IBM scheduler
Job in
Riverwoods, Lake County, Illinois, USA
Listed on 2026-10-23
Listing for:
TechDigital Group
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-10-23
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Systems Administrator, IT Support, Systems Engineer, Cybersecurity
Job Description & How to Apply Below
What are the top 3 skills required for this role?
IBM Workload Scheduler, Linux OS Administration skills, AWS cloud infrastructure, Scripting, IBM Web Sphere Liberty skills.
Job Description / Responsibilities- Strong experience with IBM Workload Scheduler architecture, especially Dynamic Workload Broker, V10.1+, high availability of MDMs managing Fault Tolerant Agent and Dynamic Agent architectures.
- Strong conceptual understanding of Master Domain Manager (MDM), Backup MDM (BMDM), Dynamic Workload Console (DWC), Fault Tolerant Agent (FTA), Dynamic Agent (DA).
- Strong grasp of conman CLI to monitor and control production plan, check job/job stream/resource status.
- Strong grasp of composer CLI to define, modify and extract scheduling objects.
- Strong grasp of planman CLI to control pre-production plan and GUI mirroring.
- Strong grasp of lifecycle of daily production planning process, phases of JNextPlan/FINAL.
- Proficiency in navigating the DWC web-based GUI to monitor workloads, manage user access security, and define scheduling objects.
- Experience installing IWS components, applying Fix Packs, and Interim Fixes.
- Troubleshooting with logs under TWSDATA/stdlist, adjusting trace level for netman, batchman, writer, mailman, etc.
- Strong experience with IBM Web Sphere Liberty.
- Strong grasp of reading messages.log, traces.log, FFDC logs.
- Strong grasp of configuring JVM heap sizes.
- Strong grasp of configuring tracing scope, tracing levels, tracing retention, and trace strings.
- Strong experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8+.
- Deep familiarity with bash/shell commands for text processing (grep, awk, sed), file manipulation, and system navigation.
- Ability to manage, start, stop, and troubleshoot SystemD services using systemctl and journalctl for IWS agents and MDM.
- Managing user accounts, groups, service accounts and deep knowledge of Linux file permissions (chmod, chown, ACL on local file systems and NFS).
- Ability to monitor system performance using top, htop, vmstat, iostat, sar to troubleshoot bottlenecks and platform unresponsiveness.
- Understanding of Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and file system usage.
- Checking TCP port availability, firewall rules (firewalld/iptables), and connectivity between MDM and Dynamic Agents using netstat, ss, ping, curl, etc.
- Managing SSL/TLS certificates, private keystores, public trust stores, and working with Certificate Authority.
- Strong experience with scripting (Bash Shell, Python, etc.) for automation.
- Understanding of networking principles.
- Understanding of basic Oracle database administration, enough to troubleshoot with DBAs to prove when an issue is in Oracle.
- Understanding basic SQL to query job metadata.
- Understanding of checking database connectivity.
- Understanding of AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Experience with using secrets manager (Cyber Ark PPM, Hashi Corp Vault, or similar).
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