Senior Principal Database Administrator

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 Principal Database Administrator at Accelya, you will serve as the organization's highest-level hands-on database engineering expert, responsible for designing, implementing, securing, and supporting mission-critical database platforms. You will lead by execution, independently performing the organization's most complex database and cloud engineering initiatives while partnering with Engineering, Cloud Operations, Security, and Platform teams to ensure highly available, secure, resilient, and performant database services. This role requires deep expertise in Microsoft SQL Server, AWS cloud technologies, automation, and production operations, while providing technical leadership through engineering excellence and mentorship.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Design, implement, administer, and support enterprise Microsoft SQL Server environments across on-premises and AWS cloud platforms.
• Independently plan and execute complex database upgrades, migrations, infrastructure refreshes, disaster recovery exercises, and modernization initiatives.
• Design, implement, and support highly available database architectures utilizing SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, clustering, replication, backup, and recovery technologies.
• Lead the investigation and resolution of complex production database and cloud infrastructure incidents, performing root cause analysis and implementing permanent corrective actions.
• Optimize database performance through query tuning, indexing strate...