Specialist Platform Engineer - Distributed Scheduling

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Job Summary

Apply platform engineering expertise, critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to produce well-organised, optimised and documented source code that successfully delivers platform features & components of the service & solves complex technical problems with high quality solutions.Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled Platform Engineer – Distributed Scheduling to design, support, optimize, and maintain enterprise scheduling and workload automation platforms. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing distributed scheduling services, ensuring high availability, operational excellence, and automation of critical business processes using BMC Control-M and related workload automation technologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain, and support enterprise Workload Automation and Scheduling Services.
• Manage and support BMC Control-M infrastructure across distributed environments.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve scheduling failures, job execution issues, and workflow dependencies.
• Implement and maintain scheduling standards, governance, and operational procedures.
• Design and optimize complex job workflows, calendars, triggers, and event-driven scheduling solutions.
• Ensure platform stability, scalability, security, and performance.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, cloud, and operations teams to onboard new workloads.
• Execute platform upgrades, patches, migrations, and disaster recovery testing.
• Develop automation scripts to improve scheduling operations and reduce manual effort.
• Support incident, problem, and change management processes.
• Perform root cause analysis for recurring scheduling issues and implement permanent fixes.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures.
• Participate in on-call support and service continuity activities.

Required Skills & Experience

Distributed Scheduling & Workload Automation

• Strong experience supporting Distributed Scheduling Platforms.
• Hands-on expertise in Workload Automation and Scheduling Services.
• Advanced administration and support of BMC Control-M Scheduling Services.
• Experience managing job scheduling across Windows, Linux, and Unix environments.
• Knowledge of event-driven scheduling, dependencies, calendars, and workload orchestration.
• Experience supporting mission-critical batch processing environments.

Technical Skills

• Linux/Unix and Windows server administration.
• Scripting experience with Shell, Bash, PowerShell, or Python.
• Understanding of APIs, automation, and integration frameworks.
• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools.
• Database fundamentals (SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, etc.).
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS is advantageous.

Operational Excellence

• Production support experience within large enterprise environments.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with ITIL processes including Incident, Problem, and Change Management.
• Ability to perform root cause analysis and drive service improvement initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications

• BMC Control-M certification preferred.
• ITIL Foundation certification.
• Experience supporting enterprise automation and platform engineering functions.
• Exposure to DevOps and Infrastructure as Code practices.

Key Competencies

• Analytical thinking.
• Attention to detail.
• Stakeholder management.
• Strong communication skills.
• Continuous improvement mindset.
• Ability to work under pressure in a 24x7 operational environment.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Control-M Managed File Transfer (MFT).
• Cloud workload orchestration experience.
• Experience integrating scheduling solutions with enterprise applications such as SAP, Oracle, or Informatica.
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools and automation frameworks.

Education

Bachelor's Degree: Information TechnologyAbsa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

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