Your devops recruitment specialists
As the demand has increased across industries for integrated software systems, the DevOps talent market has become extremely competitive, leaving many business leaders struggling to recruit skilled talent for their teams. Often, the top professionals aren’t actively looking for a job–in fact, they’re contacted so frequently by headhunters they’ve shut down the most common ways to get opportunities in front of them. This is where the specialized DevOps staffing services of Nexus IT Group recruitment agency come into play. We are experts in everything devops, with an extensive network of engineers and administrators who are ready to take on a new role when you need them.
Finding top DevOps talent
Those who manage databases and develop applications do more than just write scripts and code. They’re also critical to your overall operations, and at times serve other functions like training non-technical staff or providing support for customers. Non-technical qualifications like communication skills, resources management, or collaboration are just as crucial in these employees to guide a project through production to deployment and achieve your ultimate goal. A Nexus recruiter serves as a consultant, as well, helping business leaders identify exactly what they need from a candidate before we start our search. When we match someone with a company, both can trust that the opportunity is a good fit.
Another common impediment to effective DevOps staffing is a lack of knowledge about these positions. Our DevOps recruiters have an in-depth understanding of these jobs, their responsibilities, and the technologies they use. Thanks to this depth of knowledge, we speak the same language as the developers we place. We go beyond the job description to appreciate the difference between an infrastructure and a development background and which environments and projects each is best-suited for.
Hire better with Nexus IT Group
Whether you’re a hiring manager with a difficult DevOps role to fill or a professional considering a career shift, we would love to chat about your needs and how Nexus can help. Similar to technology roles across industries, the DevOps sector is evolving quickly, and having an experienced professional on your side can help you successfully navigate this changing landscape. Even if you just want some insights into how our recruiters help connect talent with opportunities in DevOps, we hope you’ll reach out so we can share our expertise and help your company or career continue to move forward.
Join the many companies that staff their roles with our devops talent
Nexus IT Group will quickly staff your open devops roles with high-quality committed candidates
81%
of our successful candidates are submitted within one week
92%
of our candidates will accept your offer
96%
of our candidates are employed with your firm after 12 months
We have filled a variety of devops roles
What our devops clients have said about working with Nexus IT Group
The great thing about nexus IT group is that it has a smaller family feel, but they are able to deliver IT candidates better than the largest IT staffing suppliers that we work with. They have delivered high quality tech candidates for several years to our firm.
I’ve been in Talent Acquisition for 15 years and have used many IT staffing firms over the years. I highly recommend Nick and nexus IT group over any other IT staffing services. nexus’ commitment to quality and delivery is top tier. They take the time to understand your needs, provide thorough screening, and make sure that candidates have a positive on-boarding experience.
Our technology department needed to build a team quickly with high quality DevOps candidates. We knew that posting the roles on our career site wouldn’t get the right talent in the tight deadline that we had. nexus IT group’s recruiting strategy and best practices really helped us identify and secure the right IT talent.
Working with nexus IT group has made my job much easier. Having a recruiting firm who specializes in IT and within my industry, and who understands our specific culture and hiring needs has been instrumental in our talent acquisition talent strategy.
Capital One has used nexus IT group’s recruitment services for a number of IT positions at varying levels, over the past 4 years. We’ve had a high success rate working with nexus IT group which is a testament to the caliber of their work and their internal sourcing and vetting practices.
nexus IT group has been very responsive and resourceful in helping us identify some great DevOps Engineers. DevOps Engineers are very difficult these days, and nexus IT group has produced high quality candidates for us in a very short period.
I’ve dealt with a lot of hiring firms in my 18 years in the investment banking profession, and the majority of them have been awful to mediocre at best. Dealing with Nexus IT Group, on the other hand, was a breath of fresh air. After only one one opening, I was blown away by the quality and quantity of resumes I received. Nexus IT Group pays close attention to my demands and requirements. As a result, the individuals who were referred to me were excellent fits for our open positions. I appreciate the personal and professional expertise you offer to the process.
It is hard to put into words what nexus IT group has done for our organization. nexus IT group knows exactly what we look for and they get the right candidates 99% of the time. Anyone looking to hire tech talent would be lucky to have nexus IT group on their side. They have great work ethic, responsive, and a wide array of market knowledge.
