Charles Simon Associates Ltd

Site Reliability Engineer - (SRE, Terraform, AKS, Azure, Kubernetes, PowerShell, Python, Bash, Datadog, Monitoring Tools) - Permanent - Remote Charles Simon Associates are proud to partner with a global technology business, headquartered in Nottinghamshire, in their search for a Site Reliability Engineer. This is an exciting opportunity to join a company that is passionate about modern reliability practices. They're looking for someone who shares their drive for excellence, if you're enthusiastic about automation, scalability, and building resilient systems, this role is for you. Location: Remote, with occasional travel to Nottinghamshire HQ Salary: Up to £75,000 per annum Skills/Requirements for the Site Reliability Engineer: Proven experience in Site Reliability Engineering or similar roles Strong Terraform skills and hands-on experience with live environment deployments Solid Kubernetes and AKS expertise Familiarity with monitoring tools (Datadog preferred; Azure Application Insights, Log Analytics, Grafana also considered) Scripting/automation skills (PowerShell, Python, Bash) Experience supporting web-based applications Desirable: Exposure to microservices architectures Knowledge of Agile methodologies (Kanban, Scrum) Experience with tools such as Puppet or Chef What You'll Do: As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will: Design and implement SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs to align reliability with business needs Build and maintain incident response frameworks (runbooks, postmortems, blameless RCA) Enhance observability with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and OpenTelemetry Manage infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation) for consistent deployments Optimize cloud performance and costs through autoscaling, rightsizing, and lifecycle management Introduce chaos engineering practices to validate resilience and recovery strategies Champion cloud security best practices (secrets management, IAM policies, vulnerability scanning) Collaborate with DevOps and platform teams to create paved-road deployment patterns and internal developer portals Lead capacity planning and load testing to ensure systems scale effectively Contribute to architectural decisions around reliability, latency, and fault tolerance Share knowledge, mentor colleagues, and promote SRE culture across teams Please send an up-to-date CV to be considered for this position. Site Reliability Engineer - (SRE, Terraform, AKS, Azure, Kubernetes, PowerShell, Python, Bash, Datadog, Monitoring Tools) - Permanent - Remote

Business Intelligence (BI) Developer - (BI, Business Intelligence, Qlik, Qlikview, Qlik Cloud, Reporting, Data Warehousing, Analysis, Stakeholder Management) - Permanent - Leicester/Hybrid Charles Simon Associates are currently recruiting for a Business Intelligence (BI) Developer on a permanent basis. This is a fantastic opportunity to work for a business that has been growing extensively over the past 3 years, you would be working for a manager who really values their employees and wants to help them in their careers in order for them to progress. Location: Leicester/Hybrid Salary: Up to £45,000 Per Annum D.O.E Skills/Requirements for the Business Intelligence (BI) Developer: Previous experience in a similar role is vital Strong Data Modelling, Manipulation and integration experience Previous BI reporting experience ideally around QlikView/Qlik Cloud or Qlik Sense Knowledge of Data Warehousing Ability to interact with senior level Stakeholders All candidates must have hands on experience using Qlik products, ideally Qlik Cloud, QlikView and/or Qlik Sense Start date is ASAP for the Business Intelligence (BI) Developer The Business Intelligence (BI) Developer will be responsible for: Translating complex datasets into clear, actionable insights that influence key business decisions Supporting and updating Stakeholders within the business as and when requested and on an ad hoc basis Mentoring junior members of the team in order to support their growth Working with multiple data sources and large complex datasets, building analytical solutions using predominantly Qlik Cloud Applying a "test, learn and evolve" approach to uncover opportunities and recommend improvements to the system where possible Supporting the growth of the business through data-driven analytics and innovation Acting as a senior team member, guiding colleagues and providing cover in the BI Manager's absence Collaborating across teams to identify and solve business challenges using data Please send an up-to-date copy of your CV to be considered for the Business Intelligence (BI) Developer Business Intelligence (BI) Developer - (BI, Business Intelligence, Qlik, Qlikview, Qlik Cloud, Reporting, Data Warehousing, Analysis, Stakeholder Management) - Permanent - Leicester/Hybrid

Infrastructure Engineer - (Infrastructure, Project, VMware, O365, Azure, Migration, Firewalls, CheckPoint, FortiNet, FortiGate, Networking, Hybrid, LAN/WAN, MSP) - Permanent - Warrington Charles Simon Associates are currently looking for an Infrastructure Engineer on a permanent basis for a very fast growing MSP business based in Warrington. Do you want to Join a boutique team that tackles complex infrastructure challenges with the precision of elite specialists, where agility, security, and Azure mastery aren't just buzzwords, they're the baseline? Location: Warrington - 5 days per week onsite Salary: Up to £50,000 per annum Skills/Requirements for the Infrastructure Engineer: Previous experience within a similar role Extensive O365 experience Migration experience, both from older versions to current and from on prem ideally to cloud Virtulisation experience, VMware and/or Hyper-V Networking, around Firewalls, VLAN's, Routing and deploying LAN/WAN's Extensive Project delivery experience MS Azure is highly desirable Any experience of working with HLD/LLD would be a massive advantage Start date is ASAP for the Infrastructure Engineer The Infrastructure Engineer will be responsible for: Planning and delivering a variety of projects from inception to completion for our clients Maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders in businesses Leading migrations and other solution rollouts directly and with the support of other members of the business Producing HLD's/LLD's for clients, including technical documentation, deployment and post implementation support for either our own internal teams or 3rd parties. Acting as an escalation point for the service desk where needed, and providing mentoring when possible Architecting, deploying and optimising Azure environments working on both fully and hybrid cloud solutions. Please send an up-to-date copy of your CV to be considered for the Infrastructure Engineer Infrastructure Engineer - (Infrastructure, Project, VMware, O365, Azure, Migration, Firewalls, CheckPoint, FortiNet, FortiGate, Networking, Hybrid, LAN/WAN, MSP) - Permanent - Warrington