JAMS Platform Automation Engineer

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