We’ve enlisted the help of a number of IT recruiting firms in the past. Nexus IT Group has contributed to the success of many great hires by working professionally, diligently, and efficiently. We contacted Nexus IT Group after being introduced to them, and we were instantly impressed by their promptness and ability to focus on our needs. We received 3 resumes the same day and 3 more the next day, and we were able to hire four people in less than a week. We added an additional individual through Nexus IT Group a few weeks later as a result of vast network, service and professionalism. I highly recommend working with Nexus IT Group.
Our devops staffing skills keep our clients coming back
DevOps Engineers
Headquartered in the Bay Area, this fast-growing cybersecurity software firm provides a unique information security offering to clients in both the government and commercial industries. Our client was trying to expand their DevOps engineering team but was running into multiple obstacles in their recruiting process. They kept losing out on candidates to other offers before they could finish interviewing the candidate and were really struggling to find candidates that were truly senior-level DevOps Engineers. With our extensive background in successfully recruiting DevOps Engineers, our client reached out to us once they had exhausted all of their internal recruiting options. We met with the DevOps Engineering Manager to understand the technical environment, the team’s culture and the future growth of the team and company. Within two weeks of receiving the position from our client, they offered a candidate we had recruited to their team and he started a few weeks later as their Sr. DevOps Engineer.
DevOps Engineer
Our client is a digital insurance company, powering partners around the world to drive business growth and customer value with insurance. Our client asked us to help them find several DevOps Engineers with Azure experience. The ideal candidate will help build and scale a SaaS startup using repeatable processes. The biggest challenge was sifting through the hundreds of candidates that required sponsorship to work in the US. Our client was not willing to sponsor for this role so our DevOps staffing team used creative sourcing strategies to get infront of the right candidates. We ended up hiring 3 DevOps Engineers and sourced 232 candidates.
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Frequently asked questions about devops recruiting
To nexus IT group placement is an art—one that requires the proper alignment of talent with opportunity, experience with need, personality with environment, and aspirations with value. The DevOps hiring space is fast-paced, highly competitive recruiting environment that offers big opportunities for DevOps candidates. Our full-cycle recruiting system is a 51 step touchpoint process from start to finish. Our engagement process starts with a discovery call to understand the needs of the role. With this series of questions our DevOps recruiters are able to build a sales cadence that we will use to deploy a multi-touch recruiting cadence precisely and accurately to hundreds of candidates that fit the expectations of the role. a relationship. Once our targeted search is executive, we spend a series of 3 calls to get to know the candidates’ needs, wants, and future career interests. Once we’ve created a shortlist of qualified and fully vetted candidates, we will deliver our top 2 to 3 candidates to the DevOps hiring manager. Once the interview process starts we work with the candidate and the hiring team to make sure communication is responsive and transparent. Once a candidate is placed, we stay in touch with the placed candidate for 2 years just to see how things are going.
Our candidate sourcing can be described in 3 words: Identify. Engage. Toolstack. Typically, the best job prospects are those who are passive. This indicates that they are not actively seeking employment. As a result, they are not surfing the Internet in search of online job postings. And because they are not viewing online job postings, we have developed a robust and 100% outbound recruiting strategy. We begin our sourcing strategy by creating a candidate persona. Once we have successfully created the candidate persona, we will then create a content strategy that will attract top talent in the cybersecurity space. Once we’ve developed our cadence we will use a number of sources to scour the web to get our message in front of the right candidates. Strategies includes searching our database, sourcing for referrals, sourcing from specific organizations, LinkedIn, Meetup, GitHub, Angel List, Dice, alumni boards, and many other specific DevOps sites. We craft highly personalized messages that drive above industry reply rates. Our recruiting strategy is to begin conversations with passive candidates to learn about their future career interests, needs, and wants and align those needs with future openings with a high-touch approach.
Quality of Hire is very important for nexus IT group and our DevOps recruiting team. Currently our DevOps recruiters hold a 93.23% quality of hire ratio. This is measured by any contractor who successfully completes their contract, and/or a direct placement candidate who is at our client for at least 6 months of duration.
