Senior Workload Automation & Enterprise Apps Engineer

Electricity Supply Board; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Electricity Supply Board in Dublin is seeking a proactive IT professional to join the Enterprise Application Services team as a Workload Automation & Technical Administrator. The role focuses on managing Automic environments across ESB and driving automation maturity through best-practice configuration and monitoring.

You will support enterprise file services, print infrastructure, and cross‑functional collaboration while contributing to ESB’s mission‑critical IT operations.

Qualifications

• 3 years’ hands‑on experience administering enterprise environments in production.
• Recognised third‑level qualification in Computing, IT, or related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Ability to diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve complex production issues independently with sound judgement on escalation.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity best practices and secure operational procedures.
• Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience administering Automic Workload Automation or similar tools (Control‑M, Autosys, Redwood).
• Experience working with cloud platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure.
• Familiarity with enterprise file services, print services, or other shared infrastructure platforms.
• Exposure to ITIL practices or similar structured service‑delivery frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain, and enhance the Automic Automation Engine (AE) platform, including AWI, agents, and associated infrastructure components.
• Perform platform and server lifecycle management, including installation, upgrades, patching, environment refreshes, health checks, and decommissioning activities.
• Design, configure, and optimise automation workflows, schedules, job objects, calendars, events, and reusable automation frameworks to support business operations.
• Monitor and support daily workload execution and operational services, proactively identifying and resolving job failures, performance issues, system alerts, and service disruptions.
• Integrate and support connectivity between Automic and enterprise applications, operating systems, cloud platforms, databases, and APIs, including SAP, Oracle, Linux, and Windows environments.
• Manage print and infrastructure services, including print servers, queues, drivers, deployments, storage utilisation, data migrations, and service availability.
• Ensure compliance, governance, and operational excellence through audit support, documentation management, logging and traceability, backup procedures, archiving, housekeeping activities, and capacity planning.

Skills

Workload automation

Azure

ITIL

Security best practices

Stakeholder management

Documentation

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computing/IT or related field

Tools

Automic Workload Automation

Control-M

Autosys

Redwood

Azure

Job description

Electricity Supply Board in Dublin is seeking a proactive IT professional to join the Enterprise Application Services team as a Workload Automation & Technical Administrator. The role focuses on managing Automic environments across ESB and driving automation maturity through best-practice configuration and monitoring.

You will support enterprise file services, print infrastructure, and cross‑functional collaboration while contributing to ESB’s mission‑critical IT operations.