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£55k-£85k
Typical base salary
12 wks
Replacement guarantee
Automation mindset
Ask what they've automated and the impact - deploy time, reliability, cost.
Cloud and tooling
Match core cloud and tooling experience to your environment.
Reliability focus
Probe how they think about monitoring, incidents and resilience.
How to run the hire
1. Define your environment
Be clear on cloud, tooling and what you need automated or improved.
2. Score for impact
Weight what they've actually improved over a list of tools known.
3. Source and approach
This is a scarce, in-demand skill, so approach directly and move quickly.
4. Test with a scenario
Ask how they'd design a pipeline or handle an incident.
5. Reference the results
Confirm they made delivery faster and systems more reliable.
Fees typically run 18-22% of first-year salary, capped and agreed upfront.
Nothing is due until your hire starts. Demand is high, so a competitive package matters.
Usually 5-9 weeks.
Strong DevOps talent is scarce and in demand, so moving quickly with a fair offer is important.
A DevOps Engineer automates and manages the infrastructure and pipelines that get software from code to production reliably.
That spans cloud, infrastructure as code, deployment pipelines, monitoring and incident response.
DevOps focuses on automation, pipelines and the flow of software to production. Infrastructure Engineers focus more on the underlying systems and networks.
The roles overlap, so we scope your real need.
Try: Design a deployment pipeline for this scenario.
Tell me about an outage you handled.
What have you automated and what changed? and How do you approach infrastructure as code?
No - it's one of the more competitive technology skills, and good people have options.
We help you move quickly and present a compelling role, because a slow or lowball process loses the best candidates.
Tell us about your role and a specialist IT recruiter will call you. No fee until your hire starts.
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