Principal Storage and Data Protection Automation Engineer

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

Accelya has a great opportunity, for the right candidate, to become part of our team which supports one of the leading global software platforms of the airline industry.  

You will serve as a subject matter expert to help develop, automate and mature our on-prem and cloud, enterprise storage and data protection strategies. 

The Senior Cloud Automation Engineer will also be responsible for helping to develop and document policies, standards, operational processes and to mentor junior engineers.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for maintaining effective data security strategies and controls to protect sensitive and confidential information from unauthorized access, alteration, or destruction.
• Success in this role requires exceptional problem-solving skills, strong interpersonal skills with a positive attitude, the ability to articulate thoughts and ideas, and a passion for seeing them to fruition.
• Diagnosing performance and connectivity related issues.
• Implementing and executing on-prem to cloud migration tasks.
• Provides proactive support for enterprise storage and backup solutions, by ensuring all monitoring, alerting, and security standards are maintained.
• Serves as an L3 escalation for cloud storage and data protection issues.
• Document and maintain, the backup, replication, and archival cloud architecture policies in alignment with our global commitments.
• Coordinates and leads projects as required.

Knowledge, Experience & Skills

• A strong understanding of protecting workloads in VMware Cloud (VMC) on AWS.
• Must have experience with technologies such as Terraform, Ansible etc.
• Proven record of automating administration and monitoring of storage and backup systems.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience working with AWS architecture.
• 8+ years in IT with 5+ years of hands-on experience in managing modern backup/storage solutions.
• Experience with cloud archive technologies, principles, and best practices.
• Experience and a deep understanding of Storage technologies including PureStorage, NetApp, Dell/EMC VMAX, VNX, Unity and DataDomain.
• Strong knowledge of storage-related connectivity protocols and technologies (e.g., SAN, NAS, Block, NFS, SMB).
• Experience with migrating on-prem infrastructure environments to AWS.  VMC on AWS a plus.

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!