Currently our 1 year retention rate with our DevOps clients is running right at 92.68%
The DevOps hiring environment is very fast-paced so our team of DevOps recruiters are trained to work swiftly. The time required to send qualified candidates to the DevOps hiring manager, varies on the position you are seeking to fill and the challenges we will face such as lower than market compensation, bonus/equity concerns, slow feedback, onsite expectations, etc. We can deliver applicants on the day of contract signing, within a few days, or within a few weeks.
We’ve spent a great deal of time recruiting in the DevOps and SRE space, and have had the distinct pleasure of collaborating with a number of amazing companies looking to achieve automation and improve productivity within their software development and infrastructure environment. From our perspective, DevOps is the future of software delivery.
DevOps recruiters specialize in a specific market sector. Every day, our DevOps recruiters contact a specialized set of DevOps & SRE candidates. When starting a new search, our team has a pool of personally-known candidates to call immediately. The point is that specialized startup recruiters sprint out of the gate more effectively than staffing firms that go back to the drawing board for each search.
When employers receive a resume from a DevOps recruiting firm, there is a high probability that they are familiar with the individual. Our clients trust that we have thoroughly screened the candidate over a series of multiple conversations, and that they will be worth the hiring managers time to interview.
Another benefit of using a specialized DevOps recruiting firm is you will experience less of a “resume broker” relationship and more of a “sector expert.” We spend countless hours every day conversing with DevOps prospects and DevOps hiring managers, making us more “in the know” about the DevOps space. DevOps recruiters can provide insight into the landscape of employment, equity, compensation, and the most recent candidate hiring and retention challenges.
Ultimately, DevOps recruiters have access to a concentrated pool of candidates, resulting in increased efficiency during the hiring process and the ability to establish long-lasting relationships with the industry’s top talent.
Though we have several different practice areas such as government IT staffing, digital marketing staffing, Private Equity staffing, DevOps staffing, cloud staffing, data science staffing, and software development staffing. Our Cybersecurity recruiters are hyper focused on clients in the IT security space.. Our DevOps recruiting team has successfully worked with clients ranging from budding startups to Fortune 10 organizations.
Whether you’re recruiting for a Sr DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, DevSecOps, or Automation Engineer – our recruiting solutions have you covered. Our hires range from just about anything you can imagine that a company would need when hiring DevOps talent — including non-tech roles like Head of DevOps, VP of DevOps, DevOps Manager, and many more—with a niche focus in DevOps staffing.
Our DevOps recruiters use a series of stages to make sure we minimize candidate fall out during the recruiting cycle. Our recruiters will perform an in depth conversation where they work to uncover the needs, wants and desires of their next career move. We ask candidates specific skillset questions. If the team feels that there’s a fit then another person from our team will speak with the candidate. If the 2 nexus reps feel that there’s a good fit then we ask the candidate to complete a 4 question feedback form so we can better understand if the role is a good or great fit. Once we receive the candidates feedback then we will perform a “Lockdown” conversation where we ask a series of questions around counteroffers, interview stages, target salary expectations, and much more. If this goes well then we will submit the candidate for client review.
First, it is incredibly difficult for DevOps hiring managers with little time to receive responses to job ads. Second, an increasing number of professionals do not respond to recruiters, particularly in the DevOps field. They prefer to hear directly from the DevOps manager, which brings us to the third challenge: recruitment is a full-time, highly specialized profession for which DevOps hiring managers do not have time for.
Our DevOps recruiting fee is 22% to 25% of the candidates first year base salary. We do our best to find a payment structure that works best for your team.
Our DevOps recruiters are paid by the companies for which they place candidates. Your DevOps recruiter does earn a commission if you are hired, but the commission is paid by the company that hires you. Our recruiting fee isn’t taken out of your salary, and it doesn’t lower the salary that you would be offered. Another misconception is that if you are presented by a recruiter, and another candidate is not, that you would be at a disadvantage because you have a fee associated with you getting that role. In our experience companies are seeking the best person for the job, and they are not concerned about a fee being paid at that point. In fact, candidates that work with recruiters actually tend to make more than those who job hunt alone.