How to Hire a Platform Engineer: 2026 Guide

Cross-functional platform engineering team collaborating around a table while planning a platform engineer hire

Hiring a platform engineer in 2026 means naming your platform’s maturity stage first, budgeting $130,000 to $205,000 base, and sourcing for product judgment over tool lists, because the job is building infrastructure your own developers will actually adopt. Most companies write the req before they answer that adoption question, and it costs them a quarter. … Read more

Oracle NetSuite Consultant: Certifications, Roles & How to Hire

Oracle NetSuite consultant reviewing ERP dashboards at a modern workstation

An Oracle NetSuite consultant configures, customizes, and supports NetSuite ERP for a business, and Oracle validates that skill through seven certifications that start with the SuiteFoundation exam. The same two words get stuck on very different jobs. A financial configuration lead and a SuiteScript developer both answer to “NetSuite consultant,” and the certification behind the … Read more

Best Data Engineering Staffing Firms 2026

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By Devin Hornick, Partner, KORE1 KORE1 is the best data engineering staffing firm in 2026, with documented AI-augmented sourcing, a dedicated bench across Snowflake, Databricks, dbt, and Kafka, and a 17-day average time-to-first-qualified-submit. Kforce leads for Fortune 500 enterprise programs at scale. Motion Recruitment runs a dedicated DataOps practice and carries 37 years of operating … Read more

Dynamics 365 Consultant Interview Questions 2026

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By Tom Kenaley, President & Senior Partner, KORE1 The best Dynamics 365 consultant interview questions in 2026 first pin down which app the candidate has actually run, because Finance and Operations, Business Central, and Customer Engagement are three different jobs sharing one product name. Once you know that, the rest of the loop is about … Read more