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UK Cloud & Tech Recruitment

Cloud Engineering Talent for UK Businesses Scaling Infrastructure

Cloud Recruit UK partners with engineering teams across the United Kingdom to place cloud engineers, architects, DevOps engineers, SREs, platform engineers and cloud security specialists. Stack-aware briefing, engineer-vetted shortlists, calibrated to your roadmap.

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Tech-First Recruiters Engineer-Vetted Shortlists Nationwide Coverage
Tech-First Recruiters who speak the stack
Engineer-Vetted Technical screen on every CV
Stack-Specific AWS, Azure, GCP & beyond
UK-Wide London to Edinburgh, regional reach
Cloud Roles We Place

The Full Cloud Engineering Stack

From hands-on cloud engineers to principal architects, DevOps to FinOps, we recruit the specialist roles that keep modern infrastructure running.

Cloud Engineers

Hands-on engineers building, deploying and operating workloads on AWS, Azure and GCP for UK businesses of every size. For clinical roles, we partner with Emergency Medical Staffing Services, a specialist agency for US emergency departments.

For clients hiring permanent professional talent across Northern Ireland, we refer to Recruitment Agency Belfast, a specialist partner agency covering twelve sectors with a one-consultant model and credential-verified shortlists.

For clients with international hiring needs, our partner Aristo Search provides global professional recruitment across the United Kingdom, Ireland, the United States, and Australia.

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • Linux
  • Networking

Cloud Architects

Senior architects designing scalable, resilient platforms - well-architected reviews, landing zones, multi-region strategy.

  • Solution Architect
  • Enterprise Architect
  • Well-Architected
  • Landing Zones

DevOps Engineers

Engineers automating CI/CD, build pipelines and deployment workflows - from GitHub Actions to ArgoCD to GitLab.

  • CI/CD
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab
  • ArgoCD
  • Jenkins

Site Reliability Engineers

SREs running observability, SLOs, error budgets and on-call rotations for engineering teams that take reliability seriously.

  • SLO/SLI
  • Observability
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Datadog

Platform Engineers

Engineers building internal developer platforms, golden paths and self-service infrastructure for product teams.

  • IDP
  • Backstage
  • Crossplane
  • Self-Service
  • Golden Paths

Kubernetes Engineers

Container and orchestration specialists running production Kubernetes - EKS, AKS, GKE and on-prem distributions.

  • Kubernetes
  • EKS
  • AKS
  • GKE
  • Helm
  • Istio

Cloud Security Engineers

Security engineers hardening cloud estates - IAM, secrets, posture management, compliance and incident response.

  • IAM
  • CSPM
  • Zero Trust
  • SIEM
  • Compliance

Infrastructure & IaC Engineers

Terraform, Pulumi and CloudFormation specialists shipping infrastructure as code with proper module discipline.

  • Terraform
  • Pulumi
  • CloudFormation
  • Ansible
  • Modules

FinOps & Cost Engineers

Engineers and analysts driving cloud cost visibility, showback, savings plans and architectural cost optimisation.

  • FinOps
  • Cost Optimisation
  • Savings Plans
  • Tagging

Cloud Data Engineers

Data engineers building pipelines and warehouses on cloud-native stacks - Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks and dbt.

  • Snowflake
  • BigQuery
  • Databricks
  • dbt
  • Airflow

Solutions Architects

Pre-sales and customer-facing architects translating business outcomes into cloud architectures for vendors and ISVs.

  • Pre-Sales
  • Customer SA
  • Reference Architectures
  • Demos

Cloud Operations & Support

Cloud support engineers, NOC analysts and operations leads keeping production estates healthy around the clock.

  • Cloud Support
  • NOC
  • L2/L3
  • Incident Response
Where We Operate

Specialist Areas of Cloud Recruitment

Four core territories where Cloud Recruit UK runs deeper. Each is built on years of conversations with engineering leaders and the people they hire.

01 / AWS, Azure & GCP Specialists

The Hyperscaler Stack

We recruit deeply across the three hyperscalers - from junior engineers chasing their first associate certification through to principal architects who have run multi-region production estates for the better part of a decade.

Whether you are an AWS shop hiring for EKS and Lambda, an Azure house extending into AKS and App Service, or a GCP team scaling on Anthos, we calibrate the brief to the actual stack rather than the buzzword bingo on the job spec.

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • Multi-Cloud
  • EKS
  • AKS
  • GKE
  • Lambda
02 / DevOps & SRE

Reliability, Automation & Velocity

DevOps and SRE briefs need a recruiter who understands the difference between a team running a polished platform with proper SLOs and one that has stitched together Jenkins, a wiki and good intentions. We get under the bonnet of both.

From CI/CD specialists through to staff SREs leading observability strategy, we place engineers who push deployment frequency up and incident counts down - with the on-call experience to back it.

  • CI/CD
  • SRE
  • Observability
  • SLO/SLI
  • Prometheus
  • Datadog
  • On-Call
03 / Platform Engineering

Internal Developer Platforms

Platform engineering has matured into one of the most in-demand specialisms in UK tech. Building golden paths, self-service infrastructure and internal developer portals takes engineers who have done it before, not just read the Team Topologies summary.

We recruit platform leads, staff engineers and platform product managers for organisations building real IDPs - on Backstage, Crossplane, Humanitec and the home-rolled equivalents.

