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Job Description
Location:
Riverwoods, IL IBM Workload Scheduler (IWS) Administrator / Infrastructure Engineer Role Overview Ability to modernize, implement, install, configure, upgrade, migrate, develop, or design IBM Workload Scheduler (IWS) / IBM Workload Automation (IWA) solutions. Support migration activities across pre-production and production environments. Participate in knowledge transfer and documentation to enable team self-sufficiency.
Position Details Title:
IBM Workload Scheduler Administrator /
Infrastructure Engineer Reports To:
Senior Manager, Software Engineering Work Schedule:
Monday Friday, 9:00 AM 5:00 PM (US Central) Full-time position with: Occasional weekend change-control support Rotating on-call schedule shared with two other team members
Location:
Riverwoods, IL (
Preferred:
3 days onsite per week) Remote may be considered for exceptional candidates Job Summary Seeking a highly skilled professional with 3 5+ years of dedicated IBM Workload Scheduler administration experience . Responsible for managing, maintaining, and optimizing enterprise batch scheduling infrastructure. Primary environment hosted on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) .
Requires strong expertise in:
IBM Workload Scheduler (IWS) Linux System Administration Scripting and Automation Focus on ensuring high availability and reliable execution of critical business workloads. Key Responsibilities IBM Workload Scheduler Administration Administer Production IBM Workload Scheduler (formerly Tivoli Workload Scheduler) environment: 28,000 unique daily jobs Approximately 350,000 daily job runs 44 servers Three additional change-control environments Install, configure, administer, patch, and upgrade IWS components: Master Domain Manager (MDM) Dynamic Agents Dynamic Pools Dynamic Workload Console (DWC) Change Management & Governance Work closely with Product Owners and communicate workstreams through Jira. Manage job promotions using a Workload Application Template-based process. Perform safety and stability assessments for all job promotions. Manage change control across four separate environments. Enforce change management standards, policies, and governance. Platform Availability & Operations Maintain and continuously improve Production platform uptime target of 99.17% per month . Follow SOPs, DevOps practices, and disciplined change-control processes. Coordinate platform-impacting communications to a user community of approximately 500 developers and data engineers.
Support Production infrastructure consisting of:
44 servers MDM, DWC, and Agent environments
Troubleshooting & Support Resolve:
Complex job failures Performance bottlenecks Agent-related issues Infrastructure-related issues Provide guidance on complex job scheduling designs to less experienced team members. Monitoring, Security & Compliance Monitor scheduler platform health and performance. Manage database maintenance activities. Perform backup, disaster recovery, and monthly failover testing.
Define and maintain:
Security policies User authorizations Authentication for Dynamic Workload Console (DWC) Respond to: Cybersecurity vulnerability assessments PCI compliance audits Other regulatory audit requests Automation & DevOps Design and implement Ansible-based automation solutions. Develop self-healing mechanisms to reduce unplanned outages. Coordinate with offshore teams performing SOP activities during non-business hours.
Develop automation scripts using:
Python
IWS REST
APIs Required Technical Skills:
Strong experience with IBM Workload Scheduler architecture, especially Dynamic Workload Broker, V10.1+, high availability of MDM s managing Fault Tolerant Agent and Dynamic Agent agent architectures. Strong conceptual understanding of Master Domain Manager (MDM), Backup MDM (BMDM), Dynamic Workload Console (DWC), Fault Tolerant Agent (FTA), Dynamic Agent (DA). Strong grasp of conman CLI to monitor and control production plan, check job/job stream/resource status. Strong grasp of composer CLI to define, modify and extract scheduling objects. Strong grasp of planman CLI to control pre-production plan and GUI mirroring. Strong grasp of lifecycle of daily production planning process, phases of JNextplan/FINAL. Proficiency in navigating the DWC web-based GUI to monitor workloads, manage user access security, and define scheduling objects. Experience installing IWS components, applying Fix Packs, and Interim Fixes. Troubleshooting with logs under TWSDATA/stdlist, adjusting trace level for netman, batchman, writer, mailman, etc. Strong experience with IBM WebSphere Liberty. Strong grasp of reading messages.log, traces.log, FFDC logs. Strong grasp of configuring JVM heap sizes. Strong grasp of configuring tracing scope, tracing levels, tracing retention. Strong experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8+. Deep familiarity with bash/shell commands for text processing (for example, grep, awk, sed), file manipulation, and system navigation. Ability to manage, start, stop, and troubleshoot SystemD services using systemctl and journalctl for IWS agents and MDM. Managing user accounts, groups, service accounts and deep knowledge of Linux file permissions (chmod, chown, ACL on local filesystems and NFS). Ability to monitor system performance using tools like top, htop, vmstat, iostat, and sar to troubleshoot bottlenecks and platform unresponsiveness. Understanding of Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and filesystem usage. Checking TCP port availability, firewall rules (firewalld/iptables), and connectivity between MDM and Dynamic Agents using netstat, ss, ping, curl, etc. Managing SSL/TLS certificates, private keystores, public truststores, and working with Certificate Authority. Strong experience with scripting (Bash Shell, Python, etc.) for automation. Understanding of networking principles. Understanding of basic Oracle database administration, enough to troubleshoot with DBA s to prove when an issue is in Oracle. Understanding of basic SQL to query job metadata. Understanding of checking database connectivity. Understanding of AWS cloud infrastructure.
