An executive recruitment firm that connects senior leaders with hiring organisations came to Armakuni for a phased AWS modernisation and a controlled path to agent-based recruiter workflows.
The challenge
The firm needed to reduce third-party reliance, improve cloud governance, and ready its platform for AI adoption without affecting ongoing placements. An ageing Landing Zone with inconsistent logging and monitoring limited visibility into compliance posture; a vendor-managed EKS-as-a-Service model restricted access to deployment logs and release transparency; monitoring signals were fragmented across accounts; and core hiring activities still relied on spreadsheets and email coordination.
Scale: Executive search connecting senior leaders with hiring organisations through structured resume screening, job matching, and interview coordination.
What we built
Armakuni delivered a phased AWS modernisation and a controlled path to agent-based recruiter workflows. The engagement ran as a phased AWS modernisation programme: RAPID migration assessment, Landing Zone Accelerator rollout, governance by design, EaaS pipeline replacement, cost and operational visibility, and agent-based recruiter workflows.
The outcomes
4 measurable outcomes shipped across the engagement. The ones that moved the business the most:
100% of vendor dependency removed. Bringing the EKS deployment pipeline in-house gave the team full release transparency and faster troubleshooting, with no third-party EaaS vendor in the path.
90% faster environment setup. An automated, governed multi-account Landing Zone stands up new environments in minutes rather than days, with guardrails and standardised logging built in.
3 months to deliver the phased migration. The platform modernised on AWS without disrupting ongoing placements or live recruiter activity.
90% of routine recruiter tasks automated. Agent-based workflows handle job-description drafting, candidate summaries, follow-ups, and scheduling, while recruiters keep final review and hiring decisions.
Built on AWS
The production environment runs on 6 first-party AWS services. Delivered under our AWS Migration and Modernization Consulting, DevOps Consulting competencies.
What's next
Expanding agent-based workflows across the recruiter lifecycle while keeping final review and hiring decisions with recruiters, and deepening cost and governance automation.
Architecture
