Scheduler Administrator

Job Title: Scheduler Administrator

Location: Wilmington, Delaware, USA

Years of Experience: 10 15 Years

<>Job Summary:

We are seeking an experienced Scheduler Administrator to manage and maintain our IBM Workload Scheduler (IWS) environments across development, test, and production systems. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in scheduling administration, incident management, and change support, with a proven track record of ensuring successful job execution and adherence to service level agreements (SLAs).

<>Responsibilities:

• TWS consultant and SME with over 10-15 years of progressive experience in implementing highly available and scalable IBM Tivoli Workload Automation and Batch Automation Solutions.
• Extensive experience in IWS/TWS/TDWC/eWAS administration on distributed environments across on-premises and cloud platforms, including installation of Master Domain Managers, Fault Tolerant Agents, Extended Agents for applications like SAP, Datastage, etc.
• Very good experience with DB2 Administration and implementation of HADR. Also familiar with databases like Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQL queries.
• A rich mixture of business and technical expertise in data warehousing, ETL, reporting, UNIX, C, Perl, and other programming languages related to the Airline, Retail, and Infrastructure domains. Proven record in consulting, requirement analysis, designing, developing, testing, integrating, and implementing end-to-end ETL solutions aligned with critical business requirements under stringent deadlines following agile methodologies.
• Proven experience in defining production support methodologies and strategies.
• Excellent programming skills with the ability to automate routine processes using Unix shell scripting, Perl, Python, C, and C++.
• Developing custom GUI-based applications using Java/J2EE for users to interact with TWS applications.
• Development experience in implementing REST/SOAP web services for Tivoli Workload Scheduler.
• Experience in implementing On-Demand / Real-Time integrations with TWS and ETL, and other external applications such as ServiceNow, AppDynamics, OBM, and Grafana.
• Sound experience in ITIL Service Support, including Incident, Problem, Change, and Release Management.
• Experience in development of web applications using Python's Django framework.
• Administer and maintain IBM Workload Scheduler (IWS) environments across development, test, and production systems.
• Create, modify, and manage job streams, jobs, calendars, schedules, and dependencies.
• Monitor daily batch operations to ensure successful job execution and SLA adherence.
• Perform root cause analysis for job failures and implement permanent fixes.
• Proactively monitor scheduler consoles and alerts.
• Respond to batch failures, delays, and performance issues.
• Coordinate with application, database, and infrastructure teams to resolve incidents.
• Follow ITIL based incident, problem, and change management processes.
• Support scheduling changes related to application releases and enhancements.
• Validate new jobs and schedules during User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and production deployments.
• Maintain rollback and recovery procedures for batch processing.

<>Mandatory Skills:

• Extensive experience with Tivoli Workload Scheduler (IWS) is a deal breaker.
• Strong knowledge of job scheduling, monitoring, and incident management.
• Proficiency in ITIL based processes for incident, problem, and change management.

<>Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 10 15 years of relevant experience in scheduler administration and operations.
• Proven experience in managing batch operations and incident resolution.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast paced environment and manage multiple priorities.