What are the responsibilities and job description for the IT Systems Engineer position at Techgroup America Inc.?
Job Details
Position: IT Systems Engineer
Location: 2 days onsite (Tuesday and Thursday) - Chicago, IL
Duration: 6 months to start (with potential to extend)
Start Date: ASAP
Interview Process/Times:
1st round Interview: Teams interview
2nd round Interview: Panel with members of the team
Description:
The IT Systems Engineer will join a team of infrastructure and automation engineers to help maintain, support, and improve the Bank s scheduling/orchestration tool (Control-M). The Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago utilizes hybrid cloud architecture, so experience working across self-hosted AWS servers and SaaS applications is strongly preferred.
The ideal candidate will be able to explain an orchestration workflow, identify benefits and pitfalls of the existing architecture, and make recommendations to improve efficiency when provided with documentation and access to the stack. Additionally, the candidate should have strong soft skills for interacting with business stakeholders and engaging in collaboration across IT teams.
Primary duties include:
- Candidates with Control-M and/or Helix Control-M experience will be prioritized
- Familiarity with Batch workflows and job orchestration
- Ability to configure orchestration workflows using Bank documented best practices
- Conduct risk analysis and apply policy compliance to new workflow design
- Upgrade application versions and Virtual Agents
- Implement jobs as code using CI/CD pipelines
- Identify opportunities for Batch automation and workflow consolidation
- Troubleshoot issues using logs and error messages
- Manage independent work using agile practices and ceremonies
- Comfort embedding with delivery teams to help reconfigure their orchestration workflows/jobs to match Bank standards
