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Senior Platform Engineer - Control-M

Avacone · Basel, BS, Switzerland
Basel, BS, SwitzerlandExp: 6-10 yrsOnsite
Remuneration
Not specified
Location
Basel, BS, Switzerland
Visa sponsorship
Not specified

Job summary

The Senior Platform Engineer designs, administers, and supports enterprise workload automation, ensuring business-critical batch processes and data workflows run reliably across multiple technology platforms. The role manages Control-M scheduling environments, resolves cross-platform incidents, improves automation, security, and resilience, and maintains operational controls and documentation. It also provides limited first-line database administration backup, including basic health checks and troubleshooting.

Qualifications

  • Experience designing, configuring, administering, and supporting Control-M or an equivalent enterprise workload scheduling platform
  • Experience supporting batch workloads across Windows, Linux, and database environments
  • Knowledge of database operations, SQL, and routine database troubleshooting
  • Understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, platform lifecycle management, and controlled change practices
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience
  • Typically six to ten years of relevant experience, or demonstrable expertise appropriate to the role

Responsibilities

  • Design, configure, and maintain Control-M scheduling environments and operational controls
  • Develop, test, and implement job definitions, calendars, dependencies, and workflows
  • Monitor batch processing and respond to failures, alerts, and service-impacting events
  • Investigate cross-platform issues involving jobs, applications, infrastructure, and workflow dependencies
  • Support workload automation across Linux, Windows, databases, file transfers, and enterprise applications
  • Contribute to platform upgrades, migrations, resilience improvements, and lifecycle management
  • Develop scripts and automation for repeatable job management and operational processes
  • Maintain technical documentation, scheduling standards, procedures, and operational runbooks
  • Participate in incident, problem, and change management
  • Apply secure-by-design practices and support access control, security, and audit requirements
  • Provide limited DBA backup, including basic database health checks and first-line troubleshooting

Skills

LinuxWindowsBashGitHub ActionsGitLab CIMariaDBMySQLOracle CloudPostgreSQLPython

Degrees

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience

Relocation

No