About this role
Job Description JAMS Platform Engineer | Automation, Python, PowerShell, CI/CD
Toronto, ON - Hybrid (2-3 Days WFO)
Role Summary
Seeking a hands-on engineer to drive the reliability, automation and modernization of the enterprise JAMS workload automation platform. The role combines JAMS platform expertise with software engineering, automation and AI capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
? Engineer and administer JAMS Scheduler, including Scheduler, Agents, Executors, queues, resources and job configuration.
? Improve platform reliability, performance, capacity, resilience and observability.
? Lead complex troubleshooting, performance analysis and root-cause investigations.
? Build proactive monitoring and automated recovery for Scheduler, agents, queues and batch workflows.
? Develop automation using Python, PowerShell, APIs and scripting to reduce manual operational effort.
? Build and maintain engineering solutions using GitHub, including source control, code review and CI/CD practices.
? Drive migration from time-based to event-driven scheduling and simplify batch orchestration.
? Establish engineering standards for retries, long-running jobs, alerts, resources, agents and job design.
? Support upgrades, patching, regression testing, DR and production readiness.
? Partner with BatchOps, application and infrastructure teams to onboard and optimize workloads.
? Work with the JAMS vendor on product defects, performance and roadmap capabilities.
? Explore and implement practical AI use cases for operational analytics, anomaly detection, troubleshooting and automation.
Technical Skills
? Strong hands-on JAMS Scheduler / workload automation experience
? Python and PowerShell
? GitHub / Git, CI/CD and software engineering practices
? REST APIs and systems integration
? SQL Server and database troubleshooting
? Windows Server and distributed application troubleshooting
? Monitoring, telemetry and performance engineering
? Exposure
Requirements Java