Screened for judgment under live threat, not a stack of certifications.
Why STACK IT
Most agencies optimize for volume. We optimize for the one hire who’s right, vetted by people who understand the work.
We screen for how a candidate reasons about threat, triage, and trade-offs, not how many acronyms they can list. No one reaches you without two of our recruiters signing off.
Fake profiles, proxy interviews, and AI-assisted answers are everywhere in security hiring, where the stakes are higher. We meet each candidate face-to-face on video and screen for AI patterns, so who you vet is who shows up.
Security people burn out and get poached fast. We align trajectory, growth, and total comp so your hire grows with the team instead of walking your institutional knowledge out the door.
Success-based and non-exclusive, no upfront fees, no retainers. We invoice on your hire’s first day, not before.
The payoff
Hiring well costs less than you think, and a strong hire changes far more than the work in front of them.
Threats get caught, not buried.
A strong analyst tunes the noise down and the signal up.
You stay audit-ready by default.
Controls and evidence are maintained, not reconstructed under deadline.
Your cloud and infra stay hardened.
Secure-by-default beats patching after the incident.
Security ships with the business.
The right hire makes secure the fast path, not the blocker.
Incidents stay contained and short.
Practiced response turns a crisis into a controlled event.
How we screen
We screen for how cybersecurity engineers actually think. Every shortlist is judged against the same five criteria that predict whether someone delivers in your codebase.
Reads a situation and prioritizes by real business risk, not severity scores alone: what’s exploitable, what’s exposed, what matters first.
Real command of the stack they’ll own (SIEM/EDR, cloud security, identity, or network), probed through actual incidents and configs, not certification trivia.
Calm, methodical work under live pressure: contain, find root cause, communicate, and leave detections behind so it doesn’t recur.
Builds security into systems and pipelines early (threat modeling, least privilege, secure SDLC) instead of bolting it on after.
Explains risk to non-security stakeholders, gives developers workable guidance, and earns buy-in instead of just filing findings.
Proof it works
Discover what changed once the right hire joined our clients’ team.
A fintech SOC was drowning in alerts and triaging by gut feel, with mean time to respond climbing past acceptable limits. The analyst we placed re-tuned detection rules, built triage runbooks, and automated enrichment, cutting mean time to respond by 74% inside the first quarter.
Stood up the control framework and evidence pipeline for a SaaS company’s first SOC 2 Type II, closing every gap before the auditors arrived.
Hardened a healthcare provider’s cloud estate, fixing misconfigurations and enforcing least-privilege access across every account.
Real technical screening, a calibrated shortlist in days, and candidates vetted for fit, not just resumes. Let’s start your search.
Specializations
Whatever your team runs on, we screen for the people who do the work right.
Detection, triage, and response that keeps the SOC ahead of the noise.
Secure code, secure pipelines, and vulnerabilities caught before release.
Hardened cloud, network, and identity across every account and environment.
Frameworks and audits mapped to real controls, not just paperwork.
Finding the gaps before attackers do, with proof and a fix path.
Least-privilege access and strong identity across every system.
The cost of waiting
An empty seat doesn’t delay work, it redistributes it. The longer the search drags, the more it costs.
Every week a role stays open, the cost lands on the team you already have.
Speed isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s the difference between a gap and a setback.
Time to fill this role
How you hire
Two models, one standard of quality. Bring on the cybersecurity engineers you need the way that fits your timeline and budget.
Permanent
Best when you’re building the team for the long term.
Contract
Best when you need delivery capacity now, without adding headcount.
Not sure which fits? Compare permanent vs. contract
FAQ
The questions teams usually ask before starting a search with us.
Recruiter-led and scenario-based, not certification checklists. We dig into real incidents, configs, and past decisions to see how a candidate reasons about threat, triage, and trade-offs. Every candidate is met face-to-face over video, the same practice behind our AI hiring fraud protection, and no one reaches your inbox until a second reviewer has signed off. We use AI to support our screening, never to make the decision.
You’ll typically see your first qualified candidate within 24–48 hours, and a calibrated shortlist of three to five within about five business days. Most permanent roles close in two to three weeks; contract placements often start within 5–10 business days.
For permanent hires it’s success-based: you pay only when a candidate starts, with no upfront fee or retainer. Contract placements run on a transparent hourly rate that already covers payroll, compliance, and onboarding. There’s no cost to simply engage us.
Permanent placements are backed by our 90-day replacement guarantee: if it doesn’t work out within the first 90 days, we replace them at no charge. It’s part of how we stay accountable long after the placement. For contract roles, our backfill guarantee means we replace a contractor quickly and at no extra cost if they exit early.
No. We work non-exclusively by default, so you can keep your internal sourcing running or use other firms alongside us. We’d rather earn repeat business through results than lock you into an agreement. We just work best when feedback is quick and expectations are clear.
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