IT staffing and recruitment

Add capacity.
Build your team.

Do you need additional capacity now or a permanent addition to your team?

The need

A vacancy, growing workload or specialist skills gap can delay important work. Start with the role and choose additional capacity under your direction or recruitment for a permanent employee.

Choose the arrangement your team needs.

Staff augmentation

Add capacity under your direction

Agreed IT or security capacity working under your team's direction for a defined assignment. Match required skills, workload and duration to the assignment. Identify suitable staff and coordinate selection and authorized onboarding.

Scope to agree

Your team directs the work. Agree availability, employment arrangements, duration, hours, location, access, fees and role-specific checks for each assignment.

Permanent recruitment

Recruit your next permanent team member

Relevant candidate profiles and a structured selection process for your permanent IT or security role. Source candidates against agreed responsibilities, skills and search terms. Assess relevant experience, share profiles and coordinate interviews.

Scope to agree

Your team makes the hiring decision and employs the successful candidate. Agree search terms, fees, candidate information handling, checks and onboarding responsibilities before the search begins.

Skills for the work in front of you.

Start with the responsibilities of the role and the environment it will support.

  • IT support and systems
  • Network and infrastructure
  • Cloud, workplace and identity
  • Security operations and engineering

Agree the requirements before work begins.

Role and skills

The work to cover, required experience and how suitability will be assessed.

Working arrangement

Location, hours, duration or permanent role, reporting line and budget.

Selection and access

Interviews, customer approvals, permitted systems and any role-specific checks.

Start and handover

Onboarding responsibilities, review points, documentation and the end of an assignment or search.

What we do

  • Define responsibilities, required skills and the working arrangement.
  • Identify and assess suitable people against agreed role criteria.
  • Coordinate selection, authorized onboarding or the hiring handover.

What you receive

  • For augmentation, agreed IT or security capacity with responsibilities, reviews and an assignment handover.
  • For recruitment, candidate profiles, assessment feedback and interview coordination supporting your hiring decision.

Relevant Layer8 layers

  • Purpose: Define the work and skills gap the role must address.
  • Design: Choose an assignment or permanent search with clear selection criteria.
  • Ownership: Name supervision, hiring decisions and onboarding responsibilities.
  • Evidence: Record role-based assessments, selection feedback and assignment reviews.

How we check it

Confirm fit against agreed criteria, record selection decisions and outstanding conditions, and review an active assignment at agreed points.

Scope to agree

Agree location, hours, duration, budget, availability, fees and role-specific checks. Your team directs augmented staff and hires permanent employees; define employment, access and onboarding responsibilities before an assignment or search begins.

The outcome

An agreed staffing assignment or a focused recruitment search, matched to the work and skills your team needs.

Discuss your staffing need

An agreed staffing assignment or a focused recruitment search, matched to the work and skills your team needs.

Discuss your staffing need →