Hire engineers who build internal platforms, run cloud environments, and keep production systems reliable. Work directly with Cheri Kruger to define the role and find candidates.
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A personal search.
A clearer brief.
A better fit.
Kruger Recruiting helps startups and growing companies hire cloud, platform, infrastructure, and site reliability engineers. Cheri manages role definition, candidate sourcing, interview coordination, and offer discussions across the United States, Canada, and Latin America.
Platform engineering, cloud operations, and site reliability overlap at some companies. A clear boundary helps you hire for the problem you need solved.
Platform engineers create internal services and workflows for building, deploying, and running software. Their users are often product and application teams.
Ask: Which engineering task should become easier or safer?
Cloud and infrastructure engineers design, provision, and maintain the environments that applications depend on. The scope may include networking, identity, cost controls, or migration work.
Ask: What environment or operational problem needs an owner?
SREs work with service teams to measure and improve reliability. Their remit can include observability, incident response, automation, and reducing recurring operational work.
Ask: Which reliability decisions can this person make?
The right scope depends on what already works and where teams lose time.
A first platform hire needs a defined group of engineers to learn from. Name the friction they will address and the product teams involved.
What should be easier for an application team after six months?
Separate platform development, day-to-day cloud operations, and service reliability. One engineer may cover more than one area, but the tradeoffs should be explicit.
Which responsibility must move to this person first?
Capture the essentials in three short steps. Download your notes before leaving.
Describe an outcome, rather than a list of tools.
Cheri Kruger is the founder of Kruger Recruiting. She works directly with founders and hiring teams throughout the search, from role definition and candidate sourcing to interviews and offers.
Let’s talk About Cheri and Kruger Recruiting ↗Cheri recruits for platform engineering, cloud infrastructure and operations, site reliability engineering, DevOps, and related infrastructure roles. The search starts with the work the person will own, not a title alone.
