About the client
The SaaS product company building cloud-native solutions for the B2B segment. The company had high infrastructure demands and operated on a production-scale AWS + Terraform stack.
Main goal
Close a long-standing DevOps position with a senior-level engineer who could integrate quickly and contribute to infrastructure-as-code delivery.
Tasks
- Understand the reasons for unsuccessful hiring attempts in the last 2+ months
- Attract only candidates with relevant hands-on experience in AWS, Terraform, and production environments
- Minimize time to hire without compromising on quality or culture fit
Approach
- Audited the client's sourcing process and identified a mismatch between the job description and actual expectations
- Rewrote messaging to speak directly to senior engineers’ motivations and real-world pain points
- Focused search on candidates with proven infrastructure-as-code portfolios, using GitHub and niche DevOps forums
- Maintained strict quality filtering to avoid irrelevant or junior profiles
- Presented only one, top-fit candidate aligned on both tech stack and team culture
Result
- DevOps position closed in just 12 days after 2+ months of stalled progress
- 1 candidate submitted → 1 offer made → 1 offer accepted
- 100% match on technical stack, delivery mindset, and team culture
- Client feedback: “You’ve saved us another quarter of lost delivery time.”