JAMS Platform Engineer | Automation, Python, PowerShell, CI/CD

Toronto, ON - Hybrid (2-3 Days WFO)

Role Summary

Seeking a hands-on engineer to drive the reliability, automation and modernization of the enterprise JAMS workload automation platform. The role combines JAMS platform expertise with software engineering, automation and AI capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

- Engineer and administer JAMS Scheduler, including Scheduler, Agents, Executors, queues, resources and job configuration.
- Improve platform reliability, performance, capacity, resilience and observability.
- Lead complex troubleshooting, performance analysis and root-cause investigations.
- Build proactive monitoring and automated recovery for Scheduler, agents, queues and batch workflows.
- Develop automation using Python, PowerShell, APIs and scripting to reduce manual operational effort.
- Build and maintain engineering solutions using GitHub, including source control, code review and CI/CD practices.




- Drive migration from time-based to event-driven scheduling and simplify batch orchestration.
- Establish engineering standards for retries, long-running jobs, alerts, resources, agents and job design.
- Support upgrades, patching, regression testing, DR and production readiness.
- Partner with BatchOps, application and infrastructure teams to onboard and optimize workloads.
- Work with the JAMS vendor on product defects, performance and roadmap capabilities.
- Explore and implement practical AI use cases for operational analytics, anomaly detection, troubleshooting and automation.

Technical Skills

- Robust hands-on JAMS Scheduler / workload automation experience
- Python and PowerShell
- GitHub / Git, CI/CD and software engineering practices
- REST APIs and systems integration
- SQL Server and database troubleshooting
- Windows Server and distributed application troubleshooting
- Monitoring, telemetry and performance engineering
- Exposure

📌 JAMS Platform Automation Engineer (Toronto)
🏢 Astra North Infoteck
📍 Toronto