Automation Engineer Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• 5–8+ years of experience in enterprise workload automation, SRE, or production operations supporting mission-critical batch processing.
• Hands-on experience with Stonebranch or at least one major enterprise scheduler (e.g., ESP, Control-M, AutoSys, IBM Workload Scheduler/TWS, Redwood) including: o Operating controllers/agents across environments. o Managing calendars/holiday tables and SLA jeopardy configurations.
• Strong scripting and automation skills in PowerShell, Bash, or Python, plus familiarity with YAML/JSON and REST APIs.
• Experience with Git-based workflows and CI/CD pipelines for job-as-code and configuration promotion.
• Proven design and implementation of restart/rerun patterns, dependency modeling, and idempotent batch frameworks.
• Experience integrating schedulers with observability platforms (logs/metrics/dashboards) and defining SLIs/SLOs.
• Excellent coordination skills across incident and change processes, with clear, concise communication to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries.
• Background standardizing multiple schedulers and creating common audit schemas and evidence-capture patterns.
• Relevant certifications such as ITIL, cloud architect/operations, DR/BC (e.g., DRII/BCI), or security (e.g., CISSP).

Responsibilities

• Run & Harden the Platform
• Operate and maintain scheduling controllers and agents across environments.
• Manage calendars and holiday tables; configure SLA jeopardy thresholds, alerting, and escalation paths.
• Implement platform upgrades, patches, and configuration changes in line with standards and change governance.
• Engineer Reliability & Resilience
• Design restart/rerun patterns (checkpointing, idempotent wrappers) and failure-handling flows for critical batches.
• Model dependencies and schedules as code (job-as-code) in version control with CI/CD-based promotion.
• Reduce single points of failure and improve consistency across job chains and environments.
• Standardize & Govern
• Define and maintain standard naming conventions, templates, parameters, and calendars across schedulers.
• Engineer common audit-evidence and log schemas to support internal and external reviews.
• Ensure data retention, traceability, and segregation of duties align with policies and regulatory requirements.
• Guardrails, Health & Service Readiness
• Implement pre/post checks, synthetic probes, and health validations for batch workflows.
• Define and maintain SLIs/SLOs for batch completion, success rates, and recovery times.
• Build safeguards that detect anomalies and misconfigurations before they impact downstream processes.
• Observability & Operational Excellence
• Integrate schedulers with observability tools (logs, metrics, dashboards) to improve visibility.
• Tune job concurrency, execution windows, and resource usage for performance and cost efficiency.
• Reduce noisy alerts and improve the signal-to-noise ratio for incident responders.
• Change, Incident & Release Coordination
• Align scheduler changes, maintenance, and releases with APSO/Change Management processes.
• Lead incident triage and resolution for batch failures, including rapid root-cause analysis and safe restarts/reruns.
• Contribute to post-incident reviews and drive remediation actions into platform and pattern improvements.
• Partner & Influence Across Teams
• Collaborate with Application Owners/Developers, DBAs/Data teams, SRE/Observability, Security, and Vendors to keep batch chains healthy and compliant.
• Provide guidance on best practices for job design, scheduling windows, dependencies, and error handling.
• Document patterns, playbooks, and standards; mentor peers and junior engineers in workload automation.

Benefits

• We provide a full package of benefits for employees – and have unique offerings for a modern workforce, including leave programs, adoption assistance, and student loan repayment programs.
• Based on feedback from our employees, we continue to refine and add benefits to our offering, so that you can flourish both inside and outside of work.