24/7 Emergency IT Contractors
Available to start within 24 hours
Text or Email anytime
We're here to help you - including after hours and weekends
Available to start within 24 hours
Text or Email anytime
We're here to help you - including after hours and weekends
Risk Mitigation: We confirm IR35 status. Contract: One days notice for the first week. Contract durations between 1 week and 1 year. All via Umbrella Company or you take them direct.
**DFIR Specialist (Digital Forensics & Incident Response)**
Tech Stack: CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, FTK, EnCase, Volatility, Splunk, Velociraptor
Problem Solved: Active ransomware containment, unauthorized breach isolation, evidence preservation
Day Rate: £800 – £1,100
**Ransomware & Disaster Recovery Lead**
Tech Stack: Veeam, Commvault, Rubrik, Zerto, Cohesity, Immutable S3
Problem Solved: Total infrastructure lockout, clean restoration from immutable backups
Day Rate: £750 – £1,000
**Cloud SRE / Recovery Engineer**
Tech Stack: AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, CloudWatch, Datadog, PagerDuty
Problem Solved: Production cloud outages, configuration drift, multi-region failovers
Day Rate: £650 – £850
**Kubernetes / Platform Specialist**
Tech Stack: Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE), Helm, Istio, Docker, ArgoCD, Linux kernel
Problem Solved: Cascading container failures, broken control plane or service mesh
Day Rate: £650 – £850
**Emergency Database Administrator (DBA)**
Tech Stack: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle RAC, Microsoft SQL Server, Redis, Patroni
Problem Solved: Database corruption, replication desync, query deadlocks, failover crashes
Day Rate: £600 – £850
**Network Operations / Core Routing Engineer**
Tech Stack: Cisco NX-OS, Juniper Junos, BGP, OSPF, Arista, Wireshark
Problem Solved: Core switch collapse, routing loops, external BGP blackholing, split-brain WAN
Day Rate: £550 – £800
**DDoS Mitigation & Edge Specialist**
Tech Stack: Cloudflare, Akamai, AWS Shield, F5 BIG-IP, NGINX, HAProxy
Problem Solved: Volumetric DDoS attacks, DNS hijacking, origin server collapse
Day Rate: £650 – £900
**Active Directory / Identity Recovery Engineer**
Tech Stack: Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), AD DS, Kerberos, Mimikatz defenses, PingFederate
Problem Solved: Compromised domain controllers, enterprise-wide lockout, identity breaches
Day Rate: £650 – £850
**Senior Linux Systems Engineer**
Tech Stack: RHEL, Debian/Ubuntu, Bash/Python, Systemd, eBPF, strace, LVM
Problem Solved: Corrupted kernels, filesystem/inode exhaustion, compromised root access
Day Rate: £550 – £750
**Firewall & Perimeter Security Engineer**
Tech Stack: Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Check Point, pfSense, Snort
Problem Solved: Edge perimeter exploits, misconfigured rules blocking legitimate traffic
Day Rate: £600 – £800

Simon is a highly experienced IT Recruiter that has a proven track record of sourcing candidates where demand is high and the people available are limited.
Not only that he is a pleasure to work with, funny, kind and supportive to colleagues.
He talks the right language with Tech managers and Tech candidates, bringing the two together and thereby saving time and frustration on both sides.

IT8 has saved us a tremendous amount of time by managing candidates and hiring managers.
Simon has a rare combination of no-nonsense attitude coupled with a nice and definitely positive personality.
He looked after our entire hiring process from the point of preparing a job description until the first day of a successful hire.

Simon is a pleasure to work with, possessing a work ethic that I have rarely seen rivalled.
He always brings a can-do attitude, are unfailingly polite and positive, and will be an asset to any organisation they partner with.
He successfully recruited dozens of colleagues while saving hiring managers significant amounts of time.

IT8 took on the task of securing fast growth of our technical department.
Simon gets things done and people hired in your organisation.
Juggling several roles and setting up processes to streamline the hiring process. At each iteration of the process I, as a hiring manager, had less and less to do and the quality of the profiles I was interviewing was improving.
Experienced IT Recruitment Agency, with a history going back to 2004.
We've recruited contractors (and permanent staff) in IT/Technology across the UK & Europe for decades.
In that time we have successfully recruited for all mainstream IT roles.
We made a strategic decision, given the competitiveness of the Recruitment Industry, to be different - offering out of hours + weekend service - promising a 24hr turnaround in most cases.
We are here for when you cannot wait and need an IT Contractor ASAP.
You'll love partnering with us. Unfailingly polite, flexible and with a work ethic and delivery focus that is second to none.
We take serious pride in ourselves, our ethics, our manners and our ability to deliver.
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