Hire a Site Reliability Engineer.

SREs own uptime as an engineering discipline — SLOs, incident response, capacity planning, and the automation that keeps operational load from scaling with headcount. Strong SREs are among the hardest hires to source outbound because they are well-paid and rarely searching. Our pool leans on engineers we have placed before and practitioners in our network's on-call rotations. We screen with incident scenarios, not trivia: how a candidate reasons through a cascading failure tells you more than any certification.