Job highlights

- 4+ years IT recruitment experience with infrastructure, cloud, or networking roles and strong sourcing skills on LinkedIn Recruiter and Boolean search
- Manage end-to-end recruitment including intake calls, sourcing, screening, interview coordination, offer negotiation, and stakeholder reporting

Key responsibilities Requisition intake and hiring strategy

- Run intake calls with hiring managers to define each role: must-have skills, certifications, level, location, budget and interview panel.
- Turn each brief into a sourcing plan with target companies, talent pools, search strings and a realistic timeline.
- Advise managers on talent availability, compensation benchmarks and competitor landscape, and challenge briefs that are not achievable.

Sourcing and talent mapping

- Source active and passive talent for roles such as:
- Networking – network engineers and architects on Cisco, Juniper and Aruba; routing and switching, BGP/OSPF/MPLS, SD-WAN, wireless, firewalls and network security.
- Cloud – cloud engineers, architects and DevOps/SRE on AWS, Azure or GCP; Kubernetes, Terraform, automation.
- Infrastructure – Linux/Windows server, VMware/virtualisation, storage and backup, data-centre operations, HPC and AI infrastructure.
- Use LinkedIn Recruiter, Naukri and other job boards, Boolean and X-ray search, tech communities, employee referrals and Taggd's AI sourcing tools.
- Build talent maps and warm pipelines for repeat skill sets and hard-to-fill niche roles.
- Write job posts and outreach messages that sell HPE's technology, scale and career paths.

Screening and shortlisting

- Screen candidates on technical depth (protocols,



platforms, tools), certifications (CCNA/CCNP, JNCIA/JNCIP, AWS/Azure, VCP), relevant experience, stability, notice period and compensation.
- Share well-documented shortlists with hiring managers within agreed turnaround times.

Interview coordination

- Schedule and run interview loops with HPE panels, briefing both candidates and interviewers.
- Collect structured feedback quickly and keep every candidate moving to the next decision.

Offers and closures

- Discuss compensation, negotiate offers within HPE guidelines.

Stakeholder management and reporting

- Run weekly pipeline reviews with hiring managers and HR partners; flag risks early with a fix.
- Keep the applicant tracking system updated in real time.
- Track and report funnel metrics: CVs sourced, shortlist ratio, interview-to-offer, offer acceptance, offer-to-join and time to fill.

What we're looking for Must-haves

- 4+ years of IT recruitment, in an RPO, a search or staffing firm, or an in-house tech TA team.
- Proven hiring for infrastructure, cloud or networking roles, with enough technical understanding to hold a credible skills conversation with engineers.
- Robust sourcing skills on LinkedIn Recruiter, Naukri and Boolean / X-ray search, including for passive candidates.
- End-to-end ownership from intake to joining, including offer negotiation and counter-offer handling.
- Clear spoken and written English, and confidence working with senior technical hiring managers.
- Comfort with data: ATS hygiene, Excel trackers and funnel reporting.
- Based in Bengaluru and able to work from the Whitefield office 3 days a week + 2 days work from Home.

📌 Talent Acquisition Specialist (Bengaluru)
🏢 Talent Hired-the Job Store
📍 Bengaluru