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Explore our vision: Incredible, effortless recruitment
£40k-£65k
Typical base salary
12 wks
Replacement guarantee
Reliability focus
Ask how they've improved uptime or handled a major incident.
Breadth of environment
Match their experience - on-prem, cloud, hybrid - to yours.
Security awareness
Infrastructure is a security frontline. Probe how they think about it.
How to run the hire
1. Define the environment
Be clear on on-prem versus cloud, the tech, and what they'll own.
2. Score for reliability
Weight a track record of stable, secure systems.
3. Source and screen
Approach candidates with relevant environment experience.
4. Test with a scenario
Use an incident or migration to hear their approach.
5. Reference stability
Confirm they kept systems up and secure.
Fees typically run 15-20% of first-year salary, capped and agreed upfront.
Nothing is due until your hire starts.
Usually 4-8 weeks.
The variable is how much your environment leans on-prem, cloud or hybrid, and how niche the tech is.
An Infrastructure Engineer builds and maintains the servers, networks, storage and cloud systems that everything else runs on.
They focus on reliability, performance and security, and are often first to respond when something breaks.
Yes. Someone deep in on-prem may need time to ramp on cloud, and vice versa.
We match environment experience to yours, while weighting strong fundamentals that transfer.
Try: Walk me through a major outage you resolved.
How do you approach patching and security?
Tell me about a migration you ran. and How do you monitor and prevent problems?
Yes, across on-premise, cloud and hybrid environments.
We'll match candidates to your specific setup so they're productive quickly.
Tell us about your role and a specialist IT recruiter will call you. No fee until your hire starts.
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