Lead Informix Database Administrator

4 weeks ago

Bengaluru, India NTS Technology Services Private Limited Full time

Overview of Role:


The successful candidate will be a production database-administration competency in our News Corp India Infrastructure team and will take ownership of supporting the Dow Jones/News UK / News Corp Australia/ Realtor corporate databases including performance, reliability and security of data in a core database competency.

- The Informix Database Administrator will be primarily experienced in Informix RDBMS with knowledge of Cloud technologies.


- Additionally, they'll be involved in administration of databases and their eco-systems; will support release, incident, problem, business continuity management practices; will patch, upgrade and comply with audit controls; will continuously improve database service quality to ensure stability and high availability.


- You are experienced in implementing; securing, supporting and upgrading enterprise infrastructure, ensuring the infrastructure, which runs corporate applications, are correctly monitored and highly available as required.


- Preferable candidates will need to possess basic working knowledge of Cloud technologies - AWS EC2 and RDS.

- Knowledge of second database technology like MySQL or PostgreSQL preferred.

- Candidates are expected to work in a rotating 24 x 5 model and also provide on-call support as required by business.

Service Design:

- To ensure availability and security of the database infrastructure.

- To manage the governance process for technical policy, standards and guidelines.

- To drive best practice designs that promote stability and operational efficiency.

Service Technologies:

- The core responsibilities include management of the Informix database as well as the maintenance, optimization and database recovery if required.

- Informix 12.6 and 12.10 experience.

- Experience in troubleshooting, performing upgrades, debugging and tracing Use sessions.

- Installation of the Informix server version 12.

- Informix TimeSeries Object/Relational data management.

- Informix Replication using HDR, Disaster Recovery knowledge.

- Informix Backup and recovery experience.

- Experience upgrading and patching Informix.

- Shell scripting (ksh,bash,etc).

- Informix data compression.

- Responsible for database backup and restoration of databases.

- Database related patch loading.

- Logical log file and dbspace maintenance.

- Database health check up.

- Executing the process of Re-indexing, re-organizing, update stats as per schedule.

- Monitoring database activities and performance.

- Space Management.

- Data movement from production to test Provide 24-7 support for production, development, and test databases.

- Be responsible for standard database administration duties: including, but not limited to, installation, patching and change migration, monitoring, backup and recovery.

- Build, upgrade, migrate and maintain databases.

- Support patching and upgrades of Servers, databases and appliances.

- Support disaster recovery events.

- Support Incident and Problem management.

- Experienced with Informix failover and switchover concepts..

- Partitioning and advanced compression skills.

- Expertise in performance tuning of SQL statements.

- Provides Informix database administration support for all lines of business applications and infrastructure applications.

- Provide technical support and coordination for core infrastructure components including server, network, storage, software and middleware.

- Communicate effectively with DBA team members, developers and Responsible for maintaining services to agreed Service Levels through effective management and communication to all parties.

- Responsible for alerting the Leadership team, Service managers and Business of any issues that impact production or result in reduced resilience during a production period.

- Is involved in the maintenance and regular testing of tier 0 disaster recovery plans

- Ensuring that system failures are contained and resolved with minimum business impact and that steps are taken to manage failures in IT delivery.

- To join the Incident Management team during major incidents

- To ensure timely weekly preparation of brief management reports

- Oversee changes to ensure minimal disruption and compliance with change processes

- Provide timely participation in follow in problem focus groups

- Involved in updates for operational procedures and associated support documentation.

- To at all times follow and encourage ITIL best practice.

Key Competencies:

Managing Continuity Producing Results:

- Upholds and ensures compliance to departmental policies and procedure

- Escalates issues in a timely fashion

- Utilises expert resources in an effective way

- Response to incident / join bridges

- Owns problem resolution, including managing SIP projects through 3rd parties

- Ensures very high ownership end to end

- Demonstrates resourcefulness and tenacity

- Sets high standards for self,and 3rd parties

- Current tier 0 recovery plans maintained

Relating to People Leading Change:

- Effectively manages and works with a variety of teams, structures and reporting lines

- Manages conflict constructively

- Develops good relationships with departmental peers and business stakeholders

- Encourages and facilitates open communication

- Challenges current procedure looking for efficiencies

- Identifies areas for improvement providing business case justification

- Identifies stakeholders and the issues that impact them

- Ensuring change is implemented in a seamless manner with minimal Performance Measures:

- Educated to degree level, or equivalent work experience with vendor management experience

- Very high ownership

- Detail oriented

- Demonstrates commitment to quality

- Agile in a fast moving environment

- Strong communication skills

- Incident management

- Problem management

- ITIL qualified - Service levels and Customer satisfaction levels

- Effective utilization of time

- Objectives and Goals achieved

- Steady progress in resolving outstanding issues

- Must be willing to work 24 x 5 rotational shifts.

- Must be prepared to work flexible hours to cover the change window

Career Path: Typical Previous Role or Background Anecdotal Descriptors

- 8+ years experience of production Database Administration showing a core competency in a specific RDBMS namely Informix.


- Energy and Enthusiasm

- Passionate about service delivery excellence

- Leadership

- Positivity and Drive

- Desire to "make things work"

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