JAMS Platform Automation Engineer
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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