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Technical executive search · Cloud & AI · The Middle East
The hires your infrastructure can't survive without.
Samer Solutions is a boutique technical search firm for the Middle East. We place permanent cloud, DevOps, DevSecOps, and AI engineers into the seats companies cannot afford to get wrong. Few mandates at a time. Every search run by the founder.
Position
Search, not recruitment.
Recruitment agencies move CVs. We run searches. A search starts with the system — what this hire has to own, what breaks if they're wrong, and who in a market this small can actually carry it.
We take a small number of mandates at a time, across the region. Each one is run by the founder, end to end. That is not a bottleneck. It is the product.
Searches
The seats we fill.
DevOps
CI/CD, automation, infrastructure as code — engineers who remove the friction between shipping and production.
DevSecOps
Security engineered into the pipeline. The rarest profile in the region — and the costliest seat to get wrong.
AI Cloud Engineering
GPU and inference infrastructure, ML platforms, MLOps — the layer every AI ambition stands on.
Backend & Distributed Systems
The engineers who build what the platform runs — distributed systems, high-throughput services, performance-critical backend.
SRE & Platform Engineering
Reliability, observability, internal platforms — the engineers who keep production boring.
We also run confidential leadership searches — heads of infrastructure, platform, and security.
Process
How a search runs.
Week 0
The brief
A working session on the system, not the job spec — what this hire owns, what breaks if they're wrong, and what great looks like twelve months in.
Week 1
The map
We chart who actually carries this work across the region — including the engineers who aren't looking and never answer recruiters.
Weeks 2–3
The screens
Founder-led conversations that test for depth, motivation, and staying power — past the CV, in the language of the work itself.
Week 4
The shortlist
Three to five people worth your interview loop, each with a written read on strengths, risks, and what it will take to close them.
Then
The close
Interview support, offer strategy, and onboarding check-ins past the start date. A search ends when the hire sticks, not when they sign.
The math
An empty seat is never neutral.
We won't manufacture case studies — you'd see through them anyway. Instead: the math every infrastructure leader already knows, and the process numbers we're happy to be judged on.
Illustrative model, not client data: an unfilled senior infrastructure seat compounds — slowed delivery, paused roadmaps, team strain. The weeks between brief and shortlist are the lever.
Profiles mapped
~140
Conversations
~30
Deep screens
~12
Your shortlist
3–5
What founder-run filtering looks like on a typical search. You interview the last row.
3–5
candidates on a shortlist. Never a CV flood.
1 day
to a straight answer on any brief — can we run it, how, and how long.
0
account managers between you and the person running your search.
The difference
Run by an operator, not a recruiter.
01
Built inside technical operations.
Samer Solutions is founded and run by an engineer — software engineering and technical operations, inside the kinds of teams you're building. Screens test for depth a career recruiter can't see.
02
Shortlists, not pipelines.
Three to five people worth your interview loop — screened for technical depth, motivation, and staying power. Never a flood of CVs.
03
Discreet by default.
Confidential mandates, direct communication, and a straight answer when we're not the right fit.
Founder
Talk to the person running your search.
I came to search from inside technical operations — the side of the business that lives with these systems every day. So briefs happen in your language, screens go past the CV, and you deal with me — not an account manager.
If you're hiring for a seat like this, the fastest route is a direct conversation.
Engineers
Your next seat won't be advertised.
We talk to strong engineers long before they're job-hunting. If you're deep in cloud, DevOps, DevSecOps, or AI infrastructure — say hello. No CV blast, no spam: a quiet conversation about what's out there, and a straight answer about whether we can help.
Start
Start a search.
Tell us about the seat. We respond within one business day with a straight read — whether we can run the search, how, and how long it will take.
Confidential. Read by the founder, not an autoresponder.