

INSPYR Solutions
Level 2 Tivoli Support Engineer(Nearshore)
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This role is for a Level 2 Tivoli Support Engineer (Nearshore) with a contract length of over 6 months, offering $35.00 - $40.00 per hour. Key skills include IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler, Linux, and distributed systems. Remote work is available.
🌎 - Country
United States
💱 - Currency
$ USD
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💰 - Day rate
320
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🗓️ - Date
October 23, 2025
🕒 - Duration
More than 6 months
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🏝️ - Location
Remote
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📄 - Contract
Unknown
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
Remote
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#SonarQube #Jira #Alation #Jenkins #GitLab #Linux #Grafana #Alteryx #Batch #DataOps #Scala #Automation
Role description
Area: Workload Automation / IT OperationsPlatform: IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler (aka IBM Workload Scheduler, Tivoli Workload Scheduler, IWS, TWS, Tivoli Batch Scheduling)Note: This is not a mainframe role. Focus is Linux and distributed systems.
Summary
Own day-to-day health and support of our enterprise scheduling platform on Linux in a distributed environment. You'll monitor jobs, respond to incidents, fulfill requests, and tune configurations so business workloads run on time. Includes an on-call rotation in a 24×7 model.
What you'll do
Support technology and business teams using IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Monitor job streams, agents, queues, calendars, and critical paths; respond to alerts and SLAs
Triage incidents, remediate issues, and escalate to L3/Tivoli engineers when needed
Fulfill service requests: job promotions, calendar updates, dependencies, access, ad-hoc runs
Identify performance bottlenecks and optimize configs to improve throughput and stability
Maintain runbooks, SOPs, and KBs in Confluence; manage tickets/changes in ServiceNow
Participate in change windows, release validations, and DR tests
Contribute to basic dashboards and trend reporting (Grafana or similar)
Level expectations
Level 2: Deeper diagnosis, recurring issue analysis, config adjustments, performance tuning, automation ideas, guidance to L1
Must-have experience
Linux: daily use on servers (shell, file systems, processes, logs, permissions), basic admin and troubleshooting
Distributed systems: agent-based scheduling across Linux hosts; understanding of networks, dependencies, and failure modes
Tivoli/IWS/TWS: hands-on with 9.4 and/or 10.2 in production (job streams, calendars, dependencies, agents, fault tolerance)
Operational tooling: ServiceNow for incidents/requests/changes; clear, customer-focused communication
Team-oriented, organized, and detail-driven; comfortable in an on-call rotation
Nice to have
Jira and Slack for collaboration and work tracking
CI/CD touchpoints (SonarQube, Jenkins, GitLab) where scheduled jobs interface with pipelines
Alteryx or Quickbase exposure in data/ops workflows
Grafana (or similar) for dashboards and alerting
Work model
On-call rotation within a 24-hour support model
Occasional evening/weekend change windows
Success looks like
No missed critical SLAs
Reduced MTTR through smart triage and clean escalations
Current, usable runbooks and crisp handoffs between L1 and L2
Measurable improvements in platform stability and throughput
Job Types: Full-time, Contract
Pay: $35.00 - $40.00 per hour
Application Question(s):
To be consider for this position, must be in Latin America
Experience:
IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler: 2 years (Required)
Linux and distributed systems: 2 years (Required)
Work Location: Remote
Area: Workload Automation / IT OperationsPlatform: IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler (aka IBM Workload Scheduler, Tivoli Workload Scheduler, IWS, TWS, Tivoli Batch Scheduling)Note: This is not a mainframe role. Focus is Linux and distributed systems.
Summary
Own day-to-day health and support of our enterprise scheduling platform on Linux in a distributed environment. You'll monitor jobs, respond to incidents, fulfill requests, and tune configurations so business workloads run on time. Includes an on-call rotation in a 24×7 model.
What you'll do
Support technology and business teams using IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Monitor job streams, agents, queues, calendars, and critical paths; respond to alerts and SLAs
Triage incidents, remediate issues, and escalate to L3/Tivoli engineers when needed
Fulfill service requests: job promotions, calendar updates, dependencies, access, ad-hoc runs
Identify performance bottlenecks and optimize configs to improve throughput and stability
Maintain runbooks, SOPs, and KBs in Confluence; manage tickets/changes in ServiceNow
Participate in change windows, release validations, and DR tests
Contribute to basic dashboards and trend reporting (Grafana or similar)
Level expectations
Level 2: Deeper diagnosis, recurring issue analysis, config adjustments, performance tuning, automation ideas, guidance to L1
Must-have experience
Linux: daily use on servers (shell, file systems, processes, logs, permissions), basic admin and troubleshooting
Distributed systems: agent-based scheduling across Linux hosts; understanding of networks, dependencies, and failure modes
Tivoli/IWS/TWS: hands-on with 9.4 and/or 10.2 in production (job streams, calendars, dependencies, agents, fault tolerance)
Operational tooling: ServiceNow for incidents/requests/changes; clear, customer-focused communication
Team-oriented, organized, and detail-driven; comfortable in an on-call rotation
Nice to have
Jira and Slack for collaboration and work tracking
CI/CD touchpoints (SonarQube, Jenkins, GitLab) where scheduled jobs interface with pipelines
Alteryx or Quickbase exposure in data/ops workflows
Grafana (or similar) for dashboards and alerting
Work model
On-call rotation within a 24-hour support model
Occasional evening/weekend change windows
Success looks like
No missed critical SLAs
Reduced MTTR through smart triage and clean escalations
Current, usable runbooks and crisp handoffs between L1 and L2
Measurable improvements in platform stability and throughput
Job Types: Full-time, Contract
Pay: $35.00 - $40.00 per hour
Application Question(s):
To be consider for this position, must be in Latin America
Experience:
IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler: 2 years (Required)
Linux and distributed systems: 2 years (Required)
Work Location: Remote






