Senior cloud talent and rates in Recruitment & HR Tech
Senior cloud engineers serving recruitment & hr tech run roughly $125–$180/hr. Stack realities for this combination: Workday + Greenhouse + LinkedIn API + Checkr + HiBob — common integrations: Workday + Greenhouse + Lever ATS, LinkedIn Talent Solutions API, Checkr + Sterling background checks. Standard cloud-devops data flows tuned to this industry's compliance + integration realities.
What cloud actually requires in 2026
2026 cloud: AWS still dominates 30%+ market share, GCP excels for AI/ML + data, Azure for enterprise + Microsoft-shop. Modern shops use Terraform + AWS CDK or Pulumi for IaC, Kubernetes for orchestration, and combinations of managed services (RDS, ElastiCache, S3) with custom workloads. Real cloud architects hold AWS Solutions Architect Pro / GCP Professional Cloud Architect / Azure Solutions Architect Expert and have shipped >2 production migrations end-to-end. "AWS certified solutions architect associate" is entry-level — necessary but not sufficient for senior work.