Talent Acquisition Specialist

Location : Hybrid, 1-3 days per week in London flexing up and down depending on business need

Salary : £40,000-£45,000

About Us

Cloudscaler are an AWS Consultancy, working with central government, defence and private sector enterprise organisations to help them leverage the full potential of their cloud environments.

We care about our people and truly believe that high-performing teams are created through openness, collaboration and trust. We ensure that there are opportunities both inside and outside of work to collaborate, share ideas and build connections.

Role Purpose

Our Talent Acquisition team are responsible for attracting, engaging and securing the very best people for Cloudscaler. You will be responsible for sourcing and screening candidates, and managing them through the recruitment process, whilst ensuring an excellent candidate experience.

Key Responsibilities

Our talent acquisition team are responsible for hiring across our delivery and operations teams, and also work closely with some of our external customers to support their hiring initiatives. We are scaling rapidly over 2025 and you will be responsible for the recruitment of multiple internal hires across delivery (mainly engineering and architecture) and operations. As part of our talent acquisition team, you will be involved with:

1. End-to-end recruitment cycles for highly skilled Cloud Engineers and Architects, at senior levels across permanent and contract hires.
2. Creating and cultivating talent pools of passive candidates for future opportunities across our core roles, both permanent and contract.
3. Partnering with our hiring managers to generate ideas and share information to improve recruitment processes and increase hiring success.
4. Ensuring recruitment processes are un-biased, upholding equal opportunity principles within our search and screening process and across hiring teams.
5. Creating candidate information packs, welcome packs, and other content to improve candidate experience throughout the recruitment process.
6. Supporting talent acquisition marketing and branding, positioning us as an employer of choice within the AWS community and beyond.
7. Supporting employee experience activities and employee retention initiatives.

Required Skills/Experience

1. Demonstrable experience of recruiting within the cloud and infrastructure space, ideally AWS, DevOps, cloud engineering and/or cloud architecture positions.
2. Experience recruiting internally within the technology consultancy sector or other environment where hiring needs change rapidly with the needs of the business.
3. Strong permanent recruitment experience with a focus on candidate experience, and excellent candidate management skills.
4. Passive candidate sourcing skills and candidate attraction experience, particularly engaging and nurturing passive candidates long-term.
5. Experience managing the offer and onboarding process.
6. Experience of refining recruitment processes and improving efficiency, conversion rates and quality of hire.

Desirable Experience

1. Experience of recruiting independent contractors.
2. Experience recruiting within the SC cleared market.
3. Ashby ATS.
4. Analysing key recruitment metrics and data.
5. Interviewer training.

If you have experience recruiting for AWS roles within the consultancy sector and would like to join a rapidly growing organisation, we’d love to hear from you.

Benefits

1. Discretionary bonus scheme.
2. 25 days annual leave + 5 additional days for training/exams or volunteering.
3. Buy up to 5 additional days of annual leave per year.
4. Travel and accommodation expensed where eligible in line with our expenses policy.
5. Life Assurance.
6. Long Term Disability cover.
7. Employee Assist Programme for employee advice and support (including legal and counselling helpline).
8. Health, Mental Health, Wellbeing, Financial and Legal support.
9. 24/7 GP access.
10. Public holiday opt-out scheme giving you the option to work on public holidays creating the flexibility to enjoy your time off when it suits you.
11. Individual training and development plans with online training and exam costs covered.
12. Customer referral scheme – referral bonus if you introduce us to a new customer.
13. Cycle To Work Scheme.

Interview Process

1. Screening call with our Talent Acquisition team.
2. 1st Interview – 60 minute remote interview with our hiring team.
3. 2nd Interview – 60 minute in person interview with members of our Senior Leadership Team.

Please note that we undertake BS7858:2019 background checks which you must be eligible to pass.

Cloudscaler are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to equal opportunities regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ancestry, age, marital status, disability, parental status, religion or medical history.

If you require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please let us know when you speak to our Talent Acquisition team or contact at the earliest opportunity.

Compensation Range: £40K – £45K

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