Senior Control-M Platform Engineer – Automation & Reliability

Avacone; Basel; On-site; CHF 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Avacone is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer – Control‑M to design, administer and operate enterprise workload automation services. You will ensure reliable scheduling, monitoring and execution of critical batch processes across Windows, Linux and databases.

Lead automation initiatives, maintain runbooks, and contribute to upgrades, resilience and lifecycle management while collaborating with application, database and infrastructure teams.

Qualifications

• Practical experience designing, configuring, administering and supporting Control‑M or an equivalent enterprise workload scheduling platform.
• Strong knowledge of job scheduling, dependencies, calendars, alerts and workload management.
• Experience supporting batch workloads across Windows, Linux and database environments.
• Strong troubleshooting and incident management skills across application, infrastructure and scheduling dependencies.
• Familiarity with scripting and automation to support efficient operational processes.
• Understanding of file transfer, data processing workflows and system integrations.
• Knowledge of monitoring, logging, event correlation and operational reporting.
• Experience with high availability, disaster recovery and lifecycle management.
• Understanding of scheduling governance and controlled change practices.
• Basic knowledge of SQL and database troubleshooting for first‑line DBA support.
• Awareness of CI/CD and DevOps practices is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Design, configure and maintain Control-M scheduling environments and standards.
• Develop, test and implement job definitions, calendars and workflows.
• Monitor batch processing and respond to scheduling failures and alerts.
• Investigate and resolve cross‑platform issues involving jobs and dependencies.
• Support workload automation across Linux, Windows, databases and apps.
• Implement and maintain operational controls, alerting and escalation procedures.
• Contribute to platform upgrades, migrations and lifecycle management.
• Develop scripts to improve job management and deployment efficiency.
• Maintain documentation and runbooks for scheduling operations.
• Participate in incident, problem and change management with service restoration in mind.
• Collaborate with application and infrastructure teams to resolve cross‑platform dependencies.
• Apply secure‑by‑design practices and support access control and audit requirements.
• Provide limited DBA backup support under guidance.

Skills

Control-M scheduling

Linux

Windows

Scripting & automation

Incident management

Monitoring & logging

CI/CD awareness

Security & resilience

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Control-M

SQL

Monitoring tools

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Avacone is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer – Control‑M to design, administer and operate enterprise workload automation services. You will ensure reliable scheduling, monitoring and execution of critical batch processes across Windows, Linux and databases.

Lead automation initiatives, maintain runbooks, and contribute to upgrades, resilience and lifecycle management while collaborating with application, database and infrastructure teams.