B&BDevOps recruitmentEurope
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DevOpsSite reliabilityPlatform engineering

We place DevOpsengineers. That is all we do.

B&B is a recruitment agency with one discipline. We find DevOps, SRE and platform engineers for IT companies across Europe, and we know the work well enough to tell who has done it.

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Discipline
DevOps, SRE, platform
Engagement
Permanent and contract
Clients
IT companies in Europe
Based
Riga, Latvia
search / senior-platform-engineerTriggered by: your brief

  1. 01Brief

    • Scoping call
    • Stack review

  2. 02Calibrate

    • Sample profiles
    • Your feedback

  3. 03Source

    • Direct approach
    • Referrals

  4. 04Screen

    • Tech interview
    • Incident review
    • Logistics

  5. 05Shortlist

    • 3 to 5 profiles

  6. 06Hire

    • Interviews
    • Offer
    • First 90 days

01Postmortem

The DevOps role that stayed open.

You may have lived through this one. Most engineering leaders have.

Incident
Senior DevOps role, unfilled
Severity
Rising weekly
Detected by
The one engineer still on call
Status
Recurring
  1. Week 1

    The role goes live. The job spec is last year’s with Kubernetes added.

  2. Week 3

    The inbox fills up. Most CVs list every tool in the spec. Few of their authors have run any of it in production.

  3. Week 6

    A generalist agency sends eleven more. Your lead engineer loses two afternoons to screening calls.

  4. Week 9

    The one candidate everybody liked accepts another offer while round four is being scheduled.

  5. Week 12

    Releases slow down. The same person has carried the pager since the role opened, and has started taking calls from recruiters.

Root cause

Nobody running the search could tell a platform engineer from someone who has read about one.

Fix

Hand the search to people who only do this.

Start a search

02Roles

Six roles. One discipline.

If the job is keeping software running and shipping, we recruit for it. If it is not, we will point you to someone who does.

Also placed on request: FinOps, database reliability and release engineering.What we look for in each role

03Screening

Checked before you see a name.

A CV tells you which tools someone has been near. We find out which ones they have been responsible for.

  • production

    Has run the stack in production, with real traffic and real consequences.

  • incident

    Can walk us through an incident they owned: what broke, what they did, what they changed afterwards.

  • iac

    Writes infrastructure as code they can explain line by line.

  • on-call

    Has carried a pager, and has opinions about how on-call ought to work.

  • teamwork

    Works with developers without turning into a bottleneck or a gatekeeper.

  • logistics

    Salary, notice period, location and right to work, confirmed before you see a name.

All checks have passedReady for your shortlist

04Engagement

Hire them. Or borrow them.

Some problems need an owner for the next five years. Others need a specialist until the migration is done. We place both.

Permanent

For the people who will own the platform.

Full-time hires into your team, from a first DevOps engineer to a head of platform.

Fee
A success fee agreed before we start. No retainer.
Due
When your engineer signs, and not before.
Cover
If the hire leaves inside the guarantee period in our terms, we run the search again without a fee.

Contract

For migrations, backlogs and holes in the rota.

Experienced contractors for a fixed piece of work or a fixed stretch of time, remote or on site.

Rate
One day rate, agreed up front, with our margin shown.
Admin
We handle the contract, timesheets and invoicing.
Exit
Extend, end with the notice in the contract, or take the engineer on permanently.

05Stack

Tools we can hold a conversation about.

We know Argo CD from Argo Workflows, and why your team argued about Terraform state. It makes for better shortlists.

Cloud
AWSAzureGoogle CloudHetznerOVHcloudScaleway
Orchestration
KubernetesOpenShiftEKSAKSGKENomadHelm
Infrastructure as code
TerraformOpenTofuPulumiAnsibleCrossplane
Delivery
GitLab CIGitHub ActionsJenkinsArgo CDFluxTekton
Observability
PrometheusGrafanaOpenTelemetryDatadogLokiElastic
Security
VaultTrivyOPAFalcoKeycloakcert-manager
Languages
GoPythonBashRust

06People

The founders.

B&B is Behman & Bergman Ltd, a recruitment agency based in Riga, Latvia and run by its two co-founders.

  • Krists Afanasjevs

    Co-founder

    Krists Afanasjevs

    An experienced headhunter from the banking and fintech world, with a talent for reaching the people who are not easy to reach.

  • Arthur Bergmanis

    Co-founder

    Arthur Bergmanis

    Specialised in IT and fintech recruitment, with a strong understanding of labour law and contract management.

Send us the role.

We will tell you straight whether we can fill it.

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