Senior Specialist Automation Architect

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.

Role purpose -

As a Senior Architect you will define, develop and help deliver Accelya’s technology roadmap. With a focus on automation, orchestration and transparency – it is the role of Accelya’s IT Transformation team to bring Accelya to the forefront of infrastructure development.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Define and develop standards for infrastructure automation, management and reporting.
• Develop cross-platform automation and orchestration frameworks – to draw Accelya’s internal IT infrastructure together.
• Help deliver the “One Accelya” vision for IT infrastructure.
• Help Accelya adopt a “shift-left” mentality to security in infrastructure development.
• Design and implement modern, automated, instrumented infrastructure – with a focus towards implementing infrastructure as code where possible.
• Work with the wider Accelya IT team to develop their understanding and skills – particularly in modern and emerging technologies.

Knowledge, Experience & Skills

• Proven background in a lead automation role in a mature IT organisation.
• Knowledge of automation, orchestration and configuration tooling such as;
  • Terraform
  • CloudFormation
  • Ansible
  • Puppet/Salt/Chef/DSC
• Experience of an environment diverse in operating systems, middleware and database platforms.
• Previous experience or knowledge of VMC on AWS, AWS and on-prem infrastructure
• Knowledge and experience covering large-scale data centre migration – on-prem to cloud transformation.
• Experience in IT infrastructure mergers.

What do we offer?

• Open culture and challenging opportunity to satisfy intellectual needs.
• Flexible working hours
• Smart working: hybrid remote/office working environment.
• Work-life balance
• Excellent, dynamic and multicultural environment

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.

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!