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Telecom Recruitment Agency

Executive search and specialist hiring, delivered by recruiters who know the stack.
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We are a telecom recruitment agency. Since 2013 we have placed network, OSS/BSS and embedded engineers with operators, equipment vendors and communications platforms across the UK, EU and North America. Tell us what you are hiring for.

Why telecom hiring is different

Most technology recruiters screen on language and framework. That fails in telecom, where the decisive experience is protocol-level and rarely appears as a keyword on a CV.

A backend engineer who has shipped REST APIs is not automatically an engineer who can debug SIP signalling under load, reason about SS7 and Diameter interworking, or keep an IMS core stable through a migration. The same gap shows up in RAN work, in MPLS and segment-routing design, and in OSS/BSS programmes where billing accuracy and provisioning logic carry regulatory weight.

Our shortlists are screened by people who can hold that conversation. We test for the specific layer you are hiring into, not for generic seniority.

📝 Ready to start? Send us the role and we will come back with a market view and a shortlist plan.

Telecom roles we place

  • 5G Core / Packet Core Engineer (5GC, EPC, IMS)
  • RAN Engineer and Radio Network Planner (O-RAN, vRAN)
  • VoIP / SIP Engineer (Asterisk, FreeSWITCH, Kamailio)
  • OSS/BSS Developer (provisioning, mediation, charging, billing)
  • Network Automation Engineer (Python, Ansible, NETCONF/YANG)
  • Embedded / Firmware Engineer for network hardware
  • Transport and IP Network Architect (MPLS, BGP, segment routing)
  • Telecom DevOps and SRE for carrier-grade platforms
  • CPaaS / UCaaS Platform Engineer
  • Solution Architect, Delivery Lead and CTO-level hires

Sub-sectors we cover

  • Mobile network operators, MVNOs and MVNEs
  • Network equipment and chipset vendors
  • VoIP, UCaaS and CPaaS platforms
  • ISPs, broadband and fixed-line providers
  • Satellite and NTN connectivity
  • OSS/BSS and telecom billing vendors
  • IoT connectivity and M2M platforms

Ways to engage us

Different hiring problems need different commercial models, so we run four:

  1. Tech recruitment
  2. Staff augmentation
  3. Dedicated development teams
  4. Custom IT staffing

🧐 Not sure which model fits? Describe the role and we will tell you which one we would use, and why.

How the search runs

  1. Brief. We agree the technical must-haves, the salary band and the realistic market for them. If a requirement will not clear the market, we say so at this stage rather than after four weeks of silence.
  2. Search. We approach passive candidates directly. Telecom specialists are largely not on job boards.
  3. Screen and shortlist. Technical screening against the specific layer of the stack, then a shortlist with written reasoning for each candidate.
  4. Offer and aftercare. We manage offer negotiation, notice periods and counter-offer risk, then stay involved through onboarding.

Proof: PowWowNow

We staffed engineering for PowWowNow, a conferencing and meeting-solutions provider, and the team went on to be acquired by PGi. Read the full case study for the scope, the roles and the outcome.

What Our Clients Say

Independently verified reviews from EchoGlobal clients on Clutch.

Where the talent sits

We recruit across the UK, the EU, Ukraine and the wider CEE region, from offices in London, Tallinn and Lviv. Ukraine and Poland hold unusually deep telecom engineering benches, largely because of long-running R&D centres run by equipment vendors and operators.

If you are weighing locations, our market reviews cover salary levels, seniority mix and availability: Lviv IT market and Kyiv IT market.

EchoGlobal OU is ISO 27001:2022 certified, which matters when candidate and client data crosses borders during a search.

Related Industries

Automotive · GreenTech · MilTech.

Telecom recruitment: common questions

5G Core / Packet Core Engineer (5GC, EPC, IMS), RAN Engineer and Radio Network Planner (O-RAN, vRAN), VoIP / SIP Engineer (Asterisk, FreeSWITCH, Kamailio), OSS/BSS Developer (provisioning, mediation, charging, billing), Network Automation Engineer (Python, Ansible, NETCONF/YANG), Embedded / Firmware Engineer for network hardware, and leadership hires up to CTO.

Both. Operators and vendors tend to want permanent network engineers, while migration and rollout programmes are often better served by augmentation. We run permanent recruitment, staff augmentation, dedicated teams and custom staffing.

We recruit across the UK, the EU, Ukraine and the wider CEE region, from offices in London, Tallinn and Lviv. Ukraine and Poland hold unusually deep telecom engineering benches, largely because of long-running R&D centres run by equipment vendors and operators.

Against the specific layer you are hiring into rather than generic seniority. Screening covers protocol-level experience (SIP, SS7, Diameter, IMS), the systems the candidate has actually run in production, and the failure modes they have handled. Each shortlisted candidate comes with written reasoning.

Yes. We run solution architect, delivery lead and CTO-level searches, including hires where the person has to own a carrier-grade platform end to end.

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