recruitment agency built around senior consultants, technical screening and long-term relationships with the engineering teams we serve.
Cloud Recruit UK exists for a reason that matters to the people we work with: cloud engineering deserves recruiters who treat the craft with the same rigour the engineers themselves bring to it.
For too long, technology recruitment has been a volume game. Junior consultants ringing every name in the database, generic CVs forwarded without context, and a culture of speed over signal. We work the opposite way. Every brief is owned by a senior consultant from a cloud or DevOps background who understands the difference between a 4 YOE engineer who has shipped Terraform modules in production and one who has touched HCL twice. Between a startup running on Heroku-with-extra-steps and a regulated business operating a real multi-account AWS estate.
We work with engineering teams across the United Kingdom that take cloud quality seriously and want a recruiter who carries the conversation rather than relays it. That focus is what we are built around.
Three values shape every search we run, every conversation we have, and every brief we accept.
Our consultants come from cloud, DevOps and platform backgrounds. We engage on the substance of a brief - architecture choices, delivery model, on-call posture - rather than the surface of a job spec.
We tell you when a brief is unrealistic, when a salary band will not attract the right candidate, and when an engineer is not the right fit. Sometimes that costs us a placement. We are fine with that.
Long shortlists are a sign of poor work. We send fewer, better candidates - each one calibrated to the stack, the seniority and the team. Volume is not a substitute for fit, especially in cloud.
Six commitments we make to every client and every engineer in our network.
You speak with the consultant running the search. No handoffs to juniors, no relays through a partner you never meet.
Every shortlisted engineer has had a stack-specific conversation with a consultant who can hold one. No keyword forwarding.
Every placement is backed by a guarantee. If a candidate leaves within the agreed window, we run the search again at no fee.
We only send candidates with consent, briefed on the role and engaged with the opportunity. No fishing, no inbox surprises.
We tell you up front how long the search will take and update you weekly. Surprises in week six are a sign of a bad recruiter.
A founder hiring their first cloud engineer gets the same diligence as an enterprise rebuilding a platform team. The fee size does not change the process.
The technical and ethical underpinnings of how Cloud Recruit UK runs its searches.
Candidate data is handled under UK GDPR with explicit consent for every approach, every CV submission and every reference check. Records are retained only with permission and only for as long as relevant.
We follow the Recruitment & Employment Confederation's Code of Professional Practice, including the duty to act with honesty, transparency and confidentiality across every engagement.
Shortlists are built on merit, calibrated against the brief. We work actively to source diverse engineering candidates and to challenge briefs that risk excluding talent without good reason.