Senior Platform Engineer - Control-M

Role Purpose

The Senior Platform Engineer – Control-M is responsible for the design, administration and operational support of enterprise workload automation services, ensuring that business-critical batch processes and data workflows are scheduled, monitored and executed reliably.

The role supports end-to-end workload automation across multiple technology platforms, contributes to platform reliability, security and resilience, and drives continuous improvement through automation and effective operational practices. It also provides limited first-line backup support to database administration colleagues.

Skills and Experience

• →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, including the prioritisation of business-critical workloads.
• →Experience supporting batch workloads across Windows, Linux and database environments.
• →Strong troubleshooting and incident management skills, with the ability to investigate issues across application, infrastructure and scheduling dependencies.
• →Familiarity with scripting and automation to support efficient and repeatable operational processes.
• →Understanding of file transfer, application integration and data processing workflows.
• →Knowledge of monitoring, logging, event correlation and operational reporting.
• →Experience with high availability, disaster recovery and platform lifecycle management.
• →Understanding of scheduling governance, testing and controlled change practices.
• →Basic knowledge of database operations, SQL and routine database troubleshooting, sufficient to provide first-line backup support to DBA colleagues.
• →Awareness of CI/CD and DevOps practices is advantageous.
• →Strong understanding of platform reliability, security, resilience and operational excellence.
• →Experience participating in incident, problem, change and lifecycle management.
• →Experience coordinating the work of others or contributing to technical projects is desirable.
• →Ability to document technical solutions clearly and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• →A collaborative, improvement-focused and automation-oriented approach to engineering.
• →Commitment to continuous learning, professional development and relevant industry accreditations.

Education and Professional Background

• →Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
• →Typically six to ten years of relevant experience, or demonstrable expertise appropriate to the seniority and scope of the role.

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