From an early-stage cloud engineer through to a head of platform, we recruit the full spectrum of cloud-and-tech talent for UK businesses scaling their infrastructure. Stack-aware, engineer-vetted, calibrated to your roadmap.
How We Engage
Three Ways to Work With Us
We tailor the engagement to the role - from straightforward engineer hires through to confidential principal-level appointments. Every engagement starts with a stack-aware briefing call.
Most Common
Contingent Search
For most engineer, senior engineer and lead briefs. We map the relevant market, source candidates and present a calibrated shortlist. You only pay on a successful placement.
Cloud engineers, mid to senior
DevOps and SRE specialists
Kubernetes and platform engineers
Cloud data and security engineers
Written replacement guarantee
Leadership
Retained Search
For senior, confidential or strategically important hires. A focused, exclusive engagement with milestone-based fees and detailed market mapping for the role.
Heads of Cloud and Platform
Principal architects and staff engineers
Confidential leadership replacements
Detailed market intelligence report
Exclusive sourcing across the market
Project
Multi-Hire Build-Outs
For engineering organisations scaling from a handful of engineers to a full team, or standing up new platform, SRE or security functions. A structured, milestone-based engagement across multiple hires.
Platform team build-outs
SRE and reliability function launch
Cloud migration teams
Single point of contact
Reduced fee tier across project
Roles We Place
Our Cloud Recruitment Services
Across the full cloud-engineering stack, from individual contributor through to engineering leadership.
Cloud Engineers
Hands-on engineers shipping production workloads on AWS, Azure and GCP for UK businesses of every size and stage.
Terraform, Pulumi and CloudFormation specialists shipping infrastructure with proper module discipline and review.
FinOps & Cost Engineering
Engineers and analysts driving cloud cost visibility, showback, savings plans and architectural cost optimisation.
Cloud Data Engineers
Data engineers building pipelines and warehouses on cloud-native stacks - Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks and dbt.
Solutions Architects
Pre-sales and customer-facing architects translating business outcomes into cloud architectures for vendors and ISVs.
Cloud Operations
Cloud support engineers, NOC analysts and operations leads keeping production estates healthy around the clock.
Engineering Leadership
Heads of Cloud, Heads of Platform, Engineering Managers and Directors building and scaling cloud-native organisations.
Principal & Staff Engineers
Senior individual contributors setting technical direction across cloud, platform and reliability disciplines.
Cloud Migration Engineers
Engineers leading data-centre exits and re-platforming projects - on-prem to AWS, Azure or GCP, plus inter-cloud migrations.
MLOps & AI Platform
Engineers building model deployment, training and inference platforms on cloud-native stacks for AI-forward businesses.
Network & Edge Engineering
Cloud network engineers, edge specialists and CDN-focused infrastructure engineers across UK markets.
Our Method
How a Cloud Recruit UK Search Runs
A four-stage process designed to deliver fewer, better candidates - calibrated to your stack, your delivery model and your culture.
01
Brief & Calibrate
An in-depth conversation with the engineering manager, the team lead and the wider organisation. We unpack the stack, the roadmap and the cultural cues.
02
Map & Approach
A targeted market map of the relevant UK engineering community, focused approaches to passive candidates, discreet sourcing.
03
Shortlist & Interview
Calibrated shortlist with detailed candidate packs. We coordinate technical loops and gather feedback both ways at every stage.
04
Offer & Onboard
Offer management, resignation support, structured aftercare through notice periods and the first six months of the engineer's tenure.
Sectors We Serve
Where Our Clients Operate
From cloud-native scale-ups to regulated enterprises, we recruit cloud talent across the UK economy.
Financial Services & Fintech
Banks, payments businesses, neobanks and fintech scale-ups running regulated cloud estates with serious compliance baselines.
SaaS & Cloud-Native Scale-Ups
Series A through pre-IPO businesses scaling cloud platforms, hiring their first SRE or building a platform team from scratch.
Retail & E-Commerce
Online retailers and marketplaces running high-traffic cloud estates with peak-event reliability requirements.
Media & Streaming
Broadcasters, streaming platforms and ad-tech businesses running cloud-scale media pipelines and edge delivery.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Health-tech, NHS-aligned and pharma businesses managing sensitive workloads on regulated cloud platforms.
Public Sector & GovTech
Central and local government, regulators and GovTech suppliers building cloud-first digital services.
Cloud Vendors & ISVs
Cloud-native software vendors, ISVs and consultancies hiring solutions architects, principal engineers and platform leads.
Manufacturing & Logistics
Industrial and logistics businesses extending into IoT, edge and cloud-connected operations.
Brief Us
Tell Us What You Need to Hire
From a single cloud engineer through to a full platform team, every brief gets a senior consultant and a stack-aware conversation.