Database Administrator |Informix|

Team

The Data Practice is the team made up of experts dedicated to Data centric offers (Data platform, Data Analytics, IoT, Big Data, Data compliance) who support our customers in their IT and Data transformations.

We help customers choose the right tools and services, build highly scalable secure environments, and help them manage the maintenance of those environments. We come up with creative solutions to difficult problems and every engineer gets to have a large direct impact on each of those customers.

The team is made up of engineers from all around the country in distributed teams. You can work fully remote or at any Claranet UK office - most people choose a combination of the two. We’ve worked hard to create a remote-friendly culture and believe you can have a big impact no matter where you live.

Working in the Data Practice we can offer an environment where you will be surrounded by like-minded, highly technical people. Due to the nature of our business, interesting projects and the possibility to learn and use new technologies are commonplace. We want you to develop and grow as our organization does.

Expectations

· You will build new customer environments, working as part of a large project team

· You will provide managed support for the Informix database platforms

· You’ll contribute to and develop new automation from improve the delivery of the service

· You’ll act as a fourth line escalation for any database support issues.

· You'll be able to take business requirements and translate that into high-level and low-level designs

· You'll be able to articulate design decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

· You'll be required to produce new technical content for internal use by our engineering teams

What you will accomplish

Within the Data practice, you will be responsible for:

· Supporting Informix Database platforms. This will include:
• Troubleshooting
• Monitoring
• Optimization/tuning of system performance
• Security
• Reporting
• On-Call rotation for 24/7 fourth-line support.
• Automation of all support activities including backups, patching, and script deployments.
• Accompany customers towards Cloud technologies and other cloud-native Data Services.
• Ensure the storage, processing, and quality of customer data

Technology

You’ll have experience with the following technologies:
• Unix and Linux systems administration
• Database Administration experience with at least one of
• Informix 11.70 or above,
• DB2
• Oracle.
• PostgreSQL

You’ll ideally also have experience with the following technologies:
• A working knowledge of Openbet
• Exposure to storage area networks, particularly EMC, IBM, Sun and HP

What we value
• You have a positive mindset: you're excited by unfamiliar challenges and learning new thing
• You're collaborative, supportive, and love to help others learn
• You believe in shared accountability, celebrating success, and learning from failures
• You’re Enthusiastic and eager to learn a wide variety of technologies
• You keep up to date on new technologies and trends