Control-M Administrator

ENCORA TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

ENCORA TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD. is hiring for a senior Control-M Administrator to manage the BMC scheduling platform across production and non-production environments. You will execute upgrades, ensure high availability, automate routine tasks, and build integrations with REST APIs.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years of hands-on Control-M experience, strong scripting skills, and familiarity with IaC tools such as Chef or Ansible. Collaboration with ITSM and application teams is essential.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of hands-on experience administering BMC Control‑M in enterprise environments.
• Experience independently executing Control‑M platform and agent upgrades.
• Strong knowledge of Control‑M Enterprise Manager, Server, and Agents; scheduling concepts and troubleshooting.
• Experience using Control‑M Automation API and REST APIs for automation and integration.
• Proficiency in Unix/Linux shell scripting (Bash); PowerShell is advantageous.
• Hands-on experience with Chef, Ansible, or equivalent automation/configuration tools.
• Working knowledge of Linux/Unix and Windows administration, networking, and database concepts relevant to Control‑M.

Responsibilities

• Administer BMC Control-M Enterprise Manager, Control-M/Server, and Agents across environments.
• Execute upgrades, migrations, fix pack deployments, and agent upgrades with rollback planning.
• Manage platform configuration, connectivity, access controls, housekeeping, and availability.
• Support HA/DR configurations, testing, and recovery procedures.
• Automate tasks, provisioning, health checks, and deployments via Automation API and scripts.
• Build integrations with REST APIs and external services; develop custom job types when needed.
• Create and troubleshoot workflows, calendars, alerts, and recovery actions.
• Use IaC tools to standardize deployments and configurations.
• Provide L3 incident support, root cause analysis, and performance tuning.

Skills

BMC Control-M

Control-M Enterprise Manager

Control-M Server

Control-M Agents

Automation API

Shell scripting (Bash)

PowerShell

Chef/Ansible

Linux/Unix admin

Windows administration

REST APIs

CI/CD

Git

Cloud platforms

Networking basics

Tools

Configuration management tools

Job description

Responsibilities

• Administer BMC Control-M Enterprise Manager, Control-M/Server, and Agents across production and non-production environments.
• Execute Control-M upgrades, migrations, fix pack deployments, and agent upgrades, including validation and rollback planning.
• Manage platform configuration, agent connectivity, access controls, housekeeping, and availability.
• Support high availability and disaster recovery configurations, failover testing, and recovery procedures.
• Automate administrative tasks, agent provisioning, health checks, and deployment activities using Control-M Automation API, shell scripts, and configuration management tools.
• Build and maintain integrations with REST APIs, internal applications, and external services; develop custom job types using Control-M Application Integrator where required.
• Create and troubleshoot workflows, dependencies, calendars, alerts, and recovery actions.
• Use Chef, Ansible, or equivalent Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management Tools to standardize platform deployments and configuration.
• Provide L3 incident support, root cause analysis, performance tuning, and resolution of complex scheduling and platform issues.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, database, and ITSM teams on changes, incidents, and workload migrations.
• Maintain technical documentation, operational runbooks, and upgrade procedures

Required Skills and Experience

• Minimum 8 years of hands‑on experience administering BMC Control‑M in enterprise environments.
• Practical experience independently executing Control‑M platform and agent upgrades.
• Strong knowledge of Control‑M Enterprise Manager, Server, Agents, scheduling concepts, and troubleshooting.
• Experience using Control‑M Automation API and REST APIs for automation and integration.
• Proficiency in Unix/Linux shell scripting, including Bash; PowerShell experience is an advantage.
• Hands‑on experience with Chef, Ansible, or equivalent automation and configuration management tools.
• Working knowledge of Linux/Unix and Windows administration, networking, and database concepts relevant to Control‑M.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Control‑M Application Integrator and custom plugins.
• Exposure to scheduler migrations, workload modernization, and Control‑M as Code.
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience integrating with BMC Helix, Jira, Microsoft Teams, Splunk, Grafana, or Geneos.
• Exposure to cloud platforms and hybrid workload automation.
• Relevant BMC Control‑M certification