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.
