Cloudwise Solutions

Opened in early 2017 by two directors, Cloudwise Solutions is a UK recruitment and technology consultancy that describes itself as a family-run firm. The business is built around three services, Hire, Learn and Collaborate, and it says it set out to change how technical recruitment works by putting lasting relationships with clients and candidates first.

Technical recruitment with a long view

The Hire service fills roles on a permanent, contract or fixed-term basis, and it also takes on outsourced hiring for clients who want the whole process handled. The site says its consultants place people in infrastructure, DevOps, cloud, architecture, support, data and business intelligence roles, from first-line support staff to senior technology managers, chief technology officers and site reliability engineers. The company states that it has made 1,620 placements and that its 12-month candidate retention rate is 99.76 percent.

Training for technology teams

The Learn service runs training through a partner, delivered online, in a classroom or on the client's own premises. The subjects include infrastructure, development, mobile, testing, agile working and management. The site lists course topics covering Microsoft, AWS, Azure, Red Hat, Linux, Cisco, JavaScript, big data, DevOps tools such as Puppet and Ansible, and agile methods. A firm that needs the same skills in several formats can send staff through whichever suits them most.

A partner network for solution providers

Collaborate is a partnership programme. Member firms share market intelligence, call on each other for extra staff when work outruns their own teams, and network with other partners. The site describes partners offering telecommunications, managed services, technology consulting, automation and payroll solutions, and the company says the market intelligence shared in the programme can lead to increased revenues.

Sectors and working principles

Beyond technology, the firm recruits for sales, customer service and leisure roles, and its site says it covers more than 80 industries. The sectors it lists include IT, telecoms, facilities management, finance, market research and the public sector. The directors set four values for working relationships: trust, transparency, loyalty and collaboration. The firm says it prefers one exceptional candidate to eight average ones, and that it will not approach the candidates of its own clients.