Specialist DevOps, SRE & Platform Engineering recruitment for scaling UK tech companies. Founded by a Computer Science graduate who screens on architecture — not keywords.
Here's why it keeps happening — and why this is different.
Most agencies send 12 CVs and call it a service. They're outsourcing the screening to you — and charging £20k for it.
Recruiters who've never written code can't tell a senior engineer from a mid-level one who knows the right buzzwords.
You get a 4-week rebate. The engineer was misrepresented. You start again. Three months wasted.
You brief the senior person. A junior does the search. The person who understood your problem never touches the role again.
Every search runs the same way. No shortcuts, no exceptions.
We don't place everything. We place three types of engineers and we know them inside out.
John Talent was founded by Yaz A., a Computer Science graduate from Royal Holloway, University of London — with top grades in Information Security and AI/ML.
No junior account managers. No handoffs. The person who takes your brief is the person who runs your search.
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