DevOps and cloud engineer recruitmentClients in the UK, Europe and USA
Infrastructure CVs are lists of tools. An engineer who runs production systems reads every one before you do, so you only interview people with the operational judgement the role needs.
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Anyone can list AWS, Terraform and Kubernetes. Telling a platform engineer from someone who has followed a tutorial takes an engineer, so every CV comes to you for a second read, usually while you are the one keeping production running.
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You need CVs that pass engineering’s interview, so you can send a shortlist it trusts. An engineer reads every CV before it reaches you. Fewer CVs, but better ones.
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of HR and recruitment leads who use agencies say the main reason engineering rejects agency candidates is that the CV looked good, but the person couldn’t do the job.
A developer or CTO who works in the stack interviews every candidate. Each of these is a question you would otherwise only answer in your own interview.
Whether they can design a secure network and service layout, explain identity boundaries and make explicit trade-offs between resilience, complexity and cloud cost.
How they reason about container behaviour, Terraform state, deployment safety and Kubernetes failure modes, including failed rollouts, drift and service discovery.
Given an incident signal, what they inspect first, which telemetry is missing, how they limit impact and what changes should follow the post-incident review.
They can explain what the cloud service, container runtime or pipeline is doing underneath, and how they would investigate a failure without copying fixes from an AI assistant.
They can explain how they review generated infrastructure code and scripts before they touch production, and keep credentials and confidential data out of prompts.
They communicate impact and uncertainty clearly, say what they do not know yet and ask for help early.
We recruit DevOps, platform and cloud engineers across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. An engineer screens every candidate on infrastructure as code, container platforms, delivery automation, observability, security and running production systems.
Either way you get about 3 to 5 screened CVs a week, per role.
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“Metamindz helped us recruit our now CTO, reviewing CVs as they came in and then putting the CTO through a thorough 90-minute live 360 technical test. Feedback from our now CTO of the test was glowing and comms from Metamindz throughout the entire process were excellent. Highly recommend!”
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Co-Founder, Pockla
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CEO, Fuller Focus
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£5,000
Fixed fee for your first role
15% to 17%
Commission on each further hire
Deep technical interview (Route 2)£300 an hour
A 1.5 to 2 hour live-coding and technical grilling session per final candidate.
All fees exclude VAT.
Tell us about the roleOur recruitment experience includes AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and related services such as AWS S3, Azure Front Door, CloudWatch and serverless functions.
Yes. We define the operational ownership and tooling required, then adapt sourcing and assessment to the role.
Yes. Technical screening can cover Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD and the architecture decisions around them.
Give us a few details about the role and your hiring plans. We'll assess your needs and get back to you with a practical next step.
Listed for reference. We use these to scope the brief with you. A keyword on a CV is where screening starts, and the interview decides whether the candidate can do the work.
Teams usually bring us in for: A product team formalising its platform. A cloud migration or infrastructure rebuild. A team improving deployment reliability and observability.