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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