  • IDP
  • Backstage
  • Crossplane
  • Humanitec
  • Platform PM
  • Golden Paths
04 / Cloud Security

Posture, Identity & Compliance

Cloud security recruiting is its own discipline. The blast radius of a misconfigured IAM role is bigger than most boardrooms appreciate, and the engineers who can lock things down without blocking delivery are rare.

We place cloud security engineers, IAM specialists, posture management leads, application security engineers and compliance-focused architects across regulated and unregulated UK businesses.

  • IAM
  • CSPM
  • Zero Trust
  • AppSec
  • SOC 2
  • ISO 27001
Why Cloud Recruit UK

Recruitment Built for Engineering Teams

Six reasons UK engineering leaders return to us when they need cloud talent that holds up in the first six months and beyond.

Tech-First Recruiters

Our consultants come from cloud and DevOps backgrounds. We can hold a meaningful conversation about Kubernetes operators, Terraform module patterns or VPC peering without reaching for a glossary.

Engineer-Vetted Shortlists

Every CV that reaches you has been screened against the actual technical brief, not just job-spec keywords. Fewer, better candidates - calibrated to your stack and seniority.

Stack-Specific Briefing

An AWS Lambda team and a Kubernetes shop are not the same hire. We dig into your stack, your delivery model and your culture before naming a single candidate.

Replacement Cover

Every placement is backed by a written replacement guarantee. If the fit is not right within the agreed window, we run the search again at no further fee.

Senior Recruiters Only

You speak with the consultant who runs your search end to end. No handovers, no juniors briefed off a Slack thread, no recruiter you never meet.

Nationwide Reach

From the London cloud-native scene to Manchester, Edinburgh, Bristol, Leeds, Birmingham and the South West, we know the regional engineering markets.

How We Work

A Calibrated Four-Step Search

Methodical, transparent and built around your delivery timelines. Each stage is designed to surface the right engineer, not just the most CVs.

01

Discover

We meet the engineering manager, the team and the business. We unpack the stack, the roadmap and the cultural cues that no job spec ever captures.

02

Map

We map the relevant engineering market, identify passive candidates and curate a shortlist matched on technical depth and delivery context.

03

Interview

Detailed candidate packs, calibrated feedback both ways, offer management. We project-manage the entire loop on your behalf.

04

Aftercare

Structured check-ins through notice and the first six months. Replacement cover if circumstances change. We stay close.

Coverage

Across the United Kingdom

Cloud Recruit UK supports engineering teams in every major UK technology hub, with regional consultants who know the local market.

London
Greater London & City
Manchester
Greater Manchester
Birmingham
West Midlands
Leeds
West Yorkshire
Bristol
South West
Edinburgh
Scotland
Glasgow
Scotland
Cardiff
Wales
Belfast
Northern Ireland
Newcastle
North East
Reading
Thames Valley
Cambridge
East of England
Common Questions

Hiring Questions, Answered

The questions UK engineering leaders ask us most often.

How quickly can you turn around a shortlist?

Most active briefs go from kick-off call to a calibrated shortlist within seven to ten working days. Niche briefs - principal-level platform engineers, hands-on cloud security architects, FinOps leads - can take longer because the candidate pool is smaller and we will not pad a shortlist with near-misses. We give you a realistic timeline at discovery and update you weekly.

How do you actually screen for technical depth?

Every candidate goes through a stack-specific conversation with a consultant from a cloud or DevOps background. We probe real production experience - architectures shipped, incidents owned, cost decisions made - rather than relying on the candidate's own list of acronyms. We also align with your engineering team on the technical loop so the screening signal carries through.

How do you charge?

We work on either a contingent or retained basis depending on the seniority and confidentiality of the role. Most engineer and senior engineer briefs run as contingent searches, payable only on a successful start. Principal, lead and confidential leadership hires are typically retained, with milestone-based fees. Terms are agreed in writing before we begin.

Do you offer a replacement guarantee?

Yes. Every placement is backed by a written replacement guarantee. If a candidate leaves within the agreed period, we run the search again at no additional fee. The specific window is confirmed in our engagement letter and aligned to the seniority of the role.

Which UK regions do you cover?

We recruit nationwide. The bulk of our work concentrates in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Bristol, Leeds, Birmingham and Cambridge, but we also support teams in Glasgow, Cardiff, Belfast, Newcastle and Reading, plus remote-first organisations hiring engineers across the wider UK.

Do you only work with large engineering teams?

Not at all. We partner with FTSE-listed groups, scale-ups, mid-market businesses and early-stage cloud-native teams. A founder hiring their first cloud engineer gets the same level of care as an enterprise rebuilding a platform group. The scope of the brief shapes the engagement, not the size of the company.

Can you work with confidential or sensitive briefs?

Yes. Confidential leadership replacements, retained partner-level searches and discreet build-outs are run on a retained basis with anonymised candidate packs. We never advertise sensitive vacancies and we never approach a candidate without permission to discuss the opportunity in confidence.

What sectors do you place engineers into?

Across financial services, fintech, retail, e-commerce, SaaS, media, healthcare and the public sector. We work with cloud-native scale-ups, regulated enterprises and ISVs building cloud products. The common thread is that the team takes engineering quality seriously and is hiring engineers who do the same.

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Whether you are hiring your first cloud engineer, scaling a platform team or replacing a head of cloud, we would value the chance to discuss the role.

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