Job Description – Informix DBA / Technical Consultant

	Job Title:	Informix DBA / Technical Consultant
	Location:	Sunbury on Thames, Middlesex

SUMMARY AND EXPERIENCE: We are seeking an Informix DBA / Technical Consultant with a minimum of 5 years highly technical Informix experience, excellent UNIX and/or Linux skills, including installation and configuration to work as part of a team on the day-to-day systems and database administration of our own and customers' IT systems.

Any database skills in addition to Informix would be considered advantageous.

Exposure to storage area networks, particularly EMC, IBM, Sun and HP, will interest us.

We also require a good understanding of networking, including WAN, LAN, VPN, SAN.

COMPANY: Ardenta provides IT services and products to organisations that value high-availability systems, particularly in the retail and online gaming sectors. The focus is on providing support and implementing technical projects for mission-critical systems, and then providing full support for these and other systems.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: include the following:

• Working as part of a team on the day-to-day systems and database administration of our own, and particularly our customers, IT systems.
• Providing general support, problem analysis and solving and advice for our customers and their systems.
• Taking a proactive and strategic view of issues such as infrastructure, capacity planning, backup and recover for Ardenta and for its customer installations.
• Assisting in technical support in a pre-sales capacity for potential customers' requirements and questions.
• Assisting the sales and marketing teams with technical input to sales and marketing campaigns
• Perform other related activities as requested for the benefit of the Company.

QUALIFICATIONS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE: Education to degree level or equivalent. A minimum of five years highly technical Informix experience; strong UNIX skills are required, and we have a strong preference for additional Linux skills.

LANGUAGE SKILLS: Ability to read and interpret documents such as computer documentation, hardware operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write business reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of managers, vendors and colleagues.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS: Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.

REASONING ABILITY: Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS: No pre-requisites.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: The role will be primarily based at Ardenta's offices in Sunbury on Thames. Our delivery model is to use remote access, such as VPN, wherever possible. However, visits to the sites of potential and existing customers will be required, and we reserve the right to assign long periods of such off-site working to meet customer demand.

The work environment characteristics at Ardenta’s offices are open-plan, split into 2 areas. The sales and marketing functions share one area, with the technical, administration and finance in another. The two areas are connected by an open doorway. The noise level in the technical work environment is usually low.

Please send your CV and supporting letter to careers@ardenta.com.

NO AGENCIES – UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES