Specialist-Informix DBA

For more than 40 years, Accelya has been the industry’s partner for change, simplifying airline financial and commercial processes and empowering the air transport community to take better control of the future. Whether partnering with IATA on industry-wide initiatives or enabling digital transformation to simplify airline processes, Accelya drives the airline industry forward and proudly puts control back in the hands of airlines so they can move further, faster. 

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Develop standards for deploying and configuring Informix and the technologies it depends upon (storage, operating system, network, etc)
• Define procedures for the deployment, configuration and operation of Informix on various platforms including AWS, VMWare Cloud on AWS and ‘on-prem’
• Develop automation to deploy, configure and operate all Informix instances consistently and efficiently
• Design and implement monitoring, alerting and self-healing strategies that maintains the health and availability of Accelya’s Informix estate
• Participate in a 24*7 follow-the-sun support schedule that is vital to the availability and performance of our applications
• Train the wider database engineering teams on the deployment and management of Informix so Accelya can expand its coverage and scale further
• Collaborate with our software engineering teams to help them deliver secure, highly available, high performing applications on Informix

Knowledge, Experience & Skills

• A proven track record of developing and documenting standards, policies and procedures
• Experience developing automation that increases consistency and reduces human effort using tools like Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Salt and Chef
• Experience identifying the cause of complex Informix incidents and problems
• A proven track record in helping application developers leverage Informix securely and effectively
• Experience designing and implementing monitoring, alerting and self-healing strategies
• Experience providing a first class incident and problem management service
• Knowledge and/or experience of other open-source database platforms such as MySQL, MongoDB, and Cassandra will be beneficial

What do we offer?

• The opportunity to gain training and experience in multiple open-source and commercial database platforms
• Public cloud experience including AWS and VMWare Cloud on AWS
• Challenging, exciting work that delivers true business value
• Training and development opportunities tailored to you and your career goals
• Flexible working hours and location to suit your work-life requirements
• The opportunity to work alongside bright, enthusiastic and welcoming colleagues.

What does the future of the air transport industry look like to you? Whether you’re an industry veteran or someone with experience from other industries, we want to make your ambitions a reality!