Principal Informix Database Engineer

3 weeks ago

Camberley, United Kingdom Accelya Group Full time

Role purpose


Accelya has one of the world’s largest Informix estates. It helps our software drive the entire airline industry. It is therefore imperative that our Informix databases are secure, highly available and high performing. We are looking for an experienced Informix database engineer to maintain our high standards, but also to drive us forward to achieve even higher expectations.


As a Principal Informix engineer at Accelya you will develop architectures, standards, operating procedures and strategies for the deployment, configuration and management of Accelya’s mission-critical Informix estate. You will also act as the Informix subject matter expert for our partners in the software engineering teams, enabling them to develop Informix-based applications that are secure, highly available, efficient and fast. There are operational aspects to this role, but you will have the opportunity to automate the deployment and operation of databases to minimise effort and increase agility and consistency. You will also be part of an experienced, inquisitive and motivated database engineering team.


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
  • Train the wider database engineering teams on the deployment and management of Informix so Accelya can deliver services 24*7
  • 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 identifying solutions to complex Informix incidents and problems
  • Experience developing automation that increases consistency and reduces human effort using tools like Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Salt and Chef
  • A proven track record in helping application developers leverage Informix securely and effectively
  • Experience designing and implementing monitoring, alerting and self-healing strategies
  • A deep knowledge of Informix is essential, specifically how to deploy, patch, upgrade, backup and restore it
  • Knowledge, experience of, or desire to learn about open-source database platforms such as MySQL, MongoDB, and Cassandra will be beneficial


What do we offer?

  • Challenging, exciting work that delivers true business value
  • Training and development opportunities tailored to you and your career goals
  • Hybrid and Remote options available
  • Competitive salary and other perks


About Accelya


Accelya is a leading global technology and service provider to the air transport industry delivering innovative change at speed and scale. The company´s market-leading passenger, cargo, and industry platforms support airline retailing from offer to settlement, both above and below the wing. Over 250 airline customers count on Accelya, with operations spread across nine countries and employing over 2,000 professionals worldwide. 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.

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