Robert Sarnapeta

Results-driven Autosys Administrator with extensive experience (14+) orchestrating enterprise-scale workloads across SAP S/4HANA, ECC, JDA, and SAP BW/BI environments. Proven track record of collaborating with cross-functional teams to automate and optimize business-critical pipelines across Procure-to-Pay (PTP), Finance, Transportation Management Systems (TMS), Manufacturing, and MDM domains. Extensive multi-domain expertise spanning Finance, Capital Markets, Healthcare (Insurance), Oracle Retail, and Education.

Autosys Administrator - ITC Infotech Ltd - WFH

(2024-06 - 2026-06)

Lead the team of 4 members. Lead an enterprise workload automation team managing over 8000 daily batch jobs in CA Workload Automation (Autosys). Orchestrated enterprise-scale workloads across SAP S/4HANA, ECC, JDA, and SAP BW/BI environments. Collaborated with cross-functional teams to automate and optimize business-critical pipelines across Procure-to-Pay (PTP), Finance, Transportation Management Systems (TMS), Manufacturing, and MDM domains.

• Designed and optimized complex job schedules, cross-application dependencies, and event-driven triggers, reducing critical production failures/incidents.
• Leveraged AI-driven analytics to proactively identify workload bottlenecks and optimize batch job performance, enhancing system reliability and reducing manual intervention.
• Developed robust Shell and Python scripts to automate repetitive scheduling tasks, system health checks, and alerting mechanisms.
• Acted as the primary escalation point for high-priority workload automation incidents, troubleshooting agent, or script failures to ensure 99.9% SLA compliance.
• Participated in OS patching/DR activities.
• Converted 40+ AutoSys standard calendars to extended calendars with cycles allows AutoSys to dynamically generate dates. By replacing manual, static date lists with reusable, rule-based logic, the system auto-calculates dates for years in advance without requiring annual re-generation saving approximately 120 hours of manual efforts across 3 different environments.
• Mentored and trained junior scheduling analysts on ESP/CAWA best practices, script standards, and disaster recovery procedures.
• Implemented ServiceNow-Autosys integration by migrating from legacy Windows scripts to robust templates, eliminating recurring service disruptions and increasing the reliability by 99.5%.
• Integrated the CA Workload Automation SAP Plugin into existing infrastructure, orchestrating complex cross-platform SAP jobs directly from the Autosys scheduler.
• Hardened Autosys workload notification architecture by replacing legacy plaintext mail tools with a secure Postfix and Mutt configuration leveraging TLS encryption.
• Managed end-to-end PGP key lifecycle (generation, rotation, and management) and renewed vendor SSH keys to maintain secure, compliant SFTP data exchanges.
• Executed critical Java and Apache Tomcat upgrades on Autosys servers, ensuring continuous stability, performance, and security.
• Implemented LDAPS in EEMs (Embedded Entitlements Manager) to secure directory services and strengthen authentication protocols.
• Spearheaded HTTPS and SSL/TLS certificate renewals across core environments, including Workload Control Center (WCC) and EEM, to prevent service disruption.

Autosys Administrator - Solugenix India Pvt Limited - Hybrid

(2017-04 - 2023-04)

Lead the team of 17 members.

• Administered and maintained CA Workload Automation (CAWA) infrastructure, handling agent installations, and configuration changes across multi-platform environments.
• Developed and maintained SQL scripts for data extraction and reporting, ensuring data accuracy and efficiency, which improved operational performance by 15%.
• Utilized ITRS monitoring tools to track infrastructure health, ensure system availability, and proactively resolve workload anomalies.
• Collaborated closely with application development teams to translate business logic into highly efficient automated job streams.
• Created and maintained comprehensive documentation for workload standards, naming conventions, and recovery operational runbooks.
• Utilized Shell scripting/Python to audit existing production schedules and reporting.
• Identified jobs where auto-retry/box logic changes could be implemented to reduce the manual interventions and downtime.

Technical Lead - Cognizant Technologies Solutions - Hyderabad

(2015-03 - 2017-04)

Managed enterprise workloads for Canada's largest food and pharmacy retailer (Loblaw/Shoppersdrugmart). Lead the team of 9.

• Monitoring and support of Autosys jobs and take action on failed jobs.
• Inserting, updating and deletion of JIL of jobs, machines, virtual machines, global variables etc.
• Job and Calendar creation and migration from Dev to QA and QA to PROD. Troubleshooting of failed jobs.
• Creating views and providing access (grant/revoke) to those views to users through Active directory and EEM.
• Taking care of decommissioning of machines, virtual machines, jobs, etc.
• Participating in Windows/Unix/Oracle patching activities by placing machines offline/online. Performing JIL reviews and JIL load activities.

Systems Engineer - Atos India Pvt Ltd - Pune

(2013-06 - 2014-12)

• Escalating production issues and restarting abended jobs.
• Checking error messages from mainframe TSO SAVRS.
• Copying CA-7 jobs from Production library to alternate library in mainframes. Posting requirements to CA7 jobs as per run doc.
• Cancelling active CA-7 jobs from in mainframe SDSF.
• Monitoring request and ready queues for late jobs analysis.
• Submitting jobs on adhoc as per request.
• Modifying job definition panel in CA-7 as per business requirement.
• As per requirement submitting, cancelling, changing priority, releasing dependencies, rerun, hold and release jobs via IBM Tivoli, Autosys, CA7.

Project Engineer - Wipro technologies ltd - Hyderabad/Bangalore

(2009-01 - 2013-05)

• Monitored batches in Oracle retail environment using Redwood, Appworx, Control-M, Autosys and making sure that SLAs are met.
• Sending the timely reports using PL/SQL procedures in Toad.
• Following the escalation matrix and runbook procedures on job failures.
• Maintaining the KEDB for failures/re-run procedures.
• Monitoring the logs on unix environment for timely capture of issues/reporting.

B.tech - Computer science engineering - St'Martins engineering College (JNTU) (2004-09 - 2007-09)