Best 16 Recruitment Pros in DevOps Staffing
A curated lineup of standout recruiters & headhunters recognized for their expertise in DevOps staffing and cloud talent acquisition worldwide. ↓
DevOps hiring is its own specialty: companies need engineers fluent in CI/CD, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure, and a sharp group of recruiters has built careers around finding exactly those people.
The 16 below range from agency founders and in-house leads to the community organizers and trainers who shape how DevOps gets hired. Here’s who they are and what each is known for.
- Mark Metz
- Sherry Salman
- Brittany Fox
- Zoë Morris
- Travis Lindemoen
- Jake Jorgovan
- Rob Reeves
- Josef Güenthner
- James Lloyd-Townshend
- Megan Slabinski
- Hung Lee
- Becky Laurence
- Johnny Campbell
- Lauren Langdell
- Tony Chapman
- Gary Glenn
Note: Recruiters are listed in no particular ranking. Each entry highlights why they’re among the best in DevOps staffing, followed by their public profile link and a memorable quote or insight.
Mark Metz
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Nationality: American
Mark founded NerdRabbit, the first AWS-specific staffing platform in the US, where he’s nicknamed the “Head Hare.” The platform (a ReluTech company) uses machine learning to match AWS-certified DevOps professionals to contract and full-time roles, blending automation with human recruiters.
A serial entrepreneur who’s built and sold multiple IT staffing firms since the 1990s, he speaks often about closing the DevOps talent gap and has taken NerdRabbit to AWS Advanced Partner status.
Sherry Salman
Nationality: Pakistani
An ex-DevOps engineer turned recruiter, Sherry is known as “London’s go-to DevOps recruiter for scale-ups and start-ups,” and uses that hands-on background to fill DevOps, SRE, and cloud-engineering roles fast.
He can genuinely vet candidates on CI/CD, Kubernetes, and AWS/GCP rather than keyword-match them, and posts regularly on LinkedIn about improving DevOps hiring and educating clients on technical-hiring best practices.
- Linkedin: Sherry Salman
Brittany Fox
Nationality: American
Brittany is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Focus GTS, a niche IT staffing firm, and a LinkedIn Top Voice in tech recruitment.
She specializes in DevOps, cloud, and data-science talent, personally advising companies on hiring DevOps engineers, cloud architects, and AI specialists, and her team is known for an intensive vetting process with a 48-hour sourcing turnaround.
She also founded “She Created” to support women in tech, and Focus GTS holds a 100% client-satisfaction rating on Clutch.
- Linkedin: Brittany Fox
- Personal Website: brittfox.com
Zoë Morris
Nationality: British
Zoë is President of Frank Recruitment Group, one of the world’s largest specialized tech-staffing firms, which she runs from London across 20+ offices, including cloud and DevOps brands like Jefferson Frank for AWS talent.
Two decades in, she’s driven FRG’s growth as it connected thousands of DevOps and cloud professionals with employers, and Staffing Industry Analysts has recognized her as an influential leader, especially on diversity and inclusion.
She speaks often on hiring trends and the value of training recruiters well.
- Linkedin: Zoë Morris
Travis Lindemoen
Nationality: American
In DevOps recruiting, time is of the essence. But that doesn’t mean cutting corners. We maintain an <6% candidate approval rate, ensuring only the best of the best make it through.
Travis founded nexus IT group in Kansas in 2010 to simplify tech hiring, and 18+ years in recruitment has grown it into a multi-million-dollar agency known for fast delivery in DevOps, cloud, and software engineering.
He specializes in hard-to-fill senior DevOps and SRE roles, often presenting qualified candidates within days, and several Fortune 500 clients credit nexus with filling complex DevOps positions in as little as a week.
Named a top-10 CEO in staffing, he writes career advice, appears on podcasts, and mentors newer recruiters.
- Linkedin: Travis Lindemoen
Jake Jorgovan
Nationality: American
Jake is a tech recruiter turned content creator who’s profiled the DevOps recruiting world in depth, including widely read rankings of top IT recruiters and agencies.
A background in B2B consulting and podcasting gives him a feel for where DevOps hiring is heading, and he advises companies on sharpening their talent strategy, from remote-interviewing tools to structuring competitive offers.
He’s worked both sides, helping startups fill DevOps and cloud roles while interviewing countless recruiters and engineers on best practices.
- Linkedin: Jake Jorgovan
- Personal Website: jake-jorgovan.com
Rob Reeves
Nationality: American
Rob founded Redfish Technology in 1997 and still leads it as CEO, having grown it from a boutique West Coast shop into a nationwide agency for software, data, and DevOps roles.
Over 25+ years he’s built a culture around long-term relationships, placing DevOps engineers, cloud-infrastructure specialists, and build/release managers at startups and enterprises alike. He writes and speaks on DevOps pipelines and the role of automation, and still personally headhunts for critical searches.
- Linkedin: Rob Reeves
Josef Güenthner
Nationality: German
Josef co-founded PALTRON in 2015, a German recruitment firm that brands itself “the personnel consulting firm of the future,” with a heavy focus on IT and DevOps.
He built it around data-driven methods and deep specialization, growing an exclusive network of 600,000+ candidates across Europe in DevOps, cloud engineering, and emerging tech, and the firm’s analytics-plus-multi-stage process often delivers vetted DevOps shortlists in under four weeks.
He’s a recognized voice in Europe on automation in recruitment and how to assess soft skills like collaboration in DevOps candidates.
- Linkedin: Josef Güenthner
- X (Twitter): @jm_guenthner
James Lloyd-Townshend
Nationality: British
James is Chairman and CEO of Tenth Revolution Group, the parent of Frank Recruitment Group, which he’s expanded since 2015 into dozens of offices and specialist brands across Microsoft, AWS, and other niches.
With 20+ years in staffing (including leadership at SThree), he’s known for developing recruiters through rigorous training and clear growth paths, and for making brands like Jefferson Frank a first call for AWS and DevOps talent.
He speaks frequently on the future of work and automation, and has pushed initiatives on gender diversity and global expansion into Asia and Latin America.
- Linkedin: James Lloyd-Townshend
Megan Slabinski
Nationality: American
Megan is a senior recruiting executive at Robert Half overseeing technology talent solutions, DevOps and cloud included, across the Pacific Northwest and Northern California.
Twenty-plus years in staffing have made her a frequently quoted voice on tech-hiring trends like the data-talent shortage and hybrid work, and she’s a regular on Seattle-area news discussing the IT job market (recently noting that over half of companies plan to add tech staff despite talent gaps).
She taps Robert Half’s resources to connect employers with vetted DevOps engineers, cloud specialists, and security experts.
- Linkedin: Megan Slabinski
- X (Twitter): @MeganSlabinski
- Facebook: Megan Slabinski
Hung Lee
Nationality: British
Hung is a former agency recruiter turned industry curator, best known for the “Recruiting Brainfood” newsletter and podcast that 35,000+ recruiters read every Sunday for a digest of hiring trends, DevOps talent challenges, remote work, and tooling among them.
He co-founded the recruitment-tech startup Workshape.io before going full-time on content, and his combined tech and talent-acquisition background makes him good at “recruitifying” new ideas, explaining how a given AI tool or method actually applies in practice.
He also runs a busy online community and hosts panels on sourcing, employer branding, and diversity.
- Linkedin: Hung Lee
Becky Laurence
Nationality: American
One thing I love is celebrating when a candidate I coached ace their AWS interview. In DevOps and support hiring, confidence is half the battle – if you can help candidates feel prepared and valued, they perform better and everyone wins.
Becky is an AWS recruiter focused on the Cloud Support and Infrastructure teams, often the front line of DevOps at Amazon.
She raised her profile by appearing in AWS’s official “Cloud Support Engineering Careers” YouTube series, offering a recruiter’s view to aspiring engineers, and she’s notably candidate-centric, posting interview tips, resume advice, and encouragement.
She emphasizes the soft skills, a troubleshooting mindset, empathy, that support engineers need to bridge dev and ops in Amazon’s customer-obsessed culture.
- Linkedin: Becky Laurence
Johnny Campbell
Nationality: Irish
Johnny is co-founder and CEO of SocialTalent, a recruiter-training platform used globally, built on his decade-plus in recruiting and a conviction that hiring needed better tools and education.
SocialTalent’s courses, many featuring Johnny himself, have upskilled thousands of recruiters in modern techniques, from boolean sourcing for DevOps engineers to diversity hiring, and he regularly shares ideas on using LinkedIn, AI, and analytics to run more efficient processes.
He’s a sought-after international speaker, and his influence in DevOps hiring shows up through the many recruiters he’s trained to find and place those engineers.
- Linkedin: Johnny Campbell
- X (Twitter): @JohnnyCampbell
Lauren Langdell
Nationality: British
Lauren founded and globally directs the Women in DevOps community, which she launched in 2017 as a small meetup and grew into a 14,000+ member network supporting women in the field.
She’s recruited in DevOps since 2014, placing DevOps and SRE engineers for major brands and startups across 8+ years, and serves as Client Engagement Director at the digital-tech recruitment firm Trust in SODA, where she helps clients hit diversity-hiring goals.
She’s an active community organizer and a steady source of hiring insight on LinkedIn.
- Linkedin: Lauren Langdell
- X (Twitter): @laurenlangdell
Tony Chapman
Nationality: British
Tony founded and directs LinuxRecruit, a specialist DevOps recruitment consultancy, and is a fixture of the UK’s DevOps hiring scene.
Over a decade in tech recruitment he’s helped build engineering teams across enterprises, SMEs, and startups, organized The DevOps Exchange (the world’s largest DevOps meetup group), and co-authored DevOps Journeys.
As a community leader and speaker at events like DevOpsDays, he tends to focus on the practical side: how to scale DevOps teams and build a real DevOps culture.
- Linkedin: Tony Chapman
- X (Twitter): @LinuxRecruiter
Gary Glenn
Nationality: British
Gary leads DevOps and cloud recruitment at Qorali, where he’s Director of DevOps and Cloud and a co-founder, running the firm’s DevOps and cloud practice across the US.
His background mixes recruiting with analytics applied to technical hiring, and his focus is squarely on cloud and infrastructure roles, understanding the engineering environments and building the candidate relationships that hard-to-source positions require.
- Linkedin: Gary Glenn
Sum Up
These expert recruiters bring invaluable industry knowledge, extensive networks, and a proven track record of working with startups and tech firms in the DevOps space. However, their services often come with a high price tag or limited availability.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, they are critical for organizations building modern engineering and cloud operations teams. DevOps recruiters specialize in sourcing site reliability engineers (SREs), platform engineers, and cloud infrastructure experts. Their technical fluency helps companies reduce hiring time and avoid mismatches in skill or culture fit, which are common in general tech recruiting.
Leading firms and networks mentioned include NerdRabbit (ReluTech), Focus GTS, Frank Recruitment Group (Jefferson Frank), nexus IT group, Redfish Technology, PALTRON, Robert Half Technology, SocialTalent, LinuxRecruit and EchoGlobal.
Most DevOps recruiters and staffing firms charge employers between 20% and 30% of the candidate’s first-year salary for permanent hires. Retained or executive searches may involve milestone-based fees. Contract staffing is usually billed on a margin basis, with rates varying depending on project length and seniority level.
Look for recruiters who have technical experience or clear specialization in cloud, CI/CD, and infrastructure roles. Checking their public profiles, community presence (such as Women in DevOps or The DevOps Exchange), and client feedback helps confirm expertise.
They advise companies on scaling engineering operations, optimizing CI/CD pipelines and building DevOps teams. Consultants also guide hiring strategies, tooling decisions, and process automation. Their insight ensures that organizations align people, culture, and technology to accelerate software delivery and system reliability.
