The seats the AI buildout can't fill.
The network layer doesn't change at the data-center door — fiber, transport, packet core. Twenty-five years sourcing it. Screened by an electrical engineer. Vetted profile in 72 hours.
Industry estimates put U.S. unfilled data-center roles near 340,000 by the end of 2026, with a minority of applicants qualified and multi-month fills (Introl). AI/ML and data roles grew triple digits in postings while the overall IT-staffing market declined (Robert Half; SIA). And CBRE and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution name Atlanta one of the fastest-growing data-center markets in the country.
We are headquartered in it.
The same infrastructure-sourcing discipline that deployed 300+ specialists for a Tier-1 OSS/BSS provider in 90 days, now aimed at data-center network and transport. OSS/BSS, 5G and packet core, cloud migration — twenty-five years of telecom-systems sourcing, now aimed at the systems layer data centers run on.
A vacant seat is never free.
When an OSS/BSS architect or 5G core engineer seat sits open for 45, 60, 90 days, the cost isn't the recruiting fee you haven't paid. It's the delivery milestone that slips, the senior engineers burning out covering the gap, and the operator-facing commitments now at risk.
Generalist staffing firms can't fix this — they can't screen what they don't understand. A recruiter who has never seen a charging engine can't tell you who's real.
We screen from the inside.
TechNet has spent 25+ years placing specialists inside the telecom-systems ecosystem — the vendors, integrators, and platform teams that build what carriers run — and technical screening is led by an electrical engineer who speaks the stack.
Every candidate is evaluated against real deployment experience — the NetCracker or Convergys billing stack they actually shipped, the PCF/policy or 5G core integration they delivered, the mainframe-to-cloud migration they kept stable in production. Verified builders, not résumé keywords.
The Two-Week Test Drive
Try the specialist before you pay a dollar — backed by our No-Risk Guarantee: two weeks free to prove fit, then 90 days to replace at our cost. Here's the whole offer:
- Embed them free for two weeks. The engineer works your real standups, code reviews, and sprint tasks — not an interview. If they're not an elite fit, you end it and owe nothing. We eat the cost.
- Vetted profile in 72 hours. Tell us the seat and you have a screened specialist in hand within three days — no job-board dragnet, no résumé stack to wade through.
- 90-day replacement guarantee. If it stops working after they're in, we replace the specialist — at our cost, not yours.
We carry the risk because our screening earns it. Generalist firms can't make this offer — they can't stand behind talent they can't evaluate. And because every candidate is screened by an electrical engineer, we take on new engagements deliberately, not in volume — the sooner you tell us the seat, the sooner yours is in the queue.
Built for the telecom software ecosystem
Platform vendors, systems integrators, and network software teams — the layer that builds what carriers run. Three disciplines, one standard of screening:
OSS/BSS & Billing
Billing, charging, rating, mediation, provisioning, order management — across NetCracker, Convergys, and the platforms revenue runs on, plus the billing migrations between them.
Network, RF & 5G Core
5G core, packet core, O-RAN/vRAN, RF, policy (PCF), and the 3G→4G/LTE→5G migrations that keep networks evolving.
Software, Cloud & Data
The modern build layer: cloud & mainframe/AS-400 migration, microservices, data engineering, DevOps — plus ServiceNow platform delivery